Children's Museum

Today we went up to Portland and spent the day at the Children's Museum. What an amazing place! We were there for hours and probably could have spent days there. The water works room alone had the whole family occupied for a good hour. Michiel and I were playing with this water-channeling thing and suddenly realized Alexander wasn't with us. He turned out to be just across the room, but we'd both been so engrossed in what we were building that we hadn't noticed him leave.

Swimming Boy

Tomorrow will be Alexander's last swim lesson for the summer. He's come such a long way! He started out refusing to get his face wet, and now he'll dunk under easily, will float on his stomach with his face in the water, and can float on his back for a few seconds without help. Today they put life jackets on the kids and let them float around and jump in the deep end.

That's my kid with his face in the water:

Even though he often tells me in the morning that he doesn't want to dunk all the way under, he's all smiles in the pool. We'll make a swimmer out of him yet!

Two Pictures

Here's our little sitting-up girl! The tongue action is pretty typical too.

Sitting up

That's sitting up, not spitting up, though she does some of each. Today I think we can officially say that Annabel sits up on her own. I left her sitting up on a blanket in the backyard, and she didn't tip over! She happily sat for at least 4 or 5 minutes before slowly leaning to the left and falling forward on her face. But she totally had her balance before that!

Chillin' on a Saturday morning:



And we actually found Alexander sleeping like this one night: