Soccer!

P had his first soccer game today.

P's birthday

We celebrated P's 5th birthday last month. Here are a few pictures of the festivities.

Big Boy

P is itching to be big these days. His favorite things to play with include our old cell phones and cameras. We registered for Kindergarten today and he is so excited to go to school.

Shoos!

K has hit the age where she loves shoes. One of her favorite things to do is play in the basement with the box of hand-me-downs that are many sizes too big. Here are the ones she picked out today.

Superbowl Swim Party

Call us un-American, but we went swimming during the Super Bowl this year. The kids had a great time.

Tales from a 4 year old

No pics, but a few stories that are worth sharing...

A few weeks ago, Mere told P that pork comes from a pig. We were eating pork chops one night and P asked if it was from a pig and of course we said yes. Then he asked if the next time we went to the farm we could ask the pig for some pork chops. Mike started to answer and I jumped in with "yes, that is exactly what you can do". 4 is way to young to know the truth, in my opinion.

This morning, P was pretending to be a waiter at a restaurant and was taking our orders. He took our food order and then asked if we wanted salad. We asked what kind he had. He said "chips salad" and "birthday cake salad". Man, if I could eat healthy eating one of those salads, I would have much less holiday weight gain now!

Christmas...

With a 4 year old and 1 year old, of course we had a great Christmas. P was so excited he could hardly stand it. My brother and his family came to visit so we actually had 4 kids under 5 here. Whew!

Jon, Anne and kids arrived the Tuesday before Christmas in Colorado Springs to spend a few days at my parents before they all came here. Their baby boy, M, had been sick and once they got here, ended up in the hospital Thursday morning with viral pnemonia. He stayed until Sunday night. He was on oxygen for the entire trip, but is off of it now and doing fine. So, our original plan of them spending the weekend at our house changed.

Instead, we went to my parents Saturday. Their 2 year old daughter had a blast playing with her cousins.
(There are sledding pictures somewhere that I can't find)

Here is a picture of the girls together. The matching clothes wasn't on purpose, but I had to add the matching pigtails.

Sunday morning we took them all to Chuck E Cheese to run off some energy.

Then Sunday afternoon we brought A back to our house to spend the night.

The rest of the family joined her Monday afternoon. And we had a fun Christmas with the whole crew.

Here is K with her new purse (with a stuffed dog in it!)

And K giving M his bottle. She already loves babies!

Here are Mere and Pere with the grandkids.
And P and K in their Christmas jammies.
On Christmas Eve we had a rare opportunity to have all four cousins together - a great photo opportunity.

Christmas evening we went to the Myers to open more presents. And even eat from a chocolate fountain. Wow!