Where Does The Time Go??

Getting Heart Tattooed at West County Mall

Taking a break at Monkey Joe's...this is the new crazy smile

Her first ceiling to floor bounce slide she cried at the top, Samantha held her hand to start her down and then she was terrified coming down sideways but could not stop smiling and laughing when she got to the bottom and we grab her. She did NOT do this slide again that day.

Climbing to the top seeing she had a big drop on the other side she screamed to be let down....she was so cute trying to keep up with Samantha and the other big kids....this was her first trip to a place like this where it wasn't for Samantha and the others so I say she did awesome for a first time.

Bouncing with some girls she tried to be friends with...they just wanted to play pile on.

Samantha and Mikayla.....awwww!!!

A gift from daddy from Bahrain...see video below

Seeing which balls and animals fit in the tubes and also racing daddy's animals and balls to the bottom at the Science Center

She was hooked on the computer at the Discovery Room....hmmm can't be because she sees me in front of one a lot and if not me daddy using it.

The girls hanging with the Dinosaurs at the Science Center

Her first try out class for older kids doing great

Just being a big girl like the other kids

Mikayla's first swim class see videos below

Can't forget to put one of the boys pics in...I guess he did not know which chair he liked better. Believe it or not he is sound asleep like this was probably after a play in the snow.

Playing the drums at the Imaginary Arts table during the Ice Sculpture Competition

I think she caught the big one....before her second swim class

Doing awesome building the track for the train with a normal awesome smile I might add

At her second swim class see videos below

One of the cool Ice Sculptures you could stand behind and put your face in the holes for pics...great thinking

Indian with spear and eagle called Catch the Spirit done by our ole friend Bill

Mikayla making friends with the police horse at the competition

Art's cool gecko called Lunch on the fly

This one I believe is awesome and self explanatory

Walking on stilts...made for 5+ year olds....hmmm I think her face is thinking the same..lol see video below

It seems time has been escaping me so quickly. Mikayla has been to Monkey Joe's, she has been to her second and third Little Fishes class and loving it. She has been to the Science Center and the Discovery Room and to a try out class at the Gym. I have posted all kinds of pics for you to enjoy. I have done this post in a couple of days just because of the time it took to post it all for you. We have had so much nasty weather these days we even had fun at home doing all sorts of crafts and fun stuff including painting the boys feet and making prints. Since we got to see the Ice Sculpture Competition and did some shopping there we got some stilts that said for 5+ age group and as you can see Mikayla should not be using them....her only problem is getting on them herself but she is working on that. I am starting to think as far as Gymnastics is concerned maybe she should not be in gymnastics. Why? you ask....well she went to the first try out and we decided we wanted to try her in one of the other classes and the first scheduled class to do this we could not make as the place was closed due to snow. The second scheduled class she did not make due to her being sick and throwing up for two days. Now here we are at the 3rd scheduled class and once again closed due to weather. We are schedule for a 4th time but here we are expected more snow on and off until Thursday. If we can not get to it this 4th time I am going to take it as the sign she is not supposed to go this semester...kind of like Bruce Almighty...after 4 tries I will see the sign...thanks. Either way she is still having a blast with Swimming every Friday. Coming up really soon we will be once again celebrating the Chinese New Year with the FCC (the year of the Rabbit-that's my year) and then we also have a dinner date at Lulu's Chinese Restaurant with her friend Samantha and her mom and dad and another couple still waiting on their China Baby. We also will be going to the Powder Valley Conservation Center and doing other fun activities so we are constantly moving and on the go. One of the reasons I am finding it harder and harder to get here. Always being on the go and the day we can official call our house the Barf House has slowed me down. We recently had a really bad day where Mikayla was sick and throwing up and Daddy and both boys joined in also...it was some miracle that mommy was the only one NOT throwing up but after constantly hearing and cleaning up after everyone it was hard not to. I was feeling drained and my stomach not feeling quite right but was it the atmosphere or did I have something too but not so bad...only one person knows the answer to that and he hasn't told me. No worries we are all back to good health and just wishing this cold weather goes away so we can get out more. Although the boys hate the cold Louie more than Jake, they both love going out and running like chickens with their heads cut off back and forth in the snow. Jake thinks if there is a smooth patch of snow he must put foot prints into it. He also thinks he is a plow and plows through the snow mouth open eating it. He is my crazy boy. Totally opposite of Mikayla who refuses to go near snow. Although I have to admit she did jump with plain shoes into a pile of snow near a curb when it was starting to melt before this new stuff came so maybe we are making progress..... well got to get some pics posted for you so I will leave you with that until the next ventures that I will post for you.

Enjoying her gift from Dad

Swim Class #1

Swim Class #2

Walking on her new stilts

Swim #3