The Heard Museum

The outside of a log cabin on our nature trail.
Checking out the inside.
Playing with the toy bugs inside the museum.
The museum had a huge dinosaur exhibit outside throughout their trails, I was told by friends, but when we went, they had already taken them down. We saw some exhibits inside, however.


Scoping out one of the animals...
Throwing rocks...

All in all, this trip was fun but since I had never been before, I didn't realize there was so many trails and less exhibits. Next time I will not put my son or myself in sandals. This trip proved to be a challenge, logistics-wise and I am glad I had Craig with me because I have considered taking my kids to this by myself. There are lots of hilly trails and uneven walking trails with rocks, stumps etc. Miss W. didn't want to walk; she wanted to be held. Next time, maybe we can
go earlier and not so close to lunch/nap time.

First Campfire - 2010

Tonight we went to a friend's house and let the kids experience their first campfire. We didn't actually camp, we just visited for a few hours. We had a big, roaring fire and cooked hot dogs right over it. Of course, you can't have a campfire with hot dogs and not have smores and hot chocolate. It was a lot of fun and thankfully none of the kids fell in the fire. :)

Swimming with bumbos!

So, I had this idea to try sitting the babies up in their bumbos in a swimming pool. So, we went to Target and bought one of those plastic pools for 7 bucks. And before you worry warts email me to tell me how unsafe it is, know that I had Craig here with me so we had an extra set of hands and eyes on the babies the entire time. I would never try to do this by myself.

Anyway, they REALLY enjoyed this! Their weight pretty much made the bumbos sit flat on the bottom of the pool. I think next time I will put a little less water and it will probably work better. I couldn't really get them to look up at me much because they were so busy checking out the pool/water/bumbos combination. After spending time sitting in their bumbos, we took them out one by one to let them kick their legs and splash the water. It was so much fun!

Lacy thinks this is her new water bowl!

Drying off!

More of our weekend

So, I already posted about our Friday (see previous post), now on to Saturday and Sunday. Daddy is getting some quality time with all of his babies, Lacy included. Daddy and Tyler are laughing at something... not sure what.













We took them to the pool for the second time and it wasn't quite as fun as the first time, but not bad. Which is the reason I only have one picture of Hannah at the pool and none of Tyler and Whitney.



Sunday, my long-time friend Kelli from high school and her family came by to visit and meet the babies. They just moved back to Texas from Tennessee and we are so glad they are back. It was so much fun visiting with them.

5 Months old already!

Please note, there is a post below this one, so scroll down to see it.

Hannah is SUCH a happy baby! She even gets mad when she is being forced to take her bottle. She wakes up SO happy every morning and could just play and play in her crib for who knows how long if I didn't get her out to feed her. Hannah is so hooked on her fingers - she loves to suck on them when she doesn't have her paci and she tries to put everything in her mouth if it gets in the near vicinity of her mouth. If I tickle her cheeks, she opens her mouth real wide; if I wipe her mouth with a burp cloth or her bib, she opens her mouth real wide. So cute!

Tyler is getting stronger and getting better and better at sitting up. He told me he wanted to take his 5 month picture sitting up to show off what a big boy he is. Can you guess what Tyler is doing in the second picture???? You got it....he is looking at the TV. That boy...loves to watch the TV. Tyler is in the habit of waking up after only napping for 30 minutes - 1 hour. It is making nap time miserable these days. I've had to separate him and Whitney because they always wake each other up. Also, I think Tyler is already starting to have separation anxiety. He cries when I leave the room or walk away from him where he can't see me. It is sweet, but boy is it going to be difficult when all three of them are doing this.


Whitney is presently enjoying her baths. I don't know what happened but it was like I flipped the light switch and she became more happy and content overnight. Speaking of water, we took the babies to the pool for the first time last weekend and surprisingly, they enjoyed it, even Tyler and he HATES his baths. They were so cute floating around in their floats. Sorry, no pictures - I will have to get some next time. It was so much fun to take them to the pool and be out of the house doing something different.

Current weights:

Tyler weighs around 14 pounds
Hannah around 12 pounds
Whitney around 11 3/4 pounds

They are STILL in their 0-3 month clothes! Tyler is about to be too big for his so we will have to move him to the next size, but the girls still have a little bit to go.