little house on the westside

Monday, October 8, 2007

Midway museum

On September 30th we all went to the Midway Museum, which is an old aircraft carrier that has been turned into a museum. Chad got to tell me about some of the similarities and differences between the older and newer aircraft carriers.

In the brig (is that the right lingo?)...

Original ladder...

The nice staircase they built for us tourists...

Chad's grandpa Lloyd used to fly this...

Friday, October 5, 2007

All about Abby...again

Abby really likes to play peekaboo and she's remarkably good at it. I didn't even realize she could do it, I guess because I was still thinking she was a baby!

Abby is also getting into the cupboards. Most of them are okay, except I put some rubberbands around the handles to the garbage and recycling so she couldn't get in there. I remember Jamie at this age loved to crawl into the cupboards that we had while we were staying in San Diego in December of '05. Here are those pics, and a video of Abby now.

(beware of the bare butt)

And how much fun do think a rag and a broken chair could be? Apparently lots. I thought surely she would get bored of this but finally I took a video and in total, she probably sat there playing with the rag for at least 20 minutes.

The way Jamie sees it - week of 9/29

9/23
"I'm too busy take nap - 'tay up", said when asked if he wanted to take a nap.

9/24
[me] "mommy doesn't want to go the pool because it's too cold"
[Jamie] "not cold no more, just warm - baby(maybe)?" said with his shoulders shrugged, hands up and curved out, eyebrows raised, voice inflected on the "baby?" It's hard to describe without a picture, but it was so cute, and so grownup!

9/26
"Oh that wishous (delicious)!" He says this after anytime he eats "wike coooo-kie monter".

9/27
"Mommy give Abby ba-ba, Abby take nap, Jamie watch Cars - okay?" This is at 8:30 in the morning, a bit after I told him he could watch a movie when Abby takes a nap. Apparently he can't wait.

9/28
[me] Do you want to go on a big boat and see helicopters and airplanes?
[Jamie] No, I'm busy go to Garget.
[me] What are you going to get at Target?
[Jamie] Um, go pool.
[me] Who's going to take you to the pool?
[Jamie] helicopters?

9/29
"Abby dit dill (sit still), Abby no crawl 'round" (Jamie doesn't like it when she gets in the way of the t.v. or crawls over him)

Thursday, October 4, 2007

kiddos

I edited this picture of Abby with my Photoshop Elements.

So, last week the kids were both under the weather with a cold and twice I looked around to see where they were and they were both just laying there on the floor! And what was even funnier was they were both facing the exact same direction, but in totally different parts of the house! By the time I had grabbed the camera, they had moved slightly, but it was still funny.

A few days ago, we were out all day and Abby was robbed of her naps. At dinnertime she apparently couldn't stay awake any longer and just fell asleep in her highchair.

Abby now refuses to eat baby food. One of her first lunches of big girl food was shells-n-cheddar. She really likes them, and the shells were just the right size to fit on the end of her thumb or finger. So that's how she ate them, she'd just stick in her thumb or finger and then eat it right off. Consequently, for the next few meals, she'd try to pick up other items in the same way without success. It was really funny so I got some videos of it.

zoo...again, but not the last time!

Of course we had to take Chad's parents to the zoo. We used both strollers so we could stay as long as possible, but we still didn't get to everything. Jamie and Abby had a great time with grandma and grandpa.

Meerkats...