Archie's new toddler bed!

We moved Archie from his crib into a toddler bed last Friday, September 14th.  And he is doing great!  Well, it's not a new toddler bed, since it was Avie's bed first and before that it has been through many other kids too.  Thanks again to our friend Jo for passing the bed on to us.  But it is new to Archie and he loves his new big kid bed!  He goes to sleep no problem just like he did in his crib.  And so far, he still thinks he can't get out of bed until we come get him in the morning.  So that is nice too!  This morning when I went into his room to get him he said "Light green Mommy, I wake up now."  Too cute!

However, we did find him sleeping on the floor on the second night.  We are not sure if he got of out bed on purpose or if he fell out of bed.  Probably the former, but we are still glad the bed is close to the ground.

More climbing...

I have a video of Avalon climbing up the climbing wall in our garage now.  It was taken on August 17th, which was a couple of weeks after it was built and she is already getting really good at it.



She has also mastered the climbing wall at the park by our house, which is difficult because it is missing a few climbing holds.  According to Avie, the holds are missing because a big guy stomped on them as you can see in this video, which was also taken on August 17th.



Archie is now into the climbing wall as well.  When we were at the park last Tuesday, September 4th, Archie climbed to the top of the climbing wall that Avie just mastered (as shown in the video above) all by himself.  I didn't even notice he was on it until he made it to the top.  He climbed it again several times yesterday, but I wasn't able to capture a good video of him yet.  He has also started climbing almost all other structures at the parks as well and he can do most of them on his own now too.

First Day of Preschool

 Avalon had her first day of preschool last Monday, August 27th.  At first she was hesitant to go in on her own.  She kept telling me that I needed to stay and watch over her.  By the time I actually separated myself from her, Archer was so busy playing with the farm animals that he didn't want to leave.

After class was done, Avalon told me that she wasn't even scared when the teacher took off her purple name tag and that next time I didn't have to stay.  I thought that was great progress for one day!

Avalon's new book shelves...

Mommy was out shopping at garage sales with Grandma when they found some cute bookshelves for Avie's room.  And a good deal too, two bookshelves for $8.   In the end they cost a little more than that (with the cost of the paint) and created yet another project for Daddy.  Avalon and Daddy went to the hardware store and picked out some paint and Daddy painted the bookshelves to match Avie's room.  They turned out great!  See for yourself.