The Fallons

Sunday, April 11, 2010

The Gymnast

Last week Samantha tried a gymnastics class at the Santa Barbara Gymnastics Club. She was in her element with all the running, jumping, tumbling, climbing and hanging. She absolutely LOVED it!

The only issue is that it is a very parent involved class, you don't just watch them from the sidelines. Miss Independent Samantha must have said, "NO, I Do It Myself!" a thousand times. While all the other parents were helping their kids go across the balance beam or catching them as they jump off something, Samantha was scaring the heck out of me running away from me and refusing any help. Several times I would just close my eyes and hope for the best. Plus it is hard to chase after her while I have Thatcher with me.

While Samantha left the class excited and ready for more, I was exhausted! We are definitely going to enroll her but I am thinking a Saturday class might be better so that I can have a little help from Todd. The poor thing asks me daily to put on her "lelatard" and if we can go to "jenastics".

Here she is getting prepared for class:

And yes, that is a rubber chicken she is running around with!

Thursday, April 8, 2010

Easter Weekend 2010

We decorated eggs:

Samantha did an egg hunt with her friends:

Special Deliveries from the Easter Bunny:

Easter Brunch at Holley's:

The PEEPs Regatta (Click HERE to learn more)

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

PEP

It has been a busy week in the Fallon household. My parents, as well as my sister and her family visited us, but I will have to blog on that later as half of the pictures I want to post are on my sister's camera and she has yet to send them to me (Dear Michele, send me the pics!)............Oh and then there was Easter, Samantha went to gymnastics, Thatcher is a month old......so much to catch up on!

But first, I thought I would tell you all about PEP! PEP (Postpartum Education for Parents) is an organization that I both volunteer and serve as a board member on. PEP is a local non-profit group made up of trained parent volunteers who help ease the transition for new parents with a variety of helpful services.

One of the services we provide is a new parent discussion group. This is where I met all of my close Mommy friends and what made me decide to give back to our community and volunteer. Last November and December, I had the opportunity to lead one of the new parent discussion groups with my friend Marina and it was such a great experience. Here are a few photos from the group we led:

Another service we provide is a class called Baby Basics, which is designed to inform soon-to-be parents about the many choices available regarding baby care. One of the topics that we teach new parents is how to bathe a newborn. And guess who was the model bath baby this past Saturday???

That's right, baby Thatcher!

Here is a picture of the little guy in his birthday suit:

For someone who went from working full time in an office to becoming a full time stay-at-home Mom, PEP is something that gives me the mental stimulation that is sometimes missing in my daily tea parties with Samantha. Not that I would ever want to give up our tea parties ;)