Strikers end of season party

Strikers celebrating a super season!

Holden waiting to get his trophy!

Holden and Coach CJ

Happy Thanksgiving!

It's Turkey Time

Turkeys by Holden!

Bath Time

Hanging out after Bath time

No More Pictures Please!!

Owls

Leila and Holden got these cool owls for a big brother and big sister gift from Ms. Donna! As a thank you, they made these cards. Leila drew the outline of the owl for both she and Holden then they each colored their own.

Holden's Owl

Leila's Owl

1st grade Thanksgiving show

Leila the Pilgrim

Leila with her Pilgrim friends

All the 1st graders

Chillin-10 weeks

The Book Parade

Leila's book parade was today at school. Each student gets to pick a character from a book and then make a poster, puppet or costume. Leila was Charlotte from Charlotte's Web. The entire school participates in a parade with their class!!

Luckily, Aunt CoCo was able to come over and help! CoCo cut the spider pieces, while Leila painted the spider!!

Working it out at StrollerFit!

Working on those ABS!!

Let's get started!
Getting tired!

What a workout!

Leila's illustrations of Hooray for Thanksgiving...in no particular order!

Conversation

My mother and father in law are coming over to watch the kids while Adnan and I go to a mavs game. Here is the conversation I had with my kids:

Leila: How is Pappa (my mother in law) it's a long story how she got the name.. going to feed Zoe?
Me: With a bottle
Leila: She has breasts.
Me: Yes, she does
Leila: I know I know, you can only feed the baby that way if you HAD the baby
Holden: She can't feed the baby because she eats SPICY FOOD!

These kids make me smile!!

Discovering Bugs

It happened yesterday. Sprouts, 2:00 pm! Zoe discovered her one lonely bug hanging from her car seat. I've had the "bugs" hanging from her car seat bar for weeks now, they have gone completely unnoticed until yesterday, when she realized she could swat it and it would move. Oh the fasination and fun for mom watching her discover something new!!

My Favorite Place on earth...

Well, at 10 weeks Zoe's most favorite place to be is on the changing table. It's like pure bliss. She becomes so happy know matter what when she first lays down! It's just funny! :)

Well, this picture just looks like a baby on a changing table...everytime I'd hold the camera up she would stop smiling...and her hair...it was just coming off a mohawk.

Holden's Artwork

Holden has been taking an art class every Sunday!

He is using oil pastels in the pictures below!

Hot Air Balloons

Butterfly

Pumpkins

Reptile Fest

Leila and Holden enjoyed an afternoon with dad at the Reptile Fest, part of the Museum of Nature and Science. From what I heard they had a great time learning, touching and seeing snakes, turtles, and geckos. They also had a chance to play at the Children's museum and outside by the water. :)

Dad's Art Show

It was an exciting night for my dad. He had his first art show at The Artists' Showplace! We attended a reception on Friday night! He has been painting for years. As a kid I remember sitting at Cottonwood Art Festival as my dad sold his paintings. Since he has retired, he has really gotten back into it again!

Here is the wall with some of his paintings!

My Dad, More paintings!

The first of his paintings the kids spotted!

Zoe meets

Zoe meets her new friend/2nd Cousin Eshal!

You can tell from the picture they are really excited to meet each other!!

Goo Goo Gaa Gaa-8 week update

Zoe is doing a lot of sweet cooing! At 8 weeks she is going a great job tracking objects and really does want to have conversations. We are getting lots of smiles these days!!

Here are a couple of 8 week pictures. We had some professional ones taken and I'll upload those in a few days! They are much better than the blurry ones I took!

Zoe is doing some great growing!

2 weeks 7 lbs 6 oz. and 21.25 length

4 weeks 9 lbs 10 oz. and 22 length

8 weeks 12 lbs 3 oz and 23 length

Zoe is eating every 3 hours during the day and going for 4+ hours at night! We've gotten lucky a couple of times and Zoe has given us a 6 hour stretch!

StrollerFit update: Zoe seems to be a good StrollerFit workout partner.

She does cry sometimes during class, but it's usually when we stop or when she wants her pacifier. Many times I wonder whose baby is crying and then remember...it's my baby! That's what I get for pushing an empty stroller for so long!!