Remember when I talked about making friends? Well here are two videos of Chance and two of his friends. We watched Alyssa (one of the little girls in our playgroup) the other day for a couple hours. Chance and Alyssa had a great time, they played from the moment she arrived without incident. In the first video they are twirling a jump rope and jumping up and down. They don't quite understand how it's supposed to be done but i suppose it doesn't matter because they are still having tons of fun.
The next video is Chance and Noah (from our playgroup) playing at the park, this video isn't very long or very good but it has Chance in it (for a second) so here it is. They had a great time running around the park together.
This last one is another of Chance and Noah (he's on the other side of the X's and O's). Evidently Tic-Tac-Toe isn't what Chance wanted to hear but you see he's ok with X's and O's as an answer.
Monday, January 25, 2010
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Such a Monkey
A few days ago we had a playdate at the Monkey Room. This place is so great and all the kids just love it. Chance played and played, after a while he drug me inside the play area which is where I took this first picture. These big balls hang from the top of the play space, Chance likes to climb on top and swing around until he can't hold on any more. Now that he is getting older he is really enjoying playing with his friends. They pair up more now to play all kinds of things together. In the second picture Chance and Octavian are playing in the little kids area of the Monkey Room.
New Shoes
We had all been talking about needing new shoes so the other day when we were at Target. Scott said "let's all get new shoes" so we did. We all got brand new Converse shoes, Chance and mine are exactly alike just different sizes and Scott's all black and soft. It has been so long since I have had tennis shoes at first they felt weird with all their padding and bendiness but that was over fast because they are so comfy.
Friday, January 15, 2010
Hanging out
First i have to say Happy Belated Birthday to Scott's Mom. Her birthday was yesterday.
The last few days Chance and I have just been hanging out, well we have been doing things but staying low key. Yesterday we went to a playdate at Mariah and Iggy's house ( one of our playgroup members). It was tons of fun, Chance and all the other little guys were very good sharing and playing together. We also made a cool craft, we just put paint in a ziplick bag squished it around then taped the top and hung it in the window to make a stained glass type panel.
Now we are having another down day playing inside waiting for Scott to get home tonight.
Picture #1 is me showing Chance how to squish the paint around in the bag.
# 2 the finished product and # 3 is Chance and Octavian playing the bushes at Nancy's house. They where playing in there for a long time, they were jungle explorers.
The last few days Chance and I have just been hanging out, well we have been doing things but staying low key. Yesterday we went to a playdate at Mariah and Iggy's house ( one of our playgroup members). It was tons of fun, Chance and all the other little guys were very good sharing and playing together. We also made a cool craft, we just put paint in a ziplick bag squished it around then taped the top and hung it in the window to make a stained glass type panel.
Now we are having another down day playing inside waiting for Scott to get home tonight.
Picture #1 is me showing Chance how to squish the paint around in the bag.
# 2 the finished product and # 3 is Chance and Octavian playing the bushes at Nancy's house. They where playing in there for a long time, they were jungle explorers.
Monday, January 11, 2010
Photobooth pictures
While trying to stay warm yesterday Chance and I got inside Chance's Thomas play tent in the living room and set the space heater just outside the door. It warmed right up in there so we played and even ate our lunch in Thomas. These are some pictures I took of the two of us then I made them look like those photobooth picture strips.
Sunday, January 10, 2010
Cold, Cold go away.
My goodness it has been cold here the last couple days. Well, more than a couple, it's been really cold for a week now. This morning it was 22 degrees but with wind chill it felt like 13, our little feet are freezing. We have been doing our best to stay warm, staying inside most of the time. It's been hard not being able to go to parks which we love so much, Chance really needs to get out and run around but we have been keeping busy inside the house with lots of fun projects and playing with all Chance's toys.
We have made it out of the house here and there too on Friday we went to the Children's Museum with our playgroup and on Thursday we even made a quick unplanned trip to Chuck E. Cheese while purchasing supplies to fix our couch. We also made a quick trip to Target to get another rug for the front of the house to help keep the place warm.
While at the Children's Museum we explored their brand new area all about the unique architecture of New Orleans and then building and architecture in general. They have a whole little shotgun house (the type of house we live in) and a creole cottage that are both perfect size for little guys, I couldn't get a good picture of Chance inside one of the houses because he was having too much fun playing and running around in them.
Scott left for Houston today where he will be all week, but we are just happy it isn't a long trip, he will be back either Friday night or Saturday morning. Chance and I have little things planned all week, playdates and the library and other things to keep us busy and hopefully warm too.
P.S. for those of you interested in our pictures I added a widget to the blog at the right that shows a slideshow of the most recently uploaded photos to our Flickr account.
Picture #1 is Chance buildding a tower with his new blocks, staying busy inside.
#2 is him inside a big bubble at the Children's Museum. he pulled the rope all by himself.
# 3 Chance practicing his city planning in the new section of the Children's Museum
# 4 at the Children's Museum, he played with this for nearly half an hour. He grabbed the ping pong balls from the bottom and put them in the cup at the top then watched them roll all the way down back and forth.
# 5 Scott and Chance playing games at Chuck E. Cheese
# 6 this is our couch with a new look. We covered the hole in the top back adding the black fabric over the top and front. This was our first time doing anything like this but it's still sticking so we give it two thumbs up.
