For those that complained of too few pictures. Here are some. And a few stories as well.
1. Pink and purple berry eater
2. Any guesses on her favorite color?
On Tuesday the kids went to the dentist. Simon just for a regular check up, and Katie for the first check ever. There are no pictures of Katie’s actual time with the dentist, let me explain why. With such little ones, the dentist doesn’t sit them in the chair by themselves, as I guess it’s too scary. She asked me to sit Katie on my lap, facing me, with her legs around my waist. After that the dentist sat across from me, with her knees touching mine, and I leaned Katie all the way back. This way the child can still be hugged if necessary, but with my daughter it was enough to hold her hands. Katie willingly opened her mouth, and let the dentist got a great view of everything. The last molar is still a bit covered by the gum, so we are officially recommended some pain relievers, but the end is very much in sight. They also don’t do thorough cleaning at that age, they just floss, brush, and cover by some gel thing that I assume helps prevent cavities. All in all, both kids were very compliant and well behaved, so we are done for the next 6 months.
3. Playing Wii in the waiting room
4. There were also toys for smaller kids
5. The dentist takes a picture of the kid at every checkup. Katie wasn’t too impressed with the need to model
6. Yea, they weigh the kids as well
7. Open wide
8. The presence of the dentist didn’t dampen the enthusiasm
9. First ever banana muffins. In our house noone has made them before. Surprisingly, they came out quite well!
10. Pinkey pie now lives in Katie’s bed. I don’t recommend taking him out, if you don’t want to be awakened in the middle of the night by a little girl that is looking for her pony
11. A family that reads together (requires someone to take the picture)
12. He won’t let me steal his toys!
13 David Beckham
14. Girls vs boys
15.Boys vs girls
16. Slightly deranged dandelion
So on Saturday at naptime I left Simon doing his reading lesson in his room. After a half hour, I saw that he is done with the lessons (it’s webbased, so I can access his records) and that he gone all quiet. Well, stupidly I assumed that he is probably dozing off. At exactly the end of naptime the child came out, carrying the nook. “Look”, he said, “It showed me that it has netflix on here!”, and demonstrated to me that the nook was playing a fireman sam cartoon. “Oh really”, I replied, “so have you watched anything else?”. “Oh yea! I watched two curious georges, one bob the builder, and when this cartoon is over I’m going to check if it has Dora on here!”. You should’ve heard him! He was so genuinely tickled, excited and proud of his ingenuity. I laughed so hard that I couldn’t stop, and tears were rolling out of my eyes. Needless to say I logged out of netflix, so there will be no repeat performace of that. You would think this would be the end, but no. Today he came out showing me that he got a book to read on the nook. Yup, he figured out how to buy books for himself, and bought a couple. My son is four, and he is smarter than me. I have password protected the shopping ability, and now eagerly awaiting next weekend to see what else my nook can do in Simons hands.
17. Watching fireman Sam
18. How much does a human head weigh?
19. Do these make me look even more like mommy?
Many faces of Simon
20. This face is a pretty common sight. He usually does that went telling us a joke, and trying not to look into our eyes. And also when we ask for his attention while he is watching cartoons
21. Smiley
22. My sunshine
23. Sunday morning cartoons
24. Оh, oh, I think I am finally moving this thing!
25.Watcha baking now? (Somehow this week we baked more than the last few years combined)
26. He is not a one sport man!
27. Good weather for a swing
28. Mommy, eat this one
29. Waiting
30. Simon had a good weekend
31. Throwing frisbee
32. It’s clearly a hat!
33. Catching frisbee
34. He is actually quite good at it.
35. We had fun, I hope so did you
