Sunday, December 28, 2008
Minneapolis
Macy's 8th floor exhibit. The kids loved it and I enjoy keeping up this tradition.
Lunch at the Oak Grill, also a tradition.
Lunch at the Oak Grill, also a tradition.
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Saturday, December 13, 2008
Maggie!
Maggie is our new addition! She's a nearly two-year-old terrier mix. We're very excited to have her. As you can see, the boys are very in to her. Reily just keeps asking, "Maggie go? Maggie go?" She's off exploring the house...
I'll post better pictures of her once she's a bit more familiar with us.
Preschool Christmas Program
Gavin had his preschool Christmas program this past week. He did a great job!
Wednesday, December 03, 2008
Christmas Tree
The boys love the decorated trees, but we find many ornaments scattered throughout the house every day.
Can you tell who is going to be bigger the older these two get? Hint: it won't be the older one! Reily has started attempting to defend himself against his big brother's antics. We've been waiting for this day...
Can you tell who is going to be bigger the older these two get? Hint: it won't be the older one! Reily has started attempting to defend himself against his big brother's antics. We've been waiting for this day...
Sunday, November 30, 2008
The Boys
Playing outside
Helping daddy with leaves
Reily got these blocks for his birthday. One of Gavin's favorite things to do is build a wall so that daddy can't join him on the porch. The wall usually lasts 30 seconds before someone comes crashing through and then demanding that we rebuild it.
Here's Reily talking on the phone to his papa. My boys love to call grammy and papa to talk on the phone. They're getting better at it--well, Gavin is anyway.
Ben's Birthday
My little brother turned 25 earlier this month. We celebrated by eating dinner at Texas Roadhouse. It was a good, meat-filled evening.
Typically, they ask the birthday person to get on a saddle and they sing a really loud, obnoxious song at them before they give them a free sundae. Ben absolutely refused so my mother, yes, Linda, got on the saddle (sort of) for the whole restaurant to see. This is one sight I never thought I would see.
Typically, they ask the birthday person to get on a saddle and they sing a really loud, obnoxious song at them before they give them a free sundae. Ben absolutely refused so my mother, yes, Linda, got on the saddle (sort of) for the whole restaurant to see. This is one sight I never thought I would see.
Thursday, November 06, 2008
Party Day!
Reily's whole birthday was spent celebrating. He had a great, and messy, breakfast of peanut butter toast where he got to wear his hat at the table. Within 30 seconds he had it covered in peanut butter. Oh well, you only turn 2 once.
For lunch, we took the birthday boy to "Donald's", nearly his favorite place on earth thanks to Grammy and Papa. Before he could get in the car, he had to drive himself there. He didn't get too far.
"More, daddy, more!"
Dinner was a toddler friendly meal, which neither of my toddlers touched, but the adults all ate plenty.
Opening presents...Gavin did really well handing them to Reily and not tearing into them himself. Reily was enthralled with each gift he opened, so much so that he refused to open a new gift until we removed the old one from his hands. Next year, we're thinking about just getting him one gift (yeah, right).
Papa had to help a bit to peak Reily's interest. He's a goofy one (Reily that is, though Papa is too, sometimes).
Reily loved his raincoat and the "hammer" (hanger) that it came with.
Grammy got some bricks for Reily that had to be assembled. All the adults took their share and put them together. Then, towers were built and happily knocked over.
The big gift from mommy and daddy was a train table which, of course, we had to set up for play before we presented it. Can you say: spoiled kids?
Car cakes racing around the track.
My favorite moment of the evening was Gavin spontaneously belting out the "Happy Birthday" song to Reily. It was quite cute and definitely caught on video camera. Wish I knew how to share that here...
The cake was delicious!
For lunch, we took the birthday boy to "Donald's", nearly his favorite place on earth thanks to Grammy and Papa. Before he could get in the car, he had to drive himself there. He didn't get too far.
"More, daddy, more!"
Dinner was a toddler friendly meal, which neither of my toddlers touched, but the adults all ate plenty.
Opening presents...Gavin did really well handing them to Reily and not tearing into them himself. Reily was enthralled with each gift he opened, so much so that he refused to open a new gift until we removed the old one from his hands. Next year, we're thinking about just getting him one gift (yeah, right).
Papa had to help a bit to peak Reily's interest. He's a goofy one (Reily that is, though Papa is too, sometimes).
Reily loved his raincoat and the "hammer" (hanger) that it came with.
Grammy got some bricks for Reily that had to be assembled. All the adults took their share and put them together. Then, towers were built and happily knocked over.
The big gift from mommy and daddy was a train table which, of course, we had to set up for play before we presented it. Can you say: spoiled kids?
Car cakes racing around the track.
My favorite moment of the evening was Gavin spontaneously belting out the "Happy Birthday" song to Reily. It was quite cute and definitely caught on video camera. Wish I knew how to share that here...
The cake was delicious!
Halloween
Trick-or-treating was quite an experience this year. The boys were great. Gavin was a Pooh Bear and Reily was his pot of honey.
Kacey was a cute little lion--no ferociousness here.
While we were out, we encountered lots of cute puppies. This beagle was dressed like a bee--which went perfectly with Reily's pot of honey costume.
The "experience" part came in with our mode of transportation. We actually rode this golf cart throughout Chris' dad's neighborhood to trick-or-treat. Katie chauffeured and Chris, Kelly and me all held a kid between houses. Like I said, it was an experience.
Here they are enjoying the spoils. You might not be able to tell, but they all have treats in their mouths and they thoroughly enjoyed eating their treats.
Kacey was a cute little lion--no ferociousness here.
While we were out, we encountered lots of cute puppies. This beagle was dressed like a bee--which went perfectly with Reily's pot of honey costume.
The "experience" part came in with our mode of transportation. We actually rode this golf cart throughout Chris' dad's neighborhood to trick-or-treat. Katie chauffeured and Chris, Kelly and me all held a kid between houses. Like I said, it was an experience.
Here they are enjoying the spoils. You might not be able to tell, but they all have treats in their mouths and they thoroughly enjoyed eating their treats.
Halloween Preschool Program
Gavin's preschool class got to trick-or-treat in the church offices where all the staff (myself included) passed out candy.
They also sang a few songs for the parents. Gavin actually participated a little bit and was quite adorable.
Snack time after the program was great, of course.
They also sang a few songs for the parents. Gavin actually participated a little bit and was quite adorable.
Snack time after the program was great, of course.
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