June 6, 2012 - Swim Up

Today the Baby had forward momentum. It wasn't pretty but he definately crawled in a forward direction.    This evening I put him down in the kitchen while I was tidying up a little bit.  He managed to back himself into the corner beside the fridge, and I couldn't help but say "Nobody puts Baby in the corner!".  So I had to take a photo.  It's funny now when he is on the floor trying to move, he doesn't get as upset about the 'tummy time' as he used to.  I'm not sure when exactly this change happened, but he used to hate it and he would cry immediately to be picked up!

The Husband fixed up the pool today and we started filling it with water. Of course the kids wanted to go into the pool after school. It was so bitterly cold. I have no idea what temperature the water is coming out of the garden hose, but it is cold. That didn't stop them, they played a while in about a foot of water and had some cold fun.

Tonight the Boy had his end of year party for Beavers. He also had his 'swim up' ceremony where he became a Cub. He was so excited and he even remembered the poem without being prompted too much.    The photo on the right is of the 'swim up' ceremony.  The blue tarp represents the river and the two cubs on the right are going to pass them a rope and help them acroiss the river to cubs.  It was cute.  The photo on the left is of the Boy and one of his leaders, Rainbow. 

June 5, 2012 - Two for Three!!

Today was Tuesday, the husband made it home in time to take the Girl to t-ball and I went with the Boy to his game. I was hoping that he would have a better game this week and that hopefully he wouldn't use any foul language or make any finger gestures towards me this week!

He played in the outfield in the first inning and was distracted when a ball was hit to him. At bat (off the tee) he hit the ball and made it on base, but the next player hit into a fielders choice an unfortunately the Boy got out. In the second inning he played second base but didn't have a chance to field a ball. At bat he struck out. He was pretty upset but I tried to keep encouraging him. In the last inning he played in the outfield and he was pretty bored because he weeded the field around him. I couldn't yell at him because I was putting the Baby to sleep. At bat he hit the ball!!! I was so excited and relieved that he finally hit the ball because I don't know how I would have managed through another week and game encouraging him to keep trying!!

No one knows who wins the game, they don't keep score, but I'd like to think that the Boy's hit scored the winning run!!

I have only been to one of the Girl's games, but she is having lots of fun and posed for a photo as we were leaving the house.

June 4, 2012 - Check up

Today the Baby and I had a check-up at the breastfeeding clinic. The baby is 8 months old and weighs 18lbs and 4 oz. He is 68cm long. It was nice to hear that he is growing well and that he is about average (just below) the 50th percentile in weight and height. As a parent I am always wondering if I am feeding him enough, I was reassured today:). We also talked about weaning me from the domperidone. I am to drop a pill every 5 days for the next month to see if I can come off the medication soon.

I have been researching photo books on the internet. I want to do one of our vacation and eventually I want to do one of all my photos from my blog this year. I tried the Walmart one, unfortunately the book which allows text to be added to the pages only allows for 20 pages and I have about 300 favorite photos!!

I have also tried out the shutterfly one. This one is very cool!! I can do all the pages that I want and there are so many more page layouts and other embellishments that can be added to the pages.  Tomorrow I will check out the Costco and Blacks ones. 

After school the kids and I went to the park. It was nice for them to get out of the house after all the cloudy and rainy days we'd had lateley.  Baby enjoyed his ride in the swing and the kids made friends with one of the neighbours while we were at the park.