Today I was working on a YW service project making Christmas stockings. I let the kids make one of their own out of the scraps. Isabelle's was beautifully decorated with lace, ribbon, snowflake button, etc. Keith's has 12 googalie eyes on it. and one piece of lace Belle talked him into. It's hilarious.
When it was close to time to leave the park today I told the kids to pick 3 more things to do then we would leave. Keith proceeded to bury his flip-flops in the wood chips under the playground. Because he didn't want to go--and if his shoes were lost we would stay, right?
Today the kids were talking about how many kids we should have in our family and Keith kept saying...and another baby and another baby and another baby *repeat several times* then "yeah, there are lots of babies". So, I asked him--how is Mommy supposed to take care of all those babies? He said we would need another Daddy. And another Mommy. "Lots more parents". Where would we get so many more parents? "At the parent store. We would buy the box and open it up and screw screw screw together and then it would walk walk walk." Apparently parents are machines you can buy at a store and put together.
"don't worry Mom, you can leave the light on. I can make dark with my eyes." squints his eyes shut.
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Friday, September 09, 2011
Fish-sitting
Since I'm such on a blog-roll I'll add this note in, though I don't have pictures (like the picture quality of the camera we're using these days is very good anyway:( thanks to me smashing our camera to the ground at the wedding)
Anyway....we are officially fish-sitting. A super awesome 37 gallon salt water tank. It has some really pretty fish in it and live rock and everything. The kids are absolutely loving it, and even David has been sitting in front of it watching. Hopefully we can keep everything alive for the next year! 2 days down...so far, so good!
Anyway....we are officially fish-sitting. A super awesome 37 gallon salt water tank. It has some really pretty fish in it and live rock and everything. The kids are absolutely loving it, and even David has been sitting in front of it watching. Hopefully we can keep everything alive for the next year! 2 days down...so far, so good!
Belle's BIKE
$6 at DI for the bicycle
$10 for training wheels
$8 for new tubes
And we have THIS:
She has been constantly on the bike for the last few weeks. She is getting really good at it. She can control it pretty well, and go in circles. She has a little trouble when the sidewalk dips for a driveway or bumps, but our street doesn't go down until after the sidewalk so she cruises really quickly around here. AND on Monday she rode it ALL the way to Grandma's house!!! Now, if you're familiar with where our house is, and where my parent's house is...you'll know this is quite and accomplishment for a 4 yr. old. She did get tired, but kept at it. Sometimes she would get off and walk it to take a rest. It took us a LONG time to get there (Keith was in the jogging stroller), but she did it--and it was a hard thing. I'm glad she is learning that she can do hard things. It was harder than she thought it was going to be when she said she wanted to do it. And I tried to talk her out of it. But she insisted. "I can handle it" she said.
After we stayed a few hours and picked raspberries, froze some peaches, etc. Grandma gave us a ride home in the truck.:)
$10 for training wheels
$8 for new tubes
And we have THIS:
She has been constantly on the bike for the last few weeks. She is getting really good at it. She can control it pretty well, and go in circles. She has a little trouble when the sidewalk dips for a driveway or bumps, but our street doesn't go down until after the sidewalk so she cruises really quickly around here. AND on Monday she rode it ALL the way to Grandma's house!!! Now, if you're familiar with where our house is, and where my parent's house is...you'll know this is quite and accomplishment for a 4 yr. old. She did get tired, but kept at it. Sometimes she would get off and walk it to take a rest. It took us a LONG time to get there (Keith was in the jogging stroller), but she did it--and it was a hard thing. I'm glad she is learning that she can do hard things. It was harder than she thought it was going to be when she said she wanted to do it. And I tried to talk her out of it. But she insisted. "I can handle it" she said.
After we stayed a few hours and picked raspberries, froze some peaches, etc. Grandma gave us a ride home in the truck.:)
while Belle was away...
Keith was pretty sad. He wanted to stay at the school and play. He saw all the toys they had during the open house night and wanted to play with the tools they have. So I was super happy when a little while after we got home his bike Helmet he has been waiting to come in the mail came!! And he went right out to do this:
Yes, that is his new super-cool shark helmet. No that is not his purple princess bike. He is supposed to ride the red trike. Which he is really good at--better than Belle was at his age. It uses a forward pedaling motion that Belle didn't get very fast with until after she was 3--but Keith cruises no problem. But--he knows it's different than a bike and gets on Belle's whenever her can. Belle wasn't home...so he had free reign of it. He does pretty well in a straight line, but has a harder time controlling it if he has to turn or go down an incline. The other day he hoped on it and went down our driveway (which is a good incline) and got completely out of control and crash landed on the grass next to the driveway. I was outside watching the whole thing unfold too fast to stop and was so grateful he landed on the grass.
