What a day Wednesday!

We had a great Wednesday!  First we started with some gymnastics which Kyle and Emily are really enjoying these days. 

Kyle doing some hoop jumping.

Emily's turn to jump the hoops.

Then we went to the mall for some quick shopping, but first we drank our Oreos ("Daddy's favorite cookie!") in a delicious milkshake.  "Oreo!"

Then we headed to the Apple store where we stayed for the next hour and a half playing computer games.  The kids had a great time playing Dora and Diego computer games and really progressed with their mouse skills!  Oh and we bought the software we went there for. 

Playing Dora.  They started off a bit shaky using a mouse, but really grasped it after a very short while.  And boy did they have a great time playing their games!

Emily matching shapes playing Dora

Kyle matching shapes playing Dora

Kyle onto playing Diego which was a bit more complicated and more fine motor skill than Dora.

Emily mastering Diego.

Cookie

Not sure this will be as funny as it was at the time, but it was pretty priceless and another reminder that the kids don't quite understand sarcasm just yet!

Kathleen:  Did you eat all of those [Nilla wafer] cookies goob?!
Emily:  Yeah, but I got two more.
Kathleen:  Wow!  You're going to turn into a cookie!
Emily [eyes welling up, about to burst into crying]:  But I don't wanna...
Kathleen:  Don't worry honey!  I was just joking.
Emily [still choking down years]:  [laughs] yeah....  That'd be silly!

And later in the car as she finished her cookies, she kept reminding herself that it'd be so silly for her to turn into a cookie!  She totally had to keep convincing herself!

tommy marathon

It was a busy sporting two days this past weekend!  Tommy ran the Chicago marathon on Sunday and totally rocked!!  Not only did he get a PR, at 3:06:20, but his awesome time qualified him for Boston!  Great work Tommy!  We are very proud of you!! 

  

   

Naptime...

Daddy:  Have a nice rest Emily & Kyle!

Emily: I don't wanna go to bed!

Kyle: Ladybug has to go to bed!

Emily's new alternate personality is a ladybug.  She often tells us she's a ladybug and what ladybug wants and doesn't want.  Now she's got Kyle in on her game!

Bathtime

Daddy did bathtime tonight with the kiddies. He got them to do the washing and taught them how to blow soap bubbles!

Go Daddy go!

Jeff did the Mission Bay triathlon today!  We got up crazy early to go cheer him on!!  Kyle & Emily did great cheering for Daddy and their friend's Daddy as well. Great work Daddy!

Daddy coming out of the water.  He's on the right in the red shirt that you can see his number on.  It was barely after 7am when he was done swimming so the sun was barely up.

Daddy coming in from the bike!

Daddy going out for the run!  (Left center of the picture in red shirt)

Daddy coming around the corner for the run finish!

Daddy nearly done with the run!  Go Daddy go!

Jeff and Emmy post race.

Daddy thanking his cheering squad.

Daddy checking out the signs - Go Daddy go!  Bike Daddy bike!  Run Daddy run!!

Kyle riding the bike.

Little gamers

Last night we took the kids to Corvette Diner and Jeff has turned our little toddlers into gamers!!  It's really quite cute!  They both LOVED playing the little basketball and doggie game. 

You can't really see from this picture, but Kyle is standing in the ball area, not the ground, so he's big enough to shoot hoops.  He did GREAT at this, making many shots!

He shoots....

He scores!!!  Swish!!!!

Got milk(shake)?

Yum!!

Gymnastics

Kyle & Emily also started a little gymnastics class the other week which they LOVE!  They get to do all the monkeying around they want to and it's all padded and mostly kid friendly!  This week they got a great instructor who can handle 4 toddlers and teach! 

Streeeeeeetch!!!

Emily hanging on the bars and reaching to the scarves with toes!  She sure does love to hang!

Kyle's turn to hang and reach the scarves with his toes!

Kyle hoisting himself up!  Go triceps!

And strong girl Emily!!

Emily up high to reach the sky!

Emily after a BIG jump!

Emily on the balance beam all by herself!  She walked across on tiptoes all by herself!

Emily is hanging on the bars on the left and Kyle is in the middle on the rings!  They really are strong!

Emily bear walk

Kyle bearwalk

The park outside of gymnastics is huge and the kids have a great time climbing on it after gymnastics.  This climbing part they very appropriately call, "The Twizzlers"

Emily climbing "The Twizzlers"

Sports class

Kyle & Emily started a class where they go through a bunch of different sports and teaching the kids the essential skills from each sport. Our first week, this week, they did soccer. Emily jumped right in while Kyle stood to the sides for a little, checking out what was going on, but then joined and loved it. Now we've practiced dribbling with them, but they always like to dribble basketball style.  Guess we'll have some goalies! So they did a drill where they dribble around and then stop with different parts of the body. When it came to stopping the ball and putting your nose on it, Kyle & Emily stopped the ball with their feet and then picked the ball up to touch it to their nose while the other kids and teachers bent down and put their nose to the ball. I don't know why, but I thought their approach was very clever and smart!  But above all, they had fun and learned a bit more about soccer.  (Side commentary: it was kinda funny how some parents were so crazy into it wanting their kid to be the next Pele that they would tell the kids from the sidelines what they were doing wrong and call them over and tell them to pay attention, etc.  Really?!?!?!  Just let them have fun!  They are 3!!!!)

The picture below isn't the best, but (1) it's a picture and (2)you can see Kyle to the left checking out what's going on and Emily next to the teacher in the blue shirt dribbling.  

Shades

Kyle has a thing for sunglasses... he puts them on and looks all cool and then tells me, "Mommy, take my picture!"  So here he is looking suave in his shades!

Daddy's shades and some OJ

Mommy's shades and Miko

Big day...

It was a big day in our house... Jeff set up Kyle & Emily on a game of Guitar Hero... Kyle tells us he's a Hero Guitar... and they played a beginner level where they just have to strum and together they beat the level! Jeff couldn't be more proud of his little gamers!