It’s a really bad week to have fallen on my face and gotten whiplash. This is after two sessions of kid clean-up!
Field Trip to the Getty
Sep 25th, 2013 by ECM
This morning, we packed up the car and headed into the Valley with our homeschooling friends Katie and Jack to visit the Getty Museum. Our excuse was wanting to see their four Monet paintings to finish up our month studying Monet, but in typical field trip fashion, we spent less than 10 minutes in the Impressionism room.
The tram ride up the mountain was pretty exciting.
We spent some time in the family room, the highlight of which was losing Susie. She somehow decided to wander out and across the campus, back to where we’d started with a snack while I nursed. I ran all over looking for her, to see her running back towards me, crying that she was poopy. Thank goodness Katie was along to stay with the big kids.
They have a neat little art detective game for kids, having them look for four pictures around the Renaissance art wing. Unfortunately, my kids weren’t really into the art itself, so as soon as we found our pictures, we headed out to look out over the city.
And I discovered that taking Susie to a no-touch museum is really stressful. I ended up putting Janie down in the stroller and wearing Susie in the art galleries. Sometimes it’s nice to have a lightweight two year old. The sculptures and fountains were more fun for everyone, and after feeding Janie in the gardens, we headed back for naptime.
Next time we go to an art museum, I think I’ll aim for a higher adult-t0-child ratio. I asked Tommy if he learned anything. He said, “No, but I had fun!” Sigh. But at least we can finally say we’ve been to the Getty!
Jane’s Six Month Stats
Sep 23rd, 2013 by ECM
I took Janie in for her six month check-up today, and because I’m not trying to be a hero, I left the big three at home with a babysitter. (Jesus, thank you that Hannah gets out of class at noon this year!) She has a cold, so we’re waiting ’til next week to get her shots. Otherwise, she’s great!
weight: 15 lbs 10 oz (40%) (Tommy was 17 lbs 13 oz, Elizabeth was 15 lbs 12 oz, Susanna was 13 lb 11.5 oz)
height: 26.5 inches (74%) (Tommy was 25 inches, Elizabeth was 27-1/4 inches, Susanna was 26 inches)
head: 16.75 in (60%) (Susanna was 16.5 inches)
Saturday at the Soccer Fields
Sep 21st, 2013 by ECM
Jane at 6 Months!
Sep 20th, 2013 by ECM
Guess who turns six months today?!
Jane-bug is much larger than Susie was. She’s been in size 2 disposables and is growing into medium cloth diapers. She’s still wearing 3-6 month clothes, but many of them are getting tight in cloth diapers. I will probably be pulling out her next bin of clothes in the next week or two. She’s on three naps a day, though they get pretty messed up when we’re out and about.
She is starting to get better at sitting up by herself, rolls everywhere, and smiles at us from across the room. She’s much more aware of people and activity around her, so it’s getting harder to get her to take a nap when we’re on the go or in the church nursery.
She’s eating two meals a day on top of her nursing. I haven’t dropped any breastfeedings yet because she seems hungry quite often. So far she’s tried rice, oatmeal, peaches, apples, green beans, carrots, and cinnamon (because all I had on the go was cinnamon applesauce pouches a few times in there!). She takes after the older two and seems to like food a lot! I need to get my act together and make up some more kinds of baby food.
We get a lot of comments about her blue eyes…and how much she looks like her brother!
caught mid-army crawl
More Fun in the Pool
Sep 18th, 2013 by ECM
Sam’s Birthday Party
Sep 16th, 2013 by ECM
Last night we went to a Pirate swimming party for our buddy Sam. The kids are still wired from the swimming and the sugar!
The kids just LOVE our fine art “special” for September. We’ve been reading about and watching movies about Monet, and it has inspired a frenzy of painting. Tommy has created our own “art corner” in the family room, and we’ve used up an obscene amount of art supplies every day we’re at home. (Family–art supplies, especially for painting, are at the TOP of our Christmas wish list now!) Now I just need to find out which art museum(s) in the area have Monets so we can take a field trip to see one or two in person!
Tommy’s First Soccer Game!
Sep 11th, 2013 by ECM
I’m catching up on pictures from the weekend…Saturday was Tommy’s first soccer game! It was extremely frustrating for me because I had to miss most of the game trying to find out information for deadbeat parent volunteers who were too lazy to find it out for themselves. But I did get to watch Tommy for a few minutes, and he had a blast. He ran hard, stopped the ball a couple times, and managed to actually kick it a couple times, too. I was very proud of him trying so hard in 96 degree heat and beating sun! (I had the wrong lens on the camera, so I had to crop these quite a bit, but I’ll bring my zoom lens next time…)
Go Electric Pirates!
New Kiddie Pool
Sep 10th, 2013 by ECM
One of Derek’s colleagues gave us their old kiddie pool last week, which was great for our second week in the 90s.
Only problem is that our grass underneath was totally dead after just two days…any suggestions?