Happy Belated Easter!

Happy Easter, a little late. We spent the weekend before Easter visiting the Timmermans in Fairmont, MN. We had a great time. Andrew loved "the puppy's house". When we woke up in the morning at their house I asked Andrew, where are you? His reply while half asleep, "at the puppy's house". The puppy would be Charlie and yes, he definately rules the house. haha!
Andrew got to touch a bear while at Jeff's house. It was a bear skin rug that was hanging on the wall. The first day we were there he wouldn't even walk in the room where it was, but by the last day he had to say "Goodbye" to the bear and touch the bear's nose, ears, nails, tail, etc. And then he told everyone "I touched the bear".

Here's some pictures from our Easter weekend in Green Bay.
Miss Maya hunting for her Easter Eggs.

Auntie Kattie, Andrew and Maya hunting for eggs.

Trying to stay warm at Auntie Katie's rugby game. A sport you will definately never see me playing. A little too rough (and scary).

Bubble time. Andrew is completely obsessed with bubbles. We've limited bubble blowing to 3 places: outside, in the bath tub and while on the potty (so far it's helping with the toilet training).

Hanging out at the Wilson's on Easter.

Have a great April. We are enjoying our strangely warm weather here in Minnesota. We even hit 80 degrees one day before Easter. I don't think that has ever happened as long as we've lived here.

Happy March!

Daddy & Mommy loved this two-toned Beetle.

These are our pictures from the "Car Show". It was a much anticipated event in our house. Andrew would walk around the house and say "We go car show.... downtown.... yay!". I'm not sure it lived up to the hype. It didn't have a single Lightening McQueen or Toe-Mater. But, either way, we had lots of fun pointing out all the different colored cars and saying "Car Show" a thousand times.

Here's Andrew in Mommy's boots.

Yay! March is finally here. We are in the home stretch. Today was absolutely beautiful today. It was mid-40's so we got out for a nice long walk.

Andrew has been very busy over the past month. He learns something new every day (literally).

Early this morning he counted to ten for us. "1, 2... 4, 5, 6, 7..... 9, Count to 10." That's exactly how he says it. So Cute.

Today we asked him these questions, and here are his answers:

What does Koko say? "Meow, Meow"

What does Mocha say? "Hissssss"

What does a rooster say? "Cock-a-do-do"

What does Daddy say? (he tried to make the loud elephant noise that Daddy does so well, but ended up just spitting on us"

What does Mommy say? "Careful" (Hey - at least he listens to me.)

Well it's time for bed in our house, so G'night!

Have a great week!

Compromise

I owe you a picture, so I'm delivering it along with a life lesson.

Compromise.... It may not be pretty, but it's absolutely necessary to survive the day and keep your sanity.

Case Study #1: Mr. Andrew insisted on wearing his swimming suit on Sunday, but Mommy insisted he wear pants to keep warm. The compromise... swimming suit over pants.

Due for a New Post

We are due for a new post, but we haven't taken any pictures of Andrew since Christmas. The month of January has flown by.
Andrew is fully recovered from his surgery. We are meeting with the doctor this week for his post-op appointment. He just has a small mark on his lower belly - he calls it his "ou-wee".
Last weekend we visited the community center's indoor pool/splash pad. We all had a blast. Andrew is ready to go back, so much so, that he's wearing his swimming suit today and saying "water, water".
We had a warm stretch of weather for 2 weeks in mid-January and it felt great! It was actually bearable to live in Minnesota in the winter time. It was well into the 30's for over a week and even hit 40 one day.
We've been off and on sick over the past month, with colds and most recently "pink eye", but all in all everyone is doing great.
Mom and Dad took a big step in their parenting development and found a great babysitter for Andrew. She lives down the block and Andrew has a bit of a toddler-crush on her. He's so excited when Angie comes to babysit. She came two weekends in a row, so Mom and Dad could get out and spend some time together.
Grandma and Grandpa R. came to visit this past weekend. We visited the Mall of America and did some shopping with them. They got to experience Andrew's large vocabulary which now includes "Grandma" and "Grandpa".
We are looking forward to our trip home for Easter. We'll post some new pictures soon.
Have a great week!

Surgery

We found out two weeks ago that Andrew has a hydrocele hernia and it needed to be repaired. The cause of it was most likely a tube that didn't seal before he was born. We went to Children's Hospital of Minneapolis today (the best kids hospital in the state). It was an outpatient surgery. It lasted about 25 minutes and Andrew did amazing. Here's a picture of our little patient. He had to go under General Anesthesia which was harder on Mom and Dad than it was on Andrew. He is back at home this evening and watching "Cars". The doctors and nurses at Children's were great and made the whole process very easy on all of us. Here are some pictures from the past few days. We got about a foot of snow in MN while we were in Green Bay for Christmas. It was a nice surprise to come home to. Thankfully we have a neighbor that shoveled for us, so we didn't have to deal with it when we got home.

Andrew loves the snow. Dad spent last Saturday pulling him around in the sled.
And Andrew spent some time pulling the sled around too (of course he doesn't call it a sled, he calls it a boat - we're not sure why).

He's just like his Dad, he doesn't get cold easily. They were outside for quite a while that day. Mom is such a whimp, she doesn't last more than a minute outside.

Here's a quick picture we took last week. It would have made a great Christmas card, but we didn't have enough time to get it developed, so you'll just have to enjoy it via the website. We were hoping to get New Years Cards out to everyone, but with the surgery this week, that doesn't look like it's going to happen. You all know we wish you a Happy New Year!

Have a great start to 2010!!!