Life of Henry & Miles: 2011

Sunday, December 25, 2011

Holly and Jolly

Henry helped light the swedish angel chimes this year.

Miles thinks the chimes are pretty neat!

A new sled, haven't had a chance to give it a test ride yet....no snow!

Everything in front of him is sugar.

Lucy's cute pjs match the boys and that is the baby doll bed we got her that our friend Debbie painted to match her room, so cute!

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Daddy Daycare

Brian took the kids and their 2 friends on a hike during winter break. Fun time!!

Thursday, December 15, 2011

5 years old today. Quite the smart little guy he is turning in to. He loves to sing along to anything. He really enjoys any and all things craft, drawing, cutting, pasting. He writes and spells til the cows come home. He really enjoyed his friendship party (he called it). We had 16 kids all join us to paint some pottery. Everyone really had a great time. It flew by and I wish we could have bottled up that cuteness and energy of a room full of 3-6 year olds just painting their own artistic hearts out. Everyone loved picking out what kind of pottery they wanted to paint and the color paints to go with it.

So Happy Birthday to my first born, we love you Henry!!

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Santa Breakfast

Downtown. Macy's. Hand-in-hand. Metra ride. Taxi. El ride. Face-painting. Balloon animals. And even a tad bit of shopping! (can you believe it)....such fun Henry and I had. Enjoying each others company, talking about our day plans over a milk and coffee at the train station.

Monday, December 5, 2011

Last race of the year.

Brian took 5th at the IL State Championships yesterday! So glad for him!! He raced an amazing, strong race and couldn't be more proud of him. And we were all happy to have to not have to brave this race in frigid temps like we have in the past. Boys hung out with Uncle Craig and stayed cozy at his place nearby.

Boys are looking forward to birthday festivities and Christmas of course. Henry was a huge help in decorating everything this year. He particularly likes rearranging the stockings nearly every day and commented on the cursive letterings on them, claiming his name was spelled wrong. Those lower case n and r still do look deceptively alike. He has made some of his own Christmas cards to a few select recipients and even received a letter back from Santa last week.

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Henry-ism

Assisting with some Christmas Tree decorations last night, Henry found a picture of his Nana & Papa circa 1995 and said "Awwwe, this is Nana and Papa when they were a mommy and daddy."

Uhhh, sort of, well really not really. Oh gosh was not up to the task of educating the child in aging last night.

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Goodbye Fall

Mom enjoyed a fantastic girls weekend away with a few friends a few weeks ago, dining out, shopping, spa, wine-tasting at a winery, and sleeping in!

The boys enjoyed some last tastes of fall weather, a birthday party to attend, and cheering dad on at a race.

Henry is really enjoying writing his letters and wants to write words and sentences all day long. He is very excited about the birthday approaching and each day asks how many days until the big day. Miles loves helping in the kitchen, cracking eggs, pouring liquids, and stirring. Saying more and more words, his name sounds like My-O. And Henry sounds like Hey-Eee.

Soon I know the babbl-ish words will just be gone one day and must remember how cute a 2 year old speaks.

Thursday, October 27, 2011

First Field Trip

Totally enjoyed participating with the boys' first school field trip. We enjoyed the super slide, I even went on it:) Watched some pig races, visited a petting zoo, rode a train, had lunch, rode a tractor ride, walked thru a fun house and picked out pumpkins to take home. It was so great to see the boys interact with their classmates and their teachers. It was also great to see the boys still want to hold my hand amongst their friends. Something tells me that action won't be reality forever.