We headed down the canyon to Sugar House Park for playgroup this week. Our playgrounds in Park City are a bit of a mushy slushy mess right now. One of these days the snow will stop (although the Valley seemed to get more snow out of today's storm than we did).
Sutton reached another much-awaited milestone this week. She can now sit by herself and eat her puffs with more puffs making it into her mouth than on the floor. Maggie's delighted about this new development since Sutton can now keep herself entertained sitting at the island while meals get prepared.
Sutton reached another much-awaited milestone this week. She can now sit by herself and eat her puffs with more puffs making it into her mouth than on the floor. Maggie's delighted about this new development since Sutton can now keep herself entertained sitting at the island while meals get prepared.
Salem is in the midst of potty-training. She gets to choose a 'present' when she poops in the toilet. She accomplished this great feat this week and chose a train piggy bank as her present. She had a great time painting her train.
Here is Salem with her beautifully painted train and her much-coveted Spider-Man. Salem's cousin Kaden gave her the Spider-Man as a reward for pooping in the potty. Salem adores Kaden and now walks around the house making Spider-Man sound effects (which she of course learned from Kaden).
We spent an afternoon at the pool at Promontory this week. Although the outdoor pool is heated, it's still a bit to chilly for our skinny little girl (lucky for her she seems to have inherited Drue's metabolism). Salem had a great time in the hot tub.
Drue doesn't even stand a chance...with a smile like that Sutton already has him wrapped around every one of her fingers.
Salem loves going to her gymanstics class every Saturday morning. They always start class playing with the parachute while singing songs, singing the alphabet, counting, and learning colors.
Salem's teacher then leads them through two different obstacle courses with various equipment and tasks for the kids to learn. Salem is getting quite good at the balance beam.
She enjoys hanging like a monkey from the bars.
Followed by swinging on the rings.
Then her favorite...running and jumping into the foam pit.
The last portion of class is spent jumping on the trampoline. Salem is working on learning the 'seat drop'.
Class ends each week with the kids getting stamps on their hands and feet which Salem then proudly displays for the remainder of the day.
Salem enjoys the rings in gymnastics so much that we installed rings for her in our basement. She and Drue are getting quite creative with her stunts.
Sutton adores her cousins Parker and Logan. She gets the honor of sitting next to Parker during Sunday dinners and often times tries to grab his face (and food) while he's eating.
5 Things We're Thankful For Today:
- 1. Lazy Sunday morning when all four of us can hang out and cuddle in bed.
- 2. March Madness! Jayhawks are onto the Final Four!!!
- 3. A South facing house. Our neighbors across the street were all out snowblowing this morning, but with our South-facing driveway the snow melts off quickly. We usually only need to snowblow if we get one of those huge storms (which happened on about 5-6 occasions this winter).
- 4. Sunday dinners at Drue's parents' house.
- 5. Tuesday dinners at Maggie's parents' house.
Wise (or mostly silly) Words From a 2 Year Old
- "Papa...I want an otro shanta". Otro is the Spanish word for other; shanta is the Arabic word for bag. Maggie has learned enough Spanish to understand Salem's Spanglish, but now Drue will need to learn some Arabic since Salem's now throwing that in the mix too.
- "Ooooh Mama, there's mucho peepee." Salem was impressed with her bladder capacity while peeing on the potty when she woke up in the morning
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Becky
Your girls are darling. Salem's class looks like so much fun. As for Spiderman and her train, too cute.