Granny D to the Rescue...Red Fish, Blue Fish

It has been a few weeks and things have really been happening at the Waterman house. As most of you know, Isabel, our nanny that has cared for David since I went back to work, is leaving us. She was originally planning on staying through the next to last week of March to give us time to find a new nanny. After a ton of interviews, we hired someone who was going to shadow Isabel during her last two weeks. The shadowing went well, and due to Isabel being sick one day, the new nanny had her first day the week before last.  For a number of reasons, that was her first and last day... Thankfully, Granny D, Matt's mom, had previously offered to come down for the summer to watch David. Although we were not sure if she was serious in her offer or just being nice, we quickly called and begged to take her up on it. So we are super excited (and grateful) to say that Granny D will be here the week after next to hang out with David for the summer. I think they will become quite the buds!

In other news, David got his real illness last week. Up until now, we have been so lucky as he has never been sick (other than some allergy issues). The past week, however, he started running fever on Tuesday and then had some cold symptons that lasted for a few days. Even when his fever went away, he still seemed to feel bad and on Thursday night, he kept pointing to his head  and saying "hurt". After a quick trip to the pediatrician, we found out he had a sinus/ear infection. After a few round of antibiotics, he is back to his old self today.

Here are some recent pictures:

David loves, and I mean absolutely LOVES, to sweep. We bought him a little broom and he just carries it around everyone. When you pull out the actual broom, however, he wants to trade with you.

The one-day nanny made David a clubhouse out of a box..which was pretty cool.

 Every weekend we go to Whole Foods to get the next week's lunches and dinners. David thinks it is quite neat that they have carts with cars and wheels. He also likes the samples (who doesn't - they are awesome).

I stayed home with David most of last week because he was sick. He has started carrying his monkey around with him everywhere. Here, he is feeding the money goldfish. He also insisted on taking the monkey's temperature and trying to give him medicine. Very cute...

On Thursday, I had to go into the office to get some documents out. I signed David up for the day care that is across the street and he did well for an hour or so in the morning. I went over and got him during their nap time because all the kids in the daycare get the concept of laying quietly for 2 hours on their cots. David doesn't..so he hung out in my office and napped on the floor.

Finally, the big news of the day. The Waterman house has expaned by two members - Red Fish and Blue Fish. Some background, we walked to the park today and in the grass, Matt noticed there were some sort of bugs (chiggers is what he called them). When we got home from the park, he ran up to the pet store to get Emma's flea treatment because we were out and he was worried that she might get said bugs from the park. He came back with flea treatmetnt, but also super excited that the new pet store (just a Petco near our house) he went to had fish. (currently David's favorite book is red fish, blue fish). So we all loaded up and went back to the pet store to see the fish (and the ferrets)...and being as you would expect, we can home with two beta fish- one red and one blue - conveniently named Red Fish and Blue Fish. We originally put the tank on David's table to get it set up, but moved it to a more stable location. David goes over to check on the fish quite frenqently and talks to them in his normal babble. He even tried to open the spot where you feed them and talk directly into it (I am assuming so they could hear him better).

Red fish is not hndling the transition as well as Blue Fish. He has been pretty much in shock since we poured him in there. Petco said that they have a 30-day policy (i.e. if the fish dies within 30 days they will give you another fish) which I can't decide is good (their way of saying the fish is healthy) or bad (so many fish die they had to put the policy in place). Either way, we are relly hoping he pulls through..so keep Red Fish in your thoughts and prayers.

Weekend Fun

More pictures...

Last weekend, we went to Little Gym, the museum, and to the mall... David had a big day and was so tired that evening, he fell out on Matt's chest.

David just discovered that there is a whole new world under the bed (and he found lots of missing balls). He was very proud that he could squeeze under the bed.

In the mornings when I get ready for work, David sits up on the counter and brushes his teeth and then plays with all the stuff on the counter-top... including the headband that I use to wash my face, my watch and hair clips...

We are working on going to the potty. We have had two times now where he said poo-poo and he made it to the little potty. We are not pushing it at all..really just trying to get him use to the potty. He likes to sit there when we got to the big potty.

