Kung Fu Alec!

Alec has been going through a Kung Fu phase ever since his Me Ma took us all to see Kung Fu Panda a couple weeks ago when she was visiting. He has been through many phases over the past year or so...
1)the "Knight Phase" --where he is the "Good Knight", I am the princess, daddy is the King, and Ava is the Dragon :) She actually makes a very good dragon!
2)the "Super Hero Phase" --he usually wanted to be Spiderman and he let us pick out our own super hero.
3)the "Monster Phase" --he not only wanted to pretend to be monsters along with us, but he was drawing them all the time too...He loves the movie Monsters Inc.
4)the "Dino Phase" --he was almost always the T- Rex
5)the "Bear Hunter Phase" --Eriik and Alec would go on bear hunts (finding teddy bears) every night in his dark bedroom with a flashlight...this did help him get over his fear of the dark...way to go daddy!
When Alec goes through a phase it's somewhat of an obsession for him...day in day out! I love it though...he is a pretty creative little guy and it's fun playing along with him.
I've uploaded a video of him doing some Kung Fu... try to ignore all the boxes in the background...we happened to be playing in the only room of the house that is still not unpacked (the office)...Eriik is planning on painting it first.

Ava's first steps!

Entering the Blog world...and other ramblings

Ok....so here I am blogging! I had Blog envy and couldn't resist the temptation any longer. I believe I said to my husband that I would never blog because I would get so absorbed with it that my children would end up neglected. Sooo...I'm going to stick to doing this during nap time...when I'm not doing all the other things that I normally have to get done during nap time. So, my blogs will probably be on the short side, and not very deep :) Anyway, I figured it would be good for the grandparents who are so far away.



Well....this has been a pretty typical friday. I took the kiddos to Playday at our church and we had lunch there. It's just as fun for me as the kids cuz I get to hang out with my friends too. Oh get this...Ava started walking last night...well....she took three steps and fell, took three more steps and fell, and then she was done....but the proud momma I am calls that walking!!! I don't think there is anything cuter than the proud look on a 1 year olds face when they take those first wobbly steps.