It's freezing!

It is so cold! Aaron and Bryson haven't been feeling well and it is so cold outside so Bry and I are hibernating. We are going nuts in the house and so ready to walk the zoo or anything! We escaped tonight to watch Cori's basketball game, the highlight of our week.
Last weekend we took a trip to OKC for a couple of days to tour the area. We found some neighborhoods that we really liked. They were filled with historic homes, my favorite! Cori had to take a test to apply to a new school. Imagine how exciting it would be to drive hours to another state to take a tough test on a Saturday! It was actually snowing here in Texas the afternoon we drove to Oklahoma; we missed seeing our happy dogs playing in the snow. Cori spotted a Zio's in the city from miles away so that was an immediate plus for her. Crazy kid.

The 'do

Finally, I can post pictures of Cori's new look. Her cousin Chad gave her a new hairdo. He even colored it all over. We were nervous before we saw the end result because we had only let her have some highlights before. But he made her a "sandy" blonde and we love it. I like how brave she is and the fact that she is the ONLY girl in her school to have her hair short. She likes to do her own thing which is great. We just got back from watching one of her basketball games, she scored 1/3 of the points; she really played well. We applied her to a new high school this week and we eagerly await results. We are all looking forward to many new adventures in a few months.

Bryson still enjoys watching his sister play basketball. If anyone claps, he claps and cheers too for either team. Cori says she can hear him from the court. His favorite thing is to run on the court after the game and go straight to his sister and hug her legs. He practices dribbling his basketball on the kitchen floor, he's getting good. Bryson is getting so big and soaking up information like crazy. He can point to many things that you ask for specifically and he also makes many animal sounds. Sometimes he wakes up from his nap and I hear him roaring because he sees one of the stuffed tigers in his room; sometimes it's a monkey. We recently taught him to say and sign "Please". Now he knows to say it whenever he wants something and he is really hard to turn down, especially because he says please like Roger Rabbit, it's so cute!

Happy New Year!

So far this year I am on a roll. I have kept my New Year's resolution, to write in the blog once a week! We had a wonderful closing to 2007. We spent Christmas with family and are soon to spend an extended Christmas with additional family. We have been very blessed. New Year's eve was celebrated in our home with friends and our traditional fondue night. Today Cori and I went out to a movie to relax while Aaron made a pot of black eyed peas. Aren't they supposed to bring luck to the year? Bryson wanted to leave a picture wishing everyone happy new year. I have some of Cori but they cannot be posted right now due to a bet, check back next week.

Happy New Year everyone!

We're Grandparents!

Trust me, we too almost had a heart attack when Cori told us this. Cori had a project for school where she had to take care of a hollow egg for a week. She gave him a face and pom-pom hair. She had to carry him to every class and home again each day. She named her "child" Zane. Notice the bandaid on him, he had a couple by the end of the week. She carried him around in a tupperware container on a stack of tissue paper with the lid snuggly on. I guess the teacher didn't care if the babies could breathe. It was a fun assignment for her. The project is nothing like having a real screaming baby cry in the middle of the night, oh wait, she experiences that too.

Just because

Who doesn't like spaghetti faces?

Finger (and toe) painting

Halloween

Oh goodness, how busy we have been. I am the farthest behind on our blog yet, we've only passed two holidays since our last post! Don't fail me now memory.

Halloween was a so much fun for all of us this year! Cori dressed up as a pirate and looked oh too cute. She went begging for candy with a few of her friends. Bryson loved dressing up as the super-hero Batman. He ran fast through the yards in our neighborhood, trick-or-treating but he stopped cautiously when he got two feet in front of someone. He wasn't too interested in getting candy if it meant he had to get too close to funny dressed strangers in the night. By the time he realized that he was supposed to go up to everyone's front doors, he then attempted to go to front doors of people that were obviously not at home. Both the kids really had a blast. Once we got back home, Bryson got his first (and only for the year) Halloween treat, a Dum Dum sucker. We were only planning on letting him have it for a few minutes because we didn't want him to have the whole thing. Well, it doesn't take long for a toddler to scarf down and Dum Dum and it is harder to take candy from a baby then the saying goes. So he ate the whole thing and somehow managed to still fall asleep that night.

We took the kids to a friend's house for a Kid's Halloween Party a few days prior. Cori helped with coordinating games for the little ones. She was a big help! Then the kids all took a hayride also. Can you spot Cori and Bryson? Here are some pictures from that day.

I finally did it....

I broke down and we took Bryson to get his hair cut. People were starting to call him a girl because of all his cute curls so Aaron and I set him in his car and walked down to the salon to those curls cut off. It was such a bittersweet day for me. I was so sad to see his curls go but he did look like such a big boy afterward. Bryson watched Aaron get his hair cut first. Then Aaron held Bryson while he had his cut. It worked out great. Carla, our hairdresser, said Bryson was the best kid she has ever had. He really was perfect; he didn't mind a bit while she cut his hair with scissors or even with the buzz clippers (or whatever you call those things).

Here is Bryson before his new 'do; he was sitting in his car, waiting in the lobby:

Here is Bryson while Carla was cutting his hair, he was so intrigued.

Here he is as soon as the cut was finished:

Home at last, fixed up, what a handsome little guy!