Geoffrey says Struction zone. I just taught him how to say construction zone. As he repeated it back to me a little piece of my heart broke. One less baby word in his vocabulary.
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Monday, July 23, 2012
Thursday, July 12, 2012
Katelyn 6 1/2 months
Katelyn has been doing so well with her sitting up! She can't get there herself, but when I put her in a sitting position she will stay up for quite some time - and she LOVES to be upright! She hates to be on her back when she can't see what is going on, and she will constantly look up in a crunch fashion. She gets very frustrated when she is down because she can't get up. I'm trying to give her lots of floor time but she sometimes just lays there and plays, or stomach crunches, or cries instead of trying to roll over or sit up herself.
She also sat in a restaurant high chair at brick oven pizza last night here on Kauai and also the other night at Kieko's Paraside - that was her first time! She was wobbly but did really well, and last night I put the ergo baby carrier in the high chair for a little extra padding...
Feeding - we bought some baby food today. So far she's had rice cereal, home made green beans, some avacado and some banana. Tonight she had baby food carrots. SHe deemed interested and had a few bites and seemed to like it, but she isn't close to having a whole meal yet - she loses interest pretty quickly. We will do carrots and rice cereal for the next two days and then me made sweet potatoes which we will do next!
She also sat in a restaurant high chair at brick oven pizza last night here on Kauai and also the other night at Kieko's Paraside - that was her first time! She was wobbly but did really well, and last night I put the ergo baby carrier in the high chair for a little extra padding...
Feeding - we bought some baby food today. So far she's had rice cereal, home made green beans, some avacado and some banana. Tonight she had baby food carrots. SHe deemed interested and had a few bites and seemed to like it, but she isn't close to having a whole meal yet - she loses interest pretty quickly. We will do carrots and rice cereal for the next two days and then me made sweet potatoes which we will do next!
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
SItting Up
Katelyn is sitting up for longer periods of time! She can't get up on her own, but if we set her up, she can stay for quite some time! She LOVES to sit up! She sat in the sand and let the water lap up to her here in Kauai for about 20 minutes and LOVED it! She also sat in a high chair ( a restaurant high chiar) for the first time tonight and did pretty well! She was a little wobbly but as long as we kept a hang close by she did very well!
Monday, July 9, 2012
katelyn sitting up
Katleyn is starting to sit up for short periods when I put her in a sitting position! She LOVES to sit up. I also feel a tooth coming soon - can feel the bump - bottom, her right.
Geoffrey's Naps:
Geoffrey's Naps:
Geoffrey's sleep / naps are complicated. He only naps about 9 hours a night. But he will nap 3 hours during the day and he naps HARD. About half the time he wakes up from his nap he is drowsy and cranky for most of the evening. He probably needs to cut that nap, but it is such a long one that he seems to need it.
Medieval Times
On Friday, we went to medieval times to celebrate Andrew's 13th birthday. That morning, we also had a field trip at the aquarium with Geoffrey's preschool. So that made for kind of an interesting day. Geoffery fell asleep on the way home from the aquarium, but woke up 15 minutes later because he had to Pee. We were very proud of him for waking up to have to Pee, but that meant he didn't go back to sleep. When we got home we tried to put him down for nap, but he didn't fall asleep. Until, of course, we left for medieval times. Then he fell asleep. So when we got there he was out like a light. We put him in his stroller and Katelyn in the baby carrier and headed on in. Well, the loud cheering was not exactly the nicest way for him to wake up. He was cranky the whole evening. I can't say really blame him, because it is sort of an intense place - dark crowded lots of cheering and being woken up like that, he probably didn't realize it was going on. Like we at saw Disneyland with him being a little bit afraid of the cars ride and star tours he is definitely becoming more aware of what's going on around him. That's not to say he wasn't always aware of it but he's starting to internalize it more and project emotions to it… blah blah blah.
Anyways he warmed up towards the end and we were rooting for the Green Knight so that helped a lot. We got home and the next day spent most of the day packing and getting ready for Hawaii.
