Friday, September 5, 2014

Five on Friday

1.  On Monday we enjoyed having Matt home for Labor Day.  Matt smoked DELICIOUS barbeque.  The bbq he made last time (his first time) was really good, but this was out of this world good!  I'm so glad we could share it with my parents.  Now he's smoked bbq for all our parents as his parents were visiting last time he made it!  Even Asa gobbled up several helpings of "big meat." ;)  Here are Asa and Anna Reaghan watching Matt get the smoker just right.


Playing iPad together after dinner--love his arm around her


2. On Tuesday we had our laundry day and threw in a couple fun things, too.  The kids made some art work for the playroom.  Asa and Anna Reaghan each made hand print canvases and Lila made a foot print canvas.  I plan to add, "Do justly, love mercy, and walk humbly with your God) across the bottoms of the canvases.  They also love doing preschool workbook pages for fun, so Asa did a few and read me a story, and he and AR both did some fine motor control tracing/mazes.

3.  Asa is still completely fascinated by legos.  He spends rest time almost every day building and playing with Legos.  He's starting to branch out into more detailed playable creations and scenarios of his own imagination AND he's starting to follow the instructions for simple builds on his own!  It's amazing to see what he comes up with!  We've started taking pictures of his creations. :)  Oh how I looooove that boy!!!

A zoo!

Two cars made independently with instructions and a truck stop of his own imagination

4.  Anna Reaghan played Cinderella this morning while I fed Lila.  Here's a long (4 minute) video of her playing and imagining and just being Anna Reaghan.  In the middle of it she accessorizes herself at Cindereall with "gwass swippers, a cwown, and grubs."  Be still my heart.  Also, I tried the next size of bow in her hair and was surprised to see it suits her.  Oh my baby is growing up!



5.  And speaking of growing babies, this little lady is a high chair baby now!  Say it isn't so!  She is staaaaaarting to get the hang of baby food.  We've determined she doesn't love the consistency of straight up  purees.  She seems to prefer a liiiiittle more texture, so I add a little bit of baby oatmeal to our homemade purees (peaches are our best bet so far).  She doesn't have swallowing down 100% yet, but she's starting to eat and swallow and open her sweet mouth when the spoon approaches.  She's also great about letting us know when she's had enough--she just smiles with her mouth closed and/or gently holds the spoon at bay.  In these pictures you can see her 2 little teeth!  Oh we love our Lila!!


She's a little drooly from eating a puff :)




Bonus:  a few pics of our SEVEN month old!




1 comment:

Cheryl said...

I love this post. Such sweet things are going on at your house! :)