Face Paint

Out of the blue, Stanley asked for his face to be painted. Julia had to return stuff to the party store anyways, so she got some face paints while she was there. Take a look at her handy work. Pretty good if you ask me. It's a Batman day, in case you didn't notice...

New Words

Him: "What are those?"

Me: "Pits."

Him (after thinking for a while): "Just like the Rancor pit!" 

Me: "Yup, just like that." (Glowing a little)

He has a book with Lego figures that tells most of the story from "Return of the Jedi" and we have read it about 1.4 million times. Apparently he is learning stuff from it. He will grow up to be a good little Star Wars fan. Maybe. 

My concern at this point is that his Lego book is spoiling the plot and all the surprise of Star Wars. But I already know the story, and that doesn't stop me from wanting to watch the movies any more. 

Off to school

Stanley started school this past Tuesday. 

When he ended last year back in July, we were in a routine of 

- stanley happily eat his breakfast, but stall like crazy

- stanley whine about going to school and 

- Stanley cry and grab onto us when we go to leave him at school. 

He seems to love school in general once he is there and always talks fondly of his friends at school. However he sure didn't like the transition independent of how many 'maps' we drew of his morning and what was coming, or timers we would set for each action, or discussions the night before, or lack there of discussions. 

We were happy that at least the first day of school was a happy drop of. 

and it helped that his previous nannyshare buddy is now going to school with him. 

Bday celebration at the Russian River

We had a great time celebrating Peter's 4th bday near the Russian River. Peter. Is Stanley's previous nannyshare buddy.  Granted there was very little water left in the stream, it made for some good hikes down the stream bed and a great cookout in the river bed. 

The '4' year old crown and the BFF friend crowns were critical for a bday celebration. 

And all three of the kids took naps and slept in the same room together. 

Amelia enjoyed it too. 

Amelia enjoyed the dirt and rocks. She still wanted to put a few 'good ones' in her mouth, but would open up her mouth to take them out when we said 'too big'. 

The cake was a fun creation by the kids. Without cake pans, the cast iron skillets worked wonderfully for the round head and square body of Spider-Man. 

Amelia helped in her own way.  

The final creation I though was pretty impressive done by 3 kids and 2 moms with limited utensils. 

Amelia at 10 months

This was never published.  A blast from the past. 

Amelia is a mover at 10 months. She enjoys pushing things around, stools, her high chair, a little walking toy. And she is quite adept at it. She can push it until it gets stuck and then pull it out to move the other way. She also makes lots of sounds. She makes the sound of cars and if I make a growel sound of a lion she will try to copy me.

She also is quite a tough cookie, she loves he brother dearly and even if he by accident takes her feet out from under her, she just gets right back up and keeps going. 

The big thing also is she just started being able to eat without vomiting and Now she realizes how hungry she really is!!  Boy she can eat and she will eat everything besides kale. 

At 10 month 

- Amelia can push a cart around 

- she can crawl up and down stairs easily

- climb up into the couch and then stand on the window ledge 

- hold onto drawers or other ledges and lift her feet up to try to get ontop. 

- make a few sounds to match someone 

- make her brother laugh and keep him entertained 

- 2 bottom and 4 top teeth 

She definitely likes playing with the toy kitchen.

Our only concern with Amelia is that she is small. Really small on the weight chart...well actually just down right off the weight chart. Her height is 50%, She is really active and seems to be doing fine in all other ways, but she definitely doesn't like to keep down food all that well. You can sort of tell how small she is in the video above.

Happy #1 Amelia

We will try to catch up on posts, but happy birthday Amelia! 

Loving having people and balloons around for her birthday. 

Her version of a kiss, a version of eating my cheek. 

Doing her work. If the dishwasher opens, she puts everything down to come help! She also likes to stand on the door and take the cups out of the top rack. We end up with foot prints on the door. 

Sailing

We went sailing with our friends Sam, Brenna, Wheeler, and Uncle Jackson. It was super fun and the boys had a blast sleeping on the boat. Check out the pictures.