Community Reunion
Open Houses and a concert in the park Miles Nielsen and The Rusted Hearts
Everett said he wanted to be a firefighter and that I should be a firefighter and Dallin should stay home with the kids.
The Douglas House has two separate sets of stairs. The smaller one is painted like the yellow brick road and leads down to the kitchen. Everett went up and down them at least four times and thought they were the coolest things ever..
Everett's first day of his second year of Preschool
He goes five hours a day, five days a week. The program is through the public school.
He picked his backpack to match one of his jackets.
The first few times dropping him off were rough. He cried and wailed and clung and resisted. But a couple nights in and he said he was excited about school and that he liked it. After about a week, he helped comfort another child who was sad while getting dropped off.
When people ask about his friends at school, he says he only has one. He usually tells me about what he ate for breakfast, what he played with, and what mean thing his friend did at school.
One of the times I've volunteered they had cupcakes for a kid's birthday.
Solar eclipse
I viewed it a few different ways, but I thought the colander one turned out kind of cool because of the star.
Cantaloupe Festival and County Fair
Our fair fare- Philly cheesesteak, cantaloupe lemonade, and cantaloupe cobbler with cantaloupe ice cream
The kids' favorite parts were exploring the inside of a cattle truck, shelling and grinding dry corn into cornmeal, and looking at a variety of farm animals. One of our goals was to have Adeline correctly identify a horse versus cow. We're still working on that.
Junior Rodeo
Visiting Grandpa on the farm
Everett and I rode in the loader, Adeline said she wanted to stay in the car and look at the cows.
Peter's first haircut
At :04 you can hear Peter's slight laugh in response to Everett
Other things- We had a nice family dinner at Sandwind's to celebrate Adam's birthday. I had a lovely birthday. We enjoyed the labor day parade. We loved seeing some extended family recently: my distant cousin and her family, and my great uncle and aunt. I started babysitting a little boy, R, who is four months older than Peter.
Everett quotes
"He played with me because we have the same letter of name."
"What's Between the Lions?" (Me- A show that was on PBS when I was a kid.) "You had the same TV as us?!"
Adeline quotes
"I'll turn the light on in the kitchen for you. I'm hungry."
(while riding in the car) "uh... uh...I can't reach it." (Me- What are you trying to reach?) "The house."
Peter's health
TMI warning. Peter had three weeks in a row of vomiting up to five times each day. He lost weight to the point that he weighed less than he did at 9 months. We started giving him pedialyte and pediasure to compensate. After an urgent care visit we changed some things about how and what we were feeding him. But because the vomiting persisted, we got him in to see his pediatrician. She ordered an x-ray and blood work and figured out that he was constipated. I'm grateful it's not something more severe or life-long. After starting a laxative every day he has thrown up about eight times in the last two weeks. Hopefully it will resolve soon.