3rd and 4th of July
As I said in my last post, this week was a busy week. On Tuesday we ended up going to Atlantis park for an Allen Play Date. That was fun - especially checking out the new splash pad. Geoffrey loved it and spent a lot of time playing there. We left around two, because my friend Summer was able to lend me her Ergo baby carrier, so we had to drive to South OC to get it. That worked out well, and so far I really like using the carrier. We also got a call about it used double stroller, the city Mini, on craigslist. So we met the person at the block in orange by the Krispy Kreme, and got ourselves a new double stroller, which we really like. It's the black and red one, and I think it's going to be awesome to use it Disney World.
Wednesday was 4 July. This year because we were so tired, we decided not to go to the Fourth of July parade. Actually turned out pretty well, because we sort of had a block party. Jeff next-door accidentally rented two waterslides, so they put one in front of our house and one in front of his.
The sun never really came out but that's okay - we had a lot of fun. The waterslides were a lot of fun to go down, and we heated the pool so it was nice and warm. Angie and the kids came over as did Tammy and Andy and Lexi and Tammy's friend Michelle and her granddaughter. We had good food and fun. Geoffrey took his nap late though and we woke him up at 7:30 because he was sleeping so late. He never really got happy. The fireworks freaked him out. He did well though and he was brave enough to sit out there with me. But he didn't go down the park to watch the big scary ones. This is the first year that we were allowed to buy them again in HB. That was fun, it reminded me of when we were little. Katelyn seem to handle the fireworks well. Katelyn also had a lot of fun and did a good job taking her naps. The hardest part about it was Belle freaking out about the fireworks. as usual, we gave her her tranquilizer, but this year she had a lot of trouble with her bowels and could not stop pooping. Poor doggie.
Ali in all, though, it was really nice Fourth of July.
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Wednesday was 4 July. This year because we were so tired, we decided not to go to the Fourth of July parade. Actually turned out pretty well, because we sort of had a block party. Jeff next-door accidentally rented two waterslides, so they put one in front of our house and one in front of his.
The sun never really came out but that's okay - we had a lot of fun. The waterslides were a lot of fun to go down, and we heated the pool so it was nice and warm. Angie and the kids came over as did Tammy and Andy and Lexi and Tammy's friend Michelle and her granddaughter. We had good food and fun. Geoffrey took his nap late though and we woke him up at 7:30 because he was sleeping so late. He never really got happy. The fireworks freaked him out. He did well though and he was brave enough to sit out there with me. But he didn't go down the park to watch the big scary ones. This is the first year that we were allowed to buy them again in HB. That was fun, it reminded me of when we were little. Katelyn seem to handle the fireworks well. Katelyn also had a lot of fun and did a good job taking her naps. The hardest part about it was Belle freaking out about the fireworks. as usual, we gave her her tranquilizer, but this year she had a lot of trouble with her bowels and could not stop pooping. Poor doggie.
Ali in all, though, it was really nice Fourth of July.
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Siri
Disclaimer! I have started doing some of my blogs by dictating them to Siri.. This way if I need to hold Kate I can still blog pretty effeciantly - but some of the blogs come out sounding kind of weird - it is hard to dictate in a way that sound natural in writing. So please excuse any odd explanations or run on sentences!
Disneyland - New California Adventure
Summer is here! The first week in July we had a lot of fun stuff to do. On Monday, we went to Disneyland to check out the new California Adventure. Steve was nice enough to sign us in again. We had a lot of fun. First of all, Geoffrey was tall enough to ride the 40 inch rides. There're quite a few ride you can ride when you reach 40 inches. We only tried a few, because we knew some would be too intense already. Even the ones we tried he wasn't too hot about.
It was funny though, because Grant and I were more excited than Geoff was. I don't think he quite got the fact that he was tall enough for these new rides. Although at every ride we went to he had to stand straight up against the sign, hold his hands up.... and he just made it.
