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Wordless Wednesday

Wednesday, October 12th, 2011

Finger painting

We don’t finger paint often here, because it is 5+ minutes of set up, for 5 to 15 minutes of finger painting, depending on the child and then 30 minutes of bath time. It takes less time to just skip the finger painting and go straight to the bath.

At the playground

Tuesday, October 11th, 2011

So we went to the playground yesterday. No big shock there, we have been going a lot since it is perfect playground weather right now. Since Dan was home though I took the big camera and got some pictures of Sully, since I could let him down, and someone could still keep an eye on the two bigger ones. Here are some pictures of Eloise and Desmond playing and of Sully exploring the playground.


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Our Calendar

Sunday, October 9th, 2011

So Desmond had been trying to figure out what we do each day, and I figured a visual reminder would be useful. Thus came about my plan to make a weekly calendar. I used a variety of things to make it, first I used some color paper I had lying about, I also used various scrapbooking alphabet stickers I had, to make the words and labels needed. I used the computer to print out small activity cards for what we do on various days. I bought 2 big metal boards from IKEA to put up the calendar on. I also bought the bar and 3 small cups to put the various activity cards and date cards in. I also had a laminator to laminate the various pages and activity cards of the calender. I bought some magnetic tape from Amazon, and I had some velcro stick dots lying around that I used as well.

Here is the calendar coming together. First is Desmond hammering in a screw mount for a screw to hold up the metal boards.

Here is Desmond showing off the metal boards now they are up:

Here is Desmond showing off the finished board:

Here is the calendar, sorry about the glare:

Desmond and Eloise have enjoyed putting up the various activity even if they aren’t actually happening on that day. We’ll see how it goes now that it is up and all ready.

Caterpillars

Thursday, October 6th, 2011

So when leaving the playground today we saw a caterpillar. Honestly it was kind of gross looking especially its face. The two bigger small ones though liked it. I had to tell them they could look but not touch, since I remembered caterpillars’ fuzz can be a minor contact poison/irritant. They both liked looking at it and watching it move, so it was a nice for them to see a real very hungry caterpillar that will turn into a beautiful butterfly when it is a big fat caterpillar and builds a cocoon. Here are the small ones watching the caterpillar.

Wordless Wednesday

Wednesday, October 5th, 2011

6 months old

6 Months old!

Thursday, September 29th, 2011

Today you are 6 months old, half a year. Wow did that go fast. I remember you being born and seeing you in the operating room while I was still being stitched up. I remember getting to finally hold you in the recovery room, and start nursing, which you took to no problem. I remember you first meeting your brother and sister. It is weird to think that it was 6 months ago when it happened. Now you are crawling and pulling to stand. You like to chew on apple slices, and other easy to hold foods. You are babbling, and you love playing and laughing with your brother and sister.

Happy 6 months Sully Bear!

You have gone from this:

To this:

In 6 short months!
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Great Village Kids

Tuesday, September 20th, 2011

So last Thursday I told Eloise and Desmond that we could go to the playground after preschool if it was nice out. It wasn’t it was raining, so I offered to take them to the big indoor playground/play area close to our house. I have been meaning to visit there for the past year or so. We went once when they were under different management and were not impressed, so didn’t go back. They were bought out around 2 years ago and I’ve been meaning to check them out again ever since. So we headed over and I paid for the two bigger ones (Sully and I were free). We got in and the terrors had a great time. There is a full size fire truck, a couple of bounce things, a huge indoor sandbox, a large kitchen area and a bunch of other things. They both really enjoyed it. Unfortunately they are closing at the end of the month, so we won’t be going back. It is too bad, they really did enjoy it which would have made the monthly membership cost worthwhile, oh well.

Here they are having a great time playing.

Desmond fighting a fire at a little house because Mommy left the cookies in the oven to long. Fortunately he is a well prepared fireman and once he had the fire out he also had all the ingredients in his pocket to make new cookies (flour, sugar, eggs, milk, butter, strawberries and sprinkles).

Sully sitting and looking around

At the playground

Monday, September 19th, 2011

So we went to the playground Sunday afternoon, it was the perfect afternoon for it, temperatures were in the high 60s/low 70s and it was nice and sunny out. We got there and the two bigger ones started to play, Sully was up on Dan’s back for awhile, and then came down to play a little as well. He got to go down the slide with Eloise and Desmond, and he sat and explored the playground surface as well. Everyone had a good time playing at the playground, it is nice that the weather is getting back into the temperatures that is a reasonable trip to make.

Here they are at the playground.

Sully sitting and exploring the playground surface

Eloise sliding

Desmond climbing the rock wall

Sully going down the slide with Eloise. Daddy helped, and supported.

Sully and Desmond going down the slide together

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At the playground

Thursday, September 15th, 2011

So yesterday after dropping Desmond off at preschool we headed to a local playground. I had two different playgroups that just randomly chose the same playground to meet at. We got there about 30 minutes early, since it didn’t make sense to head home just to turn around and come back.

Eloise had fun watching the guy cut the grass and swinging when we got there. There was a little boy, who showed up a bit after us with his Grandmother. He and Eloise had fun swinging next to each other. As he was leaving some of the people from my first playgroup arrived. Shortly followed by people from my second playgroup. Eloise played decently, she didn’t play with the other kids a lot, but she did play with them some, she went on the spinning circle merry-go-round thing, with some of the other kids, and she also played in the sandbox and actually talked to some of the other kids. She had a good time at the playground.

We stayed for 3 hours, and had lunch there, it was a little hot, but it was a fun morning. Sully stayed on my back most of the time, getting down to nurse a few times, and for lunch, when he finally sat for longer then 10 seconds. He stayed up by himself for close to 3 minutes. Of course I didn’t have the camera out at the time because we were eating.

Here are some pictures of Eloise playing at the playground.

Wordless Wednesday

Wednesday, September 14th, 2011

Nap time