Arwyn was really on the move this week. We spent a few nights with her Aunt Jen, Uncle B, and cousin Soren, and she spent pretty much the entire doing laps around their circular coffee table like it was a running track (still using the table for assistance of course). She's also setting new records for standing up and balancing in the middle of the room. Clearly she's got the balance and the skills to move, so I'm sure walking is any day now. We went to the most amazing park in Woodbury, MN; the play structure was enormous, with more cool features than I've ever seen in one place, and every part of the play structure was handicap accessible. They even had a special anti-static slide, soft rubber ground surface, and a cool water feature "splash pad" for running through. There were also more people there than we've ever seen at a kids park at one time. Arwyn was in heaven though; she loved climbing up the stairs and then just sat there people watching as the millions of kids and parents went running by. We could have left her there totally entertained for hours. I hadn't been feeding Arwyn much solid food for the last week in hopes that she would breast feed more and keep up my supply while I took a week off pumping, but all of a sudden the kid decided she wanted to eat, and once she did, she was unstoppable! She ate an entire PB&J sandwich, plus fruit, and then had a snack cup full of cheerios and peanut butter puffs (aka chewy chompers, per Leia), and she just sat there watching people again, putting bite after bite after bite into her mouth. I tried to take it away after awhile, and oh man did she protest! She's totally addicted to the snack cup now, and if she see's one and gets ahold of it, don't even try to take it away from her. She's even started throwing mini tantrums now, when you do things that she doesn't like, but they are so not in the realm of what Leia throws at us, so it's kind of just cute (for now). On our flight home from WI, she again wouldn't sleep at all in the plane. She never cried, but she was more fussy, wiggly, and uncomfortable this time, so it was a lot harder for us to keep her happy and entertained. When our flight got delayed by 3 hours, I did finally get her to sleep for 40 minutes under the chairs, but then Leia woke her up. Both girls finally fell asleep on the last short plane ride because it was just so ridiculously late that they couldn't help it. Thank goodness!
This week Leia learned to be alright with standing in line and waiting her turn for things at the park. It was amazing, she's always made a fuss about waiting, but here she really didn't have a choice. She was not too cooperative with us at the airport, and has gotten really bossy about watching shows on the iPad. I think that everything is going to just have to be "broken" for a bit when we get back home if she doesn't start acting better. She really pissed me off when I finally got Arwyn to sleep at the airport, but we couldn't get her to sleep (overtired and amped up), but then she started yelling to try to wake Arwyn up because she didn't want Arwyn sleeping either. Oh, I could have killed her. We had to take turns walking her around the rest of the airport to keep her out of trouble. She did do SOME cute and funny things this week though. She loves to re-explain to others something that I have just explained to her (like maybe about what our plan is or how something works), and it makes her sound very knowledgeable and important, so I know that's why she does it. It's pretty funny. She also impressed me by properly using a new expression in context. For example, the other morning, she was choosing her squeezie flavor, and asking for flavors I didn't have even though I kept offering her "strawberry," which is her favorite. I was really perplexed, so finally I just pulled out the strawberry and showed it to her. She did a double take, then smiled and said, "Oh yeah. I want that. I was just kidding about the others." It was too funny!
This week Leia learned to be alright with standing in line and waiting her turn for things at the park. It was amazing, she's always made a fuss about waiting, but here she really didn't have a choice. She was not too cooperative with us at the airport, and has gotten really bossy about watching shows on the iPad. I think that everything is going to just have to be "broken" for a bit when we get back home if she doesn't start acting better. She really pissed me off when I finally got Arwyn to sleep at the airport, but we couldn't get her to sleep (overtired and amped up), but then she started yelling to try to wake Arwyn up because she didn't want Arwyn sleeping either. Oh, I could have killed her. We had to take turns walking her around the rest of the airport to keep her out of trouble. She did do SOME cute and funny things this week though. She loves to re-explain to others something that I have just explained to her (like maybe about what our plan is or how something works), and it makes her sound very knowledgeable and important, so I know that's why she does it. It's pretty funny. She also impressed me by properly using a new expression in context. For example, the other morning, she was choosing her squeezie flavor, and asking for flavors I didn't have even though I kept offering her "strawberry," which is her favorite. I was really perplexed, so finally I just pulled out the strawberry and showed it to her. She did a double take, then smiled and said, "Oh yeah. I want that. I was just kidding about the others." It was too funny!
Ready to hit the park!
She found these great stairs and didn't need to venture further...the people watching view was great from here.
"Mom, did you see all these people?"
Stairs to climb, wind to blow her hair, and great sights to see...here we have a happy camper!
"Soren, check out those kids over there! What are they doing?"
So fun how close in age these two cutie cousins are!
Dual slides are the best!
So fun to spend time with this happy little guy!
Summer is always hot and humid in MN, except the day we want to play on the splash pad. Mommy drew the short straw...brrrr!
All the water features were really cool...such a great concept!
Sort of like being in a giant Alice in Wonderland garden or something.
Jen and Soren are lucky to live so close to this park.
Brother and sister with their cute little kiddos.
Whoa Arwyn, hang on tight please!
Testing out the handicap friendly zip line.
Haven't seen a see-saw at a park since I was a kid, and this one was a double...so cool!
Arwyn loves to fly!
Working on her balance beam skills.
Leia's getting better at this feature...can make it all the way across by herself now.
They even brought back the good old saucer and gave it a new handicap spin (no pun intended)!
This kid never has any fun.
Leia and Arwyn's turn for the saucer.
I'm thinking that she digs this ride.
Hang on Arwyn, don't go flying away!
Love it when these two have fun playing together!
Nice hugs!
Big sister helping to catch her "baby" on the slide.
Looks like a pretty civilized dinner party to me.
Check out this awesome pool, fully equipped with its own water slide and everything!
Thanks for sharing your cool toys with us Soren.
"Aunt Jen, this water is really cold!"
Hey there Soren, what's so funny?
Shark attack, roar!
Here comes Leia, Arwyn won't be dry for long!
"Awe yeah, this is cold, but really fun too!"
Looks like he loves his Mommy!
Fun weekend playing with these two!
Leia tying to crown me.
Uncle B sure served us up some amazing dinners...thank you!
Still able to balance when she's pissed!
Found this crazy bug in our bathroom...I think he's supposed to live on a leaf not this bottle!
Holding off airport meltdowns with juice and movies...just need to get home then we can nip these bad habits in the bud!
Finally slept for 35 minutes under a row of seats!
Always looking for new places to climb!
First design on her new drawable pajamas!
Washes off in the laundry so we can do it all over again!
Someone dropped off a pink scooter, and now she thinks she might give it a try.
Haven't been able to get her scooting or biking in months...hopefully we can keep up this momentum.
Sword fighting is really good for the balance!
Touring the yoga festival and eating ice cream with her Daddy...happy girl.
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