The first thing we did was go to California Adventure. We walked down the new Buena Vista Street, which looked really awesome and really enhanced the entrance to California adventure. Next we headed straight over to Cars Land to check it out. It was pretty crowded but you could tell that they did a really nice job with it. We ate lunch at the restaurant their - flo's diner or something like that? Lunch was good, and then after looking at the buildings and some of the rides we headed over to soaring over California.
Soaring over California was the first ride Geoffrey went on with a 40 inch height limit. He went with daddy and Steve, while Katelyn and I sat on a bench and watched one of the new atmosphere shows - Minnie's Fly Girls. The show was great and Geoffrey seemed to really enjoy the ride although he was most excited about riding the train he saw at the end of the ride, which of course is the Disneyland train.
Or after Soarin, we headed over to Disneyland. Disneyland actually was not very crowded Monday in July. We got some fast passes but by this point Geoff had fallen asleep in the stroller. So we headed over to Frontierland and New Orleans Sq., and Grant and Steve rode Pirates of the Caribbean, Haunted Mansion, and Indiana Jones as single riders while Geoff and Kate napped. Once the kids woke up, we took Geoffrey on Big Thunder Mountain - he was a little skeptical about this one, but seem to like it and would probably be willing to do it again.
At this point, we headed back to California adventure. We went over to radiator Springs and got the baby swap which Steve and Grant then went to use while Geoffrey Katelyn and I wrote Heimlich's Chew Chew train in Bug's Land. Grant and Steve seem to really enjoy the ride! Then we got some dinner over at that new restaurant by Paradise pier and Graham met up with us. After dinner Geoffrey and I rode radiator Springs while the others went on Heimlich choo-choo train again. I put Geoff on a side seat of radiator Springs instead of the middle because I thought he could see more. Unfortunately the seatbelt dug into his neck so he didn't seem to like it - especially during the racing part when the seatbelt was against his neck. So I'm not so sure you is crazy about this one but hoping I can get him on again sitting in the middle to give it another try. This is another 40 inch height right. ("I liked it but not the racing part," he says. )
After radiator Springs, we went over to the new Ghirardelli chocolate fountain. Yes! We got my favorite ice cream sundae - the strike it rich - and enjoyed it immensely, except the fact that came in the ghetto plastic cup instead of the nice Glass one, but I guess I sort of understand itt since you can take the Sundae with you anywhere in the park and they don't have a way to pick up the glass, but still. After that Steve had to leave and the rest of us headed over to Disneyland. Graham waited with Kaitlyn so grant and I both could take Geoffrey on Star Tours which is the last 40 inch ride we tried Geoffrey on. Geoff was a little nervous on this one. When we asked him if he liked it afterwards, he said no because of all the boom boom boom! But finally our brave little boy got to go on the ride that he wanted to go on all day long - the ride he is obsessed with. That's right, the monorail. After the monorail he caught a second wind and so we went on the flying Dumbos and the merry-go-round a few times while Graham and Grant went on Star Tours and then Matterhorn single rider. I forgot to mention the Matterhorn has a new single rider line now that the bobsleds are smaller and only hold three people, and the height limit is taller. But the single Rider works fantastic. We used it earlier in the day and only had to wait less than five minutes while the regular line was at least an hour. Great system. Even when people start to catch on on how to use it, I think it will go fairly quickly.
All in all we had a really nice day at Disneyland. Now I'm getting very excited for Disney World!
It was funny though, because Grant and I were more excited than Geoff was. I don't think he quite got the fact that he was tall enough for these new rides. Although at every ride we went to he had to stand straight up against the sign, hold his hands up.... and he just made it.
The first thing we did was go to California Adventure. We walked down the new Buena Vista Street, which looked really awesome and really enhanced the entrance to California adventure. Next we headed straight over to Cars Land to check it out. It was pretty crowded but you could tell that they did a really nice job with it. We ate lunch at the restaurant their - flo's diner or something like that? Lunch was good, and then after looking at the buildings and some of the rides we headed over to soaring over California.
Soaring over California was the first ride Geoffrey went on with a 40 inch height limit. He went with daddy and Steve, while Katelyn and I sat on a bench and watched one of the new atmosphere shows - Minnie's Fly Girls. The show was great and Geoffrey seemed to really enjoy the ride although he was most excited about riding the train he saw at the end of the ride, which of course is the Disneyland train.
