the growing knoblauch family: Summer Fun Around The House

Well this past week has been an interesting one! Benjamin has been transitioned into the 2 year old room at school and he is not the biggest fan at the moment. He has loved his teachers in the 1 year old room over the past year and has not quite warmed up to the 2 year old room teachers. We are hoping that he adjusts in the upcoming week. He has in turn been incredibly clingy to either Luke or I, depending on who has Samantha. We are just taking one day at a time right now.

In addition to this transition, Samantha has all of a sudden not liked to stay asleep at night for more than 2 hours at a time. She is not hungy, but just waking up a little bit more. Mommy is a little sleep deprived right now :) She is going about 9 hours without eating, so I just need her to get the sleep down with it and we will be in good shape!

Besides these couple of obstacles, we have continued to have lots of fun. Benjamin continues to be such a big brother and is really liking that his little sister is starting to get stronger and is becoming more interactive. Samantha started sitting in the bumbo for short periods of time and when she is not using it, Benjamin thinks that he should be sitting in it :) We have continued to make frequent visits to the park and spend as much time outside as possible without having a heat stroke!!!

Here are a few pictures from this past week!

Benjamin wanted to dress himself on Sunday morning to go to the park so Luke let him pick out his clothes, so we ended up with a swim shirt, swim trunks, and a backwards baseball cap. Needless to say, he was the only kid at the park looking like this :) Oh the joys of children becoming independent!