The Life And Times Of James M. Wisler

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I tried to snap a couple of pics this morning of the kids to show off how big they are getting.  James definitely went through a growth spurt in the last couple of weeks.  He’s gotten a little taller and so he doesn’t look as chubby as he used to.  Some day we may even forget that he resembled the stay-puff marshmallow man.  He has also reached the point where it is really starting to be a chore to carry him for too long.  Of course, he can get just about anywhere on his own now so not much of a need for me to carry him anymore anyhow, which is sort of a good thing as far as necessity goes, but also a little sad as well.  He really is ultra-mobile though and has been keen to climbing up everything – couches, chairs, walls, etc – and he doesn’t recognize his safety limits yet so we always have to keep an eye on what he’s getting into.

Of course Ada is also growing fast.  She has maintained her independent streak and has even developed the mantra “Ada do it!”.  Much to the relief of both Melissa and myself, this has led to her becoming fully potty trained.  She has really been enjoying preschool and having the chance to do so much outside play with other kids.  She loves to take full advantage of all the energy she has, although she sometimes has to re-learn the valuable lesson of when it is better to walk than to run, which has earned her a few “ouchies”.  She has become very good at communicating both with us and James and is definitely developing a big-sister attitude.  She likes to play with James, but also watch out for him and warn him that something he is playing with is “not a toy” or sometimes even saying “James go to bed” when it gets late.  Of course, we’ll just have to see how James feels about that when he is able to talk back more effectively.

We made a trip to the Schaake’s Pumpkin Patch this past weekend.  The kids had a great time walking through the patch, although it seemed like a lot of the pumpkins had already been picked over.  Ada also got her face painted with a kitty cat nose and whiskers, she was “meowing” until we got home and by that time she had smeared the makeup around her face and she said “kitty cat all done”.

We went to the Kansas City Renaissance Festival on Sunday where Ada had the chance to go on a few of the animal rides.  She enjoyed both rides immensely, a little bit too much as she kept wanting to go again.

This was taken a few weeks ago. Melissa was out of town on her business trip to South Dakota and the kids were not very willing to take a bath. So, I improvised a little bit and they thought it was a lot of fun.

Today is Ada’s first day of attending preschool at Googols Of Learning. We had been trying to tell her the past couple of days that she would be going to preschool, but she was still plenty unaware of what we were doing when we got her early this morning and got her dressed, telling her that she needed to put her shoes on and get ready to go bye-bye.

Ada took pretty well to the new environment. There was only one other kid there when we dropped her off (Googols had just re-opened after moving locations so the rooms aren’t full yet) but Ada just went over and started playing. She was a little hesitant when Melissa and I gave her hugs and told her we would see her later, so it will be interesting to find out how her day went.