Our Baby's the Best
Although we now have three kids, I assure you that they are all three the best. This blog is to show them off.
Friday, September 13, 2013
Triathlon
Thursday, August 1, 2013
Quick Video
Wednesday, June 5, 2013
Cute Videos
So, I have some pictures of Ben’s last day of school and Penny’s last day of her co-op preschool, but some have to be scanned or uploaded or e-mailed from other moms. Until I get those up, here are some cute videos.
Somehow, I forgot to put up this video of Penny at the Chicago airport. I could have sworn I put it in the post about our Utah trip, but I didn’t. She was pretending to be a ninja on the moving walkways.
And this is one of my recent favorites. Jon was playing with Penny’s recorder (I don’t know why, he likes to be obnoxious) and Ian wanted to play too. When Jon gave him the recorder, adorable-ness ensued. Seriously, Ian is too cute for words:
Thursday, May 23, 2013
Almost Summer
So, this post isn’t really about summer, although we are feeling super grateful that the weather has finally improved. Especially since gas prices here in Iowa City went up 50 cents while I was in Utah for two weeks, so we are using bikes exclusively now. The purpose of this post is mostly to do an update on all the kids and share a few videos.
Ben is doing great. He will be done with preschool next week. They took a really cute little graduation picture of him yesterday at preschool. It is adorable, but I will have to scan and upload it. He is a great kid and we keep him super busy. He is currently playing soccer and really loves it. He gets so excited about it. Every time he comes off the field he gives me the very animated play by play of every minute he was on the field. I caught part of it on my phone:
He is also a very good teammate. He is probably the only kid on the team that sticks around on the sideline when he is out and cheers his little heart out for his friends.
Tonight is his last game, but he starts Tee Ball in two weeks. Also, he turned five last month. I can’t believe my little man is five. He is so sweet and fun and smart. He is a great older brother. He and Penny are always playing the cutest little imaginary games together. The other day, they were having a travelling adventure and Ben kept saying that Penny could come visit him in City-cago. Classic.
Penny is a little firecracker. She jumps right into Ben’s imaginary games and has started making up some of her own while he is at school. She and I just spent most of the morning making a pretend cake. Penny just had her dance recital on Tuesday for her little ballet class. It was pretty adorable. Here are a few videos. First, they did a little parade of all the classes. Here is Penny’s:
And her part of the actual dance. The theme of the dance was a toy box, so each class was a different toy. Penny was a bouncing ball. Ian was “helping” me tape it, so sorry about the really shaky camera work.
And last, the girls just got to dance however they wanted.
Man, that girl is cute. I got such a kick out of watching her. Ben did too. It turns out he is a good spectator for just about everything. He clapped so hard for Penny. He was very excited about a dance that had a story. Especially since the story was about toys coming to life. He kept saying “It’s like Toy Story but in real life!” He also said at one point, “This is the best thing ever!” I do have to say that I was pretty pleased with how her little ballet bun turned out. I am not great at doing hair, so that was an undertaking for me. Here are some pictures of her up close. Unfortunately, they changed into the costumes backstage, so I just got to take good pictures of her in her normal ballet clothes, but it is still cute:
As for Ian, he is growing up so fast. He turns one next week. Unfortunately, he has been losing a bit of weight on account of refusing to drink milk (which should be the main source of his calories). So now he is on a high calorie diet. Hopefully I can get him to gain some weight so more drastic measures don’t need to be taken. It feels very weird to be putting butter and heavy cream in or on pretty much everything I make for the little guy. Still, he doesn’t seem any worse for the wear. He is so pleasant and happy and busy. He still doesn’t crawl normally, but he gets around pretty fast with his belly-flop crawl. He also has been starting to pull himself up on stuff the past few days.
I am pleased for the little dude, but it sure makes my life harder to have him so mobile. Jon and I have been re-babyproofing our house, but he is still constantly getting into trouble. But, seriously, look at that face, I can’t get mad at him.