It’s the end of May already? This year feels like it is flying by…!
Also as a fair warning: this is a long random post!
Someone looooves hats! She knows the sign for them and trying to make anything and everything a hat. ANd sometimes more than one at once! :)
Who is this giant baby?!?!? We stopped using this wedge a few months ago because she was moving around enough to get the side clasps undone. I pulled it out of the closet today and put her in it just to see how much she has grown - so much! She used to fit in just the harness part of the wedge when she was swaddled as a baby. The first photo I have of her in it is on this blog post, second photo down if you also want to be amazed!
We watched our first Marvel movie with the kids the other day. Someone promised me that Ant-Man was totally fine for kids and after we screened it, we totally agreed! They loved it and we happened to be at a party a few days later where Henry found this Ant-Man mask. He was so excited!
My sister sent this easter egg roller dyeing kit to the boys and we never got around to using it. Well the boys didn’t forget about it and we had a later Easter Egg dyeing day!
The boys both loved it! It was a little tricky to not have the colors bleeding into each other, but they still looked good!
We found a fun new park to explore and Natalie was all about climbing the equipment with her brothers. She’s also not about walking slowly these days and goes everywhere like she is late for a meeting. She may have gone a little too fast today and fell on the sidewalk. Her knee was bleeding and she was just mad I made her stop to check the injury!
Also, as her dad pointed out - she really looks like Thomas in this photo!
We got the boys back into swim lessons! They seemed pretty excited to be getting back in the pool and this time they were even in the same class! (Much easier on us - though the every night for two weeks wasn’t ideal…)
So excited that they are wearing their fancy swim school shirts! But mostly they are excited here that their dad picked up Waffle House when I put him in charge of grabbing dinner on the way home!
I dug out the different baby carrying devices we had to see if any of them would work for hauling her around without the stroller. She was not impressed by me getting her into either of them, but was happy enough once we were walking around the house.
Of course, when Matt saw the one carrier sitting out, he put it to work hauling around the biggest kid with Nerf guns to attack poor, unsuspecting Henry! Don’t worry - Henry got to pay Thomas back later… ;)
There are sooooo many squirrels in this yard! They are usually running all over the tree and fence. My dad noticed them last time and made this corn holding contraption to see the entertainment value it would provide. The squirrels didn’t know what to think of it at first. But then one brave little guy made the jump!
Which of course inspired the others to attempt the same feat! It was quite entertaining seeing how much they could get the thing swinging, but once they had it down the corn was all picked off in no time!
We decided the boys needed some form of water shoes for the beach visits and going to swim lessons. Despite my dislike for Crocs, they wanted to be just like their dad and picked out these camo ones for kids.
Ugh…
We had a bit of an incident with the BAHA that led to it get broken (!!!). Thankfully Cochlear replaced it since it was still under warranty. But since the band was broken as well, we had to order a new one of those. So I saved the old “block” to see if I could use it for a new band. It kinda works, though I had to modify one of the old ones I already had and it has an extra hole it shouldn’t have. But still useable and no feedback like the other block.
We started watching our old favorite tv show, Stargate SG-1, with the boys. So far they are loving it! And it’s pretty kid friendly compared to most sci-fi shows these days… “/
Such an amazing breakfast I have made for her. And she ate about two blueberry halves. We have good days and we have bad days with the eating. Hoping that overall we are making progress…
Went out and left a very important piece of equipment at home - the syringe!!! I managed to get the squeasy bottle shoved into the extension enough to squeeze it straight out of there into her belly. But it was definitely not an efficient way of feeding her. Sometimes I feel like I’ve got this whole tube feeding thing down and then other days…
I can’t believe I haven’t thought to break out the crayons until now! She wasn’t terribly sure what to do with them, but she made a few scribbles on the paper. Have to start having art time for her to build some coloring skills!
Her nanny had her citizenship ceremony this month and needed the morning off to attend it. I considered taking Natalie to the ceremony to cheer on one of her favorite people, but wasn’t sure how well she would do sitting for so long. Instead we made her an American Flag cake!
And dressed her in the best red, white & blue outfit I could find. Neema was so excited to see her and the cake. But we’re even more excited for her! Congratulations!!
Some of our Alaskan friends were in the Woodlands for a few days, so we made the trek up north to go see them. I figured since we were up there, we should find a park to go play at - and I found the coolest one that also had an awesome splash pad. Natalie was quite excited about the whole adventure!
This guy was too! And thanks to the new crocs (ugh), he was able to put them on right after playing in the water to be able to explore the playground as well.
Movie night with the boys and I let them have pudding cups. Henry was veeeeery excited about them!
I told Neema to try out the finger paints since Natalie seemed to like the crayons. But Natalie did not like the paint on her hands. She totally lost it and Neema felt terrible about making her cry. I sent her the photo of Henry losing it on me with finger painting so she would know it’s apparently just my kids way of dealing with painting the first few times. ;)
Thomas brought home this awesome portrait of me! Lol - solid resemblance!
The oldest might be a little bit excited about school being over…? I am so proud of how well he adjusted to the new school even with moving half-way through the year. The little guy is more resilient than I give him credit for sometimes…
This gem came home in his end-of-year stack of papers. I loooooove this glowing review of Chick-fil-A! 5 stars!
They had a chalk day on the playground for their last day and I was trying to get him out of the playground when he had to stop and draw something. I was about to hustle him out, but realized he was writing me a note. Glad I let him finish - love this kid to the moon and back infinity times!
We went over to the Luster’s house for a play date and they have this totally awesome inflatable water slide! We brought their water guns and all of the kids had a total blast!
The fact that they also have power wheels was just icing on the cake… ;)
First week of summer camp and I sent him to the same STEM camp that he went to over spring break. He had a blast with their “Maker” week and built this awesome house from his imagination. You can see his dad’s influence with the skateboard half-pipe in the yard. Matt has been trying to convince me we need one…?