Wednesday, July 02, 2008

A Downtown Stroll

Grandma Fran is here visiting from NY this week!

Jake has been so very excited to see her. We all went downtown today to stroll in the morning before it got too hot, and we stopped at Jake's favorite watering hole for some snacks. Courtesy of Mike's blackberry come some pix:








Abby was enthralled by the fountains nearby our table. Jake was enthralled by his food and sat eating it for a very long time. Mike and Fran were happy with their egg sandwiches. I was happy that my back was well enough to let me sit in the car and at the table long enough to enjoy a meal!

Monday, June 30, 2008

Derby Day on our Street

Jake and Gram rode up and down our street this morning on their trikes, comparing techniques and having a great time.

They had one very enthusiastic onlooker!

Jake's Turn in the Studio

He'll be 4 in a few weeks and he looks so grown up!

Thursday, June 26, 2008

Playtime Pix

What a Ham!

It took her a little while to warm up, but not long!

How could you not love this face??!?

Abby's First Studio Shots

She's 5 and half months, and is starting to sit very well by herself!


More to come soon!

Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Jake at School

We have a lot of photos that Mike has taken of Jake's school, but I cannot post most of them since I don't have permission to share photos of other children. But I found this one today, just of Jake, and doing his favorite "work" - sawing!


School ended at the end of May, but Jake's back in school now, at their summer camp morning program, and is happy as a clam. He told us he did his sawing work on the first day. Yesterday, Mike spied him outside happily pushing a wheelbarrow around the playground. This week is supposed to be about gardening but it seems they can do whatever they want inside or outside the classroom - and I'm sure that suits our independent boy just fine!!

And here's a late evening post-script to my earlier post: Jake came out of school/camp today with a huge stick painted green with feathers attached to the tip and announced triumphantly it was a "gardening stick." So what did we do when we got home? We stuck it, straight up, in the front garden. It required digging with his favorite shovel. Boy was he pleased - mission complete!

Friday, June 13, 2008

Playing and First Ball

Abby has gotten very adept with her little piano toy. Here you can see her making it play music with her feet, while she plays with a different toy with her hands!

She's also doing more and more spontaneous tummy time - meaning she turns herself over and plays on her tummy herself.

Yesterday, I introduced her first ball to her. I rolled it to her, and she went for it!

With her mouth, of course!

The hand came second. She really enjoyed trying to play with it.