Monday, October 29, 2012

Monday, October 22, 2012

Halloween Ready

Handsome Knight

Last week, Matt went hiking in Madera Canyon.  Adam was so excited to go, he kept trying to get Matt to hurry.  Adam was strapped into his car seat, yelling, "Daddy, hurry up!  You're letting flies in!" and calling "Matt!" over and over.  The apparent highlights of the outing were climbing up and down the steps leading to the picnic area, seeing a fallen tree that resembled a horse and spotting another tree with roots resembling spider legs.  Once Matt explained that the second tree was more like a "spooky old tree" (reference to one of Adam's Berenstein Bears books), Adam was spooked and wanted to go home.  He was likely tired from the hiking and ready to go home whether he was spooked or not.

Later that night, Adam told me about the cashews he accidentally spilled and how a squirrel or another animal will find the snack and say, "Oh, thanks, Adam!"

While the guys were out hiking, I went on a quick shopping trip to buy Adam a couple of costumes (pirate per his request) and a knight's outfit (for play); a couple of pairs of shoes (to grow into); and t-shirts (he's out-growing his current shirts).  Aurora stayed home with the sitter, so I was able to get all the shopping done in an hour and a half.

We are almost ready for Halloween.  We have to add the spooky streamers to the windows, add the rest of our Halloween lights, stuff a scary dude on a chair, buy and carve pumpkins, trim and sew those outrageously long fingers on Adam's gloves.  Our fun plans (tentative) are to take Adam trick-or-treating at the plaza where MyGym is located (this weekend) and out trick-or-treating in our neighborhood on Halloween night. 

What the family was doing last night...

Dishes

Laundry

Relaxing

Friday, October 12, 2012

Thursday, October 11, 2012

Adam Play

Adam play
Lightning McQueen is towing big truck and carrying little purple low-rider truck.  Now, that's cool!


Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Basik Ramens

Puzzles!
This post is likely the first of many quick posts about our family.  We have been so busy keeping up with the house and child care that we have run low on blogging time.  We'll try to upload pictures each week and give a quick blip of how we're doing.  Thanks for sticking with us!

Last Thursday was our first outing as a family of 4.  We wanted to treat Adam to something special since he's been such a sport about all the changes going on at home (baby sister crying, sleep-disruptions, etc).  We decided to take him to Baskin Robbins (aka, Basik Ramens).  Adam ordered mint-chocolate chip ice cream.

Aurora slept in her carrier the entire time and received many peeks from customers passing our table to get to the ice cream counter.  Adam sat with us at our table and was really great about minimizing the ice cream drippage.  When he finished his mini-cone, Matt took him to see all the ice cream cakes in the freezer.  Wow.  The combination of sugar and seeing rows and rows of ice cream cakes caused him to go into several minutes of excitement.  He kept saying, "Oh, look at that [Daddy/Mommy]!"

When it was time to leave, Adam refused.  We were pretty sure he'd have to be carried out.  Matt took Aurora out to the car so that he could come back for Adam.  I am still healing from the c-section so I can't carry the baby's carrier OR Adam.  Luckily, the car was parked just outside the storefront.  As Matt was getting Aurora in the car, I suggested that Adam say good-bye to the employees.  Instead, he said bye to EVERYONE in the store.  By this time, there were two large families there.  He certainly got a lot of waves and smiles and goodbyes from the crowd.  Then Adam realized that after you tell 10+ people bye, you kinda have to leave and he headed for the door.  Phew!  Crisis averted.

2nd Check-up


4 weeks and 1 day
Aurora's check-up on Friday went very well.  The doctor put silver nitrate on her belly button so that it could speed up healing.  Aurora weighed in at 9 lbs 12 oz.  Our baby is growing very fast.  Dad and Mom are so grateful for her good health and development.

Late night television

Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Belly Button



Aurora's umbilical cord fell off on Saturday, September 29.  Tummy time begins!