Or after Soarin, we headed over to Disneyland. Disneyland actually was not very crowded Monday in July. We got some fast passes but by this point Geoff had fallen asleep in the stroller. So we headed over to Frontierland and New Orleans Sq., and Grant and Steve rode Pirates of the Caribbean, Haunted Mansion, and Indiana Jones as single riders while Geoff and Kate napped. Once the kids woke up, we took Geoffrey on Big Thunder Mountain - he was a little skeptical about this one, but seem to like it and would probably be willing to do it again.
At this point, we headed back to California adventure. We went over to radiator Springs and got the baby swap which Steve and Grant then went to use while Geoffrey Katelyn and I wrote Heimlich's Chew Chew train in Bug's Land. Grant and Steve seem to really enjoy the ride! Then we got some dinner over at that new restaurant by Paradise pier and Graham met up with us. After dinner Geoffrey and I rode radiator Springs while the others went on Heimlich choo-choo train again. I put Geoff on a side seat of radiator Springs instead of the middle because I thought he could see more. Unfortunately the seatbelt dug into his neck so he didn't seem to like it - especially during the racing part when the seatbelt was against his neck. So I'm not so sure you is crazy about this one but hoping I can get him on again sitting in the middle to give it another try. This is another 40 inch height right. ("I liked it but not the racing part," he says. )
After radiator Springs, we went over to the new Ghirardelli chocolate fountain. Yes! We got my favorite ice cream sundae - the strike it rich - and enjoyed it immensely, except the fact that came in the ghetto plastic cup instead of the nice Glass one, but I guess I sort of understand itt since you can take the Sundae with you anywhere in the park and they don't have a way to pick up the glass, but still. After that Steve had to leave and the rest of us headed over to Disneyland. Graham waited with Kaitlyn so grant and I both could take Geoffrey on Star Tours which is the last 40 inch ride we tried Geoffrey on. Geoff was a little nervous on this one. When we asked him if he liked it afterwards, he said no because of all the boom boom boom! But finally our brave little boy got to go on the ride that he wanted to go on all day long - the ride he is obsessed with. That's right, the monorail. After the monorail he caught a second wind and so we went on the flying Dumbos and the merry-go-round a few times while Graham and Grant went on Star Tours and then Matterhorn single rider. I forgot to mention the Matterhorn has a new single rider line now that the bobsleds are smaller and only hold three people, and the height limit is taller. But the single Rider works fantastic. We used it earlier in the day and only had to wait less than five minutes while the regular line was at least an hour. Great system. Even when people start to catch on on how to use it, I think it will go fairly quickly.
All in all we had a really nice day at Disneyland. Now I'm getting very excited for Disney World!
Friday, July 6, 2012
Sunday, July 1, 2012
Geoffrey Questionairre - July 1, 2012
Geoffrey, Age 3 years, 4 months
Name: Geoffrey
Nicknames: Nonna calls me Cutie-Toots and Snickle-Fritz sometimes.
How old are you? I'm three
What is your favorite
color: green
animal: kangaroos
book: smash mash crash, there goes the trash and I stink
tv show: Doc McStuffins
movie: The Princess and the Frog
song: Doc McStuffins Song. My favorite thing to hear is Feed the Birds, Tuppins a bag
food: cheerios
drink: milk
breakfast food: peanut butter and syrup waffle
snack: fruit snacks
thing to wear: underwear
game: Don't Break the ice. Uh oh, I think the man's going to fall down...
toy: trash trucks and airplanes
best friend: Uncle Danny
thing to do: play
thing to do outside: play outside
place to go: Transfer Station to watch the Garbage Trucks
restaurant: John's Incredible Pizza
What do you like to take with you to bed at night? My bed toys
Where do you want to go on vacation next? Like maybe John's Incredible Pizza
What do you want to be when you grow up? A Garbage Man
What did you do on your birthday? Opened Presents, but first I ate cake, and then I ate, and then I got my presents, and then I played with you at Atlantis Park.
