Worth a thousand words:

We came home from preschool with this artwork and the accompanying smiles this week.

Valentines Day at our home was a bunch of fun! Mom and Dad gave us chocolate! Grandma and Pepe (Our Clothiers..aka “GranPepe”) gave us new outfits and cards. Grandboogie came over with more chocolate, a book and some gifts. We had an indoor picnic and watched the “Pothole 500″ with Dad. Here are pictures and a movie of the activities. Special thanks to Miss Tina for helping us make cards for the Grandparents!

It is hard to believe that a year ago this week our precious daughter had a surgery that saved her life.  What a change the year has brought in terms of health, growth and development.   Every year there is a major fund-raising event that benefits the hospital where Kate had her surgery. The final event of the week is the fashion show.  All of the children in the show were patients of the hospital.  Kate was the youngest kid to take the runway. I am biased but I think she stole the show.  What a blessing to have such a wonderful resource in our community.  The following photos are of the show:

Children’s Fashion Show

This video shows Kate and her beautiful escort.  Be patient as it may take a little time to load.

Our Princes on the Runway

This is bonus material taken yesterday by the SuperNanny.  Our guys are fascinated with the various stuffed animals that play some sort of Christmas music, etc.  Here they are indoctrinating Baby Julia into the finer aspects of the Christmas season.  I think she is going to like Christmas.  Mr. H has taken to a Dog that has a Christmas themed song that “gets a little bit louder now”.  O Joy….Just imagine this non-stop for 16 hours a day! What fun!

Christmas Buddies

What a busy but fun weekend we had! On Friday we joined Mom’s Rotary group at the zoo for the “spooktacular”. We toured the zoo and trick or treated. We got a lot of candy. Saturday we packed up the van for a trip downtown to support the local children’s hospital. Dad’s Rotary group built a choo choo train out of a wagon. We marched in the parade with the wagon!  After church on Sunday Dad set up the bounce house in the back yard. Mom made us a picnic lunch and Grandma (aka the common tater) joined us. By the time it was over we were pooped! Nap time was never so good!