Happy happy Friday

This morning was a happy one in the Harrer household. Cal woke up once to eat at 2, and then I woke up before he did this morning. Well, I thought I had, but I think he was up and just chilling in his crib because I heard little awake baby sounds on the monitor. And when I went in his room he was so happy and smiley to see me! I think his cold has finally dissipated. He still has a little lingering cough but nothing like it was even two days ago.



And because we were so happy I took some pre-5mo photos with Little Hobbes.















It's also a happy day as Ellie will be returning to home this afternoon! With Susie!! How exciting is that? And this evening we have a school tour and orientation at Webster. It'll be Es first time inside the school and she will get to see classrooms and playgrounds!

Yesterday I guess there was more fun at the museum for Ellie and Susie. And Ellie was too busy to talk to us last night...there was too much fun going on.






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Aunt Susu comes to town

So Susie arrived yesterday in Santa Barbara in time to pick Ellie up from camp. Apparently Ellie showed her around the museum including her favorite visiting exhibit about the outdoors including fire safety tips from Ellies friend Smokey Bear.









They also went to Yogurtland.



This morning Ellie apparently insisted on having her hair like Susie's and wearing Susie's old jacket thing.



Cal had a good day too. Nick picked him up from daycare yesterday. Nick said when he got there Calvin was in a for of giggles, laughing at some of the other babies.

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Cal's the man

While his sister is up in SB Cal has been enjoying some extra attention from his mom and dad.















The photo of him on the changing pad...he was doing a "happy baby" pose and it was so cute. But the minute I grabbed the phone to take a picture he let go and covered his face. Oh well.

He has been going to sleep well. We've been putting him down around 6:30, tired but awake and unswaddled. He then sleeps until about 2-3am till he's hungry. Lately, this week, he's been waking (wide awake) at 4. He's not hungry, just like he's ready to get up! Which I am not. So there's been crying, cuddling, white noise, and other attempts to get him back to sleep. He's fallen back asleep at like 4:45, only to wake up again at 6:15!

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Happy Camper!

Ellie LOVES camp at the SB Natural History Museum. She loves the museum and camp has all sorts of fun activities and water play... So yeah, it's awesome. Apparently she was up bright and early, dressed and ready to go yesterday. Today was a different matter as the poor exhausted kid passed out at 5pm, had to be awoken for dinner, and then was back to bed at 8:30.

She looked all smiles to me!






(No I didn't buy that jacket thing. Apparently it was deemed cold enough in SB by Grandpa Mike that she needed a jacket so they raided Aunt Susu's old clothes, so that jacket is circa late 80s).

Cal's fine. Thanks for asking.

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Second week of Camp Grandparentals starts today

Today marks Ellies second week up in Santa Barbara staying with her grandparents. Yesterday we met them at the outlet mall in Camarillo, installed her carseat in their car, and just as she was about to get teary and upset, my dad pulls out the Frozen DVD. They have one of those fancy cars with a TV in it. So for the next hour, Ellie rode up to SB watching Frozen.

This week she is going to Natural History Camp. She enjoyed it so much last year she talked about it in the spring! Despite missing us (and Cal) I know she is really excited about camp. That was confirmed by my mom saying she was up and dressed and ready to go this morning, obviously looking forward to camp.



This weekend was pretty busy. Saturday morning we had a play date at a local park with other kindergarten families. It was a chance to meet other parents and kids. Although there wasn't a lot of introductions and playing with each other for the kids, they at least will recognize familiar faces for the first day in a couple weeks.

She also had ballet.







Cal had a rough night last night. He slept all the way up to Camarillo. Woke up for about 15 minutes. And then slept all the way back down to Pasadena. When we got home we got him out of his carseat, fed, bathed, and he promptly fell back asleep. So it's no surprise that he was up at 4am. My feeble attempts to get him to sleep were unsuccessful.

Nick noticed that Cal is now on the Piglets Class poster at daycare. They have photos of all the kids and teachers at the entrance hall. He looks a little angry in his photo...






Look how big he's gotten! We went on a walk with the stroller yesterday morning.



And I also got an adorable photo of the kids together before our walk.



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Ellie had a play date...

Yesterday, up in Santa Barbara Ellie had a play date with big cousin Jimmy. They went to lunch (with others) and then Jim came over to the house and hung out with Ellie for a little bit. I heard they played tag, catch, checkers, played with solar paper, and some other activities.







And apparently Safety Town is exhausting!



Today was Sports Day at daycare for Calvin. Kids were encouraged to wear clothes to support their favorite teams. I put Cal in some Dodgers gear. Ha! Just kidding. Kid is sporting a Cubs onesie (not like we don't have enough!). The teachers (who usually wear red Kids Klub shirts) we wearing jersies and other sports themed stuff. It was fun. And no I didn't take a picture. It's not like you haven't ever, nor will this be the last time, Calvin wears something with a Cubs logo!

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Throwback Thursday Safety Town Edition

Me at Safety Town in 1986 (looks like I was in the grey group too and didn't learn not to tailgate)







Ellie at Safety Town today







While so much changes...it's all still the same!

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