"I TWO"

Alice had a great actual birthday celebration. She spent the day with her buddies at daycare. I managed to get a picture of her holding cupcakes outside of school. I figured there is no way she'll tolerate photo sessions in the parking lot before school much longer, so I went for it. After school, we went out to dinner which she seemed to enjoy (probably not as much as Reeves and I did!). The highlight of the day was Alice learning to respond to the question, "How old are you?" She has a very solid response of "I two" down. Above is a picture from her birthday and then below are a couple from today. She has an adorable golfing outfit on and I couldn't resist posting it! Too bad she is being so goofy in the pictures!

Early Birthday Celebration!

We celebrated Alice's Birthday a couple of days early this year. With a busy week of wrapping things up at Trinity and KO it didn't look like we could get many festivities in during the week so we took advantage of the holiday weekend and devoted Monday to Alice's Birthday celebration. We presented her with her little tikes car in the morning. She loved it and it occupied her for several hours, allowing us our most relaxing morning in quite some time!! We then treated her to a new teddy bear (bobo) which she built at the build-a-bear workshop. We waited until after nap time to do the rest of the present opening. She definitely enjoyed a day devoted to her, where she got a new gift at nearly every phase of the day. Here are some pics to recap...


This picture was nearing the end of her morning entertainment. She was so busy running around and playing that she was sweating through her PJS, thus the shirtless, crazy hair look!

This is Alice putting not one, but TWO hearts in her bear at the build-a-bear shop.




It was a great day!! Alice clearly enjoyed her birthday as Reeves caught her singing the happy birthday song to herself at 4am this morning. It was short lived but SO FUNNY!

A future laxer...

Another family photo from Sunday!

Happy Mother's Day!

It was a very memorable Mother's day in Hartford! The weather was great, the team was unbelievable and we finally captured our first NESCAC title! It was a blast to have so much family there to celebrate!

Looking forward to catching up with the rest of you SOON!

Bubbles..

This video was a bit too big too post directly to the site. Here is the link to youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hgl4MXm69K4

The latest on Alice...

Hi Everyone. I know Alice installments are few and far between these days but I finally have some time to fill you in on the adventures of Alice! She is doing well. A little sick with a cough, but getting better. She really has had only one bad nights' sleep, which Grandma Sue was lucky enough to witness!! Other than that, she's talking a lot. Her favorite word right now is "bubbles" - to be expanded on below. She is having a great time at daycare, especially now that the weather is improving and they are going out to the playground and for walks more consistently. The first few pictures are from a theme week at school where everyday was something different. I took these after she came back from crazy hair day. She went to school with my version of crazy hair (ie. bed head) and came home with a much more fun take on it!

CRAZY HAIR DAY at school!
It was a very impressive look!

We had a very low key Easter which was nice for us. We played with our Easter basket toys for a little bit and then went to the local park where Alice LOVED going down the slide by herself. She would get down and then sprint back to the stairs, climb up again, and run right back over to the top of the slide. She definitely burned some calories running the route a few times!

Happy Easter!
She loved the new crayons from the Easter bunny and especially loved blowing bubbles! She must have said "Bubbles" about a hundred times that day!! It's her new favorite thing to do!

The last few pics are from today. It's always hard to get a picture of her when I'm home alone with her and she just wants to play with the camera. But she was easily distracted by her lacrosse stick, which she loves. She plays with it at least once a day and constantly brings over the second stick to one of us to play with her. She hasn't mastered cradling, catching or throwing, but she does have a very unique way of going about ground balls!
Getting ready for school!
Playing some lax before we leave for the day.

Gearing up for our last regular season game of the year of Friday and then the playoffs begin! Can't believe we are closing in on the last few weeks of the season...

April is here!

Wow...it's hard to believe that April is here and there is a fresh coat of snow on the ground! What the heck?! Alice didn't seem to mind it when she looked out the window this morning. She has been in remarkably good spirits this week. Her lingering cough has departed for the time being which is great. She is healthy and happy and still an incredibly picky eater!!

Since I haven't posted in awhile, here are a couple of pictures from this morning. Daycare has been faithfully doing her hair while I was traveling so today I decided to give them the day off and give her some pig tails. Pretty cute!

Alice has been really talkative lately. She had a five minute conversation with Grandpa Gogo last night and then said a very clear "I love you" to both her grandparents. I have been having the best time with her this week. Have a good weekend!