Utech Twins

Friday, February 28, 2014

This and That: February

Brent and I went on a fabulous 5 day trip to visit our friends Jenn and Jack in California! This was our first trip without children and it was great! Jack and Jenn and their family were such fabulous hosts and showed us all around southern California!

Brent wanted to see The Rose Bowl so we took a tour. The Rose Bowl is less then a mile from Jenn's Parent's house so we walked there and enjoyed the 70 degree weather.

We took a hike in the Hollywood hills to the Griffith Observatory.

One of the biggest highlights were the awesome tickets to the Lakers Game. Jack and Brent watched the game while Jenn and I looked for celebrities.... some of our spots included Calista Flockhart, one of the red hot Chili peppers and the base player from the Eagles.

Thank you so much to Jack, Jenn, Mary, Terry, JP and Jacob for the fabulous trip! We will be back.... and next time we will bring some buddies for Jacob and JP!

Making Valentines for the Grandparents.

I was so proud of both boys for writing their names 18 times for their valentines for school.... unfortunately I forgot to take a picture of Ben's.... but I promise it was just as cute!

Nathan picked out candy hearts for his friends.

Ben picked out gummy bears and suckers.

Good Time Park

Climbing as high as they could with Joe and Ellie!

Benjamin had the color bag... so I went to preschool to watch him present. After circle time and table time it was time to play so I left...when I turned around this is what I saw through the classroom door. So cute!

Ben insisted on a tie!

Playing Thin Ice with Nicholas!

"helping" mommy pack for California!

Valentine crowns that they made at the YMCA Kid Stuff

Best Buddies

Just Jump with Brody!

Our 3 loves!

Igloo fort on a snowy snowy day... the cars were stuck because the spring on the garage door broke... daddy was gone all week and we were all suffering from a case of cabin fever!

Coffee date with daddy!

Hanging out with Gianna and watching Nathan and Brian play basketball!

ROAR! Dinos at the Children's Museum

Skating

Pee Wee basketball!

Friday, February 21, 2014

4 year Check ups!

Preschool Screening: A couple of weeks ago Nathan and Benjamin were scheduled for their Preschool screening. For some reason I was worried.... I'm not sure what I thought they were going to ask them.... geometry, latin, Chinese, something we hadn't taught them. Well I should relax.... they both did GREAT! Hearing and vision... Pass and Pass. Hoping, jumping, skipping...Passed! Stacking blocks, drawing pictures... what else do you have???? Funny story....Benjamin was asked "a door is made out of wood, a window is made out of....?" His response ... "Plastic" The teacher looked at me .... do you have 3M plastic over your windows??? "yup over our patio door!" She said she has at least one kid a week in the winter say plastic! Seems fitting since Daddy works at 3M! So, they are ready for Kindergarten.... I'm so proud of them but in the mean time we will enjoy the time with our very favorite preschoolers.

4 year Well Child Check at Central Pediatrics-Woodbury:
The boys LOVE Dr. Strong and it is never hard to get them to the doctors office. This year they were very concerned with whether or not they were getting shots. I honestly didn't know.... so I told them to ask doctor Strong. Always the buddies, they negotiated who was going first for the blood pressure, weight, vision and hearing. Nathan even said "Its ok Ben, you can go first!" When Dr. Strong walked into the room and asked how the boys were.... Ben immediately said "excuse me Dr. Strong but do we need shots?" She responded with... lets talk about it at the end. The boys talked about their favorite foods, how they get dressed and zip their coats by themselves, hopped and jumped, named all the colors in the room, counted to 20 (skipping 15 as usual!) and talked about preschool and Peace of Mind. Both boys have been pretty healthy this winter... so there wasn't much to talk about on that front. Nathan is in the 75%tile and Benjamin is in the 25%tile. Nathan just grew a bunch... I would expect Ben to grow in the next week or two! In the end they both got their MMR shots... to which Benjamin replied, "I wont cry, but Naynay will!" An his stubbornness paid off.... no tears from Ben and only a few whines from Nathan. It was a successful trip, complete with a shirt full of stickers!

Dental Visit: The boys also LOVE the DDS. Its hard not too.... they have arcade games in the waiting room, TVs and sunglasses in the rooms and balloons on the way out! Nathan picked bubble gum tooth paste and watermelon Flouride....suprise suprise! Benjamin picked cookie dough tooth paste and Cherry floride... again suprise suprise. The hit of this visit was the water you spray in your mouth and the very special water sucker! They both thought we should buy a water sucker for our house! No cavities, they are both doing a great job keeping their teeth clean. Questions from mom: 1) is nathan's front tooth ok after his face plant fall two winters ago.... yup it looks great, nothing to worry about. 2). Ben grinds his teeth at night on occasion.... the teeth look great!, doesn't look like a chronic issue and more then likely it had to do with either a cold or ear infection.

I think we have done all the poking, proding, question asking and appointments that we need for awhile! Check that all off the list:)

Its been a Snowy Snowy Winter!

What a Snowy and cold winter. We spent much of January with temperatures below zero! Preschool was closed 3 days in January, day care was closed... even 3M closed because of the extreme temperatures! The best part of the short times periods of warm weather was all the snow. Nathan and Benjamin love shoveling, sledding and making snow balls. Mommy tends to be the freeze baby... but daddy and the boys could be outside all the time... snow, sun, sleet and cold!

Nathan was so happy that daddy took the snow blower to the back yard to make a snow hill!

Checking out the snow hill!

"Yeah daddy... it works!"

They love that they can look over the fence!

Nathan said.... "my very favorite special treat is snowballs!"

Snow Buddies.... what would they do without each other?

Monkey!

Berkeley the snow dog!

"well that hill didn't work!"

Catching snowflakes!

Sledding with cousins Sammy and Peter!

Our favorite Thing 1 and Thing 2

Walking Berkeley at the dog Park.... beautiful in the winter too!

Yup Daddy is out of town... so Mommy was in charge of the snow blower! Nothing like 12 inches of snow to contend with!

So glad that it was finally warmer... made playing outside even more fun!

Gramma's stairs are like a bobsled run! Nathan even went down head first.... channeling his inner Olympic skeleton! The winter Olympics has been a HUGE hit at our house. Every night we get our PJs on and snuggle up to watch the newest EXTREME sports.... Ben's FAVORITE is Ski Jumping! Nathan's favorite is skating and snowboarding!

This and That: January... and its late again!

Nathan and Benjamin learned how to ice skate!

Nathan loves it.... Ben tolerates it :)

Riley, Ben, Nathan, Logan, Ethan, Eva, Paige and Aidan

Celebrating Christmas with all our College friends and all the babes... missing Lucy and brand new baby Stella!!! Goodness... they are multiplying!

Baby Eva... looking oh so much like her daddy!

We are super heros...

Ben had the class bear and we needed to take him on an adventure.... so we brought him to LookOutRidge~.... Ben spent all morning carrying his bear on the tubes, slides and tunnels.