I have so many little matters to tell you of, that I cannot wait any longer before I begin to put them down.
I have had such a hard time getting Q to eat this week! Maybe a couple bites all morning, then lots of discipline to get her to eat a tiny, tiny amount of dinner. I’m trying to make up for it by giving her heavy whipping cream to drink (after we’ve given up on the eating). And boy, is she crabby (from her empty stomach?!). But she still smiles for the camera.
Nov 21st, 2013 by ECM
We’re too sick here for much of an update. Janie has a horrible, green-snotty, up-every-45-minutes-round-the-clock, juicy cold. We spent her 8 month birthday exhausted and trying to rest while the other kids watched every educational movie we own.
She’s getting better at putting cheerios and puffs into her mouth, and I’m starting to just use my immersion blender to blend up our dinner for her. She also started yogurt this week. And I think one of her top teeth is coming in.
She’s at the stage where she can pull herself to a stand but can’t get back down. So I turn around and find her standing somewhere, crying for help sitting down. And it happens all night in the crib…
She also loves climbing the step up into the kitchen…
Hello!
Nov 20th, 2013 by ECM
And his sister ran to get her dancing outfit on: nightgown, jewelry, headband:
Then Elizabeth apparently took over. I was force feeding Susie her dinner, so I didn’t know about it until this morning.
My kids are something else.
Nov 19th, 2013 by ECM
After dropping Grandma off at LAX on Sunday, we headed over to UCLA for a huge science fair put on by the science departments. Perfect for homeschoolers! The kids got to visit all sorts of booths on things like finding exoplanets, looking at the sun through special telescopes, food chemistry, making ice cream with liquid nitrogen, model rockets, and programming a rover robot.
While Tommy was seeing if his Curiosity model worked, Janie just hung out in the stroller, feeding herself a Go-Go Squeez pouch.
The guy at the robotics booth did some setting where the rover moved faster with louder noise…as you can tell, all the little boys were yelling in delight!
All three girls conked out on the drive home.
We’re definitely going to make this an annual tradition!
Nov 18th, 2013 by ECM
Yes, my child’s first “big person food” was french fries…
Nov 14th, 2013 by ECM
The kids have enjoyed all the extra chances to go to the park with Grandma this week. Even Janie got in on the swinging!
Nov 13th, 2013 by ECM
Janie has been doing so well with cheerios and eating applesauce out of pouches and other “big kid” eating habits this week that I decided to pull out the mesh ring and let her go at a banana. She hasn’t liked mashed up banana much, but she’s a big fan of it when it’s in the mesh ring.
Nov 11th, 2013 by ECM
Last night Derek and I had a hot date in the family room, watching Veronica Mars while we seeded pomegranates for an hour.
Approximately 30 whole pomegranates=about 15.5 cups of arils=about 40-50 ounces of juice, which I tried to cook down to pomegranate molasses. I think we’re set for the year.
Nov 8th, 2013 by ECM
Lately, I think we’ve had a bunch of funny/cute new developments that I keep meaning to blog about and forget.
First, Janie can crawl anywhere now. I’m charging up the camcorder now to get some good video footage today.
Susie has suddenly switched out what she calls her big sister. Until last week, it was always Lizzie. Now it’s Liz-a-biff. But Janie is still always Jane-Bug.
Elizabeth has taken to narrating her own life, like she’s a character in a book. I’ll be doing something and overhear: “Now it’s time to wash my hands,” said Lizzie. Then she left the bathroom and went to play with her doll Lucy. “It’s time for bed, Lucy!” Lizzie said, and tucked her baby into the bed. or at the dinner table, “I’m ready to eat!” Lizzie said to her mother as she watched her put the pan on the table. Lizzie was very hungry. I will try to capture it on film, but it’s tricky. Anyway, I find it absolutely hilarious, and I’m not sure how aware she is that she’s actually doing it.
Maybe I’ve already mentioned it, but Tommy has figured more out about my ipod nano than I have in the past 5 years. He creates playlists of his favorite stories (we put all their audiobooks on there for bedtime after the CD player bit the dust), makes home movies, and takes pictures. I knew that kids figured technology out faster than their parents, but I was thinking that started happening closer to the teen years. My self esteem was aided a little the day that he accidentally switched all of the language over to Korean and obviously couldn’t figure out how to get back to settings and reset it to English–he brought it to me, sobbing that he had broken my ipod! Mommy (and google) had to step in and figure that one out. But in general, when the girls mess things up or want a particular story, they bring it to Tommy, not me.
Nov 6th, 2013 by ECM
So yesterday I was tired of trying to keep Janie from twisting out of her Bumbo and from crawling under the table to grab the big kids’ cheerios…so I decided to pull the high chair out of the garage and give Jane-Bug her own cheerios. She was a big fan!
