Jane's 5th

Jane turned five! Andy came home early from work that day so Jane could open her presents early.

A new game from Grandma Mary Lynn, King of Tokyo

 A rock and a (purple) mineral. Look at that joy!

 Blurry, but happy. Another game, Prehistoric Clades

 This is Jane telling us that this is a football, but "really it's a soccer ball".

 New Lego figures

 Big new Lego set

 A Princess towel

Her favorite friend that she's made here was at camp all week, so we scheduled a weekend playdate and took along some cake to share. Her friend is older, and it's nice to hear their little conversations. It's also nice to watch Jane watching her, and trying new things because of what her friend can do!

Earlier in the week, I had an ultrasound (I have a physical picture but not a digital one--imagine a blobby semi-baby-shaped black-and-white.... blob). The baby was 11 weeks, 2 days. Little enough to get the measurements that were needed. And there's just one in there--and that's good news for us.

Since we were out, we stopped for lunch at a place called Mission Burrito, which claims to be an offshoot of the one in San Francisco, which Andy and I visited years ago. I have been eating a lot lately, so the idea of a huge burrito was immediately appealing. And huge it was.

After that, we went back to We the Curious, a hands-on museum.

 Bubble sheet with a pulley

 Nobody puts Baby in a bubble.

Jane drinking chocolate milk with whipped cream, of course.

 Andy putting together Jane's new play tent so it would be there when she woke up on her birthday. And it was one less thing to wrap.

 Why so much Wallace and Gromit? The studio is here in Bristol, so there are Gromits all over town. A lot of the activities on the second floor of We the Curious are about animation.