ladies and gentlemen, THIS is the kind of offspring i produce. i think it's fair to say i'm a little worried. does she look a little um, insane to you?
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
kindergarten
there she is, the kindergartner!
she's very excited. i am very excited. and nervous. and sad. because now the real kid stuff begins and the sleeping until whenever you want and the playing all day stuff is over. for the last few months i've been nervous about putting ava into kindergarten without first sending her to preschool. i was so afraid she wasn't going to be ready. but the last couple days i'm proud i kept her home. the last five years flew by and ava and i have spent nearly every single day of it playing together.
seth is sad about his best friend being gone. as we were walking away he stopped short and said, "i want ava."
"she's staying here," i explained.
"i want ava to come home with me."
me too.
is it awful if i begin the countdown to summer now?
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
seth
he's three. and i just want to hold him tight and breathe him in until he's all gone. what a different kind of joy it is to have a son. a wonderful kind of joy.
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Friday, August 12, 2011
to the mouse on her fifth birthday. . .
it's a shame it went so quickly. i love you i love you i love you. and i can't wait to see what year 5 brings us.
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
summertime photographs
summertime is my favorite. it is terribly sad to see it come to a close.
and one of kate:
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
cinco
happy five months, kate!
so. that went fast. so fast, in fact, that yesterday i was talking to someone and i said, "well, i've only been doing this for the last three months since, you know, kate was born." but then i remembered that kate's been alive for two months longer than what i just said. which i'm going to translate as two months missing from my life. i look back through our pictures and i see those months are all there, and i know that five months have actually happened, but the thought that half a year has already flown by leaves me wondering.
in the last month kate has vacationed. twice. and she does well on vacations. i think it's because her life is so fast paced, you know? i mean sometimes i'm like, come on kate, let's make some more time for US, you know? and she's like, sorry. i have GOT to learn to say no.
anyway, with all of these vacations, kate has learned that she likes pools. at first, she did not. we stuck her feet in and she screamed and flailed. i think she was looking for something--ANYTHING to hit. but then i kept trying (mostly because i like it when i almost get hit in the face by someone who can grow razor sharp nails overnight) and guess what? i won. because the girl loves the pool now. and we hold her and she is this relaxed, chubby, grumpy-faced baby in a pool. which is kind of hilarious, and leads to a lot of laughs. and sometimes we poke her so she looks crankier and then we laugh a little more.
maybe if we had TV we wouldn't be so easily entertained. . .
foods kate has tried: carrots, apples, bananas, avocado, black beans, mashed potatoes, ice cream (grandpa chris was responsible for that), ice and butternut squash. if kate had been able to talk when she tried the butternut squash i think she might have used foul language. and possibly her middle finger. her reaction was NOT positive. otherwise, kate and solid foods are getting along. to the point that if you have solid foods she feels that she should have some.
other achievements:
sitting up completely on her own (which makes her very happy). this is my absolute favorite stage of babyhood. it means that i can put her down and she'll be happy about it AND she won't wander off and find things to climb or choke on. bliss, i tell you. her favorite is if she's sitting right in the middle of where seth and ava are playing. the closer she is to getting kicked in the head, the happier she is. until she actually gets kicked in the head, of course. then she's sad. the other day she was sitting right next to grandpa chris' feet while grandpa chris threw pillows at the other children's faces (sounds awful, but they love it. and the harder you throw the happier they are). and she was pleased. even though pillows were whizzing by her head and little feet were being thrown in the air by her head. she's a 5-month-old adrenalin junkie.
growing in a nice layer of fuzz to sort of help out that patchy-nest-thing she had earlier. it looks like it's coming in a dirty blonde color, making her the darkest of the three children. way to go kate. maybe someone will actually mistake me for the mother instead of the nanny.
