Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Halloween

We went up to Joey and Steph's house to trick-or-treat. The kids had a lot of fun. This was Gracie's first year trick-or-treating since we were camping last year. She took to it like a fish to water and marched up to each house insisting on knocking on the door all by herself. She was also in love with her ladybug costume.

I am fairly certain I have eaten WAY more of their Halloween candy than they have. For some reason I think if I just snack here and there it's like I'm not really eating very much. Oh for the days of self-control and calorie-free chocolate. One or the other can't be too far off in our futures, right?

While all Charlie's buddies at preschool were transformers, Batman, or doctors, he was a bat. He chose what he wanted to be this year. Love him.

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Warm Regards, Kaity at 2:54 PM | 5 people care.

A Midsummer Night's Dream in the Fall

Our first Dallas theatre experience proved to be... well, "explosive." Much of what we do in Dallas is a direct result of events Andy hears about on NPR. So I'm assuming yesterday there was a review of the Shakespearean play since he decided to get tickets (last minute, of course).

I recommend going to anyone looking for a fun night in Dallas. The new Wylie theatre is great and the play is somewhat audience interactive. While we may not have gone up to the stage to boogy with the rest of the audience at the end, we nonetheless, thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. We also enjoyed our Cheesy Gordita Crunches from Taco Bell on our way home (and yes Steph, i still crave the occasional Cheesy Gordita).

Note to self: Do not call the babysitter on your way home only to realize that at 9:45 your kids are not in bed sound asleep, rather, screaming hysterically in the background while she is trying to maintain control. It will only ruin your late-night dinner plans.
Warm Regards, Kaity at 8:47 AM | 0 people care.
Sunday, October 18, 2009

Annual Halloween Harvest Party



This is our second annual Halloween party (Andy's best attempts this year did not dissuade me).   We ate, carved pumpkins and ate some more (at least I did).  




















Since I am prego this year we decided to go with a prego theme for our costumes. I know what you guys are thinking, "Why didn't Andy dress up?"


Barbie Rocker. Enough said.


My best efforts to keep my kids in costume failed me. Gracie had a cute little tutu for her ladybug outfit and she managed to tear the entire polka dotted layer off of it. I have not decided yet if it is salvageable. This slide provided minutes of entertainment for these kiddos while the dads competed in a challenging pumpkin carving contest.











Baby Aubree in her witch costume, minus her hat.
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Warm Regards, Son-in-Law at 9:47 AM | 5 people care.
Saturday, October 17, 2009

Four years in the making

Warm Regards, Son-in-Law at 10:04 AM | 2 people care.
Friday, October 9, 2009

Wilco will love you baby

Wilco will love you baby
Warm Regards, Son-in-Law at 11:42 PM | 2 people care.
Saturday, October 3, 2009

Why are you looking at me?

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Warm Regards, Son-in-Law at 6:55 PM | 3 people care.

Canton,


you are dope. We had fun wandering your fairgrounds, and the largest gathering of people who buy and sell strange things anywhere. Kaity obviously loves me because she got me a sweet back scratcher for--wait for it--a buck! I have already used it for a variety of nefarious purposes. We also enjoyed eating at this place on your main street. We will definitely return when we need an old rotary telephone, vhs tapes of Stephen Seagal movies, or lots of things made out of leather.
Warm Regards, Son-in-Law at 5:56 PM | 1 people care.
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School Days

Gracie thinks she is a big four year-old. She likes to come to preschool and participate in all the activities. She knows every kid by name and she has a few favorites picked out. You can always find her conning one of the big kids into pushing her on the swing during outside play. Here she is making a play dough creation. It's always a good day when she isn't eating the play dough.

Hard at work. I have been using our old camera for preschool pictures and it is amazing how poor the photo quality actually is. I mean, I knew it was bad before, but I never truly realized just how bad.

Gracie thinks that if her head is pointed in your direction it is just as good as actually looking at the camera for a picture. I am pretty sure she is eyeing a cute boy in the class. I have not determined whether her fascination with him is a result of his loud obnoxiousness or actually a little crush. I am fairly certain it is the former.


