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Written with love, honesty, and humor to let you have a peek into our lives as the boys grow and have many exciting years of fun, adventure, love, and happiness (with hopefully minimal mishaps).

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Friday, February 24, 2012

I Like Food

Brady is 6 months old already and is just starting to enjoy the world of solid foods.  Little by little.  Brown rice cereal, sweet potato, avocado . . . .







Yum.  More please.

I'm Sitting, I'm Sitting

Wasn't I just posting something the other day about Brady desperately trying to roll over??!!

And now he is sitting on his own.  Wow - things are moving too fast. 








Try to give me some time before you start crawling . . . (or get up and run after Garrett) . . .

Garrett's 3rd Birthday Extravaganza - Part III of III

Final installment of birthday madness . . .

a family celebration at home.  Fun, fun.  Pat, Herk, Bob's sisters and their families, Katlyn and Nick, Gary, and some family friends and neighbors all joined in the fun.









Enough celebrating for now!  Looks like Garrett had a great weekend.

Time to recover . . . . (and play with all of Garrett's new toys) . . .

Garrett's 3rd Birthday Extravaganza - Part II of III

The Kidspace Children's Museum in Pasadena ROCKS.  What a well put together space for kids to explore (with great indoor and outdoor spaces).

We had about 40 some people (20 kids) in the Celebration Center to help celebrate G's B-Day.  The two Educators brought out three animals - a hissing cockroach, tortoise, and bearded dragon - and told the kids all about their habitats, eating habits, etc. and let the kids touch them.  They also set up free play for the beginning of the party during the time where guests were rolling in, led an art project, set up an art table to use throughout the party, helped with a parachute game, singing and musical instruments time, freeze dance, the limbo, and generally kept things rolling.  We had a great time - Garrett loved running around and, of course, when everyone sang happy birthday to him.  Bridget (one of Bob's former assistants) made an amazing carrot cake and carrot cake cupcakes - yum - and we had other healthy goodies to eat.  Mom even made her famous banana bread and pulled pork BBQ.

After the party all of the kids were able to roam around the museum for free.  Garrett spent two hours climbing through tunnels, climbing a climbing tower, exploring rocks and seeds in the Nature Exchange, digging for fossils, creating art, exploring spiders and a bee hive, running around the amphitheatre space outside, using a spray gun at the water symphony area, climbing outside, riding a tricycle on the bike path, and generally just having fun!

How will we top this for his 4th B-Day??!! Yikes.

BTW - Brady was there in spirit - he chilled outside the museum in the park so mom could run out and breastfeed.  He had a good, long nap and enjoyed the scenery - Brookside Park is really cute - and busy.
















Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Garrett's 3rd Birthday Extravaganza - Part I of III

Garrett kicked off his weekend of birthday festivities with a celebration at WHPS.  We brought in zucchini and banana muffins and cooked flour play dough for all of his friends at school.  All were a big hit!  Garrett's favorite part of the day was the birthday crown the teachers made for him to wear (which is at home on one of the bookcases in his room) and the fact that everyone sang happy birthday to him.  He even shared the birthday crown with some friends who wanted to wear it too (I was so proud of him).  Ella kept it a little too long though and he tackled her in the sand and ripped it off her head - I know we try to teach gentle hands - but even the teachers told Ella it was Garrett's birthday crown and it was time to give it back.  He fell asleep in the car with it still on his head . . .