Lanie Tries Out Walking

This was a random occurrence after dinner, although she was trying it out in on a blanket on the grass at the pool today.  She tends to try things one day (like saying a word), then never do it again, so we'll see if she has actually decided to walk or if she's just testing the waters.  Bittersweet to see the youngest turn from a baby into a toddler!  

Lanie and the Water Table

I should just put a little baby soap in here and I'd be all set for the bath for the night since she seems to think it's for washing purposes.

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The Car Wash

Sam videotaped Lanie as we went through the car wash the other day.  I  love her expression as she takes it all in.

Vivian Dancing

Easter 2017

 A nice warm Easter this year, in which the Easter bunny learned not to leave plastic eggs outside overnight, because some sort of little critters enjoyed them.  Lanie figured out how open up eggs and that they had treats inside of them.

 I managed to get the older two to church while Lanie napped.  There was an Easter egg hunt at after church.  And I learned that bringing playdough in plastic eggs can be distracting when the eggs roll under the pews. 

Then we went to my parents house for dinner, third outfits of the day.  The once clean children ended up filthy.  Vivian thought that she would wear her Minnie Mouse dress costume that she never worse on Halloween.  The polyester did not breath well and she eventually got hot even to change.

Lanie Attempts the Trampoline

Lanie has been watching her siblings jump on the little trampoline, so this weekend she has decided that she should try it out.

The Pediatrician and the Elevator

We had this delightful visit recently to the pediatrician, I think on a Sunday morning, when I was taking the baby in for an ear infection.  The four story building is mostly closed and deserted on a Sunday, with only a handful of offices opened.  As I had the stroller, we took the elevator to the third floor.  For some reason, as the elevator door opened, Vivian put her hand on the door and as it slid open and her hand slid with it into the area where the door retracts.  She immediately started screaming and the door stopped, with Vivian's hand still in it. 
In a moment of parental panic I pushed the stroller out of the way and slammed on the alarm button of the elevator repeatedly which just actually makes a bell ring.  The bell made the baby scream, but nothing else came of it.  Vivian was panicking and screaming and trying to wriggle her hand loose, which scared me in case it was broken and she was moving it.  I finally grabbed her hand and pressed the door open button at the same time and pulled it free.  We ran into the pediatrician's with Vivian screaming and sobbing and Sam pushing the stroller.
After a kind of wild appointment, Vivian's hand was cleaned up and was a little scratched and bruised but intact and shockingly unscathed and Lanie had an ear infection.

Now when we visit the pediatrician, the children stand in the middle of the elevator, hands in their pockets, and as Sam says, "feet not near the doors."