Updates

Today was a craptastic of a day. Well actually it wasn't all crappy. Just about the last hour, when Mae decided she wanted to have an hour long meltdown about I don't know what. Instead of dwelling on the bad, I thought I would give you some general updates of what has been going on. Along with school in full swing, we have been pretty busy. Three sets of our friends are moving out of Seattle, including Deanna my first ever friend in Seattle. We also have said goodbye to the Gimbels and the Rocknes. Friends that we met after having Mae. Saying goodbye is always hard but I am hoping that we might be able to see them again. 

Mae also has been taking a gymnastics class for the last few weeks. The reason why I signed her up was because every time I asked her what she wanted to do for the day she said "Go to Seattle Gymnastics Academy!" Teacher Jen leads her and five other kids in beginning acrobats. Here she is following Teacher Jen to their next station. 

Mae jumping with Teacher Jen. 

Whitaker so sad and upset that he doesn't get to being doing gymnastics. 

On the balance beam. 

Since I don't have to participate in the class with Mae that means I get to try to entertain Whitaker for 45 minutes, mainly I chase him around. Or trying to feed him till he can't eat anymore. There is a very small play area at the gym but that only keeps Whit occupied for about 3 minutes. The other time, I am trying to make sure he doesn't run out to the gym. 

Mae has stop napping with the removal of her paci. Cue very sad music for me. I have tried to look on the upside of it. Mae has been a really great napper for the last two years. (The first year of her life doesn't count because it was always hit or miss). For the first couple of weeks of her no napping, I tried to institute quiet time where I put on CD and tried to keep her in our room. Yeah, that didn't work. The first couple of weeks I put the TV on and let her burn her eyes out. I decided that probably wasn't the best thing so we have been doing some stuff, including the introduction of board games. Here are photos of us playing Candyland the other day. I wouldn't say she necessarily got it but she was entertained by it. Of course, all she cared about was trying to get the purple cards. 

Whitaker in his attempt to be a big kid now uses a spoon. As you can tell from his shirt and his face, he isn't that successful at it but you got to give the kid an A for trying.

Whit has started to do this face quite often. He squints his eyes and smiles. It is super funny. 

Tonight prior to the epic meltdown, I decided to throw glow sticks in the bath and let the kids have a bath in the dark. They LOVED it!

AND, in final news. Pearson got a new job. He is still at Microsoft but is moving over to corporate communications. This means a lot but what it means we aren't 100 percent certain so I won't report on that until...

Even though today with the kids ended on a really low note, sitting down and writing this post and recalling all my kids' happenings made it seem not so bad because I got to spend it with them.