her first boyfriend(s). the bishop of our ward and his first counselor have taken to her. but the first counselor made it official over the pulpit first so i guess he wins. his wife is a really good sport. especially since a few sundays ago seth snuck a gun into sacrament meeting sniper-style. it was in the form of many different lego pieces which he assembled during the sacrament and used to pick off about a third of the ward before i tuned him in and whispered, "we don't kill people at church." so far ryan are fairly pleased with her choice in men. it'll do until we can teach her to be disdainful of the opposite sex and really into studying.
so. that went fast. so fast, in fact, that yesterday i was talking to someone and i said, "well, i've only been doing this for the last three months since, you know, kate was born." but then i remembered that kate's been alive for two months longer than what i just said. which i'm going to translate as two months missing from my life. i look back through our pictures and i see those months are all there, and i know that five months have actually happened, but the thought that half a year has already flown by leaves me wondering.
in the last month kate has vacationed. twice. and she does well on vacations. i think it's because her life is so fast paced, you know? i mean sometimes i'm like, come on kate, let's make some more time for US, you know? and she's like, sorry. i have GOT to learn to say no.
anyway, with all of these vacations, kate has learned that she likes pools. at first, she did not. we stuck her feet in and she screamed and flailed. i think she was looking for something--ANYTHING to hit. but then i kept trying (mostly because i like it when i almost get hit in the face by someone who can grow razor sharp nails overnight) and guess what? i won. because the girl loves the pool now. and we hold her and she is this relaxed, chubby, grumpy-faced baby in a pool. which is kind of hilarious, and leads to a lot of laughs. and sometimes we poke her so she looks crankier and then we laugh a little more.
maybe if we had TV we wouldn't be so easily entertained. . .
foods kate has tried: carrots, apples, bananas, avocado, black beans, mashed potatoes, ice cream (grandpa chris was responsible for that), ice and butternut squash. if kate had been able to talk when she tried the butternut squash i think she might have used foul language. and possibly her middle finger. her reaction was NOT positive. otherwise, kate and solid foods are getting along. to the point that if you have solid foods she feels that she should have some.
other achievements:
sitting up completely on her own (which makes her very happy). this is my absolute favorite stage of babyhood. it means that i can put her down and she'll be happy about it AND she won't wander off and find things to climb or choke on. bliss, i tell you. her favorite is if she's sitting right in the middle of where seth and ava are playing. the closer she is to getting kicked in the head, the happier she is. until she actually gets kicked in the head, of course. then she's sad. the other day she was sitting right next to grandpa chris' feet while grandpa chris threw pillows at the other children's faces (sounds awful, but they love it. and the harder you throw the happier they are). and she was pleased. even though pillows were whizzing by her head and little feet were being thrown in the air by her head. she's a 5-month-old adrenalin junkie.
growing in a nice layer of fuzz to sort of help out that patchy-nest-thing she had earlier. it looks like it's coming in a dirty blonde color, making her the darkest of the three children. way to go kate. maybe someone will actually mistake me for the mother instead of the nanny.
her first boyfriend(s). the bishop of our ward and his first counselor have taken to her. but the first counselor made it official over the pulpit first so i guess he wins. his wife is a really good sport. especially since a few sundays ago seth snuck a gun into sacrament meeting sniper-style. it was in the form of many different lego pieces which he assembled during the sacrament and used to pick off about a third of the ward before i tuned him in and whispered, "we don't kill people at church." so far ryan are fairly pleased with her choice in men. it'll do until we can teach her to be disdainful of the opposite sex and really into studying.
kate on vacation. obviously relaxed. and happy.
food eating.
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
rubbing the wall with a sponge
i'm wiping the marks of my children from the walls of kate's room with a magic eraser. which, by the way, is a great invention. it can remove anything from any wall. including the paint! so ryan comes in to say goodbye because he's going to work and i ask, "isn't this magic eraser amazing?"
and ryan watches a minute and then exclaims very enthusiastically, "yes! it's wonderful! that's incredible!"
i ask, "you can't tell the difference, can you?"
ryan, "not at all. it looks like you're rubbing the wall with a sponge."
he'd be an excellent candidate for the agreeable observer on an infomercial. i wonder how much those guys make?
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