The Childrens Museum in Portland

We went to the Childrens Museum in Portland the other day. What a great place! The kids had a ball and I'm pretty sure could have spent the whole day there and been happy as a clam. Wish it was closer to home.

Here is Zach in the pretend Ambulance. He was quite busy playing "Emergency!" and doing all sorts of dispatching. It was his favorite part he said.

Flower-girl. This kept her busy for quite awhile. Planting, planting, planting...

In the digging/dumping pit. Zach liked the conveyor belt.

Woops!

She got tired of brushing the alligator's teeth and decided to take a little rest in his mouth instead.

In the clay area.

This was like a pretend hospital or something like that. Not exactly sure. Anyway, there were lots of baby dolls that Abby took very good care of.

In the tunnel and probably wanting that cool phone that Zach was playing with and left in there...

Ahh, got it back.

The water room. They both really liked this part.

Yep, looking wet all right!

Happy boy having fun!

More brushing...

and brushing.

Fun day!

The Dentist

Zach had his first official dental appointment last week. He was having some serious anxiety about the whole thing (such a worrier) but it went really well and he did great! It probably helped that the dentist is his Uncle Matt. Nice to have a familiar face doing the work, you know? :) I didn't get a picture of Zach and his uncle, (darn it!) just the hygenist. She was wonderful though - great with kids! They said his teeth looked great, he's brushing well, and no cavities or anything else worrisome going on in his little mouth. Whew!

Amazing, wonderful, awesome, historic, and NEEDED!

I'm so happy.

Pictures

Ok ok, apparently I don't keep my promises very well. Sorry. So, I'm still totally uninspired to do my big Christmas post, so I'm going to cheat and include the link on here for all of our Christmas pictures that I posted on Facebook. You don't have to have an account to access them. Hope you enjoy and I'll include "doing more frequent blog posts" on my list of New Years resolutions. :)


Here you go:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=7049&l=27b4d&id=1649302924

Disclaimer...

Ok, I know I'm a bum about posting lately, but I blame it on Facebook. I've been doing that for the last month or so and I love it! So, yes, my blog has suffered from it, but I promise to get some pictures up of our Christmas before the weekend is over. Promise!

Christmas Tree and Gingerbread House

Zach and Abby were great helpers decorating the Christmas Tree. Zach tends to cluster them all in one area, so we had some spacing out to do afterwards, but that's ok. :)

Ok, she did more of taking them off, than putting them on.

She seemed to like these little ceramic angel wings.

I love this picture. It is so rare for me to get a good one of both of them together, so I was pretty excited about this.

Ya, as soon as we got the previous pic, they were off!

Just cute.

Resting under the tree...

All done!

Our fancy gingerbread house that Andy and Zach created.

I love his expression here.

Concentrating hard!

My Latest Favorite Picture

Ok, so it's been established already that she likes to take her clothes off....anytime, anywhere. So the other night I was in the kitchen working on dinner, went to go check on her in the bedroom, and found this sight.

Makes one wonder what she is going to grow up to be.....hmmmm.

:)

Thanksgiving Weekend Pics

The four of us at the Christmas tree farm. As is tradition, we go Thanksgiving weekend to tag our tree, and then we always take a family photo.

Zach, (not looking at the camera as usual) Abby and their cousin, Jace.

Little girl amid big trees.

Our tree! So cute. :)

This was Thanksgiving Day at Colleen and Mike's house. (Colleen is Andy's sister) This isn't a very exciting picture but it's the only one I got of Zach where I could see his face!

Our hosts and chef extraordinaire's, Colleen and Mike. Mike really is a chef, so as you can imagine, the feast was darn good!!

He really is cute, you just can't tell in this picture! haha...he was just trying to make Abby laugh...seems to have worked!

All she wanted to eat were raspberries.
Andy and our brother-in-law, Randy, had to watch a little football of course.
This is Abby doing her new trick of pulling on her ear and sticking her tongue out as she's pulling on it. I think the tongue as just about to come out at this point. It's funny to see her concentrating so hard with it.
Nephews Austin and James. Such good looking young men, don't you think? :)

And that....is all for now!