Our Little Ninja

…or Spider Woman...

Imagine Rudy and my surprise when we walked upstairs to get Ben and Avery and found Avery chatting with Ben…in case its not clear, Avery still sleeps in her crib.  How did she get out?!  When I asked her, "Avery did you climb out of your crib??" she responds "Yea!" so proudly.  "Why'd you do that??"  Her response: "Cuz I want to."  ...I'm in trouble.  Needless to say her big-girl bed will be getting set up sooner than later as her cat like moves have been recurring and I'm worried she's going to end up hurting herself… this transition could go really smooth, or we are going to add a fourth person to our  bed every night… wish us luck!

(the picture was from Day 2 of this when I was hoping to catch her in action)

Mornings are such a special time around here - I love seeing and hearing the kids greet each other first thing.  You'd think they spent days apart.  "Hi Avery!  Morning!  Give me hug"

"Hi Baby Ben!  Morning!  Happy see you!"

These little people make me so happy :)  

(and exhausted)

Ben Joins the Bath

No more room for these two to go "swimming" anymore (while admiring their new bath light toy from Uncle Tony and Patrick)… 

this little guy wants in!

…well, maybe :)

Ben's First Hair Cut

Ben made his first visit to the salon last week…John and I had had enough of the, "he needs a haircut!" comments.  And we were haunted by our history with Rudy's hair - waiting to cut it only to realize afterwards how much earlier we should have cut it… so off we went after dropping Rudy off at preschool…

Peach is typically a shy girl, but she had no reserve this morning.  She was running through the place, stopping everyone she saw to say hi, and twirling or hopping to grab any extra attention she could...

A little Ben lovin' pre-haircut

Before:

Ben has such a nice head of hair for a 3 month old that we just couldn't give it the buzz-cut special.  But he certainly needed a trim!  Thanks to my amazing stylist, Ben got a great new look! (And he currently holds the record for youngest person to sit in her chair :))

Ben was wiggling around with glee so much that it made it difficult to cut his hair.  He kept looking around for Becky and giving her big grins and giggles!  What other baby makes getting a haircut difficult because he's too happy?!  And how did we get so lucky?? 

Oh Peach...

After:

All that fun wore him out!

 

He looks so grown up now… where did my baby go?!

Fall Soccer Season

We started another season of soccer a couple weeks ago and this time Avery was old enough to join her own team!  And the Allotey's signed up as well…Jorja and Rudy are on the Golden Lions together and Layla and Avery are together in the minis class.  The minis is just 30 minutes of the "practice" that Rudy has before his game.  Week 1 Avery had to be held, but Week 2 she was an active participant!

Little Miss taking the field with her proud dad

a natural...

A little pre-game warm-ups

:)

Hoping for a fun season and maybe Rudy will even run after the ball instead of his shadow by the end of it!

Sesame Street LIVE!

For Rudy's birthday, Gran and Papa bought us tickets to go see Sesame Street Live.  The day was finally here and we were all so excited to see Elmo!

We were in the mood for spoiling, so we went all out and let the kids have it all :)

Posing before the show with Elmo and their new balls they picked out

Attempted family selfie - not so good at this! (Ben stayed back, we figured the noise and excitement of it all would be too much for such a little guy)

The characters really were awesome to watch.  I think I enjoyed it as much as the kids!  Lots of singing and dancing - lights, colors, air confetti and streamers, balls thrown through the crowd - it was a par-tay!

Scenes from the show...

Avery was SO into it.  She kept saying, "See!  See!" and pointing to show me Elmo.  When Elmo would leave the stage, she got very concerned.  She'd get 1 inch from my face, put both her hands on my cheeks and ask, "Mom, where Elmo go??" Thankfully, he never stayed behind scenes for very long!

Rudy was mesmerized.  Out of nowhere he told us, "I want give Elmo five!"  When the action was happening, he was in the zone

Intermission balloons...

…and their first tastes of cotton candy!

Avery had a blast.  She was even up dancing in the aisles!

I have a short video clip, but not sure how visible it is… I'll share regardless:

We all had a great time and John and I really enjoyed doing something fun with them!  Thanks Gran and Papa!!