1-25-12

Busy busy day of grooming dogs, running restaurant errands and tending to sweet kiddos. And oh yes, unpacking, doing laundry and tidying up after a long trip away. You know, the usual. Anyway, I had to laugh looking through my pictures from our flights to San Diego and back. You'll see why at the end. First flight with Charlie in his own seat. Aww! Happy kids!


Yay technology! Children entertained!





On the way back from san Diego, charlie is buckling up for safety.


Lily using the in seat tv thingies on one of our flights (she loved watching our journey on the map!)


Aww nap! If you look closely you'll see an apple tucked in by his elbow. He totally fell asleep mid-bite. He was super sleepy.


Ok, cute. Did you notice what's missing? Well, combining all our flight times, we flew about 9 hours. The pictures cover about 3 hours of cute. That's right: 6 hours of fussing, whining, fidgeting, spilling, kicking seats, obsessively unbuckling, and full on screaming. Good thing our San Diego family is so great! Note to self: I need to remember to document the FULL story during these trying experiences!

1-24-12

Back to wisconsin! Just in time, because the lucky kiddos got a new session of swimming lessons as Christmas gifts! They learned so much this summer so we are really excited to keep working on their skills and pool safety during these cold winter months. Lily is in hot pink below, working on her "ballerina arms"


Back float


Not sure if this video will load properly but if it does, she's on her back, arms at her side, kicking her feet to go across the pool. Lots of coordination for a little one!

You'll notice there are no pictures of Charlie. He cried "mommy" on and off the entire class. I couldn't risk being seen trying to get a picture and spiral him into total meltdown. Between flying all day yesterday and this being his first class without mom or dad, he apparently didn't like it so much. I'm sure he'll get over it and super love it soon. We are so thankful for the opportunity to keep our littles active and swimming safely all winter long! Also, thankful to be home in our own home and our own beds. We love home!

1/14/12

dont have time for a long post but we are in san diego enjoying warmer temperatures, missing the first big snowfall of the year in wisconsin (WUHOOO! no shoveling yet!)

and yesterday we went to Disney's California Adventure. We'll go to Disneyland a little later in our trip. fun!

we had such a fun day!

we met princesses! lots and lots of princesses!


"OMG TWINS!!!"


love!



"we're going to go see your movie and back home in wisconsin we saw a play of beauty and the beast and it was you!"






"im glad to meet you aurora but i am really looking for ariel, have you seen her around here?"


aurora was not amused by lily's preference for ariel.


we met a new princess! mulan!


this was actually taken before the princesses started coming out. she was SO excited!


ARIEL!!!


PRINCESSES!!!


trying to help lily recover from her fear of large character costume people.


carousel


finally got around to going on the toy story ride. i had never been. it was awesome!


plus, we got to make silly faces in 3d glasses for a while, so thats good.


grandpa and charlie. true love. the menfolk have to stick together.


super fun day! more to come!

1-5-12

lily and i had a girl-date to the salon to get our hair done. she asked to have "just the little endies cut" and for "curly girly curls"


shes so pretty.

1-4-12

hope your holidays were joyful and loving. we had a snuggly christmas and a very silly new year!

11-11-11

Princess brunch!

far fewer princesses, FAR better experience.

lily takes handing out balloons very seriously.

with fewer princesses lily had time to get her hair and makeup done, play in the cardboard castle, even got to eat food! (this has not all been the case in the past, unfortunately)

our little charlie enjoyed princess brunch and got a nice break while rah rah took him for a nap mid-day (THANK YOU rah rah!)

sweet prince charlie!

Thanks for thinking of our little guy and sending him a costume so he didn't feel left out, Grammie Betty!

in celebration of our Nainie, who passed away at the end of October (and who LOVED princess brunch, and was so looking forward to seeing all the dear princesses) we let our balloons float up, up, up after one of the readings. fun!

can i just tell you how happy i am that my little girl loves being fancy? because i love it, a lot.

11-1-11

You may not know this, but a little PRINCESS turned five! today.

(Birthday Princess! Click this pic and make it bigger. Could she get any prettier? Look at that sweet face!)

Liliana is FIVE!!!

I cant believe my darling baby is a kid! A big kid!

We woke her singing happy birthday and carrying a candle laden tray of cupcakes. Then we hung out and opened gifts and waited for my phone to ring with a call from Princess Ariel to wish lily a happy birthday. This kind of blew lilys mind a little. The rest of the day was up to Lily, her birthday wish was an afternoon out with mom and dad (read: no brother please) so we had our nanny come hang out with charlie and we took lily to lunch. She requested we "try something new" so we took her to a sushi place to try some types of sushi. Then we took her to the movies. She decided to wear her Rapunzel dress all day. Now she's at the restaurant because "its Liliana's birthday and Liliana's' birthday, so I should be there. For just a little while. Customers will want to see me." Totally the cutest kid ever.