Friday, May 14, 2010

18 Months

I never know what to write on these blogs. I feel like such a boring writer. Let me know if you have any suggestions or things you would like to read about:)

Since we live in the city we have to be intentional about finding nature. This week we have had some fun experience in nature. We have gone to Eaton Canyon a few times and there is actually enough water for a river. That will be gone in a few weeks/months, so we are taking advantage. Tyler has loved playing in the water. He throws things in a waves "bye bye" to them. He likes to walk around on the rocks and sticks.

We had our last swimming lesson yesterday. We are going to take a little break from the lessons for a while and practice on our own. Tyler loves the water, but it seemed like every day we had a lesson it was cold. He enjoyed it though.

We found a cool new place to go this week. Someone we met in swim class took us to the Kidspace museum near the Rose Bowl aquatic center. It was more than awesome! We are going to live there this summer:) Just kidding. We will be spending a lot of time there though. The have so many things for kids Tylers age to do. When summer hits we will be inside a lot becaus eof the extreme heat and this is the perfect place to go. They have indoor play areas and exploration activites for learning. They have water areas, rivers, waterplay, bikes, painting, slides, basketball hoops, blocks. You name it! I even met some new moms their...one was from Michigan and has relatives that live in Spring Arbor. It is such a small world. anyways, here is the link to the museum if you want to see for yourself. If anyone wants to come visit I will take you there. Kidspace click here

Ty's friend Chase who took him to the museum.


Bike area at the museum


Painting a leaf....water washes it way after a few minutes.


Tyler loves driving cars now.


Our little adventurer.


Ty and his friend Clay playing in the river.


We went to Mrs. D's birthday party. It was a nice little danty tea party.

Tyler's new words: help me, basketball, banana, stars, bee, up (still working on "r" ans "s" sounds though)
Tyler's new tricks: drinking out of a cup, jumping into the pool, blowing bubbles, climbing stairs by himself

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Shelby, thanks so much for the pictures!!! Tyler is growing up so fast. Love to all of you.

carol

Carpenters said...

Wow, that museum sounds so fun! Can we go when we visit? I still haven't bought our tickets, but we're still planning on somewhere around that Thursday, June 24. I'm waiting until Adam gets his work schedule. I would like to read a blog about what you guys eat. I know you are healthy eaters, so I'm curious as to what you're eating these days, and I'm also curious about how to do juicing. I think I want to get into that. It seems like it would be a good way to get Sophia to eat her vegetables and get vitamins and nutrients. Love you lots!

Anonymous said...

great pictures. you are a natural photographer