Thursday, January 07, 2010
King Cake Playdate
On Wednesday we had a playdate at our house to enjoy King cake for Three Kings Day. Three King's Day is said to be the day that the 3 wise men reached the baby Jesus after following the star for twelve nights. The twelve days between Christmas and Three Kings Day are the twelve days of Christmas talked about in the song of the same name. Is that enough history for you?
Anyway, New Orleanians celebrate Three Kings Day by having a party (bet you could have guessed that one) and eating King cake. Also, in New Orleans Three Kings day traditionally signals the beginning of the Mardi Gras season with two parades rolling that night.
We invited our playgroup to our house where everyone had a good time playing and eating cake. I have to say King cake is really, really yummy, two thumbs way up, we bought one filled with strawberry cream cheese, it doesn't get much better than that.
Picture 1 is Chance with our new members, twins Daisy and Darla who Chance just loves, he pats their heads and gives them kisses. Picture 2 is Chance eating King cake and one of the moms, Erica with her new little guy Rocco who is in the carrier.
Fireman Hat
Remember back when we visited the firehouse, Chance got a fireman hat but he didn't want to wear it at all? Well now he doesn't want to take it off. He wears it forward and backward around the house, we wears it in the yard and he has even worn it to the store a few times. He likes it a lot now. These are a couple pictures I snapped of him while we were at a store just a few days ago.
Wednesday, January 06, 2010
Playing in the leaves playdate
With all this cold weather moving in the leaves are falling off the trees like mad. Because it doesn't get cold till late in the year (or early since it's January) the leaves don't usually fall from the trees in Autumn but hold on till Winter when the cold really hits. With so we decided to have a playing in the leaves playdate at Nancy's house. It was super cold but raking all the leaves into big piles warmed up the Moms and playing warmed up the little guys. They all had so much fun jumping in the leaves and throwing them up in the air. We also had cupcakes with icing and sprinkles for them to keep their energy flowing.
It worked because even with all that cold weather the little ones played for nearly and hour and a half in the leaves.
Pictures 1 and 2 are obvious, in picture 3 Chance and Nancy are tickling Octavian. The little ones were great helpers when it came to moving the leaves from one section of the yard to another to make one big pile, in Picture 4 Octavian is filling up the little wagon for Chance to pull over and add to the pile. Picture 5 is Chance stuffing his face with cupcake.
Saturday, January 02, 2010
New Year, New Project
Happy new year everyone. With this new year starts a new round of life and the opportunity to live it to its fullest everyday. If I have one new years resolution it is to live everyday to its fullest and live more in the moment not in the past or what the future might be but in this moment and what I can do with it right now. 
Along those lines we have started a new project (well, mostly Scott has started it for now). Our house is covered with aluminum siding. It is the only house in our neighborhood full of historic homes with aluminum siding. Most houses have been taken back to their original wood. Ever since we moved in we have wanted to see what was under the siding on our house and if possible take all of the aluminum off to bring ours back to wood and closer it's original look. Well, yesterday Scott started on this project, we picked a small wall at the back of the house and he started ripping off the siding, it was scary and exciting since we really had no idea what we were going to find. We were both pleasantly surprised to find the wood in such great condition. On the whole wall there are only two little spots that will need to be repaired and maybe replaced which is amazing considering we think the siding has been on for about 50 years. Scott did a lot in one day pulling off siding and sanding, then on day two he sanded a little more and put on a coat of sealer to keep the wood safe from the elements while we work on the rest of the house before we are able to paint the whole thing, which will be fun because we get to pick our own colors and our neighborhood is full of an array of different colored homes, green, purple, blue, yellow, orange...so we can pick any color we want and not even look out of place.
In the first picture you can see the aluminum siding at the top still on the house, the green on the right is some insulation then the bottom is the beautiful wood of the actual house. Scott stopped working for just a moment so I could take this picture. In the second picture all the siding is off the house so now you can see the wood at the top and the bottom has been painted with the sealer. The third picture is our first wall to complete what we are calling Phase 1, which is remove siding, sand and sealed. We are planning to move on to the next wall this week but Scott is taking a few days off to let his back and shoulders rest, he worked hard.
Along those lines we have started a new project (well, mostly Scott has started it for now). Our house is covered with aluminum siding. It is the only house in our neighborhood full of historic homes with aluminum siding. Most houses have been taken back to their original wood. Ever since we moved in we have wanted to see what was under the siding on our house and if possible take all of the aluminum off to bring ours back to wood and closer it's original look. Well, yesterday Scott started on this project, we picked a small wall at the back of the house and he started ripping off the siding, it was scary and exciting since we really had no idea what we were going to find. We were both pleasantly surprised to find the wood in such great condition. On the whole wall there are only two little spots that will need to be repaired and maybe replaced which is amazing considering we think the siding has been on for about 50 years. Scott did a lot in one day pulling off siding and sanding, then on day two he sanded a little more and put on a coat of sealer to keep the wood safe from the elements while we work on the rest of the house before we are able to paint the whole thing, which will be fun because we get to pick our own colors and our neighborhood is full of an array of different colored homes, green, purple, blue, yellow, orange...so we can pick any color we want and not even look out of place.
In the first picture you can see the aluminum siding at the top still on the house, the green on the right is some insulation then the bottom is the beautiful wood of the actual house. Scott stopped working for just a moment so I could take this picture. In the second picture all the siding is off the house so now you can see the wood at the top and the bottom has been painted with the sealer. The third picture is our first wall to complete what we are calling Phase 1, which is remove siding, sand and sealed. We are planning to move on to the next wall this week but Scott is taking a few days off to let his back and shoulders rest, he worked hard.
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