Marbles (1/4)

I am getting ready for my family to come home so soon.  I miss them!  I realized I don't think I posted these pics from a few weeks ago when I took the kids to Marbles - here's a few shots.

First we had to go get bagles, and a nice older couple thought we were so adorable they took a picture!

I knew Maggie would learn hot to surf.  I didn't know how young she would be!

Playing in the water table!

Maggie driving the ambulance

Maggie's going to be an engineer!

Careers in Nano Technology!

That's my girl!

Charlie & Maggie love a Buffet

Especially a free one at a fancy Casino!  The family is in Reno to see our friend Carlos, and staying at a fancy Casino where Susie gets free stuff for some reason. 

Here are Charlie and Maggie dining on some stupendous cupcakes!

Cookie & Poppy & the Kids

Charlie loves his legos so much, he even got Grandma Cookie involved!

And Charlie's new favorite board game is (obviously) HUNGRY HUNGRY HIPPOS.  (There was a time when noone was allowed to even touch the pool table.  Those days are over :) )

Maggie is hanging out under the pool table, too!  She's always in the mix.

Building Legos With the Big Kids

Here's Charlie hanging out with his cousins from Bre's Mom's Brother's Kid's Kids!

A Pre-School Picture

I don't get to see Charlie and Maggie when they're in California - but they put awesome pics up on Charlie's pre-school page.

Here's a great one!

Lego Land (2/2)

Susie kicking Charlie's bottom!  Oh my gosh.

Here we are stopping for snack!

Chilling out on mommy

Daddy "won" some toys for the kids.  (I spent enough money that they gave me the tiger)

Lego Land (1/2)

Charlie LOVES LEGO's. So what better place to go than LegoLand!  It's an amusement park geared towards kids under 12.  It's awesome.  Charlie can do a bunch of fun rides. 

First, you have to wake up early!

Then get in the car!

Sometimes Maggie gets sleepy

But she's ready for her plane ride!  (Actually, she did not enjoy this!)

Travelling to Cali!

We made it to Cali!

There were legos -

And the olympics:

And a great release of energy!

New Dolls from Aunt Maria

My Aunt Maria gave us a bunch of amazing old dolls that she had made for her kids when they were little.  We gave them to Maggie (& Charlie) for Christmas.  Maggie is super into them.  We have a little doll bed, and she loves to put them in there to go to sleep!  Here's Maggie playing with two of them.

Charlie at Pre-School

Recently, Charlie came home with a bunch of paper plates with cool designs on them.  He loves them, but wouldn't tell us how he made them (we had some guesses!).  Luckily, Charlie's pre-school sends us pictures sometimes!

I like that he was wearing his hat backwards for some reason!

Maggie in the Stars

I have similar pictures of Charlie from about the same age... Magical

Charlie lookin cool

I asked Charlie to wait for me over here while I got Maggie out of the car.  He said "I'm going to stand like this"  and he did!

Then he literally rolled his eyes at me!  (I had to ask him to do it again, so I could get the picture)  Look closely

Then he said his hand hurt, and he wouldn't take any more pictures - Photo shoot OVER!

Daddy & Maggie @ The Museum

Charlie wasn't feeling great, so didn't want to come to the museum with me and Maggie Saturday.  But we had so much fun!  Here's us stopping for a snack

Strutting our stuff

Riding a "horse"

And another snack!

Maggie In a Box

One of Maggie's new favorite hobbies is finding out what she can fit inside.  For example... she can fit inside this box!  You betcha!

Another Amazing Snow Day!

Gray's Birthday Party

Mom and Maggie weren't feeling up to it, so Daddy brought Charlie to his friend Gray's Birthday party.  It was super fun. 

Here's Charlie doing his Cupcake thing!

Here's the birthday boy & his mom Amber.  Happy Birthday Gray!

Snowy Day Video Montage

New iPhones evidently have a "make me cry" button - it makes this:

Our Brave Adventurers Go Sledding, Part 2!

Our Brave Adventurers Go Sledding - Part 1

Charlie and Eva

Sittin in a tree..... (note the look on Eva’s dad’s face)...

Maggie wants to be aloooooone

Sometimes Maggie just wants to be alone! (Well, with Charlie!)

Happy Christmas y’all!

I hope santa was good to you this year! We had an excellent day!

CHARLIE SMASH!!!

Happy Birthday Charlie!

Happy birthday to my favorite little dude! He got to spend the day at Marbles with Avery! So happy!

Charlie got dressed up for the Nutcracker!

Before his big dance recital, Charlie got all dressed up and watched the Nutcracker!

So handsome!

Charlie Dancing (Ave Maria)

Charlie has been in Dance Class for the last few months.  They had their Holiday recital a few days ago.  Daddy (me) tried to video tape it, but I utterly failed :( 

This is a video from Charlie's friend's Mom - but you can see Charlie in most of it.  He's amazing!

Some days you get to drive the pretend ice cream truck!

Tomato snowman!

Charlie and nana made a tomato snowman. It looked way better before charlie dropped it. :)

Charlie at the dentist

hes one cool kid!