Oedipus Complex???

Yesterday on the way to school Katie said, "I hope that when I'm old enough to get married, that you die, mom, so that I can marry Daddy."

Nice, huh?!?

Bangs!

Well, folks. Here it is, Michele talked me into cutting bangs. What do you think? It's a great haircut, but I'm feeling like it's a bit flashback to the 80s. This is going to take some getting used to. ;)

ESPN Zone

On Monday we had a great day out with our friends, The Johnsons. First we headed to the BUSIEST In-N-Out Burger in town (great choice, Don) for some delicious lunch, the headed to the NY NY Hotel to spend the quality time in the ESPN Zone.

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We had 3 hours of unlimited play to use up. I had no idea we would actually stay the entire 3 hours! We all had a blast. Of course Alex was in heaven because he got to play with not only Jacob but Miss Almond as well.

Spots of fun!

Poor Katie. She was down for 4 days with a sinus infections and now she's reacting to the medicine that's supposed to make her feel better. These pictures were taken after she's had Benadryl twice to take away the hives.




Guess we'll be fighting this for awhile until the meds are out of her system. I called the Dr. this morning, so she's got a new prescription to try. Poor baby, I hope this is the end of it!

Katie

Alex has two posts all about him, so I should really share a bit about Katie. She's modeling one of the two dresses that she and Grandpa picked out for her Birthday & Christmas presents. She loved going shopping with Grandpa. She modeled the dresses for him and when he saw this one on her, he said that was the one. She was really funny about it, he was going to let her pick out the dresses, but she said since it was a present from Grandpa he had to pick them out!

Katie is really good at numbers. She can add up 4 numbers without missing a beat. She's getting pretty good at counting money too. She's got counting by 5s and 10s down. I love playing Rat a Tat Cat with her...she usually beats the socks off of me. I think she's finally gaining confidence in reading. It surprises me how much she struggles with reading because I know she has all the skills to read, but lack the confidence. Plus, her favorite things are books. She likes reading books more than anything, well watching movies is a really close second! Tonight she has already read me 4 different books, so I think she's finally feeling like a reader. I was so surprised and pleased that she did her "P" homework on her own, without complaining, and read the entire little paragraph by herself and filled in the blank by herself.

Do Re Mi

Playing like a 3 year old

I've been really enjoying watching Alex play and think lately. Last week his buddy, Bryce, was over and it was so much fun playing with them. We played a few rounds of "Feed the Kitty", then we spent a lot of time building the marble tower. The boys had so much fun watching the marbles run through. They helped me build 3 different set ups. It made me realize that I should do things like that with the kids more often. Who cares if the kitchen is clean, playing with the kids is so much more fun.






This weekend we got a smokin' hot deal on a match box space set. ($12, originally over $50!! Oh and I picked up two, so the next boy to have a birthday is getting a really awesome present from the Oppenheims!) The set has space ships, rocket blasters, aliens, spacemen and a bunch of fun stuff. Alex is so cute with it. There are two sets of directions and he keeps trying to figure out how to put all the pieces together. He's really figuring out how to read the directions. You should have seen his face when I showed him that the little space ships can shoot missiles. It was priceless.

We love playing games as a family. Lately we've been playing a lot of Feed the Kitty, Littlest Pet Shop, Sequence for Kids, Dominoes, and Candy Land. I love that at 3 years old, Alex is a great game player. He has a pretty long attention span, and understands the ins and outs of all of the games. He's even pretty good at giving up a token in Littlest Pet Shop when somebody else gets to steal it from him.