Name: Geoffrey
Nicknames: Nonna calls me Cutie-Toots and Snickle-Fritz sometimes.
How old are you? I'm three
What is your favorite
color: green
animal: kangaroos
book: smash mash crash, there goes the trash and I stink
tv show: Doc McStuffins
movie: The Princess and the Frog
song: Doc McStuffins Song. My favorite thing to hear is Feed the Birds, Tuppins a bag
food: cheerios
drink: milk
breakfast food: peanut butter and syrup waffle
snack: fruit snacks
thing to wear: underwear
game: Don't Break the ice. Uh oh, I think the man's going to fall down...
toy: trash trucks and airplanes
best friend: Uncle Danny
thing to do: play
thing to do outside: play outside
place to go: Transfer Station to watch the Garbage Trucks
restaurant: John's Incredible Pizza
What do you like to take with you to bed at night? My bed toys
Where do you want to go on vacation next? Like maybe John's Incredible Pizza
What do you want to be when you grow up? A Garbage Man
What did you do on your birthday? Opened Presents, but first I ate cake, and then I ate, and then I got my presents, and then I played with you at Atlantis Park.
July - Katelyn stuff
In three more days, Katelyn will be 6 months old! sigh.
A few days ago, Danny asked if he could try to feed Katelyn since she seems so interested in watching us eat. So I made a bowl of rice cereal and she was very eager to eat it! She is definitely more interested in eating then Geoffrey was! SHe had some green beans, too. Yesterday, she had a few bites of avocado, and today she had a few bites of banana. Originally, I was going to hold off on solids but since she seems interested I think we'll do them more often then I had anticipated...
She still doesn't roll over very often. She desperately wants to sit up and she does those crunches to look around. She pushes herself up high when she does tummy time and is starting to helicoptor and try to scoot around in a circle with her knees. She doesn'thave much control over it yet, though. She is very big with playing with her hands and she loves to grab at things - book pages, noses, etc. She loves playing with her feet, too, and she will try to grab things with her feet! Cute! She loves playing - in her exersaucer, in her gym, in her door bouncer, and in her bouncer seat.
She loves her mommy! She often won't let anyone else hold her but me. For awhile, she seemed to be getting better with this but the last few days it has seemed worse again. Danny and Daddy can hold her, too, but she wouldn't let Grandpa hold her at all yesterday! Sigh... I am happy it is summer, but I hope me being around all the time doesn't make things worse!
Sleep. Sigh. She has not gotten better about eating during the day. Even when I am home, she doesn't eat much in the morning or early afternoon, and she does her best eating at night. She does one goo stretch of sleep for about five hours, but the early morning is hard because then she wakes up like every two hours. I am playing around with weening her off one of those feedings but it seems to make her wake up more often. SO, sleep training is definitely on my radar - but with Hawaii coming up and then Florida, I am wondering if it is worth it right now! Currently she goes down around 9:00 (with an 8:30 feeding). I dream feed her at 11, and then she sleeps util about 4. Then she wakes up at 6 and then 8 and then 10 to start the day. I was trying to ween the 4 feeding, but I think instead I am going to start weening any feeding after 4. So she can have one full middle of the night feeding but no more snacking (I've been letting her eat 10 minutes instead of 20 at those subsequent wakings. I think I am going to do 5 for the next few nights and see...)
I think she is capable of sleeping all night - she's just definitely used to eating at night and I have to change that!
She has her 6 month visit on Thursday...
A few days ago, Danny asked if he could try to feed Katelyn since she seems so interested in watching us eat. So I made a bowl of rice cereal and she was very eager to eat it! She is definitely more interested in eating then Geoffrey was! SHe had some green beans, too. Yesterday, she had a few bites of avocado, and today she had a few bites of banana. Originally, I was going to hold off on solids but since she seems interested I think we'll do them more often then I had anticipated...
