Daniel's Birthday

Our little boy is now 3. How did the time go by soo quickly? We can't believe we've been parents that long!

Daniel's stats:
Height: 36in - 12%
Weight: 29.2lbs - 21%

Daniel started his special day by waking up to mommy and daddy singing. They also sang to him at school and had chocolate cupcakes. We celebrated with hot dogs and mac and cheese that night. Then, on to presents! He got a bike. He's really fast on it too!!

Then, we had a great birthday party with the Quist Family. Mommy made Daniel a Lightning cake. He sure liked it. He wanted more 'smoke' out the back of the car. It sure was great to see everyone.

The next weekend, we had a birthday party with Jen's side of the family. We made Daniel a 'dirt cake' for this party. He got a kick out of it. And, I have to admin, mom and dad sure liked eating the left overs for the next couple of days!
Here's him taking his bike for a ride. We haven't let him ride on it after this time because his helmet went with the boat to get stored for the winter. We'll get it back this weekend.

Daniel's Creativity

Daniel, along with his monkey and puppy were watching the cartoon "Super WHY" this morning while mom was getting ready for the day. There's a point where they introduce themselves (Super Why, Princess Presto, Alpha Pig, and Wonder Red), then they ask the kids at home to introduce themselves. Today Daniel said, "Daniel here. With Super Monkey and Happy Puppy."

He is becoming more and more interactive and creative with conversations, and it's so much fun (and entertaining) to watch him and to listen to him develop.

Swimming with Cousins

Last weekend, the Billy Quist family was up in the Cities for the girls bball tourney. We took that opportunity to meet them at their hotel and swim. Andie LOVED the water.

Here's Daniel and Landon showing their muscles and swim trunks. Can you believe they're only 6 months apart? Look at the height difference!

Here are some videos of the boys jumping in the pool.

On our way home after swimming, Daniel had a very hard time staying awake. He got in the house and went to the couch and said he was going to nap there. What a good work-out!

Andie's wonderful laugh

The laugh is finally caught on video. Daniel was such a helper and took the video for me :)

Here's some more right after that. She was laughing so hard at Daniel and we don't know why!

Great News!

Jen has just accepted a Software Quality Analyst position at Infinite Campus and will be starting on April 1st. This will be a great move for our family. The Campus is very close to home, so it provides us with a lot more flexibility than an hour commute each way did!! But, it also seems like a great company and a really good position, so we're very thankful Jen has this opportunity.

5 Months!

I can't believe Andie is 5 months old already! She's growing soo fast. Here are some great pictures of her in the last couple of days.

Tummy Time

Smiling for daddy

Watching Danny play with his trains...it's fun

Still watching the trains...

Mom-how much longer do we have to watch the trains?

Fun Stuff

Not much is new around here. Daniel is now a really big boy on the potty :) It's been a week of potty all the time! We're so proud of the little man-and very excited to not have to change messy, dirty pull-ups anymore. We enticed him with many different 'prizes' so we're not sure what eventually got him to go. But, he got ice cream, a big fire truck with great noises, and a new coloring book with a lot of markers.

One day when I was cooking dinner, Andie woke up from her nap while I was in the middle of cutting up onions. I asked Daniel if he could go talk to her while I finished up. Here's what I saw when I came upstairs...it's kinda dark, sorry.

Andie is finally starting to like her baths. Daniel LOVES to pour water on her while she's in there. Most times he keeps the cup on her belly, but sometimes he puts it on her head. :)

It was such great weather this weekend, we went outside one day and Daniel went sledding with Jack and Paige. Here's a video of them going down the hill. Daniel had a great time. He even carried his sled up the hill since that's what 'big kids' do! Oh, how fast they grow.