Sunday, September 12, 2010

Amazing Healing Baby

Even though I risk exposing my negligence as a parent, I'm going to show you this in the name of science.
Because it's amazing!

Look at this horrid scratch Peach gave herself. (I hate trimming baby nails. It's so terrifying!)

And then look at this picture I took of us the very next day.

It's basically gone! Babies heal sooo fast!! (good thing too... she's already had a few "incidents" thanks to her loving big brother. one of which involves a toy hammer and her face...)

Saturday, September 11, 2010

Dinosaur Museum

When Jay's mom (Nanie) was in town for Peach's birth, she took The Frog to the Dinosaur Museum and Thanksgiving point. He absolutely loved it and talked about it every day and said he wanted to go again, so we decided to take him again as part of his birthday present. Here he is patiently waiting for us to get everything together to leave... in Peach's bouncer.
Peach was ever patient and looked like this for the first half of our visit.

The Frog wasn't so sure he wanted to go in there and finally opted out.
I'm pretty sure all The Frog was thinking here was "Hold those?"
Of course The Frog loved digging around for dinosaurs in the sand, though once he found a few, he mostly just played with them, sans sand.
Peach conveniently woke up right when we got to the sand and water area, so I got to nurse her comfortably on a bench while The Frog played. This is what she looked like for the rest of our visit.
This picture is so funny because I wanted to get a shot of The Frog looking at one of the skeletons, but I was too late. I had Jay pick him up to take him back so I could get the picture and it looks like he's pointing right at the dinosaur, but he's really crying and saying "Go over there!!" pointing to the next area.
We got to see these fish being fed goldfish.
The Frog loves to watch Finding Nemo and as a result, he loves sharks!
It may look like The Frog uncovered a major discovery, but actually, he spent most of his time walking around, a brush in each hand, looking at what other kids had uncovered. :)
And another shot of Peach, because she's so cute.

Thursday, September 9, 2010

Happy 2nd Birthday Frog!!

Despite his recklessness, and to my relief, The Frog has made it to his second birthday!! I think we can all appreciate the awesomeness of the number 2... it has many great qualities, but I think my favorite is that it is the only even prime number. Yay for being 2!!

The Frog adamantly requested pizza for his birthday dinner and not shown here is his smiley face pancake breakfast (I forgot to take pics). Honestly, the smiley face looked a bit more angry than I would have liked, so I'll probably try again soon to redeem myself and I'll take a picture then :)

Even though The Frog was sooo good at blowing out MY birthday candles (we had to relight them several times), it took him many tries to get his out. Very cute.

When I asked him what kind of cake he wanted, he said "white". I offered sprinkles and he of course accepted. And when I was listing off the ice cream choices at the grocery store, he went with brownie. In the end, I think he liked the candles more than the cake - in the words of The Frog, "funny guy..."

We decided that this year we would spread out his present opening, because really, a kid can only play with one thing at a time, and I think it was a good strategy while he's still so young. I think his favorite was the Home Depot tool bucket. Finally, a screw driver that doesn't terrify me to see him running with!

It's so amazing how he has grown in the last year! It's amazing to me that when we took this picture, he didn't even say one word, and now he regularly speaks in sentences! We love you little guy!

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Cloud Watching

This is happiness

Monday, September 6, 2010

New Lawn Mower

We got a new lawn mower. His name is The Frog.