Tent City

A favorite childhood memory of mine, was building tents in the living room out of sheet. My sister and I would use broomsticks to prop up the middle, the couch, any type of heavy book to hold ends of the sheet (usually phone books) whatever we could gather. Today, while folding laundry, I decided to pass on the tradition with Sean... so we gathered our materials and put together our tent.


Sean really enjoyed the morning. Later in the afternoon he said, "let's build a tent again mommy!"

traffic pile up on the L.R.C. (living room couch)

Swim test, passed with flying colors

Swim test consists of a series of skills dressed in full clothes, socks, shoes and a REGULAR diaper (mom's know how much those things absorb and how much they weight when they are completely full... wow). They do not practice in these clothes, only test. The purpose is to simulate if the child were to fall into a pool or body of water by accident. Sean did GREAT~!

Sean, calmly laying in his float, fully clothed. I'm so proud!



ISR (Infant Swim Resource), is an amazing program! I highly recommend it to everyone I know with small children. Start them EARLY, as babies. This is Sean's 2nd season, and surprisingly he did not forget everything from last summer. They start teaching babies as young as 6 months. Sean started at 14 months.

First Performance

Tonight, Sean had his first performance. There was an audience of about 16 parents. I'm not sure that we'll be seeing "Broadway" in Sean's near future, but he did pick up interest by the time we got to the last few verses of the last song. I had to break the video recording into portions, so I'm not sure it's on this one or not. We really love his daycare family, all the kids and Miss Frances are wonderful.

great moments

It's been a while since I shared with you how much Sean has been changing lately. I've posted some pictures, but haven't added any narrative. I suppose I should talk about the most obvious... the TALKING. Oh my goodness, he is talking, and talking and talking. It's hilarious. We recently drove out to California, and Sean chatted it up in the back seat until about the last 5 miles, when I said to Sean, "Let's practice being quiet for just a little bit, honey...", to which Sean said, "Ok, Mommy".... and STOPPED TALKING! I couldn't believe my ears. It worked??? Are you kidding me? I looked at Steve and said, "did that just happen"? So then I felt so bad having shushed his creative, learning babble, that I started talking to him again.

It's so much fun. He's so curious and so smart. He is learning. He is hearing me tell him how to pronounce certain words, and he practices repeating them after me. It's amazing to me that his mind is working so hard to expand. I even thought to myself the other day... "I can't believe I'm able to teach him". Before I was a parent, I wondered how Parents knew how and what to teach children. I didn't know if I'd be good at it. But come to find out, it's just something that happens everyday, every step of the day and week. It's just a constant communication every moment. Some moments, hours, days, weeks are spent talking ONLY about TRUCKS.. and ALL THE DIFFERENT KINDS OF TRUCKS we see everyday on the road... TRASH TRUCKS, TRACTOR TRUCKS, BIG TRUCKS, more TRASH TRUCKS (he really likes the trash truck) I was really becoming concerned that he'd learn nothing more than truck talk. But he's coming around, and quickly.

The other day, we were shopping and their was a baby crying a couple aisle over. Sean looked at me and said "what's that mommy?", I said, "oh.. that babies not happy..." Sean looked at me and said, "I HAPPY, MOMMY!" I said, "You're happy Sean?" he said, "uh huh..." and grabbed me by the side of the face and hugged me.

OH MY GOODNESS... LIFE IS SO GOOD...