Summertime

We are officially "on holiday" for the remainder of the summer. We will be travelling around California, Utah and Nevada visiting family. We are having a great time at the Chipman's in California right now. We swim in the pool almost every day and are getting tan despite the 50 SPF sunblock.
Happy 4th of July

Grandpa Jeff's visit to Columbus

At the Columbus zoo with Grandpa Jeff

Some pictures

Christmas 2008




Ethan's 3rd Birthday



Pants?
Pants?
We don't need no stinkin' pants.

The blues of underroos

Morning of February 7th 2009.
Ethan has been doing very well with his potty training lately and had graduated to the privilege of wearing Thomas the Tank Engine underpants. This privilege was revoked this morning after a series of unfortunate incidents. In his first pair of underroos, he piddled all over a teddy bear and his pillow. As I was cleaning that up he pooped in the second pair. As I was cleaning that up, he stuck his finger in it. He felt bad about his accidents so he tried to help me clean up by flushing that second pair down the toilet. Luckily the toilet recovered, but I did not, so now he is back in pullups for a while.

Isabel's Debut

February 7th 2009
Here we are at the preschool talent night with 3-5 year-olds strutting their stuff. We had singers, an artist, a magician, and even a drummer. I had not signed Isabel up to do anything because she has always been shy and stood at the back looking as if to cry at these type of performances. At the end of the show, the emcee asked if there was anyone else who would like to perform a talent and Isabel's hand shot up into the sky and she ran up to the front dragging two girlfriends with her. Her most recent best friend Ayswarya went first and told an impromtu Cinderella story. Isabel took the mike next and sang a song she made up as she went. I wasn't fast enough to catch it on video, but it was about a hen sitting on an egg and it gave us a great laugh.