First day of preschool pictures
Graham started attending 4 days per week preschool at our church, right before his 4th birthday. He was a little unhappy about this prospect at first, but as you can see in some pictures Mommy took, he warmed up to the idea. We’re very fortunate that he has several buddies from last year’s class in with him. He’s already started making new friends!
These pictures are from September 4th.
Filed under Graham, Photos, Church, School | Comments (2)Summer vacation pictures
I finally uploaded all our summer vacation pictures from Cape Cod and Litchfield Beach. Check out all our sand castles, seal sightings, pool playtimes, and jumpoline bouncing!
I think Sassy has some pictures to share, too, and I will download them from her camera this weekend.
Filed under Family, Photos, Vacation, Summer | Comment (0)Awesome 4th of July Weekend
We had a fun family weekend at home over the Independence Day weekend. Thursday afternoon, Kristi and the boys went to the farmer’s market, and got lots of great veggies and fresh fruit for us. Then we went out for dinner and ice cream! Since I didn’t have work on Friday, we just hung out at the house and ran a few errands, but then we took Graham and Reid to see the new Disney movie WALL-E. It was their first time at the movie theater, and they had a blast!
Afterward we just grabbed dinner at Chick-fil-A since it’s right there next to the theater. Sadly due to the rainy evening we didn’t get to experience any fireworks, but that was okay since the guys could only concentrate on WALL-E!
Saturday, Graham and I got up and went out to grab donuts and coffee for breakfast, which was cool. We mainly just hung around the house in the morning, but then we packed a picnic lunch and headed to the pool for the rest of the day. We hung out until well after naptime, and then came home and cooked baby back ribs and fresh corn for dinner. Graham even had a small ear of corn.
Sunday we really did lay low, basking the glow of all the fun we’d already had. We took some pictures of the baby birds living in our yard this summer. Then as a special surprise, we took the boys to a baseball game in the late afternoon! We have a triple A team the next town over, and it’s great to head to the ballpark for an afternoon game. Our team started out slowly, but we got to see a home run and several nice hits.
This was another first for the kids. We really had fun although it was super-humid. Graham loved seeing the mascot Wool E. Bull, the games that were played between innings, and of course he had a thousand questions about the game and what was going on. Be sure to check out all our pictures from the game.
We thankfully got seats under the covered area behind home plate, because it started pouring rain in the middle of the 6th inning. That was okay, because it was bedtime about then anyway. We bought a new hat for Graham, and we headed home and got to bed!
Big-time family fun weekend!
Filed under Reid, Graham, Family, Sports, Photos, Summer, Holidays | Comment (1)Reid’s thoughts on sleeping
For a long time now, we’ve wrapped Reid up at naptime and at night in The Miracle Blanket©, which I lovingly call the `Baby Straight Jacket`. We bought this thing when Graham had such bad colic and acid reflux; it helped calm him and keep him snuggly at night. Anyway, it has helped Reid too for a long time.
The problem is, he’s getting too big for it, now that he’s 6 months old. According to our pediatrician, he’s old enough now to put himself to sleep and stay asleep at night. So we began Ferberizing him help him adjust to sleeping on his own. It ain’t going so well. The first night, little guy screamed and cried for more than 4 hours. We’re on night 3 now, and he’s getting progressively better (thank goodness).
Reid let us know how he feels about the process just today, on the way home from lunch!
We’ll keep trying.
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Graham’s friend Harris came over to play this morning. The guys ate some fruit and then played all morning in the backyard. We’re having a crazy heat wave, so Kristi set up the sprinkler for the boys to jump through.
Needless to say, they had a blast running around and giggling. After they dried off, the guys made pretzel necklaces — an art project you can eat!
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