Goofball

Andrew has been sick lately and was certainly feeling better this past weekend. He was back to himself and up to his old tricks.

The first thing he did was find Dad's old coffee pot. Dad got a new one and Drew found the old one waiting by the door. So he helped himself to the coffee pot and started to lick it. He's never had coffee before, but apparently, he likes it.

Next, he found one of mom's t-shirts and insisted on wearing it. He brought it to mom and said "shirt on" over and over again. So on it went. It was a little big.Then he found a pair of dress shoes in Cailin's closet. Cailin and Drew are the same shoe size now, so he decided to try them on. They matched his outfit very well. He liked wearing them though....
He's got quite the sense of humor!

Cailin is 3!

Cailin is three years old. Hard to believe. We had a few parties, as usual, to celebrate.

We had a party with the Friary side of the family at Uncle Gary and Aunt Rhonda's place. We had a cupcake-cake and played with the family all day. We didn't want to go sliding when everyone went outside, so we just watched from the window.

Then Cailin had a party at daycare and a party on her birthday night. She wanted to go to Culver's for dinner on her birthday because she liked the idea of the ice cream they have there. We also went shopping and Cailin picked out a new chair for her bedroom.

Then a few days later, she celebrated with mommy's family. We had cake, candles and presents once again. Bear even got a present. Big fun!! Andrew liked to 'help' with the presents.

I think she likes her birthday pretty good and she LOVES to celebrate the 'birthday season'!

Winter fun...again

Ok, so we have been a little bored in the house. Between the bitterly cold weather and constant illness traveling through our family, we've been somewhat stir-crazy inside.

Cailin had been rumaging through the cupboards and found a box of wine glass charms in one of the drawers. She decided that they must be jewelry and took each one out. Then put them on all of her fingers and toes and viola! This is what you get.

She got a little frustrated when she tried to walk around with them on. Goofball.

Yes, we do really feed him....

A week or so ago, Andrew decided he needed to eat more. We had just finished breakfast and he was playing, then all of a sudden, he headed over to his high chair and was saying "hop up" repeatedly. I reminded him that we had just (and I mean just as in within the last 1/2 hour) finished breakfast and trying to joke with him about it. He did not think I was super funny and resorted to hanging from the tray of the high chair and complaining continually about it.

We really do feed him. A lot.
:)

Sunglasses

The kids found a few old pairs of mom's sunglasses. "In the day"... they were pretty fancy schmancy sunglasses costing mom a good chunk of her paycheck (probably date back to high school or college) - so Mom would have cringed to have seen the kids do this years ago. But times have changed and kids rule the house, so they enjoyed this...

Andrew would not keep his hands off of the glasses, so he walked around the house with the glasses on and then would either tip his head way back or hold onto the glasses the whole time. Cailin was more free about it.
Hey, when it's 15 below zero, you try to find exciting new games!

Mama's birthday

We had sort of a spread out birthday celebration for mom this year. We were out of town for the big day, so had a pretty mellow celebration.Uncle John, Auntie Melissa and cousin Michael sent this cool fruit bouquet - the kids LOVED it!! It was super yummy - Thanks!!