Lots of fun stuff this month - helping Dad wash the car, going to a farmers market, strawberry farm picking, hanging out with the McGuires when Uncle Dave came to town for a soccer tournament, the list goes on. Good times aplenty!
Mommy and Adam - Funtime at Froberg Farms
Adam running with "Cake" (Kate) down the strawberry lanes
Selecting only the finest strawberries (left after the Spring Break families came through)
Hand in hand
Later the Bartsches joined the party - Audrey and Adam go searching
Adam and out-of-town friend Olivia get in just a little more playtime before bed
Adam, Olivia, and Uncle David get some soccer practice in...
...before Adam takes his skills to the field
looking sharp in his Houston Dynamo jersey
soccer player in motion
Adam shares some strategy tips with Uncle David at halftime
Picnic time for the Chows, Bartsches, McGuires, and Sobczaks in Sugar Land
bubble time!
chasing the bubble
Gung Gung takes Evelyn for a ride
Evelyn in her summer sun dress
"Woo-ah!" the battle cry of the pool floaty fencer
Keeping the ears super-clean
Helping Dad wash the car like a big boy
Adam loves the water, whether at work or at play
Ready to wipedown Dad!
Belly!
Farmers Market - great place for kids to get out their energy with some soccer dribbling
The kitchen - great place for kids to work on their hockey skills
Slide time at the Farmers Market
Adam saw some breakdancing on TV and decided to give it a try
If there is a universal truth in the world, it is this:
The person in charge of providing the public with notice that a normally accessible and usable facility(bathroom, water fountain, ATM) is currently not usable, the person who wrote the paper sign affixed to that out-of-service facility, is not familiar with how to spell the word 'inconvenience'.
"Sorry for the inconvence, the inconvience, the inconvenice........ Sorry for the hassle. - MGMT"
So much going on each February - Valentines' Day, my birthday , Grace's birthday plus a bejeezus-load of year-end work for myself and Grace. Free time in the first few months of the year is always in scarce supply but we still made time for the good stuff in life.
As Adam gets on the home stretch toward his second birthday, he has been ramping up his collection of sentence fragments - conversation is getting diverse and even more interesting! "I help" "Adam fall down" "Daddy Ipod please" and so on. Getting into some wholesome family mini-traditions; settling for Sunday morning breakfast watching Thomas the Tank Engine is a current favorite.
Over at Sugarland's open-air mall, running out the post-lunch energy
The building blocks, they go kablooie
Round and round, goes the whirly-basket
Adam and Audrey work together (?)
Uncle William helps out with Ipod monkey game fruit puzzle section
Cruisin' the living room with daddy power
Adam literally hanging around with yoga-like spinal flexibility
Adam and his friend "Cake" (Kate) make the swingset scene
Adam and Mommy do some soccer-gymnastics
Adam's Tower of Babble
D.J. Monkey Choo-Coo Train
Sneak Peek at Adam & Dad Storytime
Audrey!
Evelyn!
Daddy has "1" birthday this month!
Rockin' the shades
Load up the delivery ATV
Adam is fascinated with the neighbors' ceramic dog
Q1 (the first three months of the year, in non-accountant speak) is not the best time of the year for free time and idle projects like photo/video uploading and blogging. Work tends to be as bracing and furious as the hard freezes that swept our area in the last couple of weeks and energy tends to run low.
So now that the year-end financials have been assembled, blessed, and shipped off to the worldwide powers that be, let's catch up on some family moving / still images!
Christmas 2010
Christmas for the young man starts shirtless and +Slinky
Adam takes the Hasbro Fast n Furious Tokyo Drift car for a spin
Audrey and Adam modeling the J. Crew Kids' Christmas collection
Paw Paw and Gung Gung testing the specs of Evelyn's cheeks
Adam and Audrey explore sine waves through the medium of Slinky
The family crowd gathers for gifts
Mommy performs the first of many soundings of this horn
Adam gets his ATV on
Audrey the Christmas elf
Storytime for the kids with Gung Gung
Discovery Green! First Time Ice Skating
Not easy to pose on the ice
A return to Moody Gardens Festival of Lights - slightly foggier / drizzlier this time
The Official Christmas Family Photo (and no, it's not slouching - our Christmas tree was that short)
January!
Hanging out with Mom, Dad, and Grandma in Victoria - New Year's Day +1
Laundry Basket Spaceship Rides - for as long as Adam's weight doesn't exceed Dad's arm strength limits
The winter holidays are great - good times with family, excellent food, presents and whatnot - but the sooner they are over the sooner I will be free from hearing this ad on TV and wanting to drive my Pilot into a lake in protest.
I know the ad men threw this song in there because it's catchy and light and emblematic of all the bright and happy lives that Honda owners lead but for me it happens to be the type of late 2000s alt-folk-hipster rock (?) that I couldn't stand the first time my friend's friend played the entire Vampire Weekend CD on a never-ending loop during a couple of days at my friend's family riverhouse.
