Jenna – 5 weeks

Man, she’s pretty. A lot prettier baby than I was at 5 weeks (see below). Sometimes I think she looks like me, but when I look at that picture I realize I just was not cute at this point in my life. It got better with time though, I promise.

And here she is wrapped up in her Miracle Blanket, aka the straight jacket. She loves it though…absolutely LOVES it!

Water Park!!!

Hunter used to LOVE talking about water park day at Kids R Kids. At first, he wouldn't go play on the splash pad at school, but once we started getting the little blow up pool out at the house and letting him play in there, he started participating at school as well.

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So we have a splash pad in our neighborhood. The last time we went, it wasn't quite working right and only one level of the water spouts were working - the fierce level! He wouldn't really participate - this was before he had done water park day at school. We took him today and thought we might have the same problem. But then God intervened - there is one area in the splash pad where a bucket fills up and then dumps out on whoever is under it. He was just walking around and BAM! It got him full on!! Didn't even freak him out actually(scared me a little bit though) - and then he was game for anything. He had a blast and Daddy caught a couple of pictures on his i-phone. Wish I had remembered the video camera so that we could have captured how incredibly happy he was. It was a blast, and Jenna stayed asleep in her stroller til the very end. What a cooperative little girl.

Miserable

Looks pretty miserable, eh?

Hunter and the Three Dwarves

Today is Hunter’s first day at his new school, Lakewood Montessori.  He was so excited that he woke up around 3 AM chanting “I want to go to school, I want to go to school.”  Thankfully, he went back to sleep when I picked him up from the floor and put him back in his bed.  Here are some first day pictures.

                  

I didn’t get a picture of his new backpack unfortunately – it’s Lightning McQueen and he picked it out this weekend.  He was SO proud of it.  We got to school right before Hunter’s friend Landon came in, so Landon’s mom (who I was very happy to see again) came in to say hello and then took the two kids back into the other toddler room where they eat breakfast so that I could talk to Hunter’s teacher.  When I finished and went back to the other room to say goodbye, he was sitting quietly at the table with his new friends and Landon, eating his cereal and drinking his milk.  He gave me a kiss goodbye and off I went.  No issue whatsoever.  Hopefully, I hear that he had a terrific day and made lots of new friends!  Will find out soon enough!

And here are some pictures of Miss Jenna at 4 weeks, with captions telling you which dwarf she was trying to look like…

Sleepy

Grumpy

Sneaky

Uncle Brad came into town this weekend and got to meet Jenna and get some good playtime in with Hunter.  (Thanks to Uncle Brad for the blanket used above as Jenna’s backdrop.)  Here are a couple of pics from that event.  If anyone knows a good way to get rid of glasses glare in pictures, please let me know.  Tried to retouch with Picasa and couldn’t get anything to look good…

 

And how precious is this photo shoot?  This was last week, Friday, I think, and she’d just had her bath and was very alert and pleasant, so I took full advantage of the opportunity.

 

   

Thanks to the Fowlers for that Princess towel.  A very nice prop and backdrop for Jenna’s photo shoot.