More Baby Hats

This is the organic baby blanket I've been working on forever! It is folded up here and is actually much larger.

Annual Easter Egg Hunt

My battery died almost as soon as we got there so I didn't get many photos...

My Niece

Had to post this...my brother's little girl...

Penny Track

Perfectly coinciding with this pregnancy is the emergence of a very project oriented boy like his parents. There are projects galore at our house between the three of us and poor pregnant mom can hardly keep up with it all. It seems that there is constantly something being built or made or fixed or organized or dismantled.

Will's newest project was to go to Home Depot with his allowance and purchase some lumber to build a penny track.

Lost First Tooth (then second tooth!)

Will had a very exciting event happen last month. We were eating dinner and he discovered that his tooth was loose. It was actually quite amazingly loose and his first instinct: he sobbed. His first questions: Will I get another tooth? Will there be blood?

So that night we read some books about teeth and all their parts and why they come out, etc. Then we had a great book about lost tooth traditions around the world and Will decided what tradition he would like to follow when he loses his tooth. His Type A mom has been collecting tooth boxes since before he was born so we took those out and he chose what he wanted to store his tooth in. His choice was to do the old standard "Tooth Fairy" tradition.

Sure enough that night the tooth fell out! The following morning he discovered that the tooth fairy leaves Canadian money!

The following day we were shocked to discover that the tooth beside his new gap was extremely loose as well and he lost that too. This time he chose to have "El Ratoncito" (little rat) come to visit him, take his tooth and leave him candy. This was a little tricky for "El Ratoncito" since he was working late that night and had to rush off to the all night gas station at 10pm when it was revealed by Will's mother that we were in need of candy.

Sibling Preparation Class

Will attended Sibling Preparation Class this week and really seemed to enjoy himself. Penny had a realistic soft doll that "gave birth" and she did all the sounds of labor and pushing so the kids could do it with her and then see the chain of events from the first contraction to the expulsion of the placenta and even breastfeeding. She had great realistic photos and images of everything, explained about the blood and where it comes from, and shared some ideas of things that siblings can do to "help". All the kids were very astute about knowing the details of pregnancy and birth. I loved hearing the little two and three year olds shout out "placenta" or "umbilical cord"!