August Review

I don't even remember August.  This post will be short and sweet, mostly just pictures.  

Jack discovered the Peter Pan dress-up and has worn it a bunch, leaving dresses and butterfly wings in the dust (although he still loves the clip-clop shoes (and has a flower clip in his hair)).  He may be Peter for Halloween.  We shall see.

Hazel embellished our dinner with personalized fancy toothpicks.  Jack got tiger stripes, she had cheetah spots and zebra stripes.  She is gaga for animal print anything!

She pulled her bangs out of her face for the picture.  Jack does absolutely everything his big sister does, and followed suit.  He is a major copy cat.

Jack has had quite a bit of success using the potty, although I still wish we weren't attempting potty training yet.  When am I going to have a kid who knocks it out in a week?  Jack's going to be a dragger, just like Hazel.  He knows how to go, but doesn't keep his diaper dry, and is really inconsistent with his interest level.  He's already learned how to milk the system, claiming to need to pee-pee whenever he wants me to sit down and read a book with him.  He will hold it through the entire book, too, hoping to get a second one read to him.

I love, love, love our trampoline/backyard.  If Gemma needs to go to bed first, I send the big kids outside to play until bed, and they stay happy out there for a loooooong time. Thank goodness!

Hazel took private swim lessons.  I think I wrote about this in July?  She did it for several weeks, and picked up on the skills really quickly.  It was fun to have that "date time" with her and me as well.  We often ran a quick errand together before coming home, while my mom stayed at the house with the nappers.

My parents and I took the kids on a "hike," that ended up being just an outing at the Logan River.  We found a great inlet where the water was super shallow, and the kids had a major party wading in the water and tossing rocks in.

My heart melted when I spotted this scene.  Look at Jack with his arm around Gemma!  He is so naturally sweet and snuggly.  Hazel and Jack both adore Gemma and are so great with her.  They love to feed her and try to make her laugh.  Hazel is always really great about staying near Gemma and playing with her while I shower or get some other job done.

They found the enormous blanket sleepers in the storage drawer in their dresser and proceeded to plague me for the next two days playing Baby.  Everyone whining and crawling and crying for help because they got stuck under the furniture... Such a delight!  (I have since hidden the blanket sleepers in a much more secure location.)

Jacko fell and split the back of his head (while wearing the afore-mentioned blanket sleeper) and had to take an emergency trip to the doctor's office.  Thankfully, stitches were not needed - glueing was sufficient - so he didn't have too traumatic of an experience.  Two weeks later, there's still crusty glue on his hair, and he still won't lay down flat on his head.  I don't know if it still hurts, or if the glue just makes it uncomfortable.  It's looking lots better.

When Jack saw this picture on my phone, he said, "Here I am, making mischief."  Yep.  He was supposed to be going potty, it takes forever and I left him there to actually DO IT after I read a book, and he decided it was a good time to get into my lotion and earrings instead.  Busted!

Can't remember... pretty sure they were pretending I was a pirate while I did my hair and makeup in the morning.  They asked me to tie them up in their blankets.  I just thought it was so darn cute.

Gemma's crawling all over the place, so we're constantly doing floor checks for choking hazards.  She's not sitting up yet, but she's doing the hip sit.  She had her weight check and is making her way back up in the percentages.  Nothing to worry about.  Don't you just want to smooch all that soft, squishy skin?