Road Trip

Halas is about to take his first road trip to Illinois this week. Steve surprised me last week and told me that he was going to take us all up to Illinois for a few days before I have to go back to work. We are very excited!

We plan on heading out very late Tuesday night or Wednesday morning. Steve, Halas and I will probably head back on Saturday and Sydney will come home with Linda, Lori, and Gene who will be visiting us for a week.

While we are in town, my mom will probably hold a get together so that we can see everyone. Just be warned...hand sanitizer will be handed out at the door. There are a lot of nasty viruses going around.

See you soon!

4 years already?

Sydney's just celebrated her 4th birthday! I can't believe 4 years has gone by so quickly. She is at a really great age. She is independent enough to get herself dressed, potty training is long over, she can tell us what she needs, and she is still young enough to wear pig tails, play dress up and snuggle with Mommy and Daddy.

On Friday she had a Valentine's Day party at school. The next day our friends came over to celebrate Sydney's birthday and her friends Courtney and Ethan's birthdays (they are all just a few days apart). On Sunday, we gave Sydney her presents from us. When she went back to school on Tuesday (we had a three day weekend) we had a birthday party with her school friends. That was a lot of cake!

When I went in for her school party, I dropped Halas off at his class room for a while. We are going to try to ease him (ok...really it's me) into going to daycare. He was having a pretty grumpy day but once they gave him a bottle he was good to go. The boy likes to eat. In his room there can be a total of 6 babies at one time with 2 teachers. However, usually there have only been 3 - 4 babies in there at one time. That is because the waiting list has been so long that a lot of people are paying for their slot before their baby is ready to actually use it. Some people have been getting on the waiting list before they even get pregnant. Sydney was one year old before we were able to secure a spot for her in this daycare and I got on the waiting list as soon as I found out I was pregnant. We are really lucky because siblings have higher priority on the waiting list and we are only paying for Halas' slot for a few weeks before he goes into daycare.

Here are some more pictures...

- Ang

Not much new

We don't really have too much going on here. Sydney is still doing great as a big sister. She helps re-stock diapers, throw dirty ones away, and is kind of like a baby monitor if I go into another room ("Mom, Brother is CRYING!"). She got to go on a field trip last week to Sci-Quest, a children's museum in town, and had a really good time.

I have started doing some work from home in an attempt to both stay in the loop and put in some hours to delay going back full time.

Halas is still eating and growing well. We almost have worked out a routine too. He takes a long nap around 5:00 when Steve and Sydney come home. That is good timing to make and eat dinner and play with Sydney for a while. Then, he goes to bed around midnight, gets up once to eat, and then wakes up for the morning around 6:00. About the same time he finishes eating it is time to get Sydney ready for school.

Here is a video I took of him yesterday checking himself out in the mirror.

- Ang