February Fun

Happy Birthday Caedmon!

Here we are celebrating a couple weeks later at a picnic. He had to wait for his best buddy Nathan to get back from Thailand before we had a celebration!

Lily & Lydia- great friends!

Birthday Boy Cade- climbing a tree

He wanted a "Batman" themed party. A "themed" anything is tricky to do around here... but I did my best! Here are the cupcakes... with bats on the top. We also made some batman placemats for each of our friends as a party favor. We had one batman game ("put batman in the bat-mobile"), but I forgot to "put the tape in the bag" so we didn't get to play. At least I didn't forget a person :)

Caedmon's loudly proclaimed favorite part of the day: opening gifts!! He got some cool cars, a snake (pretend), a Toy Story 3 memory game, and some fun outdoor gadgets. Hurray for toys!

Here's a garbage bag race instead of a potato sack race. Do people use potato sacks anymore? I could use one.

This cake is from his actual birthDAY. He had a choice between a girl, a bear, a peach that looked like, well, anyway, and a porcupine. So we went to pick up our cake at 9a.m... the scheduled time it should have been ready. They totally forgot about it. So here's the final product put together in about 15 minutes.

Pretend to smile if you're five!

Caedmon blew out the candles like a champ!

Here's his new Buzz Light Year bike! His old one got passed down :)

Another Birthday Party! We were honored to attend Sarah's 2nd & 1st birthday parties, two years in a row (obviously:). She will be moving back to the States (with her folks) this summer. We are really going to miss their family!

We may have been the only ones in a humungously wide radius celebrating the Superbowl. Josh borrowed a projector and we fixed a sheet to the wall. What a game!! Go PACKERS!

More Fun at the Field

Half-mile Champs!

Here's my belly at about 4.5 months. And there's Hadassah at 2 years :).

Vivi's new favorite pastime

"What??"

Leaving you with some smiles.

The Year of the Rabbit

HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR!

It's official, it is now the year of the RABBIT!

Hadassah fell asleep in my lap last night (Chinese New Year's Eve) at 10p.m. after a yummy hot pot dinner at our friends' house. We all managed to sleep pretty well through the night despite the war-zone-like sounds coming from all around.

Now, for Thailand pictures! We spent four days in Bankok before enjoying some down time at a near by beach. This is Caedmon in childcare. He ran to this outfit first thing each day.

Our hotel room was on the 34th floor! At first I had a hard time looking out the windows we were so high up!

Eager to swim!

No Sinking Hadassah

One of the pools was on the 9th floor roof. The water felt like ice cubes but the kids didn't mind!

Where's my suit?

We went for a walk instead. What is all this green stuff?

Hadassah in a mini maze

Here's a view from the outside of our hotel.

Lil & Viv

Vivi's favorite child care worker! Viv loved going to play with all of the new & fun toys.

Here is a friend's birthday party at Swenson's Ice Cream. Besides a lot of throwing up kids, it was a good time :).

Now, onto the beach!

Vivianna's fist full of sand

This is how I found the kids in there quiet time after playing so hard outside.

hidden picture

Beaches rock.

The grilled cheese was yummy!

Since Viv woke up around 5:30a.m. most mornings, followed by 3 other little ducklings, we decided to take advantage of the time and head to the beach for the sunrise!

This is about it. Too cloudy. We had a nice time though!