Babysitters

Eliana and William sometimes offer to "babysit" Laney for a while.  Sometimes that goes better than others.  Eliana makes me nervous because she likes to pick Laney up and carry her around the house.  Laney thinks this is hilarious (usually).  Very luckily, Laney has not been dropped on her head yet.  William also likes to play with Laney at times, but he gets frustrated because Laney typically does not like to play with him. 

I was getting dressed one morning.  I left Laney on the floor of her siblings' room playing.  Then I found her in Eliana's bed with Eliana changing her diaper! She really is ready to start babysitting!

A sweet pajama party

Laney had been on the floor, but then I found her and her sister like this. Eliana had made her a "crib" full of toys and was blocking the side so she wouldn't roll out.

She takes it in stride though. Super smiley girl.

Water Play at COSI

My kids love water!  Which is funny for me to say because I can remember fighting with Eliana to get in the bathtub when she was a toddler.  She hated water!  She would scream and fight if you tried to give her a bath.  And now all three kids are like little fish.  COSI recently redid the water area.  Nothing was drastically different, but it did mean that area had been closed the last couple of times we visited the museum.  So my kids were excited to see it back open again.  On this day, my brother and niece joined us for some fun. 

I took Laney down to her diaper to play in the infant area.  Eliana wanted to know how she could get up into those little seats.  She was pretty disappointed to find out that water table was just for infants, and said to me several times, "I wish I could sit up there with Laney."

Meanwhile, Uncle Michael played with Claire and William.

Eliana taking a whale for a dip in the water.

This girl LOVED the water table.  She splashed and splashed!  Then she cried when I had to take her out.

The big kids wanted to play with Laney so bad.  The found a couple of whale toys and took them to swim in the water table.  They kept bringing Laney different toys to play with in the water.

Camera trouble and a trip to the park

I haven't been blogging recently because I have been dealing with camera trouble or more specifically SD card troubles.  I have been trying to get pictures off of my camera onto my laptop for several weeks.  I finally figured out that my SD card is corrupted so I had to download a data recovery tool to extract the pictures.  Success!  I have all the pictures off of my camera and I am resigned to just using my iPhone for picture taking for now.  However, that whole process took me several nights of work, which is when I would usually be blogging.  So here is just a really quick note about a trip to the park we took the other day.  We actually went to Fancyburg Park, which I assumed meant we would be playing on the playground.  However, Eliana's new favorite thing is to go on "hikes" through the small wooded area to the side of the playground.  She was the leader, on the lookout for castles and worms.  William was a princess knight looking for swords and shooters. Eliana kept telling him that he was a prince instead of a princess, but William insisted he was a Princess Knight because of some TV show he saw.  I have no idea what he is talking about.

We found a great tree leaning way over that made a perfect seat.  Don't worry, I'm holding Laney's foot out of the picture.

Exploring the woods means looking for worms!  Eliana usually tries to bring them home, but I try to convince her that worms' favorite home is dirt.

She loves worms!

William with his "sword" and "shooter."  He also tries to bring all of his sticks home, but we have a rule that sticks stay outside, just like worms.

We took the wagon to the park this time.  Eliana insisted on bringing lots of stuffed animals.

Walking home, William wanted to pull Laney in the wagon.  He actually pulled her about halfway home (1/4 mile) before he asked to ride in it too. Such a sweet big brother!