Ok I have decided that I want a railing around our front porch with a child proof gate! While I was downstairs rebooting the laundry this morning, Dinah decided to use the step stool to unlock the storm door and go out front all by herself. After starting another load of laundry I came upstairs and made up a bottle to feed Chloe and then went to the bedroom, all the kids were there….except Dinah. I asked the others where Dinah was, and they said they didn’t know, and while I was looking around the house for her, Tyra said “she’s outside” WHAT???? Yup there was the step stool right next to the door, and the door was unlocked, so I ran outside and called her name. She was three houses down and across the street! Yup we definitely need a railing around the porch with a child proof gate. (Maybe we could just put a lock on the gate and keep solicitors out too. 😉 )
Category: Dinah
Dinah’s first phrase
Dinah’s first understandable phrase is……..”want one”. She babbles in her own language quite a lot and is learning to ask for specific things by what they are called. And as Kyle was passing out frozen gogurts to the kids Dinah was standing there saying “want one, want one”
So cute
Dinah’s in a booster seat.
Well we upgraded Dinah from the high chair to the booster seat yesterday. Jeremy has been out of the booster seat for awhile, and Dinah REALLY wanted to sit in a big person chair yesterday. But she couldn’t reach her food, so I whipped out the booster seat. She loves coming to the table for meals now, and she’s just so cute. She’s growing up so fast! We couldn’t talk Jeremy out of ‘his’ chair (which happens to be the chair designated for the booster seat) so we temporarilly set the booster on another chair (I will feel better when it’s on a sturdier chair). And he was mad today when I scooted his chair to the side of the table, since the booster seat needs to be on the end of the table because it can’t be pushed under the sides. But he’ll get used to the new arrangements. 😉
Dinner at Granny’s
We went to Granny’s house for dinner tonight. The kids enjoyed playing with cousins (they always seem to play more than they eat when we all get together). Karen made a pot of chili, and we brought corn bread and watermelon, and Laurel and Roine brought cole slaw, and some banana lemon muffins. It was a good get-together. I heard Karen in the other room, comment on nobody giving her a mother’s day card. I didn’t get any cards either, so join the club.
After dinner the kids all wanted to go outside and look for bugs (that’s Ethan’s big thing right now). So most of us went outside for awhile. I LOVE smelling the mint patch by Karen’s back door. I need to make a mint patch of my own, so that I can smell it all the time. 😛
Before we left we put our kids in pjs (we always take pjs with to family dinners so that if the kids fall asleep on the way home, we can just put them in bed) And Dinah was just so cute ‘playing’ the piano that I had to take this picture:
Dinah is as stubborn as the rest
The kids have a hard time getting motivated to clean up their toys. We usually let Dinah get away with not cleaning, since she’s so young, but she’s been starting to show more of an interest in cleaning. She is very good at understanding, although she speaks very little still. Tonight, when the other kids were sent to their rooms for failure to listen, Dinah was still in the living room. I told her, “Dinah, pick up the toys!”
She looked at me and then looked away, and said, “uh uh!”
“Dinah, go to your room,” I said in mock firmness.
“Ahhhhhh!” she cried in protest, and ran from the room.