J drove like a maniac to get me back home to my bed. I just wanted to get home and take care of sick kids in my own house. So he drove straight through for me. And I was glad to get back. W still threw up on the way home and e got me after church today, but all food stayed down on Sunday!
T said in his prayer, thank you we can live at grandma's. So he had fun. It was in the same prayer of thanking for plates, counters, mommy and a warm house.
They are learning to sound out letters they see in print and write a few letters. T is a really easy letter to write and he almost has a phonetic name. He practices writing his name. It looks like this. T with a lot of o's, m's and w's following it. It is interesting to me that all his letters have spaces between them. When I was a kid and I saw lots of cursive, I ran them all together in squiggles. Not him. He pointed out one of his words to me and said: " that says Jeremy, Mom."
I got my brother's Christmas gift to me this year. I think kylee helped out some. It is my 2010 blog printed out. I love it!!!! I haven't printed them out yet because I got too frustrated trying to find a site that would print out what I wrote. But I got it. I was looking at it and realizing how much I don't blog about e but just enjoy him. But he might feel a little left out when he's bigger.
E has gotten some of his voice. He loves to talk and sing and exclaim in a loud deep voice. He is generally very cheerful and happy and loves to watch his siblings the best. He also plays with their toys like they do. He loves big trucks. Today at Chruch he started crushing along the bench while smiling a storm at the retired couples behind us. Go E! Find us an adopted set of grandparents! We need them!
My sister decided to visit for the big kids bday. They were very excited to go to the airport to get her. T said he could see her plane as soon as we pulled into the airport. W comments that aunt b was excited to see them.
E is having a blast with aunt b. any time I put him down to play, she scoops him up. H
Oves it! He has a really cute growl, laugh response to her playing with him. He is also starting to practice pull to stand.
Each day w askes if tomorrow will be spring time. She really wants wqterrmelon for some
reason.. I keep telling her that it isn't spring time. Tonight after I told her that it would be winter for another's six months, she made the comment that "it is always winter here". Pretty much.
E is getting really good at standing with double hand support. He refuses to practice crawling. He really loves standing at his toy table thing. I keep telling him he would like crawling, but he doesn't believe me. Maybe because no one else around here is crawling.
I really get tired of explaining things over and over. Sometimes I ask them what they think the answer is. One thing I'm tired of responding to is "I'm cold Mom!" I usually ask T "what can you do if you are cold?" and he usually answers "get a sweatshirt". Today I got another answer. "I don't know. (pause) sit on a heater vent?"
I left my sister with T for a run to Costco to get the debit card I left there. W was very concerned. I told my sister she could use the water colors with him. W heard this and left specific instructions for my sister to make sure she watched to make sure t did not mix the colors of her paint palate. My grandpa (papa) got a kick out of that. I showed him the difference between w and t's palate. All the reservoirs on t's are uniformly brown. W's are perfectly preserved. T only really likes to change the water in the water itself anyway. And he is very good at pouring and scooping so I let him have more free rein in the kitchen.
The last day they were three, T worked really, really hard. He helped me move all the logs out of the way when I cut the big branches from the back yard. Then he lifted them all on one end to get them into the green waste bin. Some of the logs were 8 inches across and 4 feet long. He worked really hard to drag them around.
Then he went inside and decided to cut his own fingernails. He was very proud of himself to cut off 4 clips of "the white parts, not the pink". After that he decided to help make the bread by using the wheat grinder to grind 2 cups of flour. This took about a half an hour to do. In between working on grinding wheat, he needed mommy hugs. Of course I obliged.
We also went on a walk to the long walk beach. It was a perfect day to use the umbrellas and boots. We got a little wet and cold, but everyone seemed to enjoy it, including E who laughed and shrieked in delight at being behind aunt B under an umbrella.
We finished it off with a boat ride in a box with E at the helm. He keeps insisting on standing. He rocks back and forth on his knees, cries lots and then finally gives up, rolls over and sucks his fingers. But it hasn't all been bad. He has tried avocado, banana and little tastes of soy. He likes all the sweet stuff, not a huge fan of the green stuff yet. Still a huge fan of mommy milk.
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| With Grandma in the Attic's gift |
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| The flowers and purple polka dot balloons "just for me!" |
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| It's a little hard to see, but the bears are holding bouquets of real gerber daisies. Really really cute Grandma! |
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| Tucker with his gift, Boris the bear |
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| cute pic of Tucker |
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| My cheerful, no reason bouquet from grandma. Just in time to remind me spring is on it's way! |
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| E when he first started pulling to stand. New toys were the definite motivation |
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| Boris making friends with Meow Meow. No worries. Meow Meow was not replaced. E likes Boris |
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| Aunt B and T matching in their grey hoodies |
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| Bubble hats in an aunt B depth bath |
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| E rosy cheeked due to just awaking from nap |
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| E being cute during present unwrappings. The block is better |
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| W with the tissue flowers her and aunt B made |
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| E with big sister's stuff Check out his rolls! We love him |
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| This is the train stencil I made for Tucker, but W is the one that drew this face on it. I put a whole bunch of these coupled up along his wall saying Happy Bday Tucker. Whitney had flowers |
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| A week later W tried to recreate her gift. She tied meow to the balloons and wrapped meow meow up in the blanket, putting her in the same box |
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| So tucker did the same. T told me that the beaver brushing his teeth on his pj's is a girl one because it has an earring. The pom pom on the hat does hit right below the ear.. |
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| W painstakingly made perfect cupcakes by hand placing each individual sprinkle in the right spot on six cup cakes. One of the finished ones is on the right hand corner. I kid you not, she did all of these completely on her own |
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| T using his skills to single handedly pour in the batter in the cupcake cups |
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| W still working her cupcakes |
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| T waiting for his sister to be done already. shoot. He decorated four already AND put the candles in |
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| T was laughing so hard to blow out the last candle it took several attempts not to laugh to blow that one out. |
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| W still working even after the candles were blown out |
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| Still working on the masterpieces |
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| sign says birthday girl alias bicho (bug in Spanish) |
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| Bday boy alias heavy pinecone. Still don't get it. When I ask them it is because he heavier |
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| The most important gift. A sticker book that has ALL the Thomas charactors and most of their names |
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| Cute E pic |
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| The hearts my mom put on the mirros for them. All three kids can be seen in the mirror |
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| close up on the finished product |
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| All of T's friends |
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| Whoa Whoa Mommy. I was up pruning the tree. Anyone pruning a tree up high is a whoa whoa man |
