October 24, 2008

• This past week has been busy! Last Wednesday, I volunteered to be a chaperon for Zachary's  pumpkin patch field trip. The class went on a hayride, went through a corn maze, picked pumpkins, and had a picnic lunch. (Sounds very familiar to our family/friends trip last week, eh?)

  

   

  On Saturday morning, James took Zachary to the library (and met up with Alex and Dylan), as their storytime/craft program has started up again. In the evening, we went to Linus and Jes' housewarming party - we toured their beautiful model home (complete with putting green in the backyard) and had delicious homemade Filipino food for dinner. AND we found out that the couple is newly engaged! Congratulations to Linus and Jes! 

  

  After we got home and put the kids to bed, I went to Sam and Melissa's for a game of Settlers. Dana taught us some yoga moves, where I determined that, out of the group, I had the best ab muscles and the worst balance. (After both my deliveries, the nurses feeling for my uterus mentioned that I had good stomach muscles 'under there.' 'There' being copious amounts of belly fat. )

  On Sunday, we went to a Renaissance Faire. We saw two shows; a kids' puppet play and a variety show where Zachary was really bothered by a man eating balloons and fire torches (see his reaction in the middle picture below). Along with many vendor stalls, there was a tent with British brass rubbings which totally brought back childhood memories of living in England. Zachary's favorite activity was probably the Janga blocks - gotta love those basic toys!

  

  

  That evening, James carved a pumpkin under Zachary's supervision. Given the heat lately, I don't think it's going to last until Halloween.

  

  

  Monday, I took Calie to the mall to get her 2 month pictures taken at Picture People, and then met up with Dana and Jason for lunch Mikunis. The next day, I visited Shan and her twins at their new house. Her boys are so well behaved and friendly; They kept coming up to me and showing me their toys, drawings, and a homemade "snowflake" costume (in quotes because it only looks like a snowflake in a childs' imagination.) Their new house is really nice and spacious! Congratulations Shan and Brent!

  

  Also this week, we went to the annual Fall Festival at Zachary's school. I dressed up as a cat and Zachary and Calie were mice. I don't know what I was thinking. It was ridiculously hot - Calie's costume lasted maybe 5 minutes and while Zachary toughed it out, he was a sweaty mess at the end of the party.

  

  Dinner rotation this week was orange chicken and (overcooked) broccoli and Sam's special pumpkin cheesecake. Due to excessive gluttony, I've been stuck at ~151 lbs for some time now despite nursing exclusively and walking Zachary to school in the mornings.

  In terms of milestones, Calie has found her hand. Unfortunately, she is constantly stuffing her fist into her mouth ... which might translate to getting sick more often and putting choking hazards into her mouth in the future. She also slept through the night (past 6am) 2 days in a row ... but the trend was broken last night with a 3am feeding.  She makes lots of baby noises, and we have "conversations". Sometimes she jabbers so much and so loudly that I can't get in a word edgewise.

    

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