Big Girl Swing

Gwyneth is starting to swing on the big girl swing.

For you parents this may seem late, but it's not that she was still using the lil' swings, she's just never been a big swing girl, so she usually avoids them altogether.

Not anymore. She's all about 'higher, push me higher'. And this leads to the tragic accident of yesterday afternoon. Not pictured here, because Mommy left the park with the camera. But as Jeremy was pushing Gwyneth he suddenly noticed her flying straight forward with arms flapping like a little bird and down to the earth she fell. Now, we aren't pushing her THAT high, so it might have been a three foot fall. but that was enough to lead to shaking and tears and quite a few scratches and bruises. Poor girl. Come to find out, she let go to push the hair away from her face. Oooops. A lesson you only have to learn the hard way once.....hopefully.

Our brave girl was ready to get back on a different swing the very next day. We kept the pushing to a minimal this time.

And being obsesed with equinimity here are a couple of the Mister.

We Love Amazon Fresh

We did the math and figured out that Amazon Fresh (grocery home delivery) actually costs about the same as our grocery store. The groceries come to our front porch before even we wake up in these big tubs.

We are all very thrilled about not using up a weekend morning at the grocery store.

Some of us more than others. Did I mention that you can add to your order up till midnight the night before? I don't work for them, I promise. But I love them.

They were having a two for one special on cute, but trouble making kids. We couldn't resist.

What Have I Done????

Corin got his first haircut on Saturday.

He wasn't so sure about it all at first.

But eventually he warmed up to the whole thing.

She did a great job cutting his hair, but now he looks like such a big kid, I can't hardly stand it. I want those baby curls back!!! :(

Before: After:

He's still just a baby! I'm not ready for him to be so big!
Oh, but check out the walking:

And because Corin's not the only one being cute around here, here is Gwyneth Dancing:

Gardening Day

The garden has been needing some serious attention so we decided to have a family gardening day. Gwyneth was very helpful and Corin mostly patient.

Still enjoying the novelty
This is his questioning-my-parental-judgement look. Right now it says "If you are going to leave me here on this blanket in the freezing cold don't you think you should stay focused on the task rather than take a million pictures?"
Venturing off the blanket. "Is it safe"?

Gwyneth waters the transplanted plants. All in all I would have to say the day was a success but we got the bulk of the work done during naps. Once Corin figured out the grass wasn't so bad he was all over the place.

Now for the pretty pictures, check out the Picassa page through this link:

Gardening Day

or watch the slideshow:

The Importance Of Being A Little Brother

Corin is getting introduced to all the benefits of having a big sister. Including being dressed in fairy wings. He drew the line at the wand though. He wasn't going for that.

Watch Out World Here I Come

Here he is in action. The unstopable Corin. If you haven't heard, he also now has two teeth. So he thinks he's pretty cool.

Okay, now check out this interaction. Now that Corin can get anywhere he wants to we get a lot of this:

In this series, big sister clearly has the upper hand. But this is not always so.

Okay, so I know I totaly slacked on the blogging, but some of this stuff needs the story, not just the Picassa albums, so every now and then, I might just update this sorry blog. And now I can put slideshows on the blog too which should take you right to Picassa for the full album, so maybe you'll get the best of both worlds?

Meet trouble IMG00138.jpg

Corin has learned how to crawl and is into everything, including his sisters space. There are just not enough high spaces to put her stuff. Gwyneth has had a pretty good attitude so far, but I see a world of conflict ahead of us. Corin on the other hand is very proud of himself.
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