Saturday, March 24, 2018
Luray Caverns, Virginia
Luray Caverns is located in northern Virginia about 2 hours away. It was first discovered in 1878 with the explorer following the cool air. The temperature inside the caverns is uniformly 54 °F. The caverns are perhaps best known for the Great Stalacpipe Organ, a lithophone made from solenoid-fired strikers that tap stalactites of various sizes to produce tones similar to those of xylophones, tuning forks, or bells. Luray claims to have fueled the first air conditioned home in 1901. Since the air inside the cave is always in the 50s, the home dropped a pipe into the cave with a fan that would pull the air up into the house. It makes for an excellent winter destination since indoor activities are more difficult to find than outdoor stuff. The cavern gets approximately 500,000 guests visit each year. Owen struggled with being told to not touch anything, but otherwise it was a fun visit.
Saturday, March 10, 2018
Thursday, March 1, 2018
March 2018
The biggest accomplishment of March 2018 is Milton's first birthday!
Owen is doing very well in school and this month had his school concert. Owen was the one "dancing kid" in the group. I am so proud he was getting down with his bad self. Anything with music Owen will announce "dance mommy". He loves his gymnastic classes and is getting much better following directions. Owen's favorite toys are still his Tonka trucks.
Milton is now an avid crawler and you can hear him coming the way that he will slap his hands on the floor. One of Milton's favorite toys is Owen's puzzle. He loves dumping out the pieces and spreading them all over the floor. He is steadily saying mama and dada. All food he loves and has mastered the straw cup skill. We can now graduate him to regular milk too. His favorite foods are eggs and ice cream. Many times Milton will eat more at a sitting than Owen! A definite personality difference there. He has eight teeth. At his nine month visit he had seven teeth so these past three months have grown one tooth.
Owen is doing very well in school and this month had his school concert. Owen was the one "dancing kid" in the group. I am so proud he was getting down with his bad self. Anything with music Owen will announce "dance mommy". He loves his gymnastic classes and is getting much better following directions. Owen's favorite toys are still his Tonka trucks.
Milton is now an avid crawler and you can hear him coming the way that he will slap his hands on the floor. One of Milton's favorite toys is Owen's puzzle. He loves dumping out the pieces and spreading them all over the floor. He is steadily saying mama and dada. All food he loves and has mastered the straw cup skill. We can now graduate him to regular milk too. His favorite foods are eggs and ice cream. Many times Milton will eat more at a sitting than Owen! A definite personality difference there. He has eight teeth. At his nine month visit he had seven teeth so these past three months have grown one tooth.
Thursday, February 1, 2018
February 2018
This month brought us the very bad news of my dad having cancer with the tumor causing paralysis from his naval down. This has been most of our focus the past month. The kids still go on as if there wasn't anything different going on. Being able to get baby and kid loves every day make dealing with my dad being sick much more tolerable.
Owen loves going to school and his gymnastics classes. The teacher will occasionally say that he had a tough time following directions and sitting, but she says that he is making progress. I am amazed how his Tonka trucks are still his absolute favorite toy. Many times the train tracks are used as cargo instead of making a track. The two pictures on here that are of Owen sleeping with me are probably the only two times he took a nap the whole month. We don't have the lock on his door any more so he will frequently escape and come into our bed. He is quite the mommy magnet letting me only have a couple inches of bed to myself.
Milton is starting to pull himself up on anything and everything. The couch is a favorite so that he can also double as a place to wipe his nose. He likes to spice things up using something other than my shoulder. He has yet to come across food that he doesn't like or eat in vast quantities. He is still breastfeeding, but only two or three times per day. Sleeping is still not his strong suit with most of the time getting up once in the night. He will settle down eventually after I feed him. He only takes one nap per day mostly because of the logistics of having him be awake when going to pick up Owen at one. His morning naps were short and unreliable so I decided to give up on them. Having a reliable afternoon nap was better. It does impact on Owen being able to play at the playground at school after pickup, but we do what needs to be done to keep both kids (and me) sane.
Owen loves going to school and his gymnastics classes. The teacher will occasionally say that he had a tough time following directions and sitting, but she says that he is making progress. I am amazed how his Tonka trucks are still his absolute favorite toy. Many times the train tracks are used as cargo instead of making a track. The two pictures on here that are of Owen sleeping with me are probably the only two times he took a nap the whole month. We don't have the lock on his door any more so he will frequently escape and come into our bed. He is quite the mommy magnet letting me only have a couple inches of bed to myself.
Milton is starting to pull himself up on anything and everything. The couch is a favorite so that he can also double as a place to wipe his nose. He likes to spice things up using something other than my shoulder. He has yet to come across food that he doesn't like or eat in vast quantities. He is still breastfeeding, but only two or three times per day. Sleeping is still not his strong suit with most of the time getting up once in the night. He will settle down eventually after I feed him. He only takes one nap per day mostly because of the logistics of having him be awake when going to pick up Owen at one. His morning naps were short and unreliable so I decided to give up on them. Having a reliable afternoon nap was better. It does impact on Owen being able to play at the playground at school after pickup, but we do what needs to be done to keep both kids (and me) sane.
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