Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Randoms

K loves her some carousels...

Keeping the "facebook" in the fam, trying to use Pavlov's theory to coax him into smiling for the camera like we accidentally did with K.

Spikey Do & love me some baby blues!

This book is boring Mom...

K has fallen asleep with her book on top of her several times this week, too sweet.

Sibling love - getting ready to head to school

Trying out the Jumper for the first time, not so much jumping occurred, but I think he likes it so far.

keep scrolling..I posted 4 posts tonight :)

Side by Side


Katelyn at 4 months and Levi at 3 months - do you think they look anything alike??

Some new videos

Katelyn has recently found a new love for George Strait...



Levi trying to get a few words in between Katelyn's yip yap :)



We have been singing our own version of "You Are My Sunshine" to Katelyn since she was born...instead of "my only sunshine" we say "my little Rae of sunshine" - since she is our little Katelyn Rae Poth...

Be Mine

My two Valentine's :)

Take 10...haha, we never got a good pic of all 3 of us..
"Spread the Love"....this boy definitely spreads some love around here, how can you not smile looking at that face! LOVE!

Today we had our Playgroup's Valentine's Day party here at our house. I forgot to take pics of the group, but we had a great time talking, playing, eating, crafting, and more playing.

We finally got a pic with Levi and Camden together - they are about 1 month apart and usually sleeping when we get together, so this is their first picture together having their first official "play"date with their sweet big sisters!

Camden (4 1/2 months) & Levi (3 1/2 months)

Looks like Levi may already be longer...I think we may have a tall one on our hands, who would have thought!

Thursday, February 16, 2012

Impressed...

Just checked my email and this is what Katelyn's class will be covering at school this week. I am impressed with these newsletters they send out and the stuff they try to cover with 2 year olds! :)

Daisy Newsletter

February 20-24, 2012

Special Activities for the Week

This week in the Daisy classroom we will be learning about Black History. We will be talking about Garrett Morgan and how he invented the traffic light. We will also be talking about Jackie Robinson. He played baseball for the Dodgers. We will be making a bat during art to go along with Jackie. Also, we will talk about Thomas Stuart. He invented the mop. During art we will make a mop. We are going to make a handprint unity wreath. I will also bring in an ice cream scooper and we will talk about Alfred L. Cralle and how he invented it. We will continue to review the letters and numbers we have learned.

Sensory Experiences

For our sensory experience we will be making ice cream in a bag.

Library

In the library this week we will be finding a story about black history and reading it with you child

Gym

In the gym this week we will be working on standing on one foot. This is one of the goals on our assessment.

Enrichment Room

In the enrichment room we will be learning the song, Take Me Out To The Ball Game.

Playground

On the playground we will be learning to play baseball with the bats we make.

Parent Reminders

Don’t forget to keep several extra outfits here at school so we can change your child’s clothes as needed.

Activities To Do at Home

You can talk with your child about Black History. Talk about the people we are talking about at school so your child will have a better understanding of it.


Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Happy Valentine's Day to Me!!

The best gift ever....

Levi slept 12 hours last night - woo hoo!!! I had to wake him up at 6:45 to eat before we headed off to school/work. I am sure it was a fluke, because it came out of no where. He's been waking up at least 2x a night...so I'm not placing bets it will happen again soon, but maybe he's at least heading in the right direction!

Wednesday, February 08, 2012

3 Months



Levi is 3 months old today, look at that smile! It's so strange to me because I feel like he has been a part of our family for so much longer, I can barely remember what it was like before he arrived. Our family feels so much more complete now. He has continued to be such an easy baby, other than the fact that he has his very gassy days and has started to only take 40 minute naps. I honestly can't remember if Katelyn took short naps as a baby, but I hear they grow out of it.

Last week both Katelyn and Levi started "school" two days per week, while I go to work. The first day for Levi was a little bit of an adjustment - mainly for the teacher, Levi seemed to not care one way or the other, but after a few tips, I think she's figuring him out and he is eating and sleeping pretty well. Both Monday and Tuesday of this week when I came to get him she was playing with him on the floor and he was smiling up a storm - guess that's a good sign. It's also been nice that he has been the only baby in his room so far, so he has gotten a lot of one on one attention.

Katelyn has done super! She didn't even care that she was going to a new school, she just walked on in, gave hugs & kisses and waved goodbye as she walked to go play. That made us feel great! Although, yesterday when I picked her up her teacher said she was a little sad today and was missing her Mommy. I think she's a little more attached to me lately since I was home with her for 3 solid months. She seems to really like the school though and is happy to go!

Here are a few pics of our sweet boy at 3 months!



Big Sis and Lil' Bro

All decked out for his 3 month pictures...

I asked Katelyn to take our picture this morning, not too bad for a 2 year old!

Daddy Time



I'm a big kid now!

Katelyn is officially potty trained!! We took the slow approach, so we started by just letting her choose if she wanted to wear big girl panties - she wasn't too motivated until we offered ORANGE jelly beans or ORANGE tic tacs when she went in the potty - that worked! She even went to school both Monday & Tuesday and only wore a diaper during nap time with no accidents! One day we forgot to put a diaper on her for her nap and she didn't even have an accident then either.

We are so proud! She filled up her sticker chart in no time and got a huge ORANGE sucker!