Monday, February 7, 2011

What's New.....

It sometimes seems like really, not much has changed... but I know both of the kids are growing and learning and changing...



Kara enjoys spending her time coloring, drawing, writing her letters and reading books. She does a great job coloring and is often her own worst critic if she happens to color outside of a line... she pouts and says she needs to start over. Quite the perfectionist.


Ben is talking up a storm these days! He's put together sentences like, "Daddy, me window down please" or "Go to Grandma's house right now." He definitely understands 'right now' and 'later' because if he asks to do something, like watch Cars and the answer to right now is 'no', then he says, "later, right, Momma?"


What has not changed, besides those bear-towels, is how much we love to watch them togehter... to see the kids spontaneously hug, to hear Ben say "sorry, Ka-wa bug", to watch Kara help feed her little brother, the dance parties in the living room..... absolutely the best!

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Snow Day at School

Kara's preschool brought in snow for a day and the kids had a great time playing in the snow.... Kara made a little pyramid-snow person, complete with pink star.



With the help of food coloring, she also made some pink shaved ice....



And a pink snowball pie.



I guess we will definitely have to do a trip to the snow next year - Sho and I went to help out and wore our snowboarding gloves.... which we took out of storage... because we haven't gone snowboarding for the last three (ugh!) years.

Day Trip

We took a day trip to Santa Barbara over the weekend and visited the SB Zoo for the first time. We saw the live giraffes, but only happened to take a picture of Ben in front the statues... It was a beautiful day, lots of sunshine, lots of green grass to run around on, a train to ride and lots of animals to see...



We made a very short stop at the Camarillo Outlets and the highlight of the trip for the kids was the 50 cent little ride outside of the bathroom.... go figure. Kara is trying to help Mommy get Ben to look a the camera. What a helpful big sister.