Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Welcome 2010!

Hi there! Me again....I know, it has been a while....

Let's see....updates - where to begin?

Well, little man has turned into a new little baby! He started crawling at 9 months old, but even then it was really just a bit of an army crawl, not a full-on "on all fours" crawll. Still, it allowed him to get around and to go straight to those electrical outlets! J and I went on vacation, and we came back to little man not only full-on crawling, but also pulling himself up on *everything*. Wow, it's like he discovered it and then he couldn't have enough of it! He used to be such a happy baby just content with sitting in your lap, and now he won't have anything to do with that. He wants to be up and about and into everything. It cracks me up how quickly they can change. He's 10 months old now, still eating a lot of jars of baby food and some finger foods, and he has 2 bottom teeth almost fully in and his top 2 have just broken through. He has started waving to you, although he doesn't completely associate it with "hello" or "goodbye", but he likes moving his hands in that way. It's funny because he does it like the queen of England does - it makes us all laugh. He also LOVES the bathtub. He splashes so much he soaks the floor. Later this week he is having a procedure to unblock his tear duct in his left eye that has been blocked since he was born. Thank goodness! We are so excited to finally have a baby without a crusty eye all the time. It sounds like a simple and relatively painless procedure, so we are thrilled it can be done now and prevent him from having to go under anesthesia later in childhood. Whew!

M is still as vibrant and entertaining as ever! She is doing much better in school - her reading has just taken off and she has had an amazing change in attitude about it. Thank goodness as it was obvious for quite some time that she wasn't confident and was getting frustrated. The one-on-one tutoring we put her in seems to have worked wonders, and she's really enjoying it. She is in gymnastics and dance (jazz) right now, and especially loves gymnastics. She has advanced to the intermediate level, and seems to be doing really well. You should check out her little 6-pack! Oh to have the body of a 7-year-old. Dance is good, but she's struggling a little with jazz as she has never taken it before. She's asking to switch to hip hop, so we'll see what we decide to do. She LOVES to dance in general and has incredible moves, but she hasn't found that exact class that she completely loves. She watches So You Th.ink You Can D.ance with us and requested to take "cha cha" which made us all laugh. She is such a funny girl. So confident and talkative....even our nanny says that there isn't a day that she's with her that she doesn't say something completely funny and unexpected. She's very mature for her age....I'm scared for when she's a teenager. I think we're going to have a handful.

J and I just got back from a vacation to the Mal.dives. Amazing! We were gone for 10 days and B and M stayed with a combination of our nanny, my sister, and my mom. I think it was good for them to stay with other people and get used to other folks besides their parents taking care of them. They seemed to do really well, except little man got a little sick with a cold while we were gone, but thank goodness that was it. It was so wonderful for J and I to be able to have some one-on-one time and celebrate our 2 year anniversary, which is actually today. We're going out to dinner tonight tonight - I can't believe it has been 2 years already. It has just flown by.

This past weekend I worked on plans for our Disn.ey W.orld trip in May. We are taking the kids and our nanny and my sister. What fun! I just switched our hotel to the Boar.dwalk. We were going to stay in the cool Tree.house V.illas that just opened, but I read they are really far from everything and take a ton of extra time to get to the parks. I think having a 1-year-old as well as the possibility that I might be preggo, we wanted to be very accessible to things so we could slip home for a nap if necessary. I've never stayed at the Board.walk, so that's something new and fun, with EP.COT right next door and tons of restaurants and entertainment right at hand. I always love looking forward to our next trip! :-)

I'm going to try to be better about posting on here from now on. Now that the holidays are over and our trip has passed, I feel much more relaxed and ready to tackle some projects around the house that I've been putting off, including pictures, photo books, and keeping up with my blog! Planning to post Mal.dives photos on our Kodak.gallery site very soon.