Someone Sign Him Up For Yoga

Alex loves doing Yoga with Grandma Kathy. Tonight he was showing her the Wii Fit Yoga games and they were practicing them together. I always ask him if he wants to try Preschool Yoga and he says no, but I think he'd do well at it :)

The Big 3-0!

It was great to see the sun in Nevada. We could have stood out there all day and soaked it up!
Posing outside the the roller coaster at NY-NY. This seemed like a great idea at the time, until we all realized we hadn't been on anything other than a kiddie coaster in years. I screamed like a little baby and was terrified. I think we were all shaking when we got off this ride. What will we do if one day Alex wants to ride the big coasters at Cedar Point??

The Bellagio and the dancing fountains at night. We took this photo from the restaurant across the street on Friday night. Every 15 minutes or so the fountains danced to a different tune. It was beautiful.

Random Willie Nelson sighting at the Bellagio casino.

Friday night at Mon Ami Gabi with Dave and Becca.

Brad and I spent Thursday and Friday nights in Las Vegas with our dear friends Dave and Becca who flew out from Houston. It was great to see them and catch up while celebrating the big birthday with Brad. Brad's mom and grandma were kind enough to agree to tend to the little ones while we were gone and we are forever grateful! Happy 30th Birthday Brad! We all love you and your funny ways :) Here's to the next 30 fun-filled years! You'll have to let me know what 30 is like.

Ahhhh

A little "ice butter" for Alex's bread.
Happy early 30th to you Brad!

The little bookworm.

Wednesday night we went to dinner with Brad's Mom and Grandma to celebrate his birthday a few nights early. We weren't sure how the kids would do as it was a slightly nicer restaurant and a little later than we usually take them to dinner. However, they both were on their best behavior and we were so impressed!

Alex entertained himself by spooning ice chips from his water glass onto slices of fresh bread and then tipping them into his mouth. He'd follow this with an audible, "ahhh" each time. It was quite funny. Later Gigi gave Alex a pen and he drew pictures of animals all over the disposable white paper covering. Abby just sat and read her stack of books, what else would she do?!

We Are So Full Of...Proudness

Here's Abby doing some light reading about babies (what else?) in the junior IKEA chair. Scooter is generally occupying the adult size one so she sticks with this chair. I love that she can climb up there but only get out by basically flipping the whole chair forward. She doesn't hurt herself, but gets angry every time that it flips. She really enjoys her books. After bath we just leave her in her room while we get Alex ready for bed and she sits on the floor surrounded with her books.

Abby's always ready to eat. She walks over to her booster seat and stands there moving her mouth up and down in a chewing motion and fusses until we sit her in the chair. In her mind it is always meal time, or snack time, or bottle time, or just sit in the booster and watch a movie time.


Abby is much happier this week. She did not cry at Baby Boomers this morning, instead she was incredibly social and playful. I still did not sign her up for another session of this class and think we'll wait a few months until she's old enough to appreciate it all a bit more.

Alex has asked to play soccer again in the Spring and while we were surprised that he wanted to sign up, we will continue to encourage any of his interests. He continues with his ice skating and is doing marvelous with all aspects of the sport. He has been moved up to the next level for the next session. I believe this takes him from "intro" to "basic".

The title of this blog post is from Alex's current favorite movie, Surf's Up. He's also enjoying renting the kids movies each week from the movie store. Max and Ruby is a show on Nickelodeon (which we do not get on TV) but there are several DVDs of the show which Alex loves to watch.

He's Back!

Alex is back to his old self and we couldn't be happier! The doctor put him on an antibiotic three days ago for an ear infection and his fever has been dropping ever since. Today it was finally gone and we are all relieved. Tomorrow is ice skating and he is really excited to go! Thanks to all of you for the well-wishes while he was sick.

Valentine's Day

Aunt Jackie escaped "Snowmageddon" in D.C. this weekend to visit us in sunny Chicago! Abby, of course, loved the extra attention :)

Fever, fever go away, come again another day! We are all hoping Alex's fever breaks soon! Needless to say we didn't venture far from home this weekend but appreciated the extra company from Aunt Jackie at the kids recovered from whatever is bugging them. Abby is seemingly on the up and up and Alex continues to fight a fever from last week.

Tech Genius or Poor Supervision?

You be the judge!