Papa Bruce and Granny D came down for the weekend and we took David to the zoo for the first time.

On Sunday morning, we went to the Arboretum to have David's pictures taken and to walk around that see the tulips. It was so beautiful outside.

So much to catch up on and so little time...

I am shamefully behind on blogging and we have done so many exciting things the past few weeks. So here is my attempt at updating everyone with photos:

David got his first motorized vehicle

That he rode all around the neighborhood and into every curb he could find..then he decided he would give a shot at pushing it.

We have made a few trips back to the Nature and Science museum... David took his turn at milking the cow.

We have had lots of walks to the park. David thinks he is in charge of walking Emma.

We baked a cake

We did some gardening

We found a worm, but David called it a snake. He was quite insistent that it was a snake.

Mommy read an article about how much fun you can having playing with macaroni and a shovel. Turns out this is an activity best tried outside.

The macaroni activity attempt no.2 - outside.

David has decided it is much more fun to go down slides backwards.

We have played with lots of bubbles.

We cleaned out the garage and David found a bucket...which he decided belonged on his head.

Other things not pictures-

• we got a new haircut (which you can see in the later pictures above)
• thanks to all the time Daddy spends working with David at night on his ABC books - David can now point out A and B and can pretty much say the words for everything pictured in the ABC books (with the exception of some hard works- like porcupine)
• David's eczema is cleared up and under control. We did, however, find out that David is highly allergic to dog hair and dog dander.  
• David has really started to have a preference for picking out what he wants to wear. Currently, he wants to wear a dinosaur shirt that MiMar sent to him almost everyday.

We have lots of other new developments and changes that are coming soon...so stayed tuned.

Happy Valentine's Day

My Valentine's Day card from David!

And the gorgeous flowers that Matt sent me!

Dinosaurs and more

On Saturday, after our Little Gym class and breakfast at Garden Cafe (our typical Sat. morning routine), we took David to the Museum of Nature and Science at Fair Park to see the dinosaur exhibit. We weren't sure if he would enjoy it or be scared, especially since the dinosaurs are really big and move around and make loud roaring noises as you walk through the exhibit. He loved it! He even started making growling noises back at the dinosaurs (which is absolutely adorable and he now makes when you ask him what a dinosaur says) and has been playing with the dinosaurs toy figures that we bought him ever since we got home. 

In addition to the dino exhibit, the museum is the greatest place for kids. We were so over the top excited to discover this place (especially the children's museum part- which is like the mecca for curious/active children). They have all sorts of science experiments that kids can do (which Matt and I really had fun doing and reading about as well-- reminds you how much you have forgotten since high school physics), a sand pit to "dig" up dinosaur bones, and an entire children's museum with all sorts of cool kid stuff (a fire engine with fire suits and hats that the kids put on before hopping into, a music center, a water center (David was more focused on splashing that pouring water in the mills to see how it makes the wheels spin), a performing arts stage and costumes for the kids to dress up in, etc.). We bought a membership and think this will definitely be a place we spend a lot of time in the future.  

This is down in the Children's museum...

 There is a part of the children's museum that is a farm theme where you plant the seeds (this consists of putting different color balls in holes--see pictures below), milk the cow, sort the veggies, collect the eggs from the chickens, etc. It is really neat. David was a big fan of putting the "seeds" in the holes.

Snowpocalypse- Day 4

For the fourth consecutive day, Dallas is snowed in (well, Tuesday was all ice, Wednesday was snow and ice, yesterday was left over snow and ice and today, a new layer of approx. 6 inches of snow!). The roads were a little better yesterday, so Isabel came in for the afternoon and Matt and I were each able to go into the office for a few hours (which was a nice break from being stuck inside, but the drive was not fun).  This morning we woke up to lots of snow and news that both of our firms were closed (which in lawyer terms mean you get to work from home). Luckily, all of the courts are closed so Matt was able to play with David while I got all of my work done so we could go out and play in the snow! Unlike the typical snow in Dallas, this is the kind you can actually play in. Here are the pics and a video of David in the snow:

Emma joined in the fun.

Emma was bouncing around like a bunny in the snow.