Monday's Child...

Remember this rhyme?

Monday's child is fair of face,

Tuesday's child is full of grace,

Wednesday's child is full of woe

Thursday's child has far to go,

Friday's child is loving and giving,

Saturday's child works hard for a living,

But the child who is born on the Sabbath Day

Is bonny and blithe and good and gay.

Well, according to that...

Oliver is fair of face; Clara is full of grace; Dan, Elfie and Liam are all full of woe; and I have far to go...

Don't remember what day of the week you were born? Enter your bday here, just for kicks ;)

A few more

This was the best of quite a few shots of the four kids all together...


OP had some frozen banana in a mesh feeder last night...I thought it might feel good on his gums - he LOVED it!



OP weighed in today at 17 lb 14 oz and 26 inches...surprisingly, quite average height and weight, despite what a look at his thighs might make you think :)

Toothage!

Master OP popped his first tooth today. It does help explain the horrible night we had last night, the extra grumpiness he exhibited all day, and the low-grade fever he has been running all day. All in all, a miserable little thing today :(

He is five days shy of six months, and did not follow the pattern his older sibs had set for first teeth:

C - 6 months on the dot
E - 6 months and one day
L - 6 months and two days

So he is our "early baby" so far with birth and teeth...will that trend continue? Hmmmm....

Fashion show (aka gratuitous kid pics)

New duds from Gma P arrived today for the girls...

Camping, round one.

Friday, D came home from work a bit early so we could head North for camping. Hoping to minimize traffic issues heading out of the city, we picked up the girls about 20 minutes early from school and headed on out.


This was our first camping trip with the four kids, and the first tent camping we've done with the boys. A friend and her four boys were going to the Flagstaff KOA, so we elected to join them and save the rougher style camping for a non-inaugural run.

We made great time getting there, set the big borrowed tent up


(thanks, Aunt B), and went exploring the campground. The kids had a ball on the playground, a seemingly silly destination for a camping trip, but a bit of a treat for our Phoenix kids, for whom playgrounds are currently off-limits (too hot!). We pulled in to a comfortable 79 degrees (proof courtesy of our van):





D and I treated ourselves to Late for the Train lattes, took the kids to the best toy store, and stopped by New Frontiers (in its fancy new digs) for yummy food...

All in all, an uneventful and pleasant weekend. We look forward to going again, to a little more secluded spot perhaps, up in the cool, tall pines...

Mama's Little Helper

Friday, while madly rushing around the house, trying to entertain the boys and pack for our camping trip, I momentarily lost track of L. Now, this was not a panic kind of lost, as the doors were securely latched, and he often plays in his room (or the girls' room) alone. However, I went looking around the corner for him, and much to my (very pleasant) surprise, found him busy at work in the laundry room, diligently emptying the clean and dry diapers from the dryer into a laundry basket!

He even remembered the lint trap:


...and then he closed the door behind him, and pushed the basket back to my room!


(what, don't you wear swim tops, underwear and fleece-lined Crocs all summer, too?)

Congratulations to Rixa

I know most of you also follow Rixa's blog, but in case you haven't checked in over there in a while, she was just awarded the Lamaze International 2009 Media Award! Interview here.


Congratulations friend. It is an award very well deserved!