"The world's tragedy is that men love women, women love children, and children love hamsters."
-Joanna Trollope
Isla is a climber. She likes to play on top of bookshelves, help cook by climbing on top of the kitchen island, and brush her teeth from on top of the bathroom counter. She has a rather strong sense of balance and coordination for a child her age, but it still makes us nervous.
The kids took a trip to the library and came back with a programmable robot. Needless to say each of them had a lot of fun taking turns building things with it. They learned how to make it go forward, backward, follow their hands, and run away from their hands. Unfortunately they couldn’t figure out how to program it to pick up all the mess afterwards.
In more unfortunate news, our pet frog died this week. Ashlyn was sad, James was curious, and Isla didn’t seem to have an opinion on the matter. There was a deep and moving ceremony as the frog was buried in the garden and then the sadness was quickly turned into smiles with the purchase of a new pet hamster. Her name is Cinnamon. Yay, more pets!
We had visits from three different grandparents this week, although we only got pictures from two of them. Nina came by during the week to watch the kids while Mommy met with some friends at work. Grandma came by while we went to the new Star Wars movie, and Pepa came by for breakfast and to play some soccer with Isla.
Only one more week until Christmas!