Preschool

Tara, your text requesting some pics of our family motivated me to open up our blog page for the second time in like 7 months. Wow!
We'll do a preschool theme...and a couple other posts.
We've started a preschool where I stay and help run learning stations and siblings come too. It's so fun! Nathan loves it as much as Caitlyn and it's great for him to already be getting the preschool structure and doing the crafts and projects.
There's a theme for every day and last week one of the days was "backwards, inside out, mixed up day". So we wore our clothes backwards and inside out, etc. The art project for the art station was "upside down coloring" so the mom at the art station taped the coloring pages to the underside of the table and the kids colored laying on a mat on the floor.

p.s. Tanya, I don't know if those cowboy boots were originally Joey's or Kylan's, but Nathan insists on wearing them everywhere we go. :-)

Today during goodbye circle time the kids did tapping sticks to a song, which my kids love. I decided to whip out my camera and take a video because Nathan was following the instructions really well and I thought it was especially cute that he really closed his eyes the whole time when Teacher Marina said to for that part.

What happens when...

you allow your child to play in the water at Seaworld on a chilly San Diego evening in May even though you didn't bring extra clothes into the park?

He ends up looking like Yoda in your jacket while you walk out to the car to look for something else he can wear.

Thumb Sucker

Benjamin is a thumb sucker! They say every family gets at least one, and it looks like he's our one! I know I should try and prevent it, but it's so darn cute!

Natey's B-day

My little baby Nathan (who suddenly seemed huge once we brought Benjamin home) turned two!
He got a little learning center thingie (which our friends who were moving actually gave us and we hid it til his birthday -- when they're 2 you can still take advantage of the fact that pretty much anything is cool and exciting and they don't know or care that it's a hand-me-down, right?).

For his cake he picked out chocolate cupcakes...and wanted to eat them for breakfast. And why not? 

Happy Birthday, my sweet baby Natey!