Just for fun...
Jane, August 16th, 2016
Vivian, August 3rd 2014
Hazel, July 15th 2013
Friday, September 9, 2016
Telander Montessori -- September 6
Hazel and Jane playing with beans after nap time. Jane is getting quite proficient at scooping, but you still have to watch her to make sure she's not eating too many lentils. Hazel likes to search for treasures in them, so I hide little things for her to find in the beans.
Day in Bozeman -- September 3
We spent a day in Bozeman to see the Museum of the Rockies, which was fun. We managed to watch a whole show in the planetarium this time. When we went in 2014, we made it through about 5 minutes. This show was explaining a theory for where the story of Atlantis came from, a story of a real city that was very advanced for its time that disappeared into the sea after a volcano erupted. Vivian was excited to tell people that she watched a movie on the ceiling.
There was an exhibit on the villas of a town near Pompeii, which included some reproduced ancient-style rooms with couches:
Mostly, we were in it for the dinosaur fossils.
One part of the dinosaur exhibit focuses on growth, and there is a series of T-Rex skulls on display showing how the animals changed as they got older.
A children's room in the museum is like a tiny Yellowstone National Park, and the girls had the chance to catch a few fish.
Outside is a living history farm house, with volunteers dressed in 19th century outfits. They were cooking stuffed zucchini when we were there, and it smelled amazing. Hazel and Vivian liked the children's toys, and also the chickens. Jane was asleep for almost the whole thing!
Jane's Montana Birthday -- September 2
Jane had a pretty relaxed birthday. We drove up to Wilsall the day before, stopping in Cody for a nice visit. Jane wore the same birthday pajamas as Hazel and Vivian before her, just for fun. We visited a playground in Clyde Park, and picked up some last minute birthday necessities (candles!).
We brought the presents that Grandpa Van had mailed up with us, and Jane opened them slowly. He sent her a set of board books with different colors, and she toted the red one around for a good while.
The big girls went for a ride with Andrew in Ned and Cindy's new UTV.
After that, we went for a nice walk.
We finished up the evening with a very tasty cake, generously made by Great Aunt Cindy. There are twelve candles, for each of Jane's first twelve months.
Happy Birthday Jane!
Baby Jane is One! -- September 2
Jane spent her morning climbing up the stairs after Hazel showed her how to do it. We were in Wilsall, Montana for her birthday this year, visiting Great Uncle Ned and Great Aunt Cindy over the Labor Day weekend.
She had six teeth on her birthday, two on the top and four on the bottom. I'm writing this a week after the fact and now she has eight. She likes to draw with crayons, but sometimes she chews on them instead. She likes drums, and she will get all of the balls out and roll them around the family room. She has been climbing the stairs for a few months, and is now a pretty solid walker as long as she's barefoot.
Jane remains pretty much the most pleasant person we know, she is happy to meet new people, and she is generally content to be with her family. She makes people smile wherever we go. She doesn't sit still through church anymore, instead we're in the back going up and down the stairs and investigating whatever might have been left behind by someone else back there. Jane is just very busy, now that she can walk. She is also more likely to sit and read a book now, and sometimes the same book more than once. The most recent one was I Am a Bunny. Jane likes to flip pages in bigger books, like hymnals or big chapter books. She also likes to swing, the higher the better. She is getting adventurous at the playground, trying out slides with the help of her sisters.
Jane can say "Mama" and "Daddy," although Daddy is usually "Hi Daddy," the way Hazel and Vivian say it when Andrew comes home from work. She can ask to be picked up, she claps, and she will occasionally wave. Jane likes to put objects into containers, dump them out and start over again. She likes to wear a purse around the house and talk on the phone. She also accessorizes with play necklaces, and will sometimes put silly things on her head for a hat.
Baby Jane is so sweet, and we are so grateful for the opportunity to watch her learn and grow, and for all of her sweet baby hugs!
Baby Jane on Day 1
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