Luca absolutely loves to play on our bed, which he calls "Mommy's bed." He rolls around and giggles to himself and has a grand time--usually until he rolls off!
Here he is in his Easter best just before we left for church....
Sunday, April 29, 2012
Mommy's Bed!
James' new look
James shaved his beard on Easter, as is his yearly tradition. He decided that he might like to keep the mustache. What do YOU think?
Easter Egg Hunt
Norah found one!
By the way, James had me worried that dyed Easter eggs would stain our carpet--is that true? So, we had some plastic ones that "The Easter Bunny" hid for us!
Police Station
The family band recently went to our town's NEW police station's open house. I thought that we would be one of a handful of families who would think touring a police station would be fun, but I was WRONG! There were so many people there! We had to wait in line for about 40 minutes just to get in, but once we did, it was great. They showed us the jail, the briefing rooms, lots of other rooms, and the motor pool! Here's Norah on an ATV that they use when there is a police emergency on one of the forest preserve trails.
Friday, April 6, 2012
Mission Point Lighthouse
Here's the lighthouse viewed from the shore. It brought back childhood memories for me--I have seen many lighthouses in my day!
Mission Peninsula
During the rare sunny (but still windy and cold) part of the day, we drove up the Mission Peninsula and stopped here to see the Grand Traverse Bay and the vineyards.
Has anyone had Michigan wine? James, being a Californian at heart, would have none of it!
Mini Vacation
We were able to take a very mini vacation to Traverse City for a couple of days. Thanks to Chiara's family for watching the kids for us!
Here's James taking in the view from our hotel room, which was really more like a condo!
The trip was great, except for the weather. Before I left, I looked at the forecast, and it said that it would be 50 degrees and sunny while we were there. Thus, we brought light fleece jackets. Well, it was actually about 35 degrees, windy, cloudy, and snowy while we were there, so we were quite cold when outside! This is a rare time (lasted about 2 hours) of sunlight during our trip.
Regardless, we had a nice time relaxing, eating out without children (a wonderful thing!), and just spending time together.
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Yo baby!
Luca has been experimenting with utensils lately--today I gave him the last bit of his yogurt to try for himself--this was the result! It was even in his ear! But, he seems pleased with himself, does he not?
Tap time
Norah's most recent class also had 15 minutes of tap built in--so the girls showed us what they learned. Here, I think she is doing shuffle steps.
Ballet "recital"
Norah had her second ballet "show-the-parents-what-we-have-been-doing" day...here she is having fun with some classmates. Blurry, but I thought she looked pretty pleased with herself!
A little bit of green
None of us had any green clothes to wear (that weren't wintery)...but you can see that James and Luca have a little bit of green on! Luca was terrified/fascinated by the firetrucks that went by.
Here comes the parade!
Norah was worried that she wouldn't get any candy at first--by the end of the parade, she had too much!
St. Patrick's Day Parade
We had a beautiful day for St. Patrick's Day parade--it was about 75 degrees on March 17th! Here are Norah and some of her friends waiting for the parade to start...
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Music Class
Norah had her last singing class recently, and we, the parents, were invited. Here are some of the kids "reading" music notes as Miss Kathy, the teacher points them out.
Bathtime 2
It was all fun and games until Aunt Alessia actually had to WASH Luca. He hates to have his hair washed. Lucia took pity on his cries and started crying, too. So, we had two crying toddlers in the tub (and two laughing adults!).
Bathtime
Luca and Lucia took a bath together when we got home from the freezing gardens. They had fun playing together!
Visitors!
We recently hosted Nonna, Aunt Alessia, Ethan, and Lucia here in Chicago. Nonna thought it would be a great idea to get them all bundled up and go to the Botanic Gardens. It would have been, if it was not 29 degrees with 25 mph wind gusts. They were pretty cold!
We took shelter from the wind in the English garden. Don't the kids look thrilled?
Play-doh babies
One of the games at the shower was to sculpt play-doh babies. Here are the results:
From left to right:
Karen's: silliest, I think
Becky's: won most realistic--but she IS a pediatrician--she even put genitalia on the baby!
Mine: most disturbing (see the paddle-hands?)
Amanda's: most creative
Rachael's: cutest
Did you see that?!
Lots of planes fly over Chicago, and us Iowa folk are still getting used to it!
This picture was James' idea, I think.
3 ladies
Three of us at the shower are expecting! Rachael: in June, Karen: in March, and me: in May.
Mini Baby Shower
I recently hosted a mini baby shower for my friend from Iowa City, Karen, who actually recently moved to MI! It was great to see good friends from our time in Iowa City and we had lots of fun!
PJ Day at School
Norah recently had pajama day at school, and she was very excited to wear her special pony pajamas.
Well, we looked for her flashlight for days before this event, and alas, we couldn't find it. So, I gave her Luke's identical (but blue) flashlight to bring. Luke's flashlight is better than NO flashlight, right?
She pouted about it for a good 15 minutes when she got there (as evidenced by her long face in this photo), but by the end of the day, Mrs. Bauer said that she had told everyone that it was her brother's SPECIAL flashlight and that she had to take good care of it!
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