Willbanks' Down Under: 143 + 39 Weeks

Thursday, April 3, 2014

143 + 39 Weeks

Jeffrey turned 43 this week. Carmie was very excited for her Dad's birthday, and she took the liberty of unwrapping his presents for him and helping him blow out the candles on 'her' cake. She has been eating birthday cake ever since, and insists on getting a candle in every piece.

This week Carmie had a play date with her friend Hannah. I also took Arley to the park and the beach (he HATED the sand!), and then later the same day, Jeff took Carmie to the park and for ice cream. It is impossible to take the kids anywhere at the same time at the moment, as one of them is pretty much napping at all times. First Arley goes down at about 9:45, then when he wakes up it is lunch time, and we have an hour of both kids being awake before Carmie goes down for her nap. Then, just when she is waking up it is time for Arley's nap again. So, we are under house arrest until Arley is only having one nap a day. But this does give me one on one time with each of my kiddies.

Arley saw the health care nurse for his 9 month check up, and all is well. She said to feed him until he stops eating, and not to worry about his weight, so he is in heaven every meal time. He is also standing up every opportunity that he can get, and getting a little fussy because (we think) he is teething.

We had one of our last beautiful days of the season here, so I took Carmie down to the beach (poor Jeffrey was holed up in the house with Arley). Carmen insisted that she needed her jacket on and that she didn't want to go in the water. She ended up buck naked and wanting to swim all afternoon. The beach was empty, and it was such a nice afternoon. This morning she woke up and told me that she wasn't going to school today, that she was going to the beach instead. I can't blame her!

Here is a very cute video of Arley playing with a ball. He was laughing so hard for so long, I had to video it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=av3-EYYPG70

Eating a banana