Today he decided that since he had his new shark helmet on, he would try a similar trick, on purpose. He even asked permission. "Since I have my helmet on, can I go woo woo woo down the hill?" It's the small drainage ditch at the end of our street that is all grass (thanks to our landscape-buisness neighbors). The kids call it "THE hill" and like to go down there to play. Back to the story--so I considered it. Thought he was being a little reckless because he felt his helmet would protect him. And then said yes. He did exactly what I thought he would. went down, and tipped over at the bottom. He wasn't hurt, and didn't want to do it again.
Yes, that is his new super-cool shark helmet. No that is not his purple princess bike. He is supposed to ride the red trike. Which he is really good at--better than Belle was at his age. It uses a forward pedaling motion that Belle didn't get very fast with until after she was 3--but Keith cruises no problem. But--he knows it's different than a bike and gets on Belle's whenever her can. Belle wasn't home...so he had free reign of it. He does pretty well in a straight line, but has a harder time controlling it if he has to turn or go down an incline. The other day he hoped on it and went down our driveway (which is a good incline) and got completely out of control and crash landed on the grass next to the driveway. I was outside watching the whole thing unfold too fast to stop and was so grateful he landed on the grass.
Today he decided that since he had his new shark helmet on, he would try a similar trick, on purpose. He even asked permission. "Since I have my helmet on, can I go woo woo woo down the hill?" It's the small drainage ditch at the end of our street that is all grass (thanks to our landscape-buisness neighbors). The kids call it "THE hill" and like to go down there to play. Back to the story--so I considered it. Thought he was being a little reckless because he felt his helmet would protect him. And then said yes. He did exactly what I thought he would. went down, and tipped over at the bottom. He wasn't hurt, and didn't want to do it again.
I caught a fishy!!
Keith caught TWO fish--yep, off his little "Go, Diego, Go" fishing pole.
Both times he didn't even realize he had a fish. Once he told David to come help because he had a snag. It was a fish!! He did our traditional "I caught a fishy hey hey hey" song. And then he "ate it all up with a fork."
1st Day of Preschool!!!!
Isabelle has been SOOO excited for preschool all summer. Today was her first day. She went about it just as a girl would. Waking up super early, being very particular about picking out her clothes, hairstyle, and putting on lip gloss (yes, in preschool, she wanted lip gloss...)
And we took her. We all went, the whole family, to drop her off. I guess you could tell it's our first child's first day of any school. And we got home and David and I looked at each other and said...Belle is at school??? weird.
She loved it! We went and picked her up 2 hours later (yes, again, the WHOLE family) and she went through very detailed everything they did at school.
"First we got our name tags. Then we played with the toys for like a little more than an hour. Then the teacher said it was time to clean up, and we cleaned up the toys. If we didn't know where something went we asked the teacher. The we sat like this (sits Indian style) on the rug and read TWO stories about (I don't remember what the stories were about) and when the story said to guess what animal it was on the next page I guessed seal and polar bear and I was right! The we went and colored our paper dolls, and I got to sit by Quincy both on the rug and at the tables....."
I am happy for her that she is having a fun experience. I am sad for me. 2 hours a day 3 days a week isn't too bad, but it's what it means. She is growing up.
And we took her. We all went, the whole family, to drop her off. I guess you could tell it's our first child's first day of any school. And we got home and David and I looked at each other and said...Belle is at school??? weird.
She loved it! We went and picked her up 2 hours later (yes, again, the WHOLE family) and she went through very detailed everything they did at school.
"First we got our name tags. Then we played with the toys for like a little more than an hour. Then the teacher said it was time to clean up, and we cleaned up the toys. If we didn't know where something went we asked the teacher. The we sat like this (sits Indian style) on the rug and read TWO stories about (I don't remember what the stories were about) and when the story said to guess what animal it was on the next page I guessed seal and polar bear and I was right! The we went and colored our paper dolls, and I got to sit by Quincy both on the rug and at the tables....."
I am happy for her that she is having a fun experience. I am sad for me. 2 hours a day 3 days a week isn't too bad, but it's what it means. She is growing up.
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