Talk

Andrew has been fascinated this weekend by a green balloon that made its way into our backyard. He looks out the window, points to it and says 'ball.' He has found this very interesting and when I brought him to the window tonight to demonstrate his fascination with it, he got a huge smile on his face.

I've often thought Andrew is only concerned with where his daddy is because all I hear is "where's dadda?" Erik (and now many other people) assure me that when I'm not around, all they hear is, "mamma" (over and over again).

Sophia has a few new favorite phrases-'what a flop' and 'what a shame.' She is two weeks into her ice skating lessons. This past week didn't go as well. She didn't nap that afternoon and of course fell asleep in the car on the way home from grandma and grandpa's house. I woke her up to eat before we left for lessons and she never quite recovered. She was easy to spot on the ice rink-she was the one lying on her back, crying for the majority of the lesson. Today we took her to a local rink (now that we are finally above 0 again) to practice. She did a good job once she slowed down. She has my perfectionism though-we tried to march all the way across the rink and if she fell at all, she made us start back at the beginning again.

Happy New Year

Our 2009 is off to a good start. Andrew continues to increase his vocabulary, although the word he loves to say most is 'drink.' He had a mishap a week ago when his curiosity got the best of him. While I was in the other room, he pulled on one of the Christmas stockings hard enough to bring it down, along with the heavy reindeer stocking holder, right on his face. Luckily, it didn't knock him out and missed his eye, but left a cut above and below it. Sophia insisted he wear her new Scooby Doo band-aids.

Sophia is now officially four years old. We celebrated with family the night before her birthday. Of course her birthday wouldn't have been complete without a Backyardigans' cake! On her actual birthday, she requested mac-n-cheese so we went to Noodles and then came back home for presents and cake. One of her presents from us was new ice skates and skating lessons. She was a real trooper out there for her first lesson. She fell down a lot, but got right back up each time.