Superbowl and the Zoo!

Alice loves helping out in the kitchen. We put her on "potato scrubbing duty" last week when Mommy made some delicious "porcupine meatballs."


Playing with balloons at Josh's Birthday party last weekend. Zach was going nuts!




Birthday boy with Zach waiting for some homemade blueberry cake (it was great!).


Alice liked the cake!


Zach too!


Alice and Zach spent a lot of time playing in Zach's crib. They didn't want it to end.




I don't remember what was going on here, but there was a lot of running back and forth, and laughing.






Today we went to the Minnesota Zoo. Here's Alice and Mommy checking out some Arctic Monkeys.


After watching the shark swim by a few times, Alice let me know..."No, I like fish."


Alice with Auntie Carrie.


Alice in the Jungle with Daddy. Alice thought the Jungle was very smelly and covered her nose for most of it.


Alice and Carrie looking for some exotic birds.


Looks like Alice didn't want to get this close to the Leopard.


Russian brown bears.


Having lunch before we left.


Carrie and myself enjoying our lunch.


Alice "I can see you!" through her onion ring. A fun time was had, and we even solved a mystery of a song Alice sings at Daycare (she saw the book that is tied to it in the gift shop!), but alas...no nap today, so she's getting kinda grumpy tonight. Maybe she'll go to bed early, right?

Riiiight! :)

Sesame Street Live, and more...

Alice models her New Year's Eve hat she made at school.


Then she "hams" it up for the camera.


Jaime and Alice making cupcakes. It was sort of too late to be doing this, but Jaime had just gotten off the phone with her sister who was also making cupcakes (for Zach's birthday) and Jaime said, "You don't tell a pregnant woman you're making cupcakes and then don't expect her to make her own." (or something like that)


Alice mixing.


Ready for Mommy to pour the batter in.


Tonight was Sesame Street Live. We met Joanna, Josh and Zach at the Target Center, and I dropped an silly amount of money on treats and souvenirs. Here's Alice playing with her Elmo light spinny thingy.


Bert and Ernie doing some hip-hop thing.


The whole gang.


When Elmo took the stage, it was like a rock-star was there. The kids went crazy. Alice and Zach were both screaming for him. It was awesome.


Alice making sure we don't miss any of the cool stuff.


Looking down our row.


Josh with Zach. It was Zach's 2nd birthday today! HAPPY BIRTHDAY ZACH!


Alice on auntie Carrie's lap. Note Alice's long(er) hair.


Bert, Ernie and Big Bird ruled.


At intermission, they carted out the Elmo balloons (which we didn't buy--yet) and cotton candy.


Zach, after trying a bite of sno-cone.


Alice, after several.


The big finish. Alice kept asking me if she could go on stage. She was pretty upset with my answer. Overall I think she had a blast. As we were leaving, she saw all the kids with balloons and started whining for a "bayoon" until I decided I didn't want to walk 15 minutes through the skyway and into the parking ramp with a screaming kid on my shoulders. So, yes, she got her bayoon, and she was pretty excited about it.


Now, a few more sno-cone pics:

Pre-Vikings Playoff Madness

Vikings fever has swept the house, and win or lose today, we had fun getting ready for the game. Alice sort of lost her mind for a while and put a full-on tackle on her Diego doll.

One more thing...

Yup.

Jaime's pregnant again. Due date is July 5th.

Whooooooo!

So, eventually I'll have to change the title of this blog, and that will be the first of many things Alice will need to learn to share with the new baby.