We made it through week 8 of staying home!
Thomas really seems to be enjoying the new “pajamas” that his Nonni sent him for his birthday. He looks like a tiny old man to me, but also quite adorable! ;)
Natalie is rocking her brother’s old Kermit the Frog pajamas and demanding to be treated like a birthday princess. Basically this is what the office doorway looks like most of the time when I am trying to work.
May the 4th mostly went by without a fuss, but I at least remembered to wear my Star Wars shirt! My cousin Gina sent the kids Star Wars themed bowties and a hair bow. I’m a terrible mom because I forgot to pull them out for the kids today!
Sorry Gina, I swear I really was excited about them.
We decided to veer off the cement paths today and walked down to some of the trails that veer into the woods of George Bush park. Obviously we didn’t go very far with the baby stroller, but the kids seemed to enjoy the more “nature” aspect. I enjoyed the more abundant shade! ;)
I’m not 100% sure, but I think this is Natalie’s first What-a-burger milkshake. She clearly enjoyed it!
I set the boys up an account on the iPad so they could text with the grandparents and Aunts. Nonni especially seems to enjoy texting with Henry, though she does take his use of the poop emoji a bit too literally. He wasn’t actually saying he needed to poop, Nonni. ;)
It seems like this girl’s vocabulary is growing by leaps and bounds these days. Case in point, she was pretending to stuff crayons in this poor guy’s mouth and she very clearly said “Dinosaur!” It made me so happy that she’s been interested enough in them to pick up on their name. It’s not like we have been pushing them on her, but we did move a trio of them to her playroom to make space in the boys lab. Clearly she appreciated the new friends. ;)
The flyovers that the Blue Angels were doing in various cities around the country had a flight path that I swear was going right over our house. We weren’t sure how close though, so we thought we should take a short walk over to the creek where the view was much more open. We weren’t the only families that had that thought, but there was certainly no problem maintaining the appropriate social distancing.
And we pretty much timed it perfectly! The flyover was so exciting for the boys and we managed to get a picture of them in the background! I mean, it wasn’t quite as cool as seeing them doing acrobatics at an air show in Alaska, but it was certainly much easier to see. ;)
The boys weren’t interested in taking a walk with Natalie and I tonight, so we had a girl’s walk. I thought I would let her walk under her own power and see how far she wanted to go. Turns out this girl has stamina and speed! She basically ran our whole 1.5 mile loop we do with her in the wagon most nights. And since she could roam around a bit more, she snagged this giant pine cone as a souvenir.
With everything else going on these days, I am clearly not as observant as I should be. So I didn’t notice that Thomas had severely outgrown his sneakers. The last time we went shoe shopping Henry got a new pair, but we didn’t find any Thomas liked - I had intended to take him again soon and it just never happened. Shoe shopping is clearly not happening right now, so I printed a foot sizing chart off that I found online and hoped for the best on fit.
He absolutely loves his new shoes! They are supposed to be hybrid hiking / sneakers, so he was pretty excited about how cool they were.
This girl has somehow become obsessed with cats! We are totally a dog family, but she always favors her cat toys and gets excited about them in books. She kept demanding I draw her a kitty when we are out doing sidewalk chalk art, so I finally googled a simple cat drawing I could do. And as simple as it was, she loved it! So now every time we do chalk, I have to draw her lots of cats.
But she upped her love of them this week and has starting giving the cats kisses. What a goober! :)