Swimming

 

Their new swimsuits. Clearance finds are great!

Snorkeling.

 

Time to dry off.

Heading back home.

36 week ultrasound

 

The first two pictures are of her face. She has her left hand over the left side of her face and her right hand against her right cheek. Her forehead is to the right and her mouth is in about the middle of the picture. We could never get a clear picture of her face. She is measuring a week smaller than I am and they estimate she is about 5 lbs 4 oz right now.

Foot.

Last Week

Unfortunately we don't have any pictures for last week happenings but we had some fun.

On Thursday we went on a field trip with Nate's kindergarten class. We had pizza at his school and then we all got on the school bus. Ellie thought the school bus was going to be a lot of fun. It turned out to be very warm on the bus and she was so hot. On the way to the library we drove right past our house because our bus driver was smart and knew that there was construction on Indian School. We took a tour of the library and they had a story/song time. Nate was excited because he got his own library card which is much cooler than his parents' library cards. He even checked out a book using his own card. Ellie loved hanging out with all the kids on the kitty claw couch in the kid's area. We got to meet some of Nate's friends and their parents.

On Saturday we went to the Christian grade school's party at Van Hofwegen's house. The kids loved swimming with all the other kids. Ellie insisted she could swim and wanted to go out to the deeper part of the pool with the other kids. She can keep her head above water but I wouldn't quite call it swimming. Nate was able to swim all over the place with Samantha and Kirsten. He even jumped off the diving board many times. We had a great potluck. Nate attached himself to two of the older girls (I think they were in 7th grade) and followed them everywhere. They tried to ditch him many times but he always found them back. Ellie found a girl that was drawing pictures and sat by her most of the night. Nate convinced some people to play volleyball with him and later in the car declared he was the best volleyball player. I suppose if you consider volleyball to just be throwing the ball over the net then he did pretty good.

Snorkels and Masks

Since Nate has learned to swim we are trying to encourage him to swim under water. His reward, if he had good Thursday and Friday at school, was a swimming mask and snorkel. He loved using it once he figured out how not to get water in the top. Ellie tried hers out and actually swam pretty good with it on. She can swim but not very effectively yet.

Sleeping Beauty

Ellie must have been really tired! She fell asleep on the couch while Daddy was vacuuming. She thought it was funny that she fell asleep in her princess dress.

Rain is great!

Boys Love Puddles!

Spaghetti Sauce

Ellie must have been hungry. After I (Mandy) had put together the lasagna I left the spaghetti sauce mixing bowl on the counter and left the room. I soon hear Paul asking Ellie if Mommy said that it was ok for her to eat what was left in the bowl. I come into the kitchen and find Ellie with the big spoon helping herself to the spaghetti sauce. She cleaned the bowl pretty good.

     

They love each other!

Pretend Camping

We pretend camped in our living room one night a while back because Nate insisted we could not eat beef stew except when camping.

Innocent Cat

What… I have no idea how this hole got in the mattress cover!

All is good though because we gave the mattress cover to Stormy after it melted in the dryer.

First Day of School

Nate was super excited to go to school. He has been counting down for the last two weeks. He popped right out of bed this morning and got dressed and then was ready to eat his breakfast. If only he moved this fast when we want him to move. His first words this morning were “Today is my first day of school!”

Here is his super excited look and his new outfit he picked out.

Daddy helping put his shoes on.

Walking down the sidewalk towards the school. We had to park quite a ways down the street.

Sitting at his table in Mrs. Crockett’s class.

Ellie was feeling very left out so we took a special picture of her by the school sign.

Where is God?

While at the Science Center on Monday, Nate was carefully examining a model of a heart. After about a minute he asked "But where is God?"

Science Center Videos

Here are some videos from our time at the AZ Science Center

This was an interesting exhibit - It was a rear projection screen with a Projector. By standing in front of the projector beam you could create shadows that could be seen on the other side. The most interesting part was that your shadow could catch the virtual colored beads.

This was fun also - The webcam on this computer would distort our faces and then project it on a large screen on the wall.

AZ Science Center

 

Lego exhibit. The kids could dress up as princesses, dragons, or knights. Nate could have stayed there all day building his castle.

The “Combustion” show.

Playing with the shadow wall. You could collect the virtual beads on you and then dump them off.

Our warped faces.

Super troopers! We walked about 0.4 of a mile each way to have lunch in the mid-afternoon heat. The kids didn’t even complain.

Wheelchair race. Nate won but Ellie wasn’t too far behind. They described it as being kinda hard to do. Also, in the human body exhibit (where the wheelchairs were) we got to see the dissection of a cow eyeball. Nate found it disgusting and wanted to leave and Ellie was completely interested and the presenter had her full attention.

Laying on a bed of nails. Paul is tough!  We could not convince either of the kids to do it. On the way home Ellie insisted that she wanted to lay on the bed of nails. 

Ellie was tired and taking a break by the water works. Nate was shooting the water canon.

Stormy is a Silly Cat

Stormy loves clean laundry! He lays down on what’s already folded and then won’t move even if you put more laundry on top of him. He even fell asleep here for a little while.

Fun with Oma and Opa

  

Quote from Nate

Nate as we are leaving the swimming pool tonight announced that "Mommy has a baby in her tummy she is not just getting fat." The honesty of a five year old can sometimes make you laugh.