Johnson Baby Update: Music, music, music

I have been meaning to write ever since Thursday. Ky and Coopie had a very fun Thursday, it started with Cooper having some one on one time with his Papa, while Ama, Ky and I headed to a music class for Kylie. We did a music class at the University of Redlands about a year ago and Kylie really enjoyed it, so when the opportunity presented itself again, we jumped on it. This class had 5 kids in it (Mish was one of them) and we sang songs, read stories, and danced. I am hoping that they will also get a chance to learn how to play some instruments. Kylie was attached to me the entire time, but I think she will get more comfortable as the weeks go on.

After the class, I headed to work for a few hours, Craig came back home from his working meeting and we were all back at Ama and Papa's by the late afternoon. We decided to walk down to market night. Of course we stopped for a pony ride, Tommy was the chosen one, and a visit to Goldie. We thought it would be like every other night at the market, but then we heard some singing. We headed to the park and on the stage was a group of 4 performers. They were taking turns singing Broadway hits! It was a Broadway Block Party! The singers were accompanied by a man playing the keyboard and with many of the songs they encouraged audience participation and provided a sheet with the songs words. It was SO fun! They had props that they would pass around, at one point Kylie was holding a stick with a star on it marching around in a little parade with all the other kids. There was hula hooping, limbo, a twist competition, beach balls and lots of singing and dancing. Kylie just ran around, arms stretched out singing at the top of her lungs, she was loving it. By the end we could hardly keep her off the stage, it was awesome.

Friday was a fun filled family day. Both Craig and I had the day off and we enjoyed spending time all together. My new camera body arrived, a Canon 60D!! I also enjoyed some mommy time and attended my first (non-prenatal yoga) class in about 3 years. It kicked my butt and I am feeling it today, but it was wonderful to move my body and have some time to devote to myself. In the evening we decided dinner out would be fun. We invited Tabitha, Darin, Portia and Nico to join us for our date night to Niko Niko. When we got there, there was a man singing and playing the steel drums. The weather was perfect and the music was wonderful. Our food took lots longer then we anticipated, but the girls had fun running and dancing and just enjoying the beautiful evening.

Today Craig headed to work, I got up early with him to try and get a jump on the household chores (and I still didn't get much done). I took the kids on a walk in the morning, came home in time for Cooper to take a nap, fed Ky and I lunch, then took them to my parents. I headed to work for a couple hours when my parents managed both kids. Cooper was not fond of taking the bottle, but was willing to suck the life out of a pink blanket. So my mom got creative and started dipping the blanket in the milk, then sneaking the bottle in to his mouth with the blanket, then resorted to hiding the bottle in the blanket and he ended up taking about 3 oz when all was said and done. He also took two naps for them, he fell asleep with no problem in the hiking backpack with Papa walking him. Both kids have been enjoying the wonderful swing in the backyard and today Kylie ended up falling asleep while swinging on the big one with Ama. I brought the kids home, we did baths and all laid down for bed. Coop nursed and fell to sleep, Ky nursed for about 45 minutes and then heard her daddy walk through the door. She was so eager to see him. That was around 9:15 and by 10:30 Craig was going to bed and Kylie was still playing full steam ahead. She finally fell asleep, drinking her bottle of milk and just cuddling with me, it was so nice to have her fall asleep without nursing. Within moments Cooper was awake and I was trying to get him back to sleep before Craig woke up. Now here I am, many many things on my list of things to do tonight, but writing the blog finally made it to the top, and it might be the only thing that gets done, 7am will be coming quick if I don't get at least a little sleep.
Good night,
Natalie

Rainbow with stars, her go-to with Goldie. She is also holding her "prize" that she sicked out, a pretend centipede, at least it is better then the pretend cockroach from last week.