Everyday Little things

A friend recently told me about her goal to write one thing that her children did each day in a journal that could be given to the child later.  While I don't expect to do the same, I would like to get down some of the things my children have been doing, so that I don't miss the chance.

A-7/4/12 First parade.  At the local festivities everyone lined up for races and she knew what to do, she just had a winding path of getting there.  She won the heat for her age, and she probably would have won even if the other kid had left the starting line.:)  She was quick with her bear crawl.

A- 7/10/12 Does all the actions to pat-a-cake when I just sing (no actions).

A-7/19/12 Says "woooohl i, woooooohl i" for "roll it, roll it" in pat-a-cake as she rolls her hands in pat-a-cake.  She love to say it to get me to play with her early in the morning after daddy goes to work.

A-7/20/12 Walks about 6-7 steps before falling.

A-7/24/12 First family reunion.  Loved rolling a ball away from her by flicking it with the back of her hand and then crawling after it.

A-7/25/12 Crawls til she's about 6-7 steps from someone, stands up and then walks the rest of the way.

A-8/4/12 Dug into her cake feet first--of course those little feet!

A- 8/8/12 Said "I love you" over and over on the phone to me.  I needed it; missing my baby.

A-8/10/12 Walked from the kitchen to the front door to me after I had been out of town for a few days (about 20 steps). I can't help but feel that I missed it.

A-8/18/12 Played drop the pacifier through the teething ring for about 30 minutes with me and said, "dop" for drop.

A- 8/19/12 Completely emptied a glass of water by dipping her hand and flicking the water on me--squealing and laughing in glee the whole time!

A 8/22/12 fed herself baby cereal with a spoon, and did a pretty good job.

A-8/29/12 Asks (through clear gestures) for the radio to be turned on so that she can dance...and isn't satisfied until the tune has a good beat.

A- 8/31/12 Scribbled spontaneously on a book.

A-9/1/12 blew kisses to mom on her way to work.

A- 9/5/12 Said "apa" for water. Found pockets in her jeans.

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S-7/20/12 Successfully completed level 1 swimming lessons.

S-7/24/12 Got put in time out at the family reunion for being mean to one of her distant cousins.  Before her 5 minutes was up, I looked down to see the whole bunch of kids her age (5-6) all sitting in a row on her time-out.  Misery likes company?

S-8-4-12 Had Special time with Mom and went school shopping.

S- 8-10-12 Successfully beat Mom and Heidi at Just Dance Abba

S-8/13/12 Got to touch a sting ray and ride the bumper boats, tried the giant beach ball, (but got clausterphobic) at the county fair.

S-8/22/12 Declared, "I love school! Ms. N is so nice!"

S-8/24/12 Declared, "I love doing homework! Homework is fun!"

S-9/4/12 Made up her first jokes.  "Why did the chicken eat the lizard? Because he thought it would taste good!"

S-9/5/12- Daddy took her to the library and she checked out 2 Barbie books and 2 Barbie movies. (She even found some we haven't read before)

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G 6/2012 Got to go inside a giant clear beach ball on water at a local festival in the park. It was awesome!

G 6-21-12 Went to a lake and met some Armenian's that my uncle talked to.  They let me catch a fish.

G- 6-30-12 Daddy took me fishing all day, and mom taught me how to clean a fish.

G 7-20-12 Successfully completed level 4 Swimming lessons.

G-7-27-12 Caught the first fish, Casted, hooked and reeled in by himself.  Also helped catch and eat some crawfish.

G-7-29-12 While our family was camping at a small lake,  he woke up early, got dressed, grabbed a fishing pole, the kayak and went off on a fishing trip before anyone else in the trailer woke up.

G- 8/14/12 Had a fever all day, but had enough energy to go with Daddy to the county fair and ride the rides for "special time"

G 8/15/12 After seeing parts of the 2012 Olympics, declared a renewed interest in swimming.

G 8/17/12 Was in heaven at a Jonathan's pool birthday party that had a slide, and a plateau/waterfall
diving area.

G-8/22/12 Jumped off the diving board at the pool for nearly an hour in the run, jump, canonball form. Successfully beat his dad in a swim across the pool race. 

G 8/29/12 Asked for a sling-shot and some marbles to shoot.

G- 8/31/12 Chose a rubberband pistol from the vendor booth at local festival, declared it is kind of like a sling-shot.

 

G-9-9-12  Changed a dirty diaper for the first time (for $2).