Preschool

Preschool started this week, and Cinderella was so excited. We put her in one that is in a neighborhood near ours, close enough for us to walk. She wanted to walk, not ride on the stroller. This was a big thing for her, because she always wants to ride. She told me "I'm a big girl now."


Notice how Guy is wearing a backpack too? He wanted to have his on, when he saw her put hers on. Cinderella skipped and jumped the whole way there. When we got there she didn't even look back. She just said, "Have a nice day," and ran into her school.

It's so crazy to think she is growing up.

Sleeping Beauty

I find it interesting how different children can be from each other in just the little things.

Both Cinderella and Guy as babies HATED being on their tummies much at first. In fact they didn't get much tummy time because they disliked it so much. But once they learned how to roll from back to front, I would make them stay on their tummies more. Eventually they got to the point that they liked being on their tummies so much that they would roll over in their cribs and sleep on their tummy. I know you are told not to let your baby sleep on their tummy, but once they can roll their themselves, what can you really do about it?

Well Sleeping Beauty, has never really disliked being on her tummy, other than once her neck would get tired of holding her head up. However now that she has learned how to roll over, both ways, she spends most of her time on her back. She even scoots around the floor on her back.

I don't think she knows what she is doing. She is just moving her body, especially when she is mad. Then she really scoots. I wonder some times if once she realizes she can get somewhere doing that, if she is going to scoot on her back instead of crawl.

I keep putting her on her tummy, but she will roll onto her back. I think she is really eager to sit up. She has been trying to sit up for the past month and a half. And she can hold her self up for maybe about 2 seconds. I know not long, but how many almost 4 month olds can do that?

I just love watching my children discover new things.

Silly boy

So the other day Guy had a colander and was banging around in the kitchen while I was making dinner. Suddenly after one bang he started crying. I asked him, "Guy, did you hurt yourself?"

His response was, "Not myself, my head."

Favorite July Pictures

Sorry they are a little late. But here are my favorite pics from July.

Garden Spaghetti

So my kids are picky eaters. Cinderella won't eat anything that looks like a vegetable, except corn on the cob. She does like things that are made out of veggies as long as they don't look like veggies. Like spaghetti.

So, we have had a bunch of yellow squash in our garden this summer. In trying to figure out a way to use it, I decided to make my own spaghetti sauce.

I cut up a yellow squash, an orange bell, 3 large tomatoes, and put them in a pot with a can of diced tomatoes with the juice, and a couple cans of tomato sauce. I then simmered them stirring occasionally, to keep them from burning. Once everything was soft I put it all in the blender and pureed it. You couldn't see any of the veggies, but my sauce was really thin so I added a can of tomato paste, and 1/2 cup Parmesan cheese. It made a really yummy sauce, and my kids ate it up. Yum.

So how do you hide veggies to get your kids to eat them? Or do your kids like veggies?

Diving Board

So we have had the kids in swimming lessons this summer. Cinderella has been loving it, she is like a fish. She loves to go under the water, and she loves swimming. In the shallow water that is.
A couple days ago, her teachers took her class to the deep end. They had all the kids in life jackets. But the water being that deep, just terrified Cinderella. She will go in the water, and on that day, she let one of her teachers drop her off the diving board to where the other teacher waited below. However since that day, every time her class goes to the deep end, she refuses to go off the diving board. She will get on it, but as she gets toward the end, and sees how deep the water is, she gets scared and backs off.

I really can't blame her too much. I don't like the diving board either. 2 of my biggest fears are water over my head, and heights. So combine them together with a diving board, and I just don't like it. Oh well I guess we all have our fears, and maybe one of these times she will get over her fear.

It's good to marry your friend.

The other day at the dinner table Cinderella announced that she is going to marry Jackson. I asked her who Jackson is, and she replied, "My friend." I asked her if he had asked her to marry him. She said, "no."

Later we told one of my brother about the conversation, and he asked her why she was going to marry him. She said, "because he is my friend, and it is good to marry your friend."


The things we can learn from four-year-olds.