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Children’s Museum

This morning a friend invited Josiah (and I) to come with them to the Children’s Museum.

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Zeke and Josiah. They’re the same age and had a ton of fun together!

I don’t recall ever going before so I wasn’t sure what to expect–but it’s super fun!  There are a variety of rooms (large and small) on 4 different floors set up with activity stations that the kids just “play” with.  I can’t remember everything, but here are a few that I remember:  there was a grocery store room where you can shop and use the register to buy things, a color blending room when you look at combining colors and creating shadows, an ant display where you get to go through tunnels like an ant, a water area where you work with boats and currents and hydraulic power and a conveyer belt area where you get to load and unload boxes and get them to different areas.  At first Josiah was a little bit unsure about what he should be doing, but it only took about 15 min. or so before he had totally warmed up to the place and was excitedly trying all the stations.  It was really fun.

Can you sense his sheer joy?  He loved it!

Can you sense his sheer joy? He loved it! (He even got to wear a rain coat at this station!)

My turtle Josiah!

My turtle Josiah!

The boys played with the conveyer belt station (you turn the wheel to make it go) for almost an hour.

The boys played with the conveyer belt station (you turn the wheel to make it go) for almost an hour.

She’s a pro…

Chloe came bounding home yesterday with a smile on her face.  All the anxiety and fears from the morning had clearly evaporated away.

Whew!

She even got to see her teacher from last year (Mrs. Connell) and give her a hug.  She said that was nice.  🙂  You should have seen the smile on her face as she recalled it–which tells me it was much more than just “nice.”  I think it was just what she needed.

Josiah has been loving being home alone again.  The first thing he did yesterday after getting home from the bus stop was try on her new sparkly shoes (from her Birthday) and walk proudly around the house.  Then he made a fort and put together a giant puzzle all by himself (twice!).  And at naptime he exclaimed that he liked sleeping by himself in his room.  Ha!

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Next Wednesday we start BSF again.  Josiah is so excited to see his teachers again.  In fact he has Mrs. Jeanne again.  She has moved up with his class every year, so she’s literally had him since the very first day Josiah has gone to BSF.  I think he was just 2 months old when he started coming.  He was even a part of her wedding last summer!  I’m going to have to get a picture of the 2 of them together.  He just adores her.

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A trip to the dentist: for the kids

Yeah, I know… I’m the one that really needs to get in to the dentist, but this post is actually about the kids.  I’m not currently in pain, so we’re still figuring out what we can afford.  We did look into and purchased one of the dental plans that Amy mentioned, but it’s taken over a week to finally get a price list of what the plan actually covers and what we’ll need to pay for each service.  It’s only an ok deal.  It does discount the services at roughly 20-25% off EXCEPT for my crown, which is only like a 13% discount…. But, I guess any savings at this point is a good thing.  We’ve been running numbers to make sure we can make up the difference of the cost of the plan before running with this, because there is a 30 day money back guarantee.

But this post was supposed to be about the kids.  Whoops!

As no surprise, we discovered that we have met our (very high!) deductible for our health insurance, so our kids are covered.  I’m not sure why or how they are covered, since we don’t have dental, but I’m really not complaining.  So, I took them back in for cleanings yesterday.  They had a blast.  No, seriously.  You would think I took them to the dental-wonderland-play-place by the way they were so excited to be there and get to pick a toy at the end.  I’m very relieved that they haven’t picked up on any of my dental phobia.  At the end of the appointment we scheduled another appointment for Chloe to get her back 4 molars sealed.  Actually only 3 sealed because one already had a cavity, so we also had to get one filling.  But, again, it’s all covered, so no worries!  She went back in for her appointment today and had gas for the first time.  She was very nervous about what to expect, but it went awesome and she still came away smiling.

So, for now the kids are set for another few months.  Whew!

Kids comparison @ 2 Months

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Maddie had a wonderful check-up on Friday.  She’s healthy and growing, but that’s pretty obvious.  We have a very slight bit of eczema to watch and be more careful about putting lotion on, but nothing serious.  She is sleeping a solid 8 hours a night now and is in 3-6 month clothes (but more towards the 6 month size).  The most exciting thing for me, though, is that she doesn’t need a nuk.  She can go to sleep just fine without one but will take a one if she’s hungry too early or just fussy for no reason–so I’m glad we can use it when needed, but that she’s not dependent on them like Josiah was.

(On a side note, the pictures side by side at the top make it look like Maddie doesn’t have any legs… I swear she really does!  I’m guessing the 2 months pictures from the others were taken further into two months… )

Now for the side by side comparison of all three kids at their 2 month appointments:

Weight Height Head
Chloe 14# 5 oz 24.50” 15.5”
Josiah 14# 15 oz 24.75” 16.0”
Madison 14# 7oz 24.75” 15.25”

The League of Incredible Vegetables Party!

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Yesterday we had a birthday party for Chloe and Josiah.  It was awesome if I do say so myself.

As always, we had food, fun, and laughter.  Now onto the highlight pictures!

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It was fun to watch them blow out the candles together.  Oh, and you should know that when we chose on the Veggietales theme we decided that Chloe would be Larry the cucumber and Josiah would be Bob the tomato.  Why?  Because Chloe is taller.  🙂

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Happy Birthday Josiah!

Josiah is officially 4 years old.  We had a small celebration yesterday–nothing spectacular.  He did get to have his meal of choice (Mac & Cheese) and also got to pick out special birthday cupcakes.  I decided it was safer right now for me not to make an entire batch of cupcakes for me to gorge myself on… and his “real” cake is coming at his combined Birthday party with Chloe later in August.  I’ll actually make two cakes for the party–so they each get to have their own.  It reminds me so much of having Birthday celebrations at Grandma Fritz’s house.  We would always celebrate my Birthday with my Dad’s Birthday and we each got to blow out the candles on our own cake.  🙂  Good memories.

Anyway, here are a few highlights from the day.

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Playing together with his new toy.

Playing together with his new toy.

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