Here’s a bit of what’s been going on lately:
We went to Disneyland…
Hazel turned 4 months old…
The Seahawks lost…
Augie got a haircut…
…and we went to the park on a rainy day…
Hazel’s face was scratched in a home improvement mishap…
My parents had a layover at LAX and we ate at In-N-Out (I still need to get the pictures off my other camera)…
August made himself a snack of cheese, jam, and ranch dressing…
And Hazel’s still digging her teething keys…
Now you’re all caught up!
My mom and dad came to visit! Well, kind of 🙂  They were on their way to Hawaii but spent their layover with us at In-N-Out and Starbucks.
The day before, Kyle was fixing some trim on our house and a board fell and scratched Hazel across her face, right over her eye. I felt so bad because — besides the fact that she got hurt in the first place — it was my mom’s first time meeting Hazel and she had this big angry scratch on her face.
But that’s life. Sometimes your baby is injured in home improvement accidents. Sometimes you don’t blog about it for five months. Sometimes your parents go to Hawaii and don’t invite you and your children to come along 🙂
Anyway. We had a nice little layover, and I’m glad we got to meet up!
Adelaide got some new clothes at Target the other day and wore one of her new outfits out to lunch. “I almost feel like a teenager!” she said as she bounced out of the car.
She loves dressing like a teenager these days, which is funny, because I also wanted to be a teen when I was in elementary school. I remember dressing like a teenager for our school’s Dress Down Day. I wore stirrup leggings and an oversized sweatshirt, letting one side fall off my bare shoulder.
Adelaide climbed up the base of the street lamp and jumped down. When I went to take a picture, she told me to wait a minute, pulling her Rapunzel play phone from her purse. “Ready!”
August brought his phone, too. “Yesh, yesh, yesh. OK. Bye.”
Even Hazel had a new toy: a teething key ring to satisfy her constant gumming. She’ll have a couple of teeth before we know it.
Phones and keys? I better buckle up.
Five minutes of hanging out at the park with Hazel and Augie.
Today was a work holiday for me, but Kyle had to work. So we went our separate ways — Kyle to Trader Joe’s, and me to the pediatrician with Adelaide, August, and a sleepy Hazel.
Adelaide and August played in the waiting room.
Adelaide wanted to make friends with the girl about her age who was also waiting to see a doctor, but she wasn’t able to make a connection. This is Adelaide’s dejected face:
August copied everything Adelaide did, which worked out well. They were both calm and obedient (for the most part).
Look at how attentive Augie was to the nurse:
Then they had to disrobe and put on paper gowns.
Adelaide got two vaccines and Augie got one. They were both very brave and hardly made a peep. It seemed to me that Adelaide was almost looking forward to getting a shot, like if she hadn’t gotten one, she would have been disappointed somehow, not getting the full experience. My theory is, she has seen enough kids’ shows that explain the importance of vaccines that she realizes they are Very Important and Necessary and she is Very Brave to take them without flinching. So that’s what she did, and August followed suit.
Then, we went to the park, where Adelaide ran off to climb the monkey bars and hang upside down and make friends, and Augie mostly sat in my lap and took everything out of my tote bag.
He found some iPhone camera lenses.
And he took pictures of Hazel, which she loved.
That’s a good idea, Augie, I thought. So I took some pictures, too.
After the park, we stopped at McDonald’s for vanilla ice cream cones, and we all did a good job not dripping on ourselves. Then it was off to Target, where Adelaide put on a bunch of accessories and posed for the camera, like she does.
I think it’s one of her very favorite things to do.
I don’t know where she gets these poses from. She knows how to work it.
And that was our day.
A few pictures from last Saturday. We went to Library Park and to the craft store to get felt to make a play Christmas tree. The tree didn’t turn out exactly as I had imagined it. We will have to go back to the store for more felt…
Time is getting away from me on this one. I think Kyle has some more photos on his phone or on the computer from this trip, but I’ll just post what I have for this Throwback Thursday edition of Happy All Those Things.
Grandpa Percy came for a last-minute trip to California in October, and what trip to SoCal is complete without a trip to Disneyland? (Answer: No trip to SoCal is complete without a trip to Disneyland.)
This was Hazel’s very first trip to Disneyland. She wore her Minnie Mouse outfit from Ali for the occasion. Hazel was very excited.
AND this was the first time Adelaide wore her birthday Elsa dress to Disneyland. She did her Elsa poses for us.
He’s a sweet brother. (And thank you, auto focus, for the blurry foreground.)
