Swimming & Bowling

Since we can't play soccer or T-ball with all of this snow we have, we signed up for swim lessons! Chase still has to swim with mommy or daddy, but he is ready to move up to my class. Once he turns 3 he'll be able to swim with me! He is doing great kicking, floating and jumping.

I'm in the big boy class and mommy and daddy don't have to get in the water with me. I was a little shy the first class, but the last two weeks I have been doing great! My favorite part is jumping, but I've been doing good floating on my back and have been swimming well with my big scoops!

Mommy and Daddy were off on Monday and they had a surprise for us- bowling!!!! It was the first time Chase and I had bowled (outside of Wii bowling) and we had lots of fun! Thankfully the bumpers were out and we had a kid's ball. They didn't have shoes small enough for us, so we just got to wear our tennis shoes- no silly shoes for us.

We almost beat mommy, but she came back in the end. Daddy was the overall winner, but we all had fun!

Grandma and Papa came down this weekend. They brought us some Christmas presents from Aunt Dar since we didn't see her due to everyone having the flu over Christmas. I got a super cool space shuttle! Chase got a big dump truck and a new game. We had fun playing with our new toys with Grandma & Papa.

We took Grandma & Papa to our favorite restaurant Saturday night. We each had $.50 and we really wanted to play one of the games. Can you believe we both won a giant gobstopper?!

On Saturday we finally made our gingerbread train. We didn't get to make it over Christmas because we were sick and Papa didn't get to make the gingerbread houses over New Year's so we decided to make the train with Papa. It wasn't as hard as making a gingerbread house and we even snuck a gumball in past mommy.

Have a great week and enjoy the videos!

Happy New Year!

Well, it's official- we've all had the flu now. We thought mommy was going to make it, but she got sick this week and was so sick we had to take her to the hospital. Because mommy was still sick we couldn't go to Cleveland for New Year's Eve. Instead we watched the Buckeyes play basketball and Chase and I had our own little celebration.

Mommy was feeling better on New Year's Day, so we decided to drive up to Cleveland as we hadn't seen any of daddy's family for Christmas.

Papa had to work, so we opened presents with Grandma. Chase got his own computer and I got my Ohio State basketball jersey!

Once we were done Uncle Ryan, Aunt Liza, Austin and Paige came to visit too. After dinner we opened presents with them. Chase got a really cool Handy Manny play set and I got a talking View Master.

Grandma and Papa bought us all OSU shirts for Christmas- aren't we just too cute??!!

After we were all done with presents, Grandma had a surprise for us- gingerbread houses! It was a little tough to get them together and very messy, but in the end we had four standing decorated houses!

Once I was done with my house I got to play Mario Kart! I had been waiting all week to play with Austin. I also raced Papa and Uncle Ryan.

Chase had a blast playing with Paige as usual. He got to do all his favorite things- vacuum, dress up and just play.

At the end of the night we were all tired. Chase and I slept all of the way home and I think mommy took a nap too.

Back to school and work tomorrow. Happy New Year!