Kindergarten Round Up

How is it possible that we took our first baby to her Kindergarten round up tonight? I swear she was just a bean in my belly not that long ago. I only cried a little, but Lotus was amazing. I had no idea that they split the kindergarteners from the parents, so couldn't warn Lo beforehand. She was a little hesitant, but she made it through all the stations. She REALLY didn't want to get her picture taken because she didn't want the other kids to see her, so she made me stand with her. When did my baby get old enough to care about such things? Sigh. 

Great Wolf Lodge

My parents and I took all four cousins for a water park day at Great Wolf Lodge today. The kids loved it except for June who is recovering from a virus and running a fever. Poor baby :( Lotus and Ollie (with me and PopPop) went down the big yellow slide and they were so brave. Then Lotus and I went down the big blue slide, it was awesome! 

This was June's face when Violet the fox came out and she was literally shaking with fear: 

Juniper is 18 Months and Selfies!

Juniper is 18 months and got her last immunizations until she is 5, wow, time is a flyin'. Juniper is a super sweet girl who loves her sister, her cousins and her grandparents (especially her Mimi). She is  really in to babies, books and Polly Pockets. She has the following words: mama, yeah, more, baba (her precious blanket), up, and upstairs. She is still seeing her speech therapist who says that Juniper is more of an introspective type kid and those kids usually are slower to talk. She says things all the time though, and we're like, did she just say that? Aunt B and I heard her say "I got a ball" four times in a row on Saturday! But of course she won't repeat it. She has also said PopPop, hat and cookie without repeat. Therapist says this is also common.  She weighs 28 lbs 10 oz (95%tile) and she's 36 inches tall which is (97%tile). 

Unexpected Day Off

I was put on call today, and it was a beautiful one. 

Deanna Rose Day

It was a beautiful morning at Deanna Rose Farmstead this morning. We borrowed a wagon and June lived riding around watching the animals and Lo lived pulling her around. Lotus actually got in to the baby goat pin to bottle feed them without blood curling screams when they'd jump on her, so I consider that progress. Then we walked the trail behind Deanna Rose to see the gnome houses and noticed a couple of new ones!

Ollie Sleepover

Ollie finally agreed to a sleepover and Lotus was so excited to have him over in our new house. We did some face painting, Ollie was Spider-Man and Lo was Dorothy (the Wizard of Oz book that we read has Dorothy in glasses). They made the big box our oven came in into an airplane (yay we finally have an oven!). They watched the Wizard of Oz and ate lots of junk food. When I asked Ollie if he was going to come back soon for another sleepover he said "only if we get to eat cake, popcorn, chocolate donuts and ice cream." They may or may not have eaten all those things he listed ;)

Wizard of Oz

Lotus loves the Wizard of Oz, so I took the girls to the a Wizard of Oz kids exhibit at Crown Center. Lotus who is usually afraid of nothing was scared of the witches castle and emerald city. There were buttons to push that made the wicked witch move and laugh her crazy witch laugh. Juniper was pretty scared too and made me hold her pretty much the whole time. Pretty spooky! Her favorite part was the display case with the ruby red slippers and looking through the books. We found the yellow brick road!

Z

We took the cousins to the park on a cold and windy day. They had a blast! 

P.S. Lotus wanted to title this blog "Z".