April 4, 2009 - spelling and sunglasses

Colin is learning how to spell and write letters/words.  We are getting good use out of the leapfrog fridge letters that teach pronunciation of each letter!

While waiting for gymnastics to start, Colin was playing with Mama's sunglasses and enjoyed sporting them with different looks, all very stylish :)

April 3, 2009 - tackle!

I think Lauren may have some better pictures, but these are the highlights from Friday Fish Fry at Albaneses's.  Kevin was a saint for letting the boys tackle him about 50 times over the course of the evening... running around the table at full force each time!

March 30, 2009 - Microsoccer!!!

Colin is taking microsoccer through the rec department and he loves it! 

I love that Colin sits on his soccer ball while listening for the next instruction

March 27, 2009 - weekend visit in STL with cousin Kivrin

Finally somewhere warm enough to play outside!  We spent the weekend at Papa's house and had a blast. 

March 15, 2009 - long trip home

Colin and I ended up spending a lot of unexpected time traveling back to Milwaukee on Sunday from Seattle (a quick landing in Kansas City turned into a deplaning and 3+hour delay putting us traveling for over 12 hours and not getting home until 1:30 am...)  

Colin being silly in the SEA airport!

love for the iPhone podcasts! Favorites this trip were Sesame Street podcasts about dogs and robots :)

Colin coloring pictures during our long delay at the KC airport, which he then distributed around to the other waiting passengers, so cute!

The excitement about finally getting on an airplane going back to Milwaukee (around 10 pm...)

And after falling asleep laying on my arm on the airplane, Colin slept like a champ while I carried him and our bags/car seat out of the airport!  

March 14, 2009 - visiting other friends and fun in Seattle

Mama recently connected with her friend Lindsey (shocker, via our kids blogs and facebook :) from growing up who now lives outside of Seattle.  We were able to drive down to meet her family and Colin had a fun time playing with Avery who just turned 2!

           

In the afternoon, we picked up my cousin Jon who recently moved to the area from Hawaii from the ferry stop and we drove north of Seattle to see this great park and beach... that just may have a slide... in the shape of a salmon.  It was sweet.

We stopped at the pier before Jon had to take the ferry and rode the ferris wheel and played our favorite carnival games.. air hockey and skee ball of course!

What a fun day and so great to see our other friends and family in the area!

For all of the pictures of our vacation to Seattle, click here!

March 13, 2009 - Pike's Place Market

A sunny afternoon trip to Pike's Place Market... we enjoyed watching the fish flying through the air at the market, picking out fresh flowers for Amy and walking down to the Irish Pub for some lunch, a perfect end to a fun day!

March 13, 2009 - trip to the Seattle pier aquarium

so many fish, seals and sharks at the aquarium... and we spent plenty of time with all of them on this fabulous day!

March 12 - views of Seattle

Captured views that lead me to believe I might just enjoy living in Seattle (few of the outstanding and amazing sights of this city) ...and of course, Colin would love his frequent trips to the aquarium too! :)

March 12, 2009 - Seattle zoo

Colin really loved the tiger best of all when we spent the day at the Seattle zoo but we sure did take a lot of pictures involving monkeys (or statues of)! 

March 11, 2009 - new skills

Colin has become significantly more brave in the past few weeks and loved taking all of the pillows off of Amy's couch when we got to Seattle for our FABULOUS visit :) to dive into them from the couch.  Here's when we tried to capture the action shot...

March 11, 2009 - flight to Seattle

    

 Flight to Seattle - a success and such a beautiful view!

March 8, 2009 - Jordan's 3rd birthday festivities!

Jordan celebrated her 3rd birthday at Chuck E Cheese and and Colin had a blast with Jordan and their friends! 

      

Bella and Colin mesmerized by a rollercoaster game / Colin chowing on pizza!

    

Colin checking out the rides and everyone enjoying the party! 

See the rest of the pictures here

March 3, 2009 - Colin with his kittiesl

    

Colin is learning how to be nice to the kitties and we play/cuddle with them all the time (although still has to be told daily at some point not to "blank" (insert any of the following: pull the kitties tail, be rough with the kitties, step on the kitties, pile toys on the kitties, etc). 

February 26, 2009 - ready for spring

      

...because there is only so much indoor bouncing you can do to wear out a 3 year old extremely energetic boy!