4th of July

Our neighborhood has an annual 4th of July parade. Ace had a great time decorating his wagon and loved that he got to ride around with his chauffeur pulling him through the parade. Never mind his chauffeur is his 8 month pregnant mom!

letter obsession

Andrew has always been interested in letters and numbers. But they have become more of an obsession recently. He has become a youtube addict-but at least he is only watching videos of counting and the alphabet. He watches all different languages (french, japanese, farsi...). Because of the videos he is now counting to 100! And is making letter out of everything he can find. He has these green Mardi Gras beads Aunt Barbara gave him in Texas that are now used primarily to make letters.
He makes letters out of his carrots, his toy cars, bubbles in the bath, even our shoes on the stairs. It doesn't seem quite normal for a 3 year old, but it certainly could be worse!!

Andrew's surgery

In March Andrew had his tonsils and adenoids out and ear tubes placed. His tonsils were so huge they were causing sleep apnea and fluid in his ears which was affecting his hearing. Although it was all very scary for us parents, he has recovered amazingly well. He was such a sport. Here are the presurgery videos...

Before Versed...a calming medicine given to children orally so they don't get scared about leaving the parents. It was a great pediatric hospital and he was asleep before they did anything painful or too scary)




After Versed...(I call it happy juice, you'll see why)



It was all worth it! Andrew now sleeps totally silent-no snoring, no gulping for air, no apnea. And his hearing is noticeably different. It was a rough 10 days but it was worth it.

Our trip to Houston

Early this year we visited our family again in Houston. They were going through some rough times but were amazing hosts. We loved every minute!

Talitha and Andrew had a great time on the airplane, although the mommies were a bit exhausted.

Ace and T had so much fun together. They played at the park...
they played superstar in fabulous glasses during our visit to Galveston...

they played together at the mall in Talitha's dress up hats...

And watched movies together at Aunt Barbara's house...There were plenty of dance parties. Andrew is all boy and no rhythm, but Talitha's got some moves!



We also went to a birthday party for Dominic. Andrew and Talitha loved this video game. I think we need one at home to tire these two out.

cousin Talitha visits

Cousin Talitha and Auntie Jenn came to visit. I Loooove when they come to visit. Talitha is my absolute favorite person to play with-we had soo much fun.

We went to the Children's museum and played in the bubbles...we sure made a mess!

We went for a drive together...
Talitha found a way to drive both sides all by herself...

Auntie Jenn bought me this Rody horse. Talitha and I had a fabulous time bouncing.... or "boinga boinga"-ing

Halloween!

For Halloween I was a super scary skeleton. Ok, Mom said I really was a super super cute skeleton....

We went trick or treating with Brandon and Michael in Portland. We had so much fun. We had a little trouble and a few tears getting into the costumes but once we were in and candy was involved, everything was grand. I didn't quite get the "trick or treat" this year. I prefered my own "Please, please, pleeeeease", which worked quite well. Mom and Dad said they would save the candy for me....yeah right.....

Florida

We took a trip all the way to Orlando in August to meet our friends Jamie, Eric and their super cute just my size son, Ethan. It was a loooong plane ride but I was very good, if I do say so myself. 'Caillou' kept me company along with the wonderful parent sanity saver the laptop computer with DVD player. I only threw cars at the people behind us twice.

We stayed at a house with our own perfect sized pool. The only way to beat the August heat in Florida.
We spent our Disney Day at the Polynesian Resort. We had breakfast with Mickey, Lilo, Stitch, Pluto and many others. The characters were a bit bigger than we expected them to be...but after a slight adjustment period we were all great friends.


Then we spent they day as true toddlers...in our diapers on the beach!
And we toured around Disney marketplace, exploring Lego Land, Rainforest Cafe, riding the rides and even a carousel.
We had such a great time! I can't wait to hang out with Ethan again....maybe someplace alittle cooler!