VIDEO, April 8th Click here to see… Nina’s interest held by Sonic the Hedgehog, for about 10 seconds.
VIDEO, April 26th Click here to see… what happens when Grandma Sue and I picked up Nina. She’s a daddy’s girl, she can’t help it!
AUDIO, April 8th Click here to hear an mp3 of a long Nina interview. When you hear this, keep in mind that she’s ONLY THREE!!! It is so hard to remember that sometimes!
AUDIO, April 25th Click here to hear an mp3 of a long Nina interview as I drove her home from daycare.
AUDIO, April 26th Click here to hear an mp3 of Grandma Sue reading to the little ones. (Nina in particular… who sounds pretty sure one guy pictured is a bad guy. Profiling!)
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Dialogue, April 2nd Daddy:“That isn’t on Netflix” Nina:“Yeah it dos.” *(pronounced “dues.”)
Moment, April 21st Ian sat there near the wall for a minute, then promptly walked over to the couch, buried his head in a pillow and cried. When I asked him what was up he mentioned fiddling with the nightlight in the outlet and feeling pain. I immediately opened up my computer notebook program and typed “April 21st, 2013; Ian discovers electricity.”
Dialogue, April 28th Nina at the mall:“GUYS! I forgot to buy this thing!” (said in a “look what I found” tone; the stress was on “thing.”)
NINA DAYCARE NOTES:
Daycare Notes, Tuesday, April 2. Nina’s caregiver: “Nina observed for a few minutes this morning, but warmed up quickly and really got into our activities. She had a ball with our bug painting and really enjoyed parachute play. She and Mia kept busy In dramatic play after all our baby dolls together – they’re both accomplished multitaskers already!”
Daycare Notes, Wednesday, April 3. Nina’s caregiver: “Nina was so upbeat and energetic today! She really enjoyed making and eating her food eat cereal-butterfly necklace. Choice timesheet beeline straight to dramatically and stayed there until clean-up. We capturing her trying to organize all her friends, calling “hey guys-come on-we are babysitters! Let’s go!””
Daycare Notes, Thursday, April 4. Nina’s caregiver: “We had a wonderful time at the park. At one point she was just running back-and-forth with Reed point. They were having such a great time. Nina also really seem to enjoy the reading of “llama llama misses mama.””
Daycare Notes, Tuesday, April 9. Nina’s caregiver: “Nina had a great time with our bumping this morning and followed up with a session at the sensory table-lots of dirty, messy fun! She and her friends were watching at the classroom window for Miss Jill-they so look forward to tumble time.”
Daycare Notes, Wednesday, April 10. Nina’s caregiver: “Nina was so full of energy this morning! She loved all of our tumbling, dancing and still Tyson walking activities. She was laughing and singing with her friends so much. When we filled our window box, you helped plant basil seeds. She looked poking her fingers in the dirt and “talking” the seeds into their bed.”
Daycare Notes, Thursday, April 11. Nina’s caregiver: “Nina looked all our active play this morning, both in the indoor play space and our own classroom. All that, plus the YMCA sports classmate for tons of busy fun. She had a great time on the stilts with Mia-they kept falling, laughing and getting back up to try again!”
Daycare Notes, Friday, April 12. Nina’s caregiver: “Nina had a ball exploring the rain sticks in the different sounds. She was telling me all about hearing thunder that woke her up and all the water she has seen on the ground after the rains.”
Daycare Notes, Monday, April 15. Nina’s caregiver: “Nina was very excited about our growing insect. As soon asthmas Sarah added it to the water, she was watching intently for signs of change. She had great fun with the cattails.”
Daycare Notes, Tuesday, April 16. Nina’s caregiver: “You had a great time on our nature hike-she’s very excited to check out all the animals we saw a turtle sunning himself right by the trail, some Canadian geese, and a huge red-headed carp in the pond. It was a fantastic morning outdoors!”
Daycare Notes, Wednesday, April 17. Nina’s caregiver: “Overall you had a good morning, however she did test limits with listening. During open center today Nina really enjoyed creating her birdfeeder. She spent lots of time rolling the seater in the seeds. We got some great pictures.”
Daycare Notes, Thursday, April 18. Nina’s caregiver: “Nina had a good morning exploring OT’s classroom. And also really seem to enjoy playing T-ball with the YMCA staff. She came running back into the classroom so excited about it.”
Daycare Notes, Friday, April 19. Nina’s caregiver: “Overall Nina had a good morning. She was talking about our field trip all morning long-she is so excited! During Arst open centers she had a blast “cooking” up a pizza from Molly and Liam!”
