Will you help me find it?

Johanna is very interested in the concept of Birthdays. Her friend from the neighborhood and daycare, Jay Jay, had his birthday party today. A friend's son Willie who she likes had his birthday yesterday. We had a small celebration of my birthday last night. So naturally Johanna wanted to know about her birthday. After I told her it was in August, Johanna asked if I could help her find it. At a loss, I told her to go ask Daddy to help. I just needed to buy some time for a better answer and she forgot what she was going to ask Daddy for on the way to the other room. Thank goodness!

It's just too fast!

Little Kenneth is doing something at 2 months that older sister didn't do until she was 4 months old. I want my babies to slow down!

Mommy, I have enough

So, last Friday I got home from work and there was the need to take care of dinner, and babies, and still pay attention to Johanna. Well, I found a chapstick in a flavour I don't care for and since Johanna likes taking my chapsticks, I thought she might enjoy it. So I gave it to her and reassured her that it was her chapstick. She's been very good with using my chapstick properly and was very happy to have her own.

A few minutes later, she emerged from her playroom and handed me a mostly empty tube of chapstick and said "Mommy, I have enough". I replied "Why yes honey, you do have enough" as I looked at the little sweet images you can see in the attached pictures. That is in fact even chapstick on her neck. I was in fits of giggles over her chapsticking skills, and luckily it came off relatively easily without a major tantrum at bathtime.

I guess everyone has to learn at some point that two year olds will not behave the same way all the time and you shouldn't give them chapstick and then let them play relatively unsupervised with it!

The song that never ends

Johanna has turned "The Itsy Bitsy Spider" into a song that never ends.

The itsy bitsy spider climbed up the water spout
Down came the rain and washed the spider out
Out came the sun and dried up all the rain,
and the itsy bitsy spider climbed up the water spout
Down came the rain and washed the spider out...

It's lovely until she uses it as a bedtime stalling technique!

We're zooper!

Okay, I just needed to make another entry to add more zoo pictures.

More zoo mania

Sorry yesterday was so short. I was really tired for some reason after pushing a fully loaded stroller and periodically carrying a toddler. Yesterday I was very glad we have a zoo membership so there isn't the pressure to have a "perfect" zoo day. Johanna's favorite parts were the carousel, the splash river, and taking her first pony rides ever! We tried to entice her to look at animals, but with the notable exception of the penguins, she only wanted to look at ducks and water. Yep, can't see that anywhere but the zoo! She was temporarily placated by monkeys upon occasion. The penguin pictures are from an earlier zoo visit (pre-blog days) and the rest are from yesterday. Enjoy!

The Zoo!

Here are some videos of Johanna on the carousel!

Happy Belated Mother's Day!

We had a wonderful Mother's Day at our house. We had a nice relaxing morning, and then spent the afternoon at the park. Johanna drew some lovely designs on a frame for a picture of the entire family, and we just had a wonderful time relaxing as a family. Here are some pictures!

So it's May 4th. Kenneth and Sarah are now exactly two months old! The time already seems to be flying. Of course, with two months under their belt, it was imperative that I get some cute pictures. While folding laundry yesterday, I realized not only did we happen to have two of the exact same sleepers for Kenneth and Sarah, but they almost exactly matched a pair of Johanna's pajamas. The wheels of a mother started turning and a photo shoot was born.

Sarah was really bothered by the whole thing, and I think now that it's because she had a nasty cold. Poor thing. She's been full of snot all day. Unfortunately Mommy seems to have the same cold. Hopefully we'll all be feeling better soon!

Well it's been quite a while since I posted, so let me just mention the highlights.

In the middle of the night, technically Easter, Heather went to the ER in what ended up being a gall bladder attack. Apparently it's common for women to develop gall bladder problems during and immediately after pregnancy. Something about babies squishing all your organs out of the way just seems to mess some of them up. Because of the severity of the attack, they recommended surgery on an emergency schedule, and after the insurance company stuff was all worked out, Heather had her gall bladder removed on April Fools Day! No fooling.

Kenneth and Sarah continue to grow. Right now it looks like they'll both have dark hair, and Kenneth's eyes are already turning brown. Heather still holds out hope that they'll end up hazel like hers. Sarah's eyes are still blue, and Heather thinks it would be neat if she had the dark hair and blue eyes of John.

Johanna has started gymnastics. We wanted to make sure she has something just for her, and that will help her burn off some energy while encouraging us to get moving on Saturday mornings to get her to her class at nine. She loves it. She's also a natural at the things they are asking her to do, as the teacher was surprised when I told him it was only her first class after the trial session last week. He was a sub for the regular teacher and assumed she'd been there a lot the way she responded to instructions. John thinks it's because she's had lots of practice jumping on his stomach and leaping around on the beds. I hope she continues to enjoy it this much because it's so much fun watching her try these new things.

We had a photo shoot several weeks ago, and got some excellent pictures. Some of my favorites are in the entry above for you to enjoy. Johanna wasn't very interested in pictures, but we got some good ones once she found a very fascinating caterpillar!