Our first real day of spring!

A couple days ago we had our first taste of spring weather, it was over 70 degrees and we went to our local park (Baker Park) and did our river walk. Vivi was very interested in what the ducks had to say. One of the ducks was trying to protect his partner from two other "interested" males. I think they need to change the old saying to be the birds and the bees and the ducks!

Happy St. Patrick's Day 2011

Jacki caught a little Leprechaun!

One of Vivi's new favorite activities is coloring. Coloring on the paper, tables, walls, and even the dogs. This coloring obsession has even lead to the outdoors. Vivi is a sidewalk chalk fan and Jefferson has a desire to sit on any picture Vivi draws. If you look closely you will see Vivi has her St. Patrick's Day colors on her backside, while Jeffy has the rainbow on his....no pot of gold at the end of this rainbow!

Vivi's new favorite outlet...

Vivi has been absolutely enamored with coloring over the past month or two. We must thank the Ketterhagen family for getting the ball rolling with this hobby, it started with a Hello Kitty book and now we have life size Dora coloring sheets. Jacki is working on getting Vivi to recognize shapes (stars, circles, hearts, etc..) and she actually is doing quite well. Vivi also loves to dump out the crayons, pick them up, and repeat!

Playing in the basement

Vivi and I were playing in the basement when she discovered her favorite, giant orange ball was slightly deflated. Not one to let the small things in life get her down, she climbed on her rocking chair to explore the concept of momentum.

Clean, Clean, Clean...

One of Vivi's favorite new activities is to brush her teeth standing on top of her potty. As you can see it is quite the production. Hopefully I can keep up this blogging momentum!

It has been a long time...

It has been a very long time since I have updated this blog, so first I need to apologize, secondly this was too funny for me to keep on my phone for only Jacki and I to enjoy. Hope everyone else finds it as amusing as the Storch Family.

To set the stage Vivi is watching Charlie and Lola (her favorite show for over 12 mos.) and we ran into a new episode where Lola is playing with a Piggy Bank and starts to bang it on the table, if you watch closely Vivi even starts to hit the table. Charlie yells at Lola and she stops and plays nicely, but then picks up a rubber chicken and starts smacking the table again and this is when Vivi hits another peak in toddler hysteria!

2010 Vacation part 2

We had to take about a 40 min. ferry ride to get to the island and some dope was feeding seagulls. I guess you can imagine what happened next. She was lucky it wasn't my car! When we arrived it was extremely hot and we just explored the island for a little while, but around 5:00 we went to the beach and found out that Vivi loves the sand. Naked baby playing in the sand and pointing at birds. Check in soon to see beach time in all of it's glory.