Outing with M&D

Last week, M&D took me on a special outing. Cousin A babysat C so that I could be alone with my parents. They took me to go see Mickey and Minnie and all the rest of the Disney gang. When the show started I was just finishing my hot dog and as you can see from my expression, I was very excited and impressed!

My favorite parts were whenever Mickey and Minnie were on the ice.

Aladdin and the Genie made an appearance.

All the Disney princesses with their princes came.

The solidiers from Toy Story.

Mickey and Minnie and the gang again!!

The whole cast with the princesses in the middle.

Grand Finale!!

I even got to be part of the show---when they had us all stand up in our seats and march along with Mickey.

It's a Small World from Disneyland even made an appearance. I had lots of fun, even if I did get a little restless at the end. I kept asking for Mickey Mouse and M had to tell me, "After this song, Mickey will come back." I don't know why they kept having to tell all the other stories.....I just wanted to see Mickey!!!

Talking

Bedtime is ususally when M talks about our day with C & I....reminding us what we have done and talking about what we are going to do tomorrow. She also asks us what our favorite part of the day was. Here's C telling M all about her day. She's not anywhere near rolling over, but she has figured out the she can wiggle!!!

3 months and St. Patrick's Day

For St. Patrick's Day M made green eggs & ham, along with green pancakes. She let me put the green food coloring in. I was very excited to help. Here's our supper cooking.What a wonderful meal!!
St. Patrick's Day was also C's 3rd month birthday. Here she is putting up with a photo session for M.

However her patience soon was at its limit and she started telling M she had enough and was starting to get hungry. Who says babies can't tell you exactly what they want??!! D calls this "the head turn" and sometimes jokes that there are 3 nursers in the house (me--because I like to pretend with my bears & dolls, and him--because C starts to suck on his shirt if he is holding her when she gets hungry!!)

Playing nursemaid

C and I went to play nursemaid to G the other night. C was trying to show G how to smile.
I did my part by reading to G and P.

G is really in very high spirits. She has a PET scan on Thursday to see if the cancer is any flesh or organs (besides being in the leg bone). Once those results are in, then a treatment will be finalized but will include both chemo and radiation. G has a long road ahead of her....please continue to pray for her and my whole family.

MT Wedding

The wedding we went to on Saturday was very beautiful. The center pieces at the reception were Lego pieces, so my cousins made the bride and groom a message and placed it at the head table. In case you can't read it, it says "Drew loves Kerri"The bride and groom!

C was the center of attention and got passed around to almost every relative there. Here she is laughing at one of M's friends' husband!!

The first dance. What a beautiful couple.

D and I danced too. I started getting really cranky near the end of the dance (partly due to my busy morning at the waterpark and short nap), so M&D took me back to the hotel thinking I was ready for bed. Turns out I just wanted to leave the loud music and go swimming, because as soon as I got in the hotel room I grabbed my swimsuit and begged to go swimming.

M took me for a little while and then got C & I ready for bed so they could go to the "after-party"---ice cream and fellowship at a friend's house!!! Both C and I fell asleep in the car on the way to the house and slept while M&D finished conversing with friends and relatives in a quieter atmosphere.

Waterpark

This past weekend we made a quick trip up to MT for a wedding. 8 hours in the car! C and I did really really well. I even remembered to tell M when I needed to stop and use the restroom. When we got to Billings on Friday, M&D took me to the mall to let me run off some of my energy. Then I got to swim in the hotel pool while I waited for my cousins to arrive.

Saturday morning we went to a very fun waterpark. It had a whole area just for little kids. Lots of tunnels, two slides and a huge bucket of water that kept tipping over (notice it in the very top center of this picture). I had a blast. All the way home Sunday I kept asking for "more waterslide."

C didn't get to play in the water, but she seemed to have just has much fun watching everything going on. She was very well behaved. Here she is hanging out with Aunt R. There was also a wave pool that I went in. It simulated a beach with rolling waves.


Ready to go!

Uncle B, D and I all hanging out waiting for the wave to start in the wave pool.

D is taking me down the yellow slide. It was just a little too big for me to go by myself. The red slide was just my size, as long as M or D were at the bottom to help me out.

There were big slides that I wasn't allowed to go on. M&D went a few times and told me it was fun. There was also a hot tub and a basketball pool where you could shoot hoops in the water. Here are my cousins in the lily pad pool. This place had something for everyone!!

Fun with Aunt M.

Last weekend we had planned to go visit Aunt M when she was in CO for skiing. However that weekend did not go as planned at all. Friday night we tried to head over the mountain to spend the night at the YMCA and then snowshoe & sled Saturday. However, there was an avalanche that closed the highway for 12 hours. While M was in a parking lot trying to decide whether to go all the way back home or just back to Denver and a hotel, she hit a parked car!

We ended up going back to Denver and found a hotel with a working indoor pool on our fourth try (those pictures are on the previous post). Luckily M threw our swimsuits in at the last minute thinking maybe there would be time to use the SMR pool. Anyhow, M got sick in the middle of the night so even though the road opened by 8 am Saturday morning we went home! D got sick when we got home. It was a pretty rough afternoon. I couldn't understand why both M&D were lying on the couch and not playing with me. M says that everytime she tried to stand up she felt like she was going to black out. Some sort of flu, dizziness, fever thing. Luckily by Sunday M felt better. Which was a good thing, because Aunt M called up Sunday morning wondering if she could come spend the day with us. One friend was able to get out of WP just before the road closed and the other got really sick and so was going to go home early, so Aunt M didn't have anyone else to ski with and figured we could take her to the airport.

Even though the weekend didn't go as planned, it ended up being very fun having Aunt M come for a few hours! Admiring C.


It was a great day even if it wasn't planned!!

First swim!!

Ok, so this is really the third time C was in a swimming pool, but the first time the location did not allow recording devices and M forgot to bring the camera the second time!!
I always enjoy a good swim!
This was our unexpected hotel stay due to a road closure. At least I got to swim and that made it worthwhile!!

First Day of Preschool

Yesterdat was my first day of preschool. I was very excited to be able to use my new backpack. Also I get to ride with M to work and go to the Y school!!However, M couldn't convince me that I needed to wear jeans and a t-shirt on my first day of preschool. At least these pjs were clean!!!
Lots of snow still at Bennett preschool.

When M left I was busy painting my first masterpiece. I made many masterpieces yesterday. I guess you could say I am an artist in training.

There were lots of other fun things to do also. I made lots of new friends and learned new things. Starting next week I will go 4 days a week.

However, the sad news is that today M had to pick me up early because I threw up. M isn't sure if it was just nerves (but I was excited for school and seemed fine this morning), or a quick 24 hour bug. Since coming home I have been a little better, but am content to just sit and watch TV. Ususally I am much more energtic than that. Hopefully I feel better soon.