Ingenuity

We had some friends pass along a race track and cars their son and daughter had enjoyed. It comes with two cars that go around a figure eight race track and the best part: NO BATTERIES!! The only noise is from cranking the cars to make them go and the noise of the cars racing on the track. Andy has thoroughly enjoyed the track and came up with another way to improve on a fun toy. He has put a small pillow under the middle of the track where it folds so the track now has an incline.

I'm just amazed every day how God designed us and watching how Andy develops into his own little person.

Andy's First Video

Andy keeps surprising me every day. I was scrolling through my camera to see what all was there and noticed a new video had been recorded. Now I have no idea who showed him the video button 0n my digital camera, but he found it and recorded our everyday life.

The Sunday Funnies

Andy and Aaron's little antics were worthy of the funny pages today. This morning as Mike was getting Andy dressed for church, they were having a little conversation about little brother.

Andy: "When Aaron gets bigger, he can wear pull-ups like me and then sleep in my bed. I will sleep by my camera and he can sleep on the other side." Somehow I just don't see the two of them sleeping in a full size bed together.

Later on in the afternoon, Mike was out shoveling the snow off the street in front of our drive way and Andy declared: "Daddy needs a little boy to help him." My little super hero to the rescue.



We had grandpa and grandma over for dinner tonight as
Andy missed seeing his grandma today at church. After dinner is bath time in our house and Mike had started the water running, then went to get pajamas. I was standing in the living room telling grandma that Aaron was almost able to climb in the tub by himself. Mike walked back into the bathroom and got quite the surprise. Yes, Aaron climbed right into the tub, clothes and all. He didn't seem the least bit bothered wearing a fleece one piece outfit and diaper.

Snowy White Christmas

As I update this blog today, the snow has been coming down in big white flakes adding to the several inches we already have. I thought I would share more photos of Andy enjoying the snow.

The look of pure happiness!

Let's dig out the dump truck from the snow so we can attempt to drive it.

Here we go!

Not too bad before we had to dig it out again. Good lesson to start learning.

Temporary Pair #3

Last Thursday, Andy broke his second pair of glasses. He had them in his hand and decided to throw a bit of a tantrum about going to bed and snap went the bridge. Okay, no problem, I'll just call the eye doctor on Friday morning. Um yeah, more snow, so now one went any where on Friday.

I was able to finally order a pair on Monday and decided to pay the overnight shipping so Andy would have some specs to see. I called today to see if they came in and the UPS guy had been there, but didn't drop off the frames. This snow is starting to really bug me. Mike and I had a Christmas party to attend in Kirkland tonight, so I thought I would drop by before they closed just in case, but alas, no glasses.

Kudos to the gal at the office though. She found a pair of frames that would match Andy's lenses so the kid can at least see until Friday when the frames should be there, because how convenient, the office is closed on Christmas Eve.

I'm praying for rain.

First Experience of Snow

I have lived in the 'burbs' of Seattle for 8 plus years now and have never experienced the amount of snow or cold we have had this December. After 2 days of cabin fever, we dropped the boys off at grandma and grandpa's to finish up some Christmas shopping and get ready for the impending wind storm. It seems everyone had the same idea. Traffic was nuts getting into Issaquah. Crowds everywhere you went, so we (okay, mainly me) packed a little extra patience and some Ho, Ho, Ho to get through the day.

Once home, Andy would not come inside, so we let him play outside a bit more and while getting a couple more pictures of him playing in the snow on the deck, I had an escapee. At first, my mind was thinking this outta be good, but I just started snapping pictures and discovered the first falling down the snow was not something of complete joy.

Christmas Break Started Early

Wednesday's forecast was snow, snow, snow. In true form, the schools cancelled school just in case and nope, no snow. Luckily, I was able to get a couple of errands done before the snow did arrived on Thursday morning. Dad stayed home on Wednesday as well, but needed to go into the office on Thursday. We woke to a blanket of white and roads that were quickly becoming parking lots. Dad worked from home again and Andy and mom took some time to play in the snow. Later on in the afternoon, Andy was able to go sledding down the drive way. Here's a bit of his fun for the day.

An Addition to the Christmas Tree

Tonight, the boys were able to open a few gifts Nana & Papa had sent and they each received a candy cane ornament. I went to put them on the tree and noticed a blue and red man nesting in the tree. So how did Superman end up in the tree??

Pair Number Two

This afternoon, the eye clinic finally called and said they had Andy's glasses ready for him. Yeah!! Andy was so excited to go get his glasses. He was jumping up and down and giggling. It's nice to know he is still liking his specs.

We headed to Redmond to go pick them up. The gal who helped us informed me the color of the frames are different and did the other gal call me to tell me. Um, no. Oops on them. Basically the frames are burgundy instead of brown because the brown is so popular, it's back ordered. I figure by the time the brown ones come in, it will be time for another pair any how.

It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas

I normally wait until after Thanksgiving before decorating for the Christmas season and true to form, I pulled out the bins on Friday and got the house in shiny green and red order. It was a lesson in patience for mom as the boys decided to pull ornaments out of the bin as mom was working on the tree lights. This year the tree is only decorated from mid-tree to the top as once again we have a curious toddler in the house.

I also had another reason for getting the house decorated. We decided to do family Christmas a bit different this year. We had everyone over for dinner and then off to Seattle to MaCaw Hall for the 25th anniversary of the Pacific Northwest Ballet's Nutcracker.

Of course, mom left her camera at home since I knew you couldn't take pictures during the performance, not thinking of before or during intermission. I also left my iphone at home purposely in order not to peek at the score of the OU/OSU football game. The game was being recorded on the TiVo. So after our wonderful evening, I came home to dishes and then watched the game. My pokes lost :(