Everything is so much fun when you are two and your mom lets you go outside without shoes on
Screaming just because we are outside and can.
Jumping. It took forever for Kate to learn how to jump. She has always had good large motor skills but jumping she just couldn't figure out until about two months ago. Thanks to my new camera :) I can actually catch her mid air.
Taking a minute to talk to Mom about the crane across the street.
Trying to out run her shadow... she did this for about ten minutes, along with calling her shadow a "bunny", because of the pigtails I think.
Looking at airplanes in the sky.
Laying down to look at a grasshopper
and that was all just in 15 minutes. What an adventure.
Project 1: Sewing this tag blanket for Samuel. I started this when he was still in utero. I obviously had planned to have it complete more than 6 months ago. I have never made a blanket with silky tags before- seen it done though and gave it a try.
Project 2: Tie onesie. I have seen this idea all over the place lately. So I gave it a shot. I think I should have followed some directions, it doesn't look like the tie will hold up, but doing it gave me some great ideas of how I could make a different one out of one of Jake's old ties. Either way I am sure Sam will look like a stud in it.
Project 3: Kate and Samuel both got PJ pants. I had some nice gender neutral jungle print picked out but Kate didn't like it and wanted this balloon print. I told her we were going to make Pj's. She watched, with more excitement than I expected. Then when it was completed she wasn't too pleased. I think she thought I was going to make a hot air ballon.
Project 4: I made this doll for Kate out of scraps of old decorating material. She is loving it... which makes me hope it lasts a while.
You may ask "Crystal how do you get so much done in just one day's time?"... the answer you see below. Let your kids DESTROY the house. As you can see Kate has been "sewing" as well, meaning taking everything out of the sewing box and spreading it around the kitchen and living room.
I think I should go throug the sewing box more than once a year. Who knows what kind of goodies my kids will get.
We went to a community party where there was face painting. There were 18 or so kids in line and the one lady was taking 25 minutes on each kid (really?) plus kids just kept cutting in front of us. I went up to the lady and asked if I could just use one of her brushes to but a little heart of my daughters face since we had been waiting so long and it would literally take me five seconds. She claimed for liability reasons she could not. I love when people use this one on me. Mostly because perhaps they don't realize I am married to a lawyer/ know a thing or to about the law/and thus realize there would be no liability here. People sure do like to use it as an excuse though..... so Kate did not get her face painted like she wanted. I painted her face for her later that night- like a bear as requested. (well my best attempt at a bear but she was pleased) It took 1 minute with eyeliner and eye shadow.
We decided to take the kids backyard camping last Friday. I am not brave enough to go real camping with little Sam yet. So we had everything planned- but then it was rainy, so we went living room camping instead. Kate loved it and spent most the evening moving all her belongings into the tent.
Amy, Kaylie and Jeff were up for a few days. Here Kate and her cousin read a book, apparently books about rainbows are surprising or scary.
Kate pulled this Winne-the-Pooh movie from a box of old things at my parents weeks ago. Jake lets her watch a movie every morning (well she wakes up at 6:00 every morning) and this has been her consistent choice for the past two weeks. She loves the song and is always going around saying "Tut Tut looks like Rain"
Lasts weekend we decided to take the kids to the zoo. The weather was suppose to be cool and we had not been for over a year. It is strange how we plan our free time around what we think would make our kids the happiest, I guess that is because there is nothing better than hearing Kate squeal in delight.
I had brought some popcorn for Kate to munch on. Although she didn't really eat much of it- she would not let me carry it for her- hence most of our pictures she has it in her hands.
This tiger was one of Kate's favorite things. She sat and watched him for a while. He was sitting right next to the glass and eating. Although I can't understand why someone would devote their lives and career to animals (ie. zookeeping) I would agree that this tiger was beautiful.
I am not sure why Jake always gets stuck posing by the fake animals.
Kate and I check out the giraffe's.
Lisa decided to meet us there and hang out with us a the zoo. It is always nice to have her around- more arms to hold children equals more fun for everyone.
Samuel is always such a good trooper. He remained his content self even though he missed naps and wouldn't eat while at the zoo, and it was a little cold, not to mention he can't really see/ doesn't really care to see/ animals and had to sit in the stroller for half a day.
