Random snapshots...

Sometime around Christmas, William was protesting his nap BIG time one Thursday afternoon. After sticking to my guns (this time) and insisting he stay in his room, this is what I found sometime into the whole ordeal. Oh man...I melted when I saw this. I can't remember now if I actually moved him to his bed? Ok...how do I follow up with this one? What a stud my little man looks like with his skateboard, huh? (minus the lavender elbow and knee pads). :)

He loves his skateboard and he's actually getting pretty good at balancing on it. He jumps off of it making it flip a little and fall back down hard. He calls that his "cool trick". He says, "watch this cool trick." It's pretty cute except that I'm always holding my breath for the fall... (knock on wood).
Maddie is so creative and fun. Age 5 is such a cool age (well age 4 is too, oh and age 3 too). She's always conjuring up fun little games to do with William in the evening. They play together so cute and so well. The other night she took out every throw blanket we have downstairs and piled them up high on the chair. I guess you can call this one "Queen of the Chair".
This is a picture I took TONIGHT. I actually have NO clue what they are doing. All I know is that they came downstairs and told me they wanted to "scare" me. I love it! So spooked... hardly! What will Maddie think of next?

Babysitting Baby Lucas

Last Friday, Lucas spent the day at our house. Sonja's nanny was out of town so Norma agreed to take care of him for the day. Maddie and Wil couldn't wait for him to get there. I had to practically drag Maddie from the house to get her to school that day. Seriously. Tears were involved... big ones. I kept telling her that Lucas would be there ALL day and that she'd have ALL afternoon to help Norma with him... and it looks like she did! She absolutely LOVES her baby cousin. Both Maddie and William just love him to pieces. It's so cool to watch the beginning of what I'm sure is to be a strong family bond between my kids and their cousin Lucas. I must say, I think he's so adorable myself. I think I'm developing a strong bond to the little man. He is such a sweet baby! We just love, love, love him!

The Duck...

Last week, we invited some of the families from Maddie's Indian Princess tribe and her friend Jordyn from school (of course) to the Ducks game. William remembered the Duck from the last game we went to and couldn't wait to see him. He came walking down the hall past our suite and we attacked him. He was a very cool duck I must admit... he gave lots of hugs and let the kids acost him for a few minutes. Good times.

Lemonade Stand

Maddie and Wil had their first Lemonade Stand a couple of weekends ago. We got home from church on Sunday and Maddie insisted on setting getting started. One of the neighbor kids across the street has been setting up stands now and than and that's where Maddie got the idea. She asked Grandpa to get down dad's cooler and we were committed. She made a great sign, I mixed up some Crystal Light and we used the dixie cups from the kids bathroom. Maddie actually got quite a few customers. We have such sweet neighbors! Who could pass up $.25 cups of lemonade from these two?

Wil's Birthday Bowling Celebration

We had a bowling party for William with the family on the Sunday following his birthday. We picked Grandma Jeanne and Papa Mick up from the airport the night before so we were so happy they could be there to celebrate with us. We went to Lucky Strike for "Brunch-n-Bowl". It was so much fun! William and Maddie had a blast and you know what, all of us adults had a lot of fun too.
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The bowling shoes for the kids were adorable.

William giving his buddy baby Lucas a little pat on the head. Lucas is getting so big! He did really well while we bowled. He started to get a little over all the noise by the end. I didn't blame him! It was loud in there which we realized more fully once we left.
Wil's beautiful Grandma's and Aunt Sonja... lucky guy. It was a great birthday celebration. We will definitely be hitting the bowling alley again soon!

William is 3!

Our little William turned 3 on February 16. I can hardly believe what a big boy he is growing up to be. He is officially potty trained which was a big surprise to me. Exactly one month before his birthday, he peed on the potty for the first time and that week, he pretty much had it down (minus a few accidents here and there in the subsequent weeks but not bad). He is sleeping in a twin bed now. He is talking our ear off night and day. He still barrels down the driveway in his little, red push car. He loves practicing to balance on his skateboard. He likes to color. He loves playing with his cars. He loves his "yaw-yaws". He likes to "fight" with "Mikos" at night on Mommy's bed. He loves his sister and all the fun games she thinks of. He still listens to what she says and enjoys following her around. He can't wait to go to school like Maddie next year. He is such a cool kid.

His birthday fell on a weeknight so I came home with a bag full of presents and we enjoyed dinner at our favorite neighborhood spot- Islands! Maddie wanted to dress up for the "party" and she dressed herself in her fancy dress. What a sweet sister.

Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday to William, happy birthday to you! We love you sweet boy. You are the coolest little man ever and we are so blessed to be your parents.