CeCe's Half Birthday

Charlotte had her half birthday in February. At six months old Charlotte started sitting up unassisted, army crawling, babbling, and even started using her pincer grasp (picking up tiny objects with two fingers). At her doctor's appointment she weighed 15 pounds, 12 ounces and was 26 3/4 inches long. She fell a bit in the length department from 90th to 75th percentile and her weight was average. Her doctor was very impressed that she could sit up already and said she was in great health.

I decided to take Charlotte in for formal six month pictures and those turned out great. The photographer was very impressed at how cooperative and happy she was.

Formal Photos By: JCPenney Portrait Studios

Circus

I grabbed some last minute cheap tickets for a circus that was in town (not the Barnum and Bailey) and took a gamble that the kids could make it through a Friday night show at 7:30. We had a little issue redeeming the tickets (mainly that Wyatt and I got stuck in this ridiculous line outside the arena in nearly sub-zero temperatures that we were not dressed for) but once we were inside we had our pick of seating in the upper section. The boys and even Charlotte were pretty interested in the show and the best part was at intermission Nick took the boys down to see the elephants up close and personal. Noah wanted to ride them, but I didn't bring enough cash to make that happen. It was probably a good thing because Wyatt was slightly uncomfortable standing so close to them. We left a little early, but it was a pretty fun night.

If you look closely you can see Nick and the boys on the bottom of the last picture. Noah is upset because Nick wouldn't pay the exorbitant fee for him to jump in the inflatable truck.

Strike

Noah has been taking a bowling "class" with the park district this winter/spring. It's really just one hour a Sunday where you can bowl with other kids. One day we brought Wyatt with to bowl since Noah's friend Kurt couldn't make it. Wyatt was super excited because he loves to be able to do the same activities that his brother is doing.

Wyatt Bowling: https://youtu.be/OTa4LpnyXDQ

Noah can pretty much bowl on his own now - using the children's ramp of course. He's even learned to adjust it to try and get the ball in the right spot.

Noah Bowling: https://youtu.be/q3b3U9Sh4-Y

Another thing Wyatt likes about the bowling alley - the air blower.

As usual, poor Charlotte watched from her car seat.

Imagination

Our second museum visit of the year was to the local one near our house. The boys, especially Noah, were very immersed in each activity. First they pretended to be veterinarians and gave some cute stuffed animals a thorough check-up, next they dug for dinosaur bones in the pit, then they did a little fishing out of a boat, played in the kitchen area (not pictured), and finally did a little art.

Creative Noah

Noah is growing and his play is getting more imaginative. Here are just a few examples. He built a castle in the TV room with a nice wall of things around it.

He loves all of his board games now. Here he is teaching me how to play the Paw Patrol game since I had not played it yet.

I finally got his Kindle up and running with ABC Mouse and Netflix. He is now a pro at using it just like with the Roku remote for the TV.

Here is a Dinosaur tea party (plus one horse) as he told me.

He has also gotten much better at eating, but is still picky about particular things. Here he has sorted all of his green beans off the plate.