Daycare Notes, Monday, April 22. Nina’s caregiver: “Overall Nina had a good morning! She loved going on our long nature walk. She had fun painting out all the standing water and all the trash that needed to be cleaned.”
Daycare Notes, Tuesday, April 23. Nina’s caregiver: “Nina loved the play tents-she only got a little time in them, though, because Miss Jill came and Nina was up, singing “tumble time time!” We had an adventurous walk, complete with a surprise rain shower! Nina thought it was great fun to run in the rain (she was the only one in rain boots!)”
Daycare Notes, Wednesday, April 24 Nina’s caregiver: “Nina did some impressive somersaulting on the tumble mat this morning-she loved having the chance to roll and flip with her friends – they were laughing a lot. Nina was very excited to go with Ashley to have her picture taken-we can’t wait to see how they turned out.”
Daycare Notes, Thursday, April 25 Nina’s caregiver: “Nina was so proud of her stilt-walking skills this morning during our movement circuit-she went all over with a great big grin on her face! She serenaded everyone on the playground this afternoon as she rode around on one of the bikes-she was singing her heart out!”
Daycare Notes, Friday, April 26. Nina’s caregiver: “Nina loves chasing bubbles this morning-she ran around clapping them between her hands and shouting “pop!” She spent a lot of time on the bikes and hunted for bugs with friends-she was busy on the playground!”
Daycare Notes, Tuesday, April 30. Nina’s caregiver: “Nina was so busy this morning-she took herself and her baby doll to Dr. Molly for a very thorough checkup. Lots of eye and ear examinations with the doctor kit otoscope and then cooked a big meal before leaving for tumble time. She got back just in time to dinosaur march with us!”
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April 3rd, and you know, you’d think this would be an unusual sight at our house, but, yeah no. See this image larger.
April 4th, and Ian is out on his bike for the first time this spring! See this image larger.
Plus he got to try out an “outside toy” that has been dormant since Christmas! See this image larger.
Stomp-rocket go!!! (Blue in this picture, upper left) For whatever reason, I almost always managed to catch the rocket in mid-air when taking a shot of Ian doing this. Must be mad video game skills and a slight delay as the air pushed the rocket up! See this image larger.
That night at one of our favorite pizza joints, the one Nina refers to as “the pizza store” or “the other pizza store” and mistakenly as “Panera.” It is actually called Marinades. I’m trying to remember if this is the time that the kids were so crazy we actually walked out of the restaurant and ate at home instead. I would recommend that to any parent. That incident was referred to many times in a “start behaving or we’ll just go home again” kind of way. See this image larger.
April 7th, this plant that Melissa has had for God knows how long suddenly bloomed this year. It was really pretty! We look forward to the next time it blooms, at which time Melissa and I will also be celebrating our 50th wedding anniversary. See this image larger.
Don’t let that cute little smile fool you, she… actually I changed my mind, just let her cute little smile fool you. 😉 See this image larger.
April 12th, to support a good cause, we went to a hockey game, assuming that the kids would mostly tolerate it like good sports. We were wrong but not like you’d think. Ian tolerated it just fine. Nina LOVED it. She wanted to go back again and was upset that we left a little early. For months afterwards she talked about the hockey game, and the scary mascots walking around… particularly the eagle. See this image larger.
April 14th, this is Ian’s first shower, believe it or not. It’s been baths all the way since birth! I passed on advice to my son that my father gave to me about making an “O” with your lips and pointing your head down. I was probably around Ian’s age at that time. See this image larger.
April 21st, this is Josef, a robot from the point-and-click adventure game Machinarium, a game whose path to success Lilly Looking Through would try to mimic, and ultimately not follow. See this image larger.
Building geniuses show off for Gramma Sue, who arrived in town for a spring visit! See this image larger.
April 26th, and I probably shouldn’t be taking pictures in the Panera bathroom, for security reasons… however, this picture is one of those amazing ones to me. If you look at that pirate smile, with his slightly tousled hair, and squinty eyes of sheer joy… I can see into the past through that face – my toddler chasing after a play car piloted by a moose, and I can see into the future as this adorable little lad becomes a handsome young man. See this image larger.
Ian’s wearing a Minecraft shirt here, if you’re wondering. And you’ll probably always see gritting teeth on the kids going west on our street… a little uphill, lol. See this image larger.
Yay, time for a quick treat! It is always a treat to have Grandma Sue over! See this image larger.
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April 2013 in Audio and Video
April 2013 Dialogue and Milestones
NINA DAYCARE NOTES:
April 2013 – Breaking Out of our Winter Coats