Just updated the website with some older pictures.
- In February we took a trip to New Orleans for Mardi Gras. There is no way not to have fun during Mardi Gras.
- Caroline’s superhero birthday party.
- Pictures from Summer Swim Team.
Tag Archives: Andrew
Trip to the Zoo with Mr. Animal Man
I took Andrew and Caroline to the zoo today since Andrew has asking now for a while. And by a while I mean it’s been the only thing out of his mouth this week.
Here we are hanging out in front of the Koi Pond.
Half way through our day we came across a demonstration where they brought out this smaller cat that looked to me like a small cheetah except that it had spots on its body and stripes on its neck and tail.
It moves fast like a cheetah and it turns out they can run about 40 miles an hour making it the second fastest land animal. It also has some amazing leaping power where they had it jump from a sitting position to a platform that was about 8 feet off the ground. (Which I didn’t manage to get a picture of, this one was it jumping off a post.)
After the amazing leaping demonstration the zoo keeper who was running the demonstration ask the audience,
“There is another small cat like this that also has the same jumping ability that we have here in the zoo, does anyone know what it is?”
Andrew’s hand immediately shot in the air and I was filled with absolute panic, there is no way he knows this. His was the only hand raised out of the entire crowd of about a 100 people so the keeper called on him.
“The Caracal” he said.
My first thought was “The What?” and the Keeper was also very impressed and she let him know too.
I’m not sure why I ever doubted him.
For the rest of us not quite as well versed with out animals here you go.
The Little Things in Life
About two weeks ago our refrigerator started to die. Our fridge has a digital display that shows the temperatures and I noticed that for the freezer it just wasn’t keeping up. Instead of the normal value of 0 it was hovering around 20. The fridge was marginally better but still warmer then it normally was.
After pulling it out and cleaning off all the components which didn’t help I called the repair guys who said that both the control board and the heater was bad. (I have to confess I didn’t realize that there was a heater in there but it’s used for the automatic defroster.) They had to order the parts and scheduled a time to come back and fix it. In between the two visits the fridge totally went out. One morning when we got up Jen found a huge puddle of water on the floor and it was almost at room temperature. All the meats and perishables had to be thrown out and anything we thought we could save went into the cooler.
When they came back to finish the repair they said that since the defroster had been broken for so long that we should leave the fridge off of at least another 48 hours to let the ice melt completely. Apparently it was at least an inch thick behind the freezer wall.
Every day since the repair was finished Andrew desperately asks if we have any milk so he can have “real” cereal for breakfast. Sadly, until this morning the answer was no.
Today he got up and was so excited that he was able to have his Cheerios with milk that he came back for a second bowl.
Picture Update
I’ve spent the last couple of weeks trying to get caught up on all the pictures from 2012 that I have been meaning to get to. I think today I’m finally caught up and ready to start on 2013. There are a lot of updates so here it goes.
- Vacation to Florida – As it has been our tradition for the past couple of years we spend the first week of summer vacation in Florida. This year my my sisters family joined us and the cousins all got to hang out and have a great time.
- Summer Swim Team – Pictures from a couple of the swim meets the boys did this summer.
- Alex Triathlon – Alex had been asking to do another triathlon and this year we finally managed to sign him up for the same Dallas kids tri that he did a couple of years back.
- Trip to New Orleans – Before the kids started back after the summer break we took a trip to New Orleans to see the Grandparents. On this trip we also did some things that we haven’t ever done before like visit the Old Mint, the Pontalba buildings, and the Mardi Gras Museum.
- Caroline at the Gym – Caroline did an introduction to Gymnastics class.
- Caroline Ballet – She also took an introduction to ballet class.
- Halloween – Halloween pictures from this year.
- Christmas – To finish out the year some pictures from Christmas.
Now I have a couple hundred pictures of the recent Disney trip to sift through 🙂
First Grade…
It’s no longer all fun in games now….wait….what….
Website Updates
I haven’t completely abandoned updating the website, it just seems like I have less and less time to do this stuff. If you have been following the home page there have been a couple of updates but I haven’t posted about them her so here’s the summary from the last time.
- Caroline’s Birthday – Back in February we had a Mary Poppins themed birthday party for Caroline. It started off with her listening to the movie soundtrack, then she saw the movie, and then it was the party.
- Alex and Andrew’s Birthday Party – The boys decided that they both wanted to have a bowling/laser tag party so we did a combined party.
- Andrew Spring Soccer – Couple of pictures from Andrew’s spring soccer season.
- Alex Spring Lacrosse – Couple of pictures from Alex’s spring lacrosse season.
- Caroline’s First Haircut – I think we actually held out a really time before we took her for her first haircut but it was starting to get out of control.
- Yearly Pictures – We did take our traditional yearly pictures again this year and we did do it right around their birthdays which was a small miracle. Here are Caroline, Alex, Andrew, and the Group pictures.
- Mammoth Caves and Ryan’s Graduation – In May Ryan graduation from Law school at IU and as part of the trip up there we also visited Mammoth Caves, a bit of Louisville, and the Indianapolis Children’s Museum.
Ya, Look it Up
I had to have Andrew explain his school work that he brought home today. He was even kind enough to point out that I was pronouncing it wrong.
Andrew Postcard
It’s been a really long time since I’ve put up any postcards but yesterday Andrew came home from school and he had made us a postcard from Canada which I just had to post.
Basketball Pictures
I haven’t posted pictures to the website for a while and part of reason is that our camera died a couple of months ago. We’ve had our small pocket camera but our SLR started getting flaky and then totally quit. The small camera is ok but it certainly doesn’t take pictures as nice as the SLR did.
So a week ago I ordered a brand spanking new camera and it arrived just in time for the last game of the boys basketball season. Of course I had to test it out at the game and capture some pictures.
We had originally only planned on Andrew playing basketball since he had such a good time with it last year but after going to one of Andrew’s practices Alex pleaded with us to play as well.
We gave in since it was the church league with the goal of coaching basketball fundamentals and having fun instead of high pressure competition and winning at all costs. They both had lots of fun and said that they wanted to play again next year.
Halloween Pictures
Andrew has helped me put together the Halloween pictures. And by help I mean he has been sitting beside me complaining the whole time wanted to do something else. He has actually contributed some art work for the banner and for this page but he he wasn’t happy that I had to take the staple out of the spider art work.
Here are the Halloween Pics.
