Fun stuff we have done lately:
1) Z and J both writing (dictating) letters and drawing pix and sending them to our camping buddies.
2) Participated in Frog class and went swimming with grandma.
3) Took some neighbor friends to our favorite nature center, checked out a bug backpack, caught bugs, observed them and let them go. Also spent an hour or more just puttering around by the river: collecting shells and rocks, using them to decorate a sand castle and picking flowers.
4) Kids have been playing school: packing backpacks with fave story books and saying "Goodbye Mom" and trekking across the backyard to the picnic table to "do school" which includes reading memorized books to each other, putting on "uniforms" to play soccer and making their own snacks (PB grahamcrackers) outside.
Last Saturday: IMAX 3D bugs of the rainforest movie for Ry and big kids, while baby and I had a lovely walk around the zoo together.
Sunday: Farmer's Market for breakfast and then to the Mercado Central (our city's mexican market) for their 5th anniversary fiesta where we saw Cuban dancers and practiced our spanish with the vendors.
Can't remember many of the other nice little moments - have noticed that summer makes it easier to do less TV. They still watch a 1/2 hr in the AM and 1/2-1 hour in the evening while I make supper and Ryan and I catch up on the day, but they rarely ask for it. Hope to continue these good habits through the winter months.
Baby had nine month check up today, they were very nice about not pointing out that he is 10 1/2 months old exactly today, but said something about seeing us back not too far after his 1yr old b-day. oops :) The doctor reassured me that he is not too thin at all, which is nice to hear. I mean I know he's a happy, healthy baby but he is just the thinnest baby I have ever known! He was tough as could be for the shots and blood draw - good baby!
1) Z and J both writing (dictating) letters and drawing pix and sending them to our camping buddies.
2) Participated in Frog class and went swimming with grandma.
3) Took some neighbor friends to our favorite nature center, checked out a bug backpack, caught bugs, observed them and let them go. Also spent an hour or more just puttering around by the river: collecting shells and rocks, using them to decorate a sand castle and picking flowers.
4) Kids have been playing school: packing backpacks with fave story books and saying "Goodbye Mom" and trekking across the backyard to the picnic table to "do school" which includes reading memorized books to each other, putting on "uniforms" to play soccer and making their own snacks (PB grahamcrackers) outside.
Last Saturday: IMAX 3D bugs of the rainforest movie for Ry and big kids, while baby and I had a lovely walk around the zoo together.
Sunday: Farmer's Market for breakfast and then to the Mercado Central (our city's mexican market) for their 5th anniversary fiesta where we saw Cuban dancers and practiced our spanish with the vendors.
Can't remember many of the other nice little moments - have noticed that summer makes it easier to do less TV. They still watch a 1/2 hr in the AM and 1/2-1 hour in the evening while I make supper and Ryan and I catch up on the day, but they rarely ask for it. Hope to continue these good habits through the winter months.
Baby had nine month check up today, they were very nice about not pointing out that he is 10 1/2 months old exactly today, but said something about seeing us back not too far after his 1yr old b-day. oops :) The doctor reassured me that he is not too thin at all, which is nice to hear. I mean I know he's a happy, healthy baby but he is just the thinnest baby I have ever known! He was tough as could be for the shots and blood draw - good baby!
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