A horrible accident

A few days ago Chance was playing in his room while Scott and I were hanging out in the living room. After a while I noticed that it got quiet in Chance's room so I went in to check it out. This is what I found, obviously a horrible accident happened here. Actually it was staged here, Chance's imagination is really taking off!

Hide and Seek

The other day we were playing Hide and Seek. It was my turn to count and his turn to hide. After counting to ten I came into his room to find this. He built himself a perfect hiding spot!

Anna Maria's Birthday Party

Last Saturday we went to Anna Maria's birthday party at Audubon Park. I had a good time talking to the Moms and eating the amazing tamales that her family made, I remembered them from last year.

Chance had a wonderful time playing with all the other kids and hit a little boy milestone. He played his first completely impromptu "football" game with the other little boys. The boys started it themselves with no help from parents. They took turns throwing the ball then all running after it.

They did such a wonderful job taking turns I was honestly amazed. Just watching them I was so proud (?), happy they were having such a good time.

After the game, it was time for the pinata! Everyone got a turn whacking it with the special stick Anna Maria's Mom. Chance made a few good hits, then after everyone had a turn one of the older boys went at it till the candy fell all over.

Chance picked out a bunch of chocolates since those are his favorite as we have learned since Halloween.

This is just a quick photo we took of ourselves while waiting as other kids took a turn hitting the pinata.

Video of Scott and Chance at the Piano

This is a video of Scott playing the piano and Chance singing along. They are performing the ABC song from the TV show Super Why on PBS. Notice Chance's bow at the end.

Our New Piano

piano still in the store

A few weeks ago I told you we would be getting a new piano, well yesterday it finally arrived.

Delivery trailer
Though it was supposed to be delivered on the 19th the movie it was in went over pushing the delivery back to the 22nd which was ok by me as Scott didn't get home till the 20th this way we would all be here for the delivery. They pulled up in front of the house just before 5pm, Chance and I went out to watch.

The guys from LaFargue working hard.
It was hard work to get the piano up the few stairs into the house but these guys know what they are doing so it was in the house in no time. We had already prepped the house for the arrival of the piano so they could easily move it into place.

Chance being first to play the new piano.
After the piano was in it's new home and set up, Chance was the first person to "play" it. He is very excited as we all are to have a big piano in the house. We have set up a few rules but since he is used to being around instruments he is doing a wonderful job with the new piano. We pulled out some of our song books and Scott started to play while Chance and I sang along. Then Chance reminded us that we should take turns so we each got an opportunity to play. After that Chance went over to his little piano and started to play along, for a little while it was like dueling pianos, but it was all in good fun.

I want to send a big thank you to Nana and Grandpa Von for providing the funds to get this piano. Without you this above picture would not be possible. Just after the piano arrived when Scott sat down and started to play, Chance asked him to teach him how to play so Scott picked him up and they sat together playing the piano for quite a while. Thank you both.

Facetime

Now that Scott and I both have iPhone 4Gs we can do a little thing called facetime. Which is basically video phone. Instead of just talking on the phone we can also see each other, it's pretty cool especially for Chance. Now we can call Daddy to tell him goodnight and actually see him. The other day Scott took a screen shot of what we look like when we are facetimeing him. It's pretty cute, this is what he sees when we are all on the phone talking together.

Concert in the Quarter

Yesterday we went with a friend from the playgroup to a kids concert in the Quarter. It was held at the New Orleans Jazz National Historic Park which is the only national park dedicated to an art form and within walking distance to the house. When we first arrived two of the park rangers were on stage finishing their set. We only caught the last two songs but learned later that they had played songs tracing the history of jazz which I have to say sounds like the best park ranger job in the world.
Soon Johnette Downing came on which is who we were there to see. She played lots of great kids music and both Chance and Lilly had a wonderful time singing along, dancing and playing drums. In the first picture they are looking at the book "There was an old woman who swallowed a fly" while we all sang along. In the second picture they are getting ready to jump along to the song every time we said the word 'jump'. They are having this concert series in December and then all next year too so I think we will be going back.

I to I

Sorry I haven't been keeping up to date very well, things are crazy around here and I haven't been in the writing mood but I will try to do better. These are a couple pictures I took at I to I last Thursday. Chance has fun there but the general structure of I to I doesn't fit his personality very well so each day we visit is a bit of a trial but you can see it's not all bad he loves playing outside with his friends.
Just look at that smile in the first picture, priceless.

Black and Gold

In case you don't know last Sunday the Saints won their game and whenever that happens some special birds show up in City Park. The day after each winning game a flock of black and gold flamingos land somewhere in the park. Last Monday I saw a picture posted on City Park's facebook page and since we had nothing else to do and I was sure I recognized the location of the birds we decided to get in the car and head out to find them. Sure enough there they were stuck in the grass right by the playground. We had a good time petting them and running around in between them. Let's hope for another Saints win this week so we can check out these special birds one more time.

Piano

Look what's coming home with us on the 19th:


Thanks to Nana and Grandpa Von we will have a piano in the house very soon. We spotted it last time we were out looking at the piano store and knew if would be perfect for us, it plays well, is in good shape and was the right price. So after a little money shuffling (thank you again Nana and Grandpa Von) we went back a couple days later and purchased it. Though it belongs to us we won't be able to get it till the 19th because it is going to be in a movie. The Lucky One is being shot just outside New Orleans this month. I am very excited to be getting a piano because it is an instrument we can all play Scott and I both play and so can both be part of teaching Chance. We've already cleared out a spot for the piano to go now we just wait...sometimes waiting is hard:)