Happy Birthday Daddy!

Daddy's birthday was this week. We couldn't keep our presents secrets any longer, so we HAD to give them to daddy on his birthday morning. I bought daddy some sausage links. It is our favorite food to eat together. Daddy even let us eat it for his birthday dinner! Chase bought daddy a new cup. He thought he needed a new one to drink out of at work. We sang to daddy at dinner and had his favorite dessert- Cherry pie and whipped cream.

Friday night daddy had to work the Buckeye hockey game, so mommy took us to watch. We had a blast! We were dancing, singing and doing O-H-I-O. Can you believe Brutus even said 'hi' to us and waved at us? The game went to overtime and a shoot out!

On Saturday Grandma and Papa and Grandma and Grandpa came over for Daddy's birthday dinner. We helped make him some cupcakes and had fun singing happy birthday to him again.

He even got some cool presents, not that we let him open any. He got a cool football helmet and a Buckeye bike jersey. It was definitely a fun week and weekend!

Happy Valentine's Day!

Happy Valentine's Day!!!

We wore our special 'heart' shirts to school for our Valentine's parties.

Chase is getting excited for his birthday in a few weeks. He is having a Backyardigans party and if you can't tell his favorite Backyardigan character is Pablo!

Can you believe Chase got to wear his PJs and slippers to school on Friday? They were learning about the letter 'P' last week, so his class had a PJ party with popcorn.

We're still having fun with swim lessons. Can you believe I can even float on my back now? Next Saturday is our last class for this session, but mommy signed us up for the next session so we can keep going. Chase graduated from the 'Shrimp' class and will now be in 'Pike' with me.

It's hard to believe that 35 degrees would seem like a heat wave, but after it was 1 degree last week, it sure did feel warm on Sunday. Chase and I went out to play and run some energy off. It is supposed to get above 40 this week, we may have to break out the shorts :)

After playing outside we made Valentine cut-out cookies. We would have had more cookies, but we ate a lot of dough when we thought mommy wasn't looking.

The cookies that did make it to the oven we iced and even added sprinkles!

They sure were yummy to eat!

Can you believe we got all these goodies for Valentine's Day? Daddy even brought us home these cool Buckeye wigs.

Enjoy some swimming videos....

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!