Kiddo Update

Drew and Claire are at the age where every day is something new and never a dull moment! Here's a quick update on what's new..

Drew continues to attend Spanish Immersion five days a week for three hours. Drew is doing GREAT at school and comes home ready to practice his new Spanish vocabulary. He just finished up football and will start basketball this next weekend! Drew continues to be a little Andy not only looking more like him every day, but engineering new projects to build between legos and tinkertoys!

Tinkertoy airplane!

Drew pretneded to have a campout and built his own "campfire" out or toys around the yard!

And then there is Claire..  Claire cracks us up all day and also keeps us on our toes.  At twenty one month's Claire can climb anything, floats on her back in water,  & and enjoys playing in anything that has a drip of water in it!  Where ever Drew is we will find Claire... Claire loves Drew SO much and always wants to be in the action!

One of the many things that I'm going to miss about her young age is how she still LOVES to be held.  If it were up to Claire she would be held ALL DAY!  The hugs and kisses still come all day long, it's the best!

This is how I found Claire in the living room after I was in the bedroom for no more than a few minutes.. She had torn her diaper off and checking out the action in the street!  Claire now uses the toilet at least twice a day!  After we return from vacation in April, potty training here we come! 

OuCh!!!

This past weekend we went to the zoo with our good friends and Claire had her first of I'm sure many, BIG falls.  Claire was holding hands with her friends, feet became tangled, and her hands weren't there to catch her!  I heard her head hit and it sounded awful!!!  She came away with a big bump on her head, bloody nose, and a black eye!  It's been a week and it's already SOOO much better, she's a strong little girl:)

Pointing to where she got hurt

Claire just drank water, so it's all over her chin!

Friendship Day At School

Last Friday Drew celebrated "Friendship Day" at his school.  Drew was tasked on Monday of last week to have 24 "friendship" cards for his classmates, and all signed by him.  So I went to our base store and of course there was NO Valentine cards already made, so we had arts and crafts.  I would have to say it was way better then the pre-made cards, as we had a blast making them.  Drew also learned how to cut out a heart!!

Claire was also a big helper!  

Drew was SO proud of himself for making the cards and he wrote his name 24 times ALL BY HIM SELF!!!  Knowing how excited he was, I asked the teacher if I could sneak into his classroom and take some photos of the card exchange.  Drew's teachers are great and have an open door policy, so it was no problem!  Above is their "circle time"  they do this everyday and sing song during this time.  Today it was time to exchange cards!

Drew being his happy self when his name was called to hand out his friendship cards to his friends!

I love this photo as he's so excited to hand out his cards and to his TWO favorite ladies Mia and Olivia!

Super Drew And Claire!!

On Monday a package for Drew and Claire came in the mail from my sisiter's mother-in-law (who we love).  The kiddos were so excited!!!

Alicia couldn't have done better, she made the kiddos super hero capes!!

Claire was in shock with how many photos I was taking, and Drew was ready to fly!!

The capes couldn't have more of a hit!!  WE LOVE THEM!!!  Thank you Alicia and I know these capes will appear in more blog photos!!

Outdoor Fun

At last spring is here!  I mean our winter hasn't been bad, but we can be outside now with out a coat in the afternoon!  With four plus hours in the afternoon and desperate for activities, this is our new one!  We paint the fence in the backyard!  I went out and got Crayola finger paint and our fence is plastic so it washes right off!  This keeps the kiddos busy FOREVER!  Above is Drew and Claire "mixing their paint".

Claire dove right in with the finger paint concept!

Our little detailed artist went with hand prints on the fence

A littlle paint on the head...

While Claire created the art, Drew stayed busy making more...

OK.. now a little on the nose, eyes, lips, and hair...

Pants and then shirt.. needless to say we were off to tub-tub!!

Marrakech, Morocco

This past weekend I went for a girls weekend to Marrakech, Morocco.  We had a nice long weekend there with a half marathon included in our relaxing weekend!

The hotel that we stayed at.  The inside was beautiful with all tile and modern decor.

For the race over 5,000 runners participated and near the start line they fly the flags of the runners that are participating in the run.

The expo, the day before the race had a Moroccan band playing!

O.K so the "bag" drop isn't exactly like it is in the US where it's safe to leave a bag!  Needless to say I had my long sleeves on and took it off before the race started.  I was so surprised to see that someone had taken my shirt!

The marrakech is known for great markets.  One of they things that Africa in general is known for is their rugs.  Above is a rug shop and how they are thrown out for everyone to view.

O.K so this looks like we are probably ready to get killed.. nope this is the alley that we had to take to get to our friends hotel!

BUT when you walk inside it looks like this!! It's soooo CrAzY!

Having green tea served to us

The streets of Marrakech

We went into a scarf shop and the guy working there gave us turbans

Kind of looked like a ninja!

Still in smiles after the half marathon and shoes filled with water from all of the rain puddles!