Thursday, September 29, 2011
brother and sister
Although there are days when I wonder if they love each other, there are other days when it is clear they do.
Elephant appreciation day at CHOM
Elephant appreciation day may not mean much in other places, but here in Alabama, it is celebrated! At the Children's Museum, Big Al (the Univ of AL mascot) appeared for pictures with the kids, and they had balloons, cookies, and all kinds of fun. The best part was when Big Al surprised the kids by hanging out with the kids in the animal room - Savannah gave him big hugs, the kids launched themselves onto him, and he pretended to chomp the kids with a big stuffed alligator.
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
a trip to the Alabama coast
We spent a few days at Gulf Shores, AL for an end of summer beach trip. Beautiful beaches, warm & humid weather (although Savannah was cold on the breezy warm mornings!), a little fishing, a trip to the Little Zoo That Could. Who knew Alabama had such beautiful white sandy beaches!?
Sunday, September 18, 2011
The Hideaway
This used to be a plain white "storage area" under the stairs in our house...but abracadabra...Mommy turned it into a super cool kid hangout complete with chalkboards, magnetic paint squares, a beanbag and pillows tucked around the corner, glowing stars on the ceiling, and some fun polka-dots. Now, despite the stink of the magnetic paint...the kiddos dig hanging out in there!
Why hello, Gigi's cupcakes :-)
surprise surprise...Gigi's opened near us! Fridays are cupcake days at our house...and these were well-received - except by Daddy who thought they had too much frosting....pshawww..what does he know?!?!
gonna have to face it, you're addicted to superheroes!
Daddy decided to have the kids watch an old Spiderman episode with him and that was IT. Suddenly, the kids are crazy over superheroes. Gage is obsessed. If I try to put a NON-Spiderman shirt on him, he throws himself on the floor and screams forever. So, he's been wearing spiderman jammies and t-shirts every day for a few weeks now. His whole class is supposed to wear yellow this week and I expect a fight because we don't own any yellow spiderman shirts. Dear Santa....we need Spiderman stuff, Love, Gage ;-) p.s. we know this isn't a spiderman costume, it just happened to be a batman kind of day that day...