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Warm Regards, Kaity at 8:45 AM | 0 people care.
Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Blackberry v. iphone

Andy started work a few weeks ago. With his new job come many perks, ie: health insurance, a paycheck, and a cell phone plan to name a few (actually, I think that covers the few because with his new job has also come long hours and a lot of time away from us).  Well, today he made the very difficult switch ("downgrade" to quote him) from iphone to blackberry.  He has been rather down all day and when I asked him if this is the hardest thing he has ever had to do in his life he replied in all seriousness, "Well, I went on a mission, but they didn't have iphones then."

He generously has given me his iphone and spent the entire evening syncing my contacts, email, etc. I really just need to know how to dial out and set my alarm. Thanks for the phone baby. I'll do my best to treat her as well as you have.
Warm Regards, Kaity at 10:40 PM | 3 people care.
Monday, September 21, 2009

Caring and Sharing the Same Room

About a week ago we moved Charlie and Gracie into the same bedroom to prepare room for baby girl. Well, it has gone about as well as expected. They stay up and talk/ play for about an hour before finally falling asleep and sometimes their play gets a little out of hand (ie: jumping in their beds, throwing things across the room to each other, etc.). I actually think it is endearing though. They have this cute little brother-sister friendship developing where they really need one another and rely on each other for comfort.

Last night at about 9:30 I hear Gracie calling out, "Where my Chalie go? Where my Chalie go?" Well, in answer to her question, "To sleep."

And tonight Charlie comes out of his room with a very distraught look on his face.

"Charlie, what's wrong?"

Before he can answer his eyes fill with tears. Through his loud sobs I hear, "But I'm going to miss Gracie when she grows up." So adorable and yet so sad.

"What do you mean you'll miss her, Charlie?"

"When she grows up and moves to a different family." Just about broke my heart.

Charlie is such a tender-hearted little guy. I was sad for his realization that we will not always be a family in this current state (fighting back my own tears), but gladdened by his deep and sincere love for his sister. He truly cares about her and her well-being. He is her little protector. Don't get me wrong, they definitely have their classic "brother /sister" moments fighting over toys, knocking over forts, but in the end, they really love one another.
Warm Regards, Kaity at 7:32 PM | 3 people care.
Saturday, September 19, 2009

Futbol

His first game was today. We were worried when he stood there like this for the first few minutes. He seemed a little confused.

He soon snapped out of it, then proceeded to show his dominance.

This lady was yelling the Spanish equivalent of, "Hey, that is not fair, that little gringo is too good!" BTW, that little tank sitting on the sideline was the source of many tumbles throughout the game.

This is Charlie scoring a goal with the help of a teammate. They are running a play they learned in practice called "los nardos."
Warm Regards, Son-in-Law at 9:12 PM | 2 people care.
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Saturday, September 5, 2009

As Dora would say


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We did it.

Warm Regards, Son-in-Law at 9:27 PM | 1 people care.

Game Time


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Saturday, August 29, 2009

Gracie's Cumpleaños

We were in Mexico for Gracie's birthday, so we had a little fiesta for her. The first store we found when we got there was Wal-Mart. We took Gracie to pick out her cake. She, of course, chose the tres leches cake with Oreos. We ate it in our hotel room after a night on the town. We taught her to say, "Tengo dos años."





Warm Regards, Son-in-Law at 2:49 PM | 2 people care.
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Vacaciones

We can't get enough of dragging our kids places, so we all went to Mexico. I was able to act like a big-shot and impressed Kaity with my Spanish. I also got to drive there, which was totally and completely awesome.

Here we are at some ruins. The highlight for Charlie was seeing the enormous iguanas that were all over the place.



We also snorkeled in a cenote. The water was cold, to say the least. I had to carry Kaity like this the entire time. Luckily, she is very petite, as I am less than fit.

Even Charlie climbed in. I hauled him around on my back. He was in tears when he could not catch the fish that were swimming around us.


Of course, we found the dopest beach on the Mayan Riviera: Akumal. We snorkeled with the sea tortugas, and enjoyed the warm water. We hung out under the palm trees while the kids played in the calm water. I wanted to build a hut and live right there. Kaity reminded me I have student loans, so we came home.





Warm Regards, Son-in-Law at 11:59 AM | 1 people care.
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