Mommy's Little Helpers

Sleepy Baby

Philip took a nap yesterday morning from 8 - 10:30 or so. Then he didn't nap again until 5pm. At 10pm I took him upstairs (he was in the Pack & Play) and fed him and he never opened his eyes, just his mouth. But when I laid him in his bed his eyes popped open and he was smiling and kicking happily. I had visions of being up for hours waiting for him to get tired, but by 10:30 he was acting hungry again so I fed him and he slept through to 5:30am. I fed him again and he slept until 7. The only down side was after 14 hours of sleep and just two feedings all he wanted to do this morning was nurse!

Cousin Fun

My cousin Nels came and stayed with us for a day. I think 24 hours was enough kid stuff for him but we all enjoyed it. I didn't have to watch the kiddos as closely with him here which was nice and the boys loved playing with him. Glad you came Nels!

Not My Genes

I have to work at not being intimidated by animals. Not Julia!
She caught it herself.

Not Quite

Jeremy had to go out on a service call over the weekend and the farmer's five year old son was out in the field with him. Amongst many other questions he asked Jeremy, "Is your name John Deere?"

What Philip has Been Up To Part 3

Happily playing a little football.
Taking notes from Julia on trouble he can make!PS I promise I'm not staging these!

Projects!

We're full swing into our project time this summer. Since we do a project every day I'll only post my favorites.
We made balloon "rockets" and blasted them across the kitchen.

We did cross stitching on cardboard. I prepoked the holes using a pattern I found here. The instructions were lacking though and this proved to be tedious and frustrating for all of us. I ended up doing about half of Thomas's and some of Sam's, but they turned out pretty cute. Next time, I'm just buying cross stitch material and letting them go at it where ever they please.

We also made classic hand print lillies, although not all of us chose classic lilly colors. Did you ever do this project at school? I know I did.

We also ran an obstacle course I made outside and did an experiment where we tried to make a marble come up from the bottom of a jar of salt. (The trick is you have to shake up and down, not back and forth.)

If anyone has fun project ideas I'm still looking for ideas for July and August.