February 23, 2011

Happy Birthday Daddy!

Monday was Brandon's actual birthday. We were excited that he was off work for the day (he likes to say it was a National holiday celebrating him!) First I headed to the gym for my class, then he had an 18 mile run to do. So while he was gone, the kids and I went up to Schnuck's and got him some celebratory doughnuts and chocolate milk. We sang and he blew out the candles and opened his gifts. It was a low key day, but we had a great time spending it together.



Gorgeous day to play!

Sunday was absolutely gorgeous outside, so we had to get out and play!! The weather was such a tease, but we loved pretending like it was Spring! Here are some fun pictures of our play time. Also, as of last week, Miles is officially a walker. He walks much more often than he crawls now. He's even started to run a little!!


Miles was tentative walking on the grass at first, but as soon as he got used to the new texture, he was off running!




There he goes!




Signing "hat." He actually kept it on pretty well!

Look at those teeth!

February 20, 2011

Brandon's birthday party




Saturday night, we got some friends together at Jefferson Grill in Kirkwood to celebrate Brandon's 30th birthday. A really great group of people were able to come, and we thoroughly enjoyed hanging out with everyone! Here are a few pictures from the night.




Some really fast trail runners!

Eric, Liesa and John

Josh, Brian and Shawn

Nick, Randy and Bob

Jess, Allison and Lauren

Kimen, Adrianne, Kelli and Brian

Mona, Drew, Andy and Amy





February 14, 2011

Happy Valentine's Day!

Happy Valentine's Day from my two favorite kiddos!

February 13, 2011

Updates

We've had a bumpy entrance into February. Miles was very sick with a high fever for 5 days which made him a very lethargic and cranky little guy. A tooth also came in during that time, so we had many sleepless nights as well. Luckily, Miles is now back to his extremely happy self during the day, and, thankfully, we've had 2 straight nights of 12+ hours of sleep. Hopefully that continues!

Miles now has 7 teeth, 4 on the top and 3 on the bottom. He's really starting to take off with walking. Although I'd say crawling is still his primary method of transportation, he walks much more confidently now and he'll walk all the way across the room multiple times a day when he feels like it. Also, he's signing a lot more words lately. He now has signs for:
eat
drink
more
book
car
draw
bath
love
phone
hat
cereal
hairbrush

He also has this new sound that he loves to make. It sounds like "thoo." He says it all the time and points to various things. You can't help but laugh when he says it, because he is very emphatic. He loves funny sounds like "knock knock" and "ding dong" which make him giggle to no end. He gives kisses on command which is the sweetest thing ever, and he will hand you what he is holding if you say "share." Finally, if he wakes up during the night and is standing and crying in his bed, if you walk in and say "lay your head down," he immediately lays down on his mattress and curls up in his little ball.

He also can now point to many of his body parts if you ask him: hair, toes, teeth, and occasionally nose and tummy.
Here are some recent pictures since I haven't posted any in awhile.
Miles is loving all the new cars for his ramp (thanks Menards!)
Miles checking out the zebra he got for his birthday.
Bennett loves to bounce and spin on the zebra too! This was after pajama day at school. (Aunt Kris, the Fancy Nancy PJs were a big hit!) Bennett is also showing off her pancake hat that she made at school since they got to enjoy pancakes on PJ day (can you tell what the letter of the week was?)
Bennett pretty much lives in an imaginary world 100% of the time. This day, she decided that she was Ariel, so she made her own tail!
During one of the snow days, we put up Bennett's play house and made a cozy fort for reading, coloring, sticker books, etc. It was really fun!

Miles crashed her party! :)

Bennett addressed Valentines for her friends on Friday because Hollye Anne had everyone over to her house to decorate cupcakes. Here is the one for Peyton. I thought Bennett did a great job!
Decorating (and eating) cupcakes.
The big kids busy decorating.
Miles would like to help decorate, too.

The girls immediately dressed up when they got there. So here are the 3 princesses.