more discoveries

 After my little boy gets full of dirt at the park each morning, we have quiet time with the water bucket. It calms us all down and makes washing down a dirty boy a much easier task. We keep adding things to our discovery box to find out: sink or swim? (do the objects stay up or down?) rocks, flower petals, jar lids, sponges, endless fun.

Micah invented his own way to do water colors when I had my back turned. Olabilir. It can work!

storytime

Micah and Dad love bedtime story time. One book in the chair and one book in bed. Richard Scarry and truck books are favorites currently. Won't we be sad when the new bunkbeds arrive! Hopefully those will be even cooler than this bed...and Dad will fit better.

lydia smile update & fists

big brother strikes again

 In addition to her doll, Micah thought Lydia would enjoy some (8?) of his toys for a change. I think she felt a little overwhelmed by all the loving attention, but she played it cool.

Thanks big brother!

afternoon naps

 We took lots of pictures of Micah when he was little sleeping, and I realized the other day that we don't have any of Lydia.....because she only sleeps in the carrier. After 10 attempts holding the camera behind my head, I finally got this shot without much of me in it. She's much cuter in person, but this gives a fairly accurate picture of what I see 3 inches below my chin 5-6 hours of the day. :)

And this is what I usually feel like after both of the kids "go down for their naps". What can I really get done without killing my back or burning my child? Here are a few things that work well:
-watching Turkish soap operas
-peeling potatoes
-folding laundry (because our dryer is on top of our washer - making it such that I don't have to bend over!)
-ironing Rick's shirts (isn't he so lucky!)
-posting blog updates

what doesn't work so well:
-baking things that need to come in and out of the oven
-picking up toys
-sweeping the floor and trying to use the dustpan
-napping
-sitting on the couch for more than 10 minutes (someone gets restless and threatens to wake up early)

I'm open to suggestions!

finally summer

hooray! We've finally hit weather warm enough for the pool to open again. Micah is taking advantage of another location to play his favorite game: copy cat.

old and new words

Good parents are supposed to record every major milestone in their kids' baby books....but I question, how do you know when your kid finds her fists? Don't you just do a double take and see it one day and wonder how long she's been gnawing on those?

So, Lydia has found her fists.

And Micah has gone from one word pointing, to three word sentences that form mini-conversations! This makes my eyes bug out as I am amazed at all he thinks and says...and how soon he'll be graduating high school.

So, I want to memorialize on our blog the following words that I hope he doesn't replace too soon:
motorcycle: gree-ah
airplane/bird: ku
train: toot toot
farm: e-i-o
dog: how
frog: bey
Lydia: ee-ah

I'd also like to just state how confusing it is to have these three words:
mom: mom
driving cars: mum
time to eat: um
especially when he is yelling Muuuuum from the living room....where he is contentedly driving his matchbox cars.