Saturday, October 6, 2012
Thursday, October 4, 2012
September 2012
Wow, September has flown by!
We enjoyed a long Labor Day Weekend as a family. We saw the planes at the Air and Space
Museum and had a fun trip to the park!
Our new school schedule is busy and sometimes tiring, but we
have enjoyed lots of fun, and are getting to know our new friends better
too. We have a neat art gallery
started in our kitchen at home with our favorite projects from school. We got to dress up for picture day at
school, and can’t wait to see our photos.
Christopher did not want to sit on the tricycle for his photo, but he
was willing to try it out the next day for class photos. So we hope to have some nice photos
from that. And our family got to
explore and race toy cars at the family social event after school one Friday!
After our first real week of school, we were ready to
celebrate Mommy’s birthday. (We
have switched to saying “Mommy” more now, because that’s what most of the kids
at school say, when they are picked up,
“Mommeeeeee!”) We enjoyed a
fun walk to the farmer’s market, where we got some super cool fire hats at the
firefighter’s booth, and some really pretty flowers for Mommy’s birthday. Later that day, we had a fun adventure
in our basement, while there were tornado warnings in Vienna. And afterward, we were still able to go
out for dinner, and run around at the mall, which was lots of fun.
The next day, we got to see the new America
Trail exhibit at the zoo, with grey wolves, and sea lions. We also saw the lions, elephants, zebras and
lots of other really neat animals.
When we saw the cheetah, he was perched high on a large branch, making
loud, sharp barking sounds, which was really exciting.
For Daddy’s birthday, we went on a beautiful three-hour hike down the Cross County Trail, near our house, and Mommy and Daddy remembered when they once hiked it all the way to Great Falls and back. We may get to try that with them one day! And we enjoyed blowing out a candle on Daddy’s strawberry rhubarb birthday pie. Various illnesses have cancelled our plans for Daddy’s birthday dinner, but we look forward to going soon!
In the evenings after school, we’ve been playing at home and
at the park, exploring and watching the geese, fish, and turtles at Meadowlark Gardens, and we even got to help “supervise” the
building of our new deck, which was SO interesting! We’ve enjoyed some fun hikes, walks, and bikes with Mommy
and Daddy in the stroller too!
And we’re talking so much! We’ve started to pick up
conversational phrases such as “OK”, and “I’m coming”, and we’re getting really
good at getting our point across with “No want it” and “I need help!” A recent car trip went something like
this (while listening to a favorite dinosaur song) “No, my dinosaurs”, “No My dinosaurs,” NO MY dinosaurs,” “NO MY DINOSAURS”…
you get the idea! We’re even
starting to sing along with favorite songs with lots of the right words, and
name colors and numbers correctly (sometimes). Mommy and Daddy are sometimes surprised to hear what we know
how to say!
We can’t wait for all the fall fun of October! We hope you enjoy our pictures from
this month!
Love,
Katharine and Christopher
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Sunday, September 2, 2012
Wow, We're Two! - August 2012
August has been a very busy and exciting month, with lots of
change in our lives!
We started out the month balancing play dates, family walks,
hikes, and bike rides with lots of busy-ness. At home, we had lots of hard playing to do, with our cool
new play kitchen and our very first bikes! We had speech therapy and physical
therapy appointments, doctors’ appointments, and got new shoes. We tried to see as many of our old
friends as we could, since our new fall schedule won’t allow lots of play dates.
And we went on fun family outings – lots of trips to parks, the zoo, the Air
and Space Museum, and petting the animals at the 4-H Fair.
Meanwhile, Mama worked hard to restock the freezer
(following our power outage and trip to Ohio – and getting ready to start back
to work!). And we had lots of fun
birthday preparations to make!
All of a sudden, we are two years old, and Mama and Dada can
hardly believe it! We celebrated
our birthday by playing with friends at Clemyjontri Park! It was a rare, perfectly gorgeous
day, with no rain, not too hot, and just a light breeze! Our family friends, and friends from
playgroup and the neighborhood came.
We shared fun treats and pinwheels and got to blow out candles on our
mini-muffins. Then we all rode the
carousel, and played and played and played! Whew! Were we
tired when we left! We had such a fun birthday! Thanks to everyone who helped
us celebrate here, and for all the sweet cards from afar!
We are HUGE now!
Katharine is 24 pounds, and Christopher is almost 30 pounds! And Mama and Dada can hardly believe it
(a running theme here…)!
And then it was time to start school. Mama worked to make sure we had all of our
school things ready to start (sheets, backpacks, changes of clothes, all labeled
and ready to go). And we tried
to make sure that WE were ready to start – we read a book about going to
school, and even went to play with our class a few times before we
started. A thankfully quick round
of illness kept us from starting school exactly as planned, but we still got to
begin to get to know our new friends at school in time for Mama to get settled
into her classroom before teacher workdays.
We are getting used to our new routine at school. While there is some protest at drop-off
time, we have been happily playing, eating, and sleeping at school during the
day. (Again, Mama and Dada can
hardly believe it!) At night we
can be pretty tired, and a little grumpy.
But we’re still enjoying some fun trips to the park or to Meadowlark
after dinner for family play time.
We also got to see a few friends from our NICU days at the
NICU Family Reunion the hospital hosts each fall. The hurricane canceled it
last year, so this was our first reunion.
It was very crowded and noisy, so we didn’t stay long, but it was nice
to see some familiar faces.
And our Grandma Sturgeon came to visit with us at the end of
the month, while our school was closed.
We had so much fun showing her all our favorite games and toys, and she
made being at home lots of fun while Mama and Dada were at work. We all went to dinner before she had to
go home on the airplane, which was lots of fun too! We can’t wait to visit with our Grandmas and Grandpas (and
uncles and cousins!) again soon!
With all this wonderfully fun busy-ness, we realize that we
haven’t captured as many photos and videos this month. We’ve just been glad to enjoy our
family time together, as our lives begin to be even more full of activity and
new things! But we hope you enjoy
the ones we’ve taken.
We hope you have a wonderful end of the summer, and can’t
wait to share about our new adventures in September!
Love,
Christopher and Katharine
Saturday, September 1, 2012
Wednesday, August 1, 2012
July 2012
July was such a busy month, and went by SO quickly!
We started the month with our power outage adventure,
enjoying trips out in the mornings to visit, play, and swim with friends. And lots of dinners out made the week
even more fun! We enjoyed playing
at friends’ houses and parks in the mornings before the very hot middle of the
day (100+ degrees many days!); and played outside in the sprinklers on some of
the cooler nights.
The best part of the month was our trip to visit friends and
family in Ohio! We stayed with our
Grandmas and Grandpas, went swimming in a pond, played in a fountain, and got
in lots of swinging, sandbox, and slide time. We had fun seeing the kitties, fish and doggies at Grandma
and Grandpa’s house. We also got
to pet the stingrays at the Columbus Zoo, and saw all the neat animals at the
Akron Zoo. And best of all, we loved
exploring, spending time together, and playing with our friends, cousins, Aunt
Robyn and Uncle Mike, and our Grandmas and Grandpas!
We can’t believe we’re almost two! The summer seems to have flown by, as has the last two
years, and what a big month of change we have ahead – Turning two, starting
school… We will miss all of our
play date friends, but at the same time, we’ll be meeting so many new people
and learning so many new things.
We can’t wait to tell you all about it!
Here are some of our favorite photos and videos of things we
did and saw this month!
Love,
Katharine and Christopher
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