May 1st, with coats on in Brendan and Jake’s sandbox!
*Hey guys!*
We ate at BW3’s to support a cause, despite really not liking the restaurant much. It’s always loud, the number of TVs in there is enough to drive anybody into a seizure, and the food is always a little meh.
Last time we WERE here, Uncle Chris was with us, so it was cool to see that the only jersey in the whole place was #68, the number Ian and I have adopted on our jerseys for the Giants to honor Uncle Chris’s birth-year.
So here’s the sort-of funny story behind getting Ian’s mattress. I guess at the moment we simply had no other options. Ian’s mattress and under-bed storage units had arrived at the store, and we needed to get them home. We also wanted a patio storage unit, but had been putting that off. The plan? Buy a patio storage unit from Home Depot or Lowe’s… rent their $20 truck, put the patio storage unit in the truck, drive it to the bed store, put the mattress in the truck, get home, and get back in 50 minutes to avoid the over-charge. Possible? Barely. With traffic jam? Probably not. But that’s pretty much what happened. It was a scramble the whole way, the kids in Melissa’s car with Melissa while I pushed the Lowe’s truck through a traffic jam to get home. Melissa and I removed the stuff from the truck at home faster than an Indy 500 pit crew and we were on our way back. A quick stop for fuel, and done. The person behind the counter said we were about 5 minutes late, but waived the late fee. It went great. Not sure I’d ever do it again though.
Ian was pretty thrilled, and it is one of those things that brings the whole house up a notch. I never felt too bad while he was sleeping on a mattress on the floor, but after seeing his room with an actual bed in it, I felt like we were doing things far more “right.”
I can’t remember the exact wording, but I think Nina said “I made art” when she was done eating.
May 5th. Supermoon, you look just like normal moon.
May 7th, I love this ship design. It reminds me of a drop-ship from the movie Aliens, but Ian created it all on his own.
He’s so good at this stuff!
The back appears to have some kind of thrusters… nice stabilizer placement. Nice work, kiddo!
This was also a pretty sweet building that Ian put together. I can’t remember what he said it was. I want to say it was a refueling station.
Look at this arch on top! He did that!
This is Nina wanting to get her picture taken too! Hi Cutie!
I believe this is Nina hiding her head in shame during a time-out. See this image larger.
Dialogue, April 1st Ian at Corner Bar during America’s Funniest Home Videos: “Why are the people laughing and clapping at the other people getting hurt?”
Dialogue, April 1st Mommy: “Where is my iPad?” Nina: “My iPad?”
Dialogue, April 2nd Nina making a rooster noise: “Ock a doo!”
Daycare Sheet, April 4th Nina Caregiver: “She was very talkative today and even sang her abc song for me!”
Milestone, April 4th Ian gets out cat food to help me feed the cat, all on his own.
Daycare Sheet, April 5th Nina Caregiver: “She is full of words these days!”
Daycare Sheet, April 11th Nina Caregiver: “She is so good at talking, it’s crazy!”
Daycare Sheet, April 12th Nina Caregiver: “Nina is so smart! She was chasing Grant around saying ‘Grant, I’m gunna get you!’ She had him cracking up laughing!”
Dialogue, April 12th Daisy, the neighbor’s dog was put to sleep a few weeks earlier. On this day, a dog barks in the distance, and Ian says: “I hear Daisy from way up in the sky.”
Daycare Sheet, April 13th Nina pooped in potty, told teacher she had to go. Two successes in a row. Caregiver: “We went for a walk and she was talking non-stop!”
Daycare Sheet, April 18th Nina had three potty successes in a row. Caregiver: “This morning at breakfast she had a very indepth conversation with Grant, it was very funny to wath them talk. At diaper times she kept saying she had to ‘yellow!’ it was so cute!”
Daycare Sheet, April 19th Nina Caregiver: “This morning she thought it would be funny to take off her pants & pull-up! For art we made flowers using the bottom of a pop bottle. She had paint everywhere!”
Accident Report, April 20th Nina Caregiver: Accident report – “Nina was helping clean up and she tripped and bit her top lip and bumped her head on the shelf.”
Daycare Sheet, April 20th Nina Caregiver: “Nina was so cute. She started singing ‘Slippery fish,’ and she almost had it completely right! This morning we did a lot of playing today because it was raining. She is also getting very good at saying ‘No, I don’t want to!’ I can’t tell you how many times I heard that!”
Accident Report, April 25th Nina Caregiver: Accident report – “Nina was trying to sit on the firetruck and another child didn’t want her to so they bit Nina.”
Daycare Sheet, April 25th Nina Caregiver: “Nina was so funny today! After breakfast she kept saying ‘I leaving, bye-bye’ over and over again. Then at art she was coloring and named all the colors on her paper! After, we went out on the playground.”
Milestone, April 25th Nina jumps up and down on Ian’s bed!
Daycare Sheet, April 26th Nina Caregiver: “Nina is getting very good at using the potty. She goes almost every time we put her on it. This morning we colored a giant piece of paper brown. Then we let them walk down the trail. Nina loves the ‘Yelling Tunnel!'”
Daycare Sheet, April 27th Nina Caregiver: “Nina was very helpful when we picked up! Then we let them walk down the trail! On our walk she climbed a huge hill with her grounds then she picked up every stick on the trail and threw them in the grass.”
Dialogue, April 30th Nina: “We go to mars.”
Dialogue, April 30th Ian tries out new bed: “It’s so high it touches the sky!”
Dialogue, April 30th Daddy accidentally nudges ottoman where Nina happens to be playing. Nina says: “Hey! I’m playin my guys.”
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Video, April 8th
Long cute compilation of videos with Gramma Marcia and Grampa Dave, set to some music! Good one, click! To see this video, click here.
Video, April 10th
April 10th, Nina wore her chef costume upstairs, and then came back downstairs. I know this sound boring, but something really cute happens with the over-sized hat. Cute. Watch! To see this video, click here.
Video, April 22nd
Ian plays more video games… pretty cute. He says something about “Thunderbirding” in this one, which is a term he made up after watching the Thunderbirds, a show Uncle Chris and I used to watch when we were wee lads. To see this video, click here.
Video, April 30th
It isn’t Mommy’s birthday, but… well… there you go. Welcome home, Mommy! To see this video, click here.
May Arrives, 2012!
April Dialogue and Milestones
April Videos
Catch-up time! I’ve got a lot of updates lined up, so let’s go!