Just a few more days....
Monday, March 28, 2011
Friday, February 25, 2011
Pinata Party!
Today in Gavin's school, we had his pinata party, complete with a song in Spanish about hitting the pinata as hard as you can!
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Monday, February 21, 2011
Five days from turning 5!
Seen on a field trip to Overture Center today to see "Ferdinand the Bull."
Sunday, February 13, 2011
"I all done crib."
We said goodbye tonight to the last vestiges of babyhood (sniff). He was more than ready for this change. He might even be sleeping as we speak...
Monday, January 31, 2011
Report from Little Chicks
Hanging out with the little girl of one of mommy's work colleagues.
Wednesday: We also put a box in our dramatic play area to create a dramatic play "den." As you can see, Danny and a friend spent a lot of time over there dumping all the dress up clothes out of the bin this morning:)
Playing in the snow.
Danny experiments painting on different mediums (see the wall behind him).
We used sponges to paint on Wednesday. Danny was very careful not to get any paint on himself.
Saturday, January 08, 2011
On the road...
We took a road trip on New Year's Eve to Chicago to visit the Shedd Aquarium and have lunch with our dear friend Shannon and her new friend Michael. We went on from there to Benton Harbor, MI, where we enjoyed a stay in a Marriott with a pool, which we shared that evening with a group of ladies who kept returning to their rooms for a "refresher" I suspect. Pretty funny. On New Year's Day we journeyed just 30 minutes up the coast of Lake Michigan to South Haven, a great spot on the lake where my friends from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch days -- Monte and Mei-Ling and their daughter Sofia -- had rented a house for the week. We just stayed one night and part of two days, but it was great to catch up and see the kids play together, since they live in Argentina, there are not too many chances to do this. In light of this busy trip, you'd think I'd have some great photos to share, but we were so busy relaxing this is the only one I remembered to take!
Sunday, November 07, 2010
Gavin's work at the Capitol!
Gavin's class made a 3-D model of the Capitol, which was on display inside the the Capitol building in Madison from November 1-7. We went there today to check it out!
Thursday, November 04, 2010
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Lazy Sunday
"Check me out -- I am riding by myself!" (for a minute)
Gavin looking at the camera -- a rare moment of compliance!
Dimple alert!
This one reminds me how much he has grown up. Such a big kid.
Wednesday, October 06, 2010
Sunday, October 03, 2010
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Monday, September 13, 2010
Wednesday, September 01, 2010
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Sunday, August 22, 2010
Monday, August 02, 2010
17 months old and 4 1/2 years old
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I have traditionally used the month mark to run a comparison picture of Gavin and Danny at the same age, but I've reached the point where I don't think it makes sense to do... they are so different and each their own person that I am going to opt for a current shot of each instead.
Danny has more words than we can keep track of right now -- seriously -- the kid repeats EVERYTHING! Water, dog, puppy, Mommy, Yeah!, the name of most foods he eats and our personal favorite "Oh, no!" He is always ready to dance and wears his endless supply of joy on his sleeve at all times, despite having a rough year of various childhood and day care ailments. I try to take a page out of his book when I need to improve my attitude in the morning -- we all could use a little of it.
Gavin is starting to enjoy being a "leader" in his classroom and super stoked about the August slate of field trips they have planned: the Capitol, the zoo, the Union Terrace and the Randall School park. He's still semi-obsessed with the Lion King and intends to be a lion for Halloween. In fact, he asked me this weekend, "Why aren't you making my costume?" The fact that he thinks I am crafty enough to do that is pretty funny. His teachers tell me he speaks quite a bit of Spanish, but I think he doesn't believe I know enough of it for him to test it out at home.
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