3 MONTHS LATER

Well, it's been awhile...3 months since the last post. Yikes. What can I say, we've been busy--here's a pic of the kids in S's "new turquoise room" as she still calls it, on her new twin bed.

Shortly after we moved the phone company was pouring some concrete after a repair for the sidewalk in front of our house. R was in heaven, watching the cement truck at work!

P chillin' in her chair-which used to be R's, which used to be S's...

R's 3rd Birthdsay--cake with crushed oreo's on top for dirt, and candles in the shape of excavators and dump trucks etc.

During the month of March, S's preschool class had a dress up day every
Friday. Here she is on Pirate day.

And here she is on Wacky dress up day.

One of the kids favorite dinnertime veggies is frozen peas...R helped himself this time, and got the mother lode.

happy girl

Easter morning

S carrying an egg on a spoon

Coloring eggs

A shot from our recent trip to Ohio, to meet Baby Lacey (the kids' new cousin)

December update

So way back from October, here are the kids at S's school Halloween party

P went as a scarecrow--the same costume I made for S for her first Halloween. R was a pilot.

R enjoying a trick or treat sucker

Daddy taking some creative photos of S playing on the back patio

This is one of the most common poses for R--staring up into the sky at a plane passing overhead, often a big transport plane from nearby Travis Air Force Base.

Boo!

Our smiley girl...

which is why we did a smiley face theme for her first birthday, in November.

"I'm ONE!"

Grammy and Grampy were here for the party, from IL. Grammy made the dress P is wearing!

A few weeks later was Thanksgiving, and family from Ohio were here to visit. Our church hosts a "Turkey Bowl" football game early on Thanksgiving Day. P wasn't too thrilled to be there...

R wasn't too thrilled either, but only b/c he was too little to play football with all the big people. So sad.

But S had a ball cheering for Dad.
So, as a reference point, take a good look at S's bangs in this picture of her jumping at the bounce house place, earlier in the week. Now you see 'em...

...now you don't.

That's right, Thanksgiving Day she found the hair-cutting scissors sitting on the bathroom counter, and decided to give her bangs a trim, down to the scalp. Good thing the rest of her hair was in braids!

And finally, here is P with her latest accomplishment, climbing the stairs...hooray P!

"Poh-kin" Time

Since S is in 2 pre-schools (our neighborhood's Christian pre-school, and our public school district's special-ed pre-school) we got to take 2 field trips to pumpkin (or as R says, "poh-kin") patches this week. They were both SO much fun for different reasons...

The first, Impossible Acres, was highlighted by the half hour the kids got to spend with very docile farm animals--sheep, ponies, goats, chickens, and lots of babies--bunnies, a calf, piglets, pygmy goats, ducklings, and chicks.

The second, Cool Patch Pumpkins, was great because S had been there last year with her class and couldn't wait to go back. And Paul was able to go with us, which was even better. It was about 92 degrees that day, and this bright hot blue sky needs no enhancement.

P on the hayride

For sure the highlight of this patch is the enormous corn bath. Sort of like a giant sandbox filled with corn kernals. The kids all loved rolling, crawling and jumping in the corn. If you've seen this next picture on Paul's facebook/flickr page, you'll notice he photoshopped in some black wings and a sword...guess he couldn't resist her mid-air angel pose.

R's jumping style was more of a side-tuck

S getting tickles from her fabulous teacher

PANDA!!

S is going to be a panda for Halloween. She loves pandas. We saw the hat at a San Francisco Giants game (where player Pablo Sandoval is known as The Panda.) They were charging 20 bucks for the panda hat. I came home and bought one new on ebay for 99 cents, plus $3 shipping from China. HA! Anyway, add black pants, white shirt and black shrug sweater= perfect panda. S was SO excited when I brought it out, jumping up and down, saying "panda shirt! panda pants!" She wanted to put it on right then, and wore it for the next few hours, even though it was 97 degrees outside.

One more encouraging note--she has speech twice a week, for an hour, and her speech therapist has really been working with her on the concept of "where." Lo and behold, the other day I asked S "where is your sippy cup?" And for the first time ever, she actually got down from her chair and went and looked in the living room and in her bedroom for the cup. She's never done that before. I think she's figuring it out-yea!!