She still doesn't roll over very often. She desperately wants to sit up and she does those crunches to look around. She pushes herself up high when she does tummy time and is starting to helicoptor and try to scoot around in a circle with her knees. She doesn'thave much control over it yet, though. She is very big with playing with her hands and she loves to grab at things - book pages, noses, etc. She loves playing with her feet, too, and she will try to grab things with her feet! Cute! She loves playing - in her exersaucer, in her gym, in her door bouncer, and in her bouncer seat.
She loves her mommy! She often won't let anyone else hold her but me. For awhile, she seemed to be getting better with this but the last few days it has seemed worse again. Danny and Daddy can hold her, too, but she wouldn't let Grandpa hold her at all yesterday! Sigh... I am happy it is summer, but I hope me being around all the time doesn't make things worse!
Sleep. Sigh. She has not gotten better about eating during the day. Even when I am home, she doesn't eat much in the morning or early afternoon, and she does her best eating at night. She does one goo stretch of sleep for about five hours, but the early morning is hard because then she wakes up like every two hours. I am playing around with weening her off one of those feedings but it seems to make her wake up more often. SO, sleep training is definitely on my radar - but with Hawaii coming up and then Florida, I am wondering if it is worth it right now! Currently she goes down around 9:00 (with an 8:30 feeding). I dream feed her at 11, and then she sleeps util about 4. Then she wakes up at 6 and then 8 and then 10 to start the day. I was trying to ween the 4 feeding, but I think instead I am going to start weening any feeding after 4. So she can have one full middle of the night feeding but no more snacking (I've been letting her eat 10 minutes instead of 20 at those subsequent wakings. I think I am going to do 5 for the next few nights and see...)
I think she is capable of sleeping all night - she's just definitely used to eating at night and I have to change that!
She has her 6 month visit on Thursday...
July - Geoffrey Stuff
Geoffrey:
He is so verbal and he just cracks me up with the stuff he says. In the morning, he asks, "So what's the plan?" To figure out what we are doing for the day.
Yesterday, he came up to me and said, "Are we going to Bob's?" Yes, we are going to GRANDPA Bob's. "Oh. Are you and Daddy going on a date?" No, we are going to stay with you... so cute.
At Grandpa Bob's Geoffrey played on a boogie board. He liked to stand up on it and "surf." So we said, 'Say Cowabunga!" Later, he got a small, round, green bottle, and he kept filling it up with water and saying, "This is my Bunga-Bunga Drink." He meant cowabunga, but he kept calling it bunga bunga drink! Adorable.
Geoffrey's really been testing limits lately, though. He loves to negotiate (five minutes, No one minute. Three bites, no one bite.) He also has his new favorite excuse, "I'm tired." Geoffrey, pick up your toys! "I'm tired." Geoffrey, say thank you "I'm tired." Sigh.
Today I was folding laundry and he asked if he could jump on the piles. I said no, so then he asks if he can step on them. I say no, so then he proceeds to walk up to each pile and touch them with his feet. "I'm not stepping on them..." sigh.
He is so verbal and he just cracks me up with the stuff he says. In the morning, he asks, "So what's the plan?" To figure out what we are doing for the day.
Yesterday, he came up to me and said, "Are we going to Bob's?" Yes, we are going to GRANDPA Bob's. "Oh. Are you and Daddy going on a date?" No, we are going to stay with you... so cute.
At Grandpa Bob's Geoffrey played on a boogie board. He liked to stand up on it and "surf." So we said, 'Say Cowabunga!" Later, he got a small, round, green bottle, and he kept filling it up with water and saying, "This is my Bunga-Bunga Drink." He meant cowabunga, but he kept calling it bunga bunga drink! Adorable.
Geoffrey's really been testing limits lately, though. He loves to negotiate (five minutes, No one minute. Three bites, no one bite.) He also has his new favorite excuse, "I'm tired." Geoffrey, pick up your toys! "I'm tired." Geoffrey, say thank you "I'm tired." Sigh.
Today I was folding laundry and he asked if he could jump on the piles. I said no, so then he asks if he can step on them. I say no, so then he proceeds to walk up to each pile and touch them with his feet. "I'm not stepping on them..." sigh.
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