Inara has reached a new milestone. She can properly drink from a cup. The cup she has is a sippy cup but as I have done with all my kids we remove the plug to make it more like a regular cup. Now that she has the whole cup drinking deal down mommy is no longer allowed to assist. If I try to tip or hold the cup for her she pushes my hands away and says "no no". Inara is the child who has been most attached to me so this new independence is a little bit of a surprise. I guess they all have to grow up some time.
Ronan was a train engineer today. Xander and Landon set him up a nice engine that also happens to double for a laundry basket. They padded it well with pillows and blankets. A boy needs to be comfortable while he drives a train. He even had the engineer hat to make him official. He has started a new ploy. When he wants attention and you don't look at him or pick him up he falls flat on his face. He doesn't cry he just slowly peeks his little eyes up at you. The look on his face seems to say "Don't you feel bad I fell?". After about the fifth time of this happening today I realized what he was up to. The boy is too smart. He knows if he appears hurt mommy will love him every time. With five kids you have to stand out somehow.
Jadzia is overly thrilled. She was given a real ballerina outfit. We couldn't find her tights so she wore her pink pants underneath but she felt pretty ballerina like. She twirled and danced even more than normal. She was crushed at dinner time when she spilled a decent sized blob of ketchup on it. I had to assure her this would not exile her from future ballerina class. I'm glad for the invention of shout. The other tragedy that occurred was her plastic princess play shoe broke in half. This was followed by tears and her begging daddy to fix it. After all daddy is a builder he can fix anything.
The weather was beautiful today and this meant we had to enjoy it. The kids did a great job of helping me clean up. Their reward was to go outside and play with their colored bubbles. Landon had orange, Xander green and Jadzia can you guess??...... Pink (Like there was another option). These bubbles were an Easter gift from their Nana (Isaac's grandma). They are definitely an outside toy. By the time we were done we had a very beautiful drive way. They were pretty neat though.
Inara has reached a new milestone. She can properly drink from a cup. The cup she has is a sippy cup but as I have done with all my kids we remove the plug to make it more like a regular cup. Now that she has the whole cup drinking deal down mommy is no longer allowed to assist. If I try to tip or hold the cup for her she pushes my hands away and says "no no". Inara is the child who has been most attached to me so this new independence is a little bit of a surprise. I guess they all have to grow up some time.
Ronan was a train engineer today. Xander and Landon set him up a nice engine that also happens to double for a laundry basket. They padded it well with pillows and blankets. A boy needs to be comfortable while he drives a train. He even had the engineer hat to make him official. He has started a new ploy. When he wants attention and you don't look at him or pick him up he falls flat on his face. He doesn't cry he just slowly peeks his little eyes up at you. The look on his face seems to say "Don't you feel bad I fell?". After about the fifth time of this happening today I realized what he was up to. The boy is too smart. He knows if he appears hurt mommy will love him every time. With five kids you have to stand out somehow.
Jadzia is overly thrilled. She was given a real ballerina outfit. We couldn't find her tights so she wore her pink pants underneath but she felt pretty ballerina like. She twirled and danced even more than normal. She was crushed at dinner time when she spilled a decent sized blob of ketchup on it. I had to assure her this would not exile her from future ballerina class. I'm glad for the invention of shout. The other tragedy that occurred was her plastic princess play shoe broke in half. This was followed by tears and her begging daddy to fix it. After all daddy is a builder he can fix anything.
The weather was beautiful today and this meant we had to enjoy it. The kids did a great job of helping me clean up. Their reward was to go outside and play with their colored bubbles. Landon had orange, Xander green and Jadzia can you guess??...... Pink (Like there was another option). These bubbles were an Easter gift from their Nana (Isaac's grandma). They are definitely an outside toy. By the time we were done we had a very beautiful drive way. They were pretty neat though.
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