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100th (+1) Post: A Playdate!

It took me about a year to get to my 100th post. I'll try to pick up the pace for the next 100.



We met some friends at the Providence Children's Museum and enjoyed a few new exhibits. When we had been before in the summer this area was still the vet and the dental area, now they have all of these light up blocks. Ethan really liked it there.

Everyone Playing

Where's Sammy?

I can't wait for the next playdate!

Our New Years and Beyond

We spent our New Years Eve at home with just the four of us. It was snowy and Emma was sick to her stomach a few days before so we just laid low. It was kind of nice to have the kiddos in bed by 9 and us just after midnight...ahh I'm such a grown up. I did miss my friends though, next year we will hang out again.

On 1/4/09 Jill hosted another playdate at her house. It was a little people gift exchange and it was really cute. I think Sam and Emma appreciated it the most. Emma us still talking about it.

Sam

Sam and Emma

Eve and Ethan

Emma, Sam and Ethan

Just because Emma is such a weirdo, I had to share this. She has really taken to decorating our house. She tells me all the time how we need to make things look pretty. The following is a picture of her decorating. She took the mat from her Biddy Baby changing table and turned it into a table runner and then accessorized. Could this child BE any more girly?

And the award for most teeth goes to...

Ethan Luke!

The poor boy has done nothing but teethe for the past month or so. His tooth count is now at 5 but soon to be 6! Every time I look in his mouth there is a new tooth in there. He now has his two bottom ones and three across the top.

Yesterday Emma, Ethan, and I hosted a little playdate. I am so happy that my friends have begun joining the dark side and having babies too. Jill Morse and I have been trying to convince our friends how wonderful it is to have kids and I guess two of them started believing us. Jill brought her two, Sam and Jack. Jill Richard brought her little cutie Eve and Emily brought "Little Anna" too. We have decided that Anna's new name is "Little Anna" because she is such a peanut!

Hanging Out
Jack, Eve, and Ethan

Emma and Ethan

The Babies
Clockwise starting at 12: Jack, Anna, Ethan, and Eve

Poor Jack was less than thrilled about it!

We had such a wonderful time. Sam and Emma enjoyed a little dressup too, but they refused to have any pictures of it taken. Maybe next time! We are going to try to do this again in January or so so keep checking back to see how our friends are growing.

A Day in Our Life

Welcome to a day in the life of Jen (and Emma and Ethan). This is when it usually begins somewhere around 4 AM. Ethan gets a little hungry around this time so I get up and change him and feed him. It took me a while to get him to go back to sleep today. Finally around 5 he was asleep again. We went back upstairs and he started fussing again around 6:30 or so. I brought him into our bed and stalled him until:


Not bad, huh? This is when our day officially started. We were back downstairs for another bottle and to catch up on the day's news. This is the sweet little face I get to look at every day.
Today was going to be a fun day. We were meeting our friends, Jill and Sam, at the Providence Children's Museum. Emma is my late sleeper so I went up to get her and this is how she greeted me.
I thought she might need a few minutes so I went into our room and made the bed.
That was all she needed. We went downstairs and Ethan had a little swing so I could get Emma and my breakfast.

Here's what I had:

Next I went up to get Ethan and myself dressed. Ethan went from this:

to this...my little Red Sox fan. Who needs Manny?

Ethan hung out to talk to some of his friends while Emma watched cartoons. This is when I packed the diaper bag.
I next had to get Emma dressed and hair into pig tails with as little arguments as possible. Yeah right, so what I did was I asked her to let me do her hair. She said no. Then I pretended to call Jill and tell her we couldn't come. Well, low and behold, Emma is suddenly ready to let me do her hair.

Finally we were in the car on our way.

We had to park on the street because the lot was full.

Emma and Sam were so excited to see each other.

Once in the museum we went right to the Veterinary area. Dr. Emma and Dr. Sam had a lot of fun in there.

Ethan did too...

Next it was onto the water area. We spent about 2 minutes in there. Emma got her hands wet and said, "I've had enough of this." And that was that. We were moving on.

We headed up the ramp to the second floor and the construction area. I think we were there about one minute before Emma had to go to the bathroom. Why she wouldn't go downstairs with Sammy three minutes earlier I don't know but she's two....I guess that's the reason.

Coming back from the bathroom

They both loved the skeleton bike guy.

I don't think Sammy liked this lady all that much. He jumped right down after this picture.

We spent a while in Little Woods too. There is a slide and animal costumes. There is also a little cave and river to play in and around. Our two turtles had a ton of fun there.
On the way out we checked out the bone area one more time. Next year Ethan will have a little more fun here.
Jill was super sweet and bought Emma a cute little race helmet that she insisted "kept the sun out" or her eyes. Sammy picked up another fire chief hat to add to his collection.
I didn't take any pictures but we headed over to the Burger King over near Garden City for some lunch. We chose that one because it has a play area. When we arrived there was a sign on the door that said the play area was closed for repairs, oh no! Just as we were discussing other options a nice man pulled the sign off the door and said that the repairs were done and we could play. Whew, disaster averted. We ate and played for about another hour before we were on our way.
Sam and Emma did great. We had zero meltdowns all day and they left the play area without much of a fuss. I was sure Emma would fall asleep on the way home but no, no nap today.

Once home she "rested" on the couch for a while so I could get my chores done...like laundry.

Checking my email and message boards...

Making my sink go from this:

To this:

My living room from this...

to this:

The keen eye in you might be thinking, "Hey you didn't fold that laundry on the chair." Well this is why:

So it was back to talk to his friends.

Mission Accomplished!

I played with the little man for a while.

Emma was excited her magazine came in the mail today.

and we played some Guitar hero. She was having her "nudie time", I was not!

Ethan took a little snooze so I could...

Start Dinner

That's about when Josh got home.

After dinner Josh headed off to his softball game and I got the kiddos ready for bed. Ethan waited in Emma's bed for Em to get her jammies on.

They both listened to two stories.

Then Ethan and I headed down to get his jammies on and have his nighttime bottle.

Finally both kids are asleep.

I got to head down to clean up the kitchen, watch my DVR's Big Brother episode, and type this up.

That's it. Now I'm going to bed too so I can do it all over again tomorrow, Goodnight!