Funny faces

LUMC picnic

Today was the LUMC end of the year picnic at Black Hoof Park and boy did we have a good time! First off, this is a park that was very close to our old house and I will miss it tremendously now that we have moved. We still have lots of friends that live nearby though so it is a good excuse to get out there. Anyway, all of Christopher's teachers were there. Here is a picture with him and Miss Bev, his assistant on Thursdays...

His teachers were truly wonderful this year and they all had fun today at the picnic. Here is Miss Debbie playing with Chris and Olivia. So cute!

It was truly amazing to see all of the wonderful families we have come to know so well from LUMC. Besides Olivia, Chris got to play with Lahna and Liam, Kenyon, Lia, Jefferson, Emma, Chloe, and Luca among others. Many of our former neighbors go to LUMC too so it was fun to catch up with them as well. On top of all that, today was the last day of school for the kids in Olathe and I saw three of the kids I taught in kindergarten at Manchester Park when I was pregnant with Christopher. They are so big now! Especially the boys and I realized they will all be in 5th grade next year. Holy cow! The picnic made me realize why we will be staying at LUMC next year--it is a wonderful community of really nice, caring families and we couldn't be happier to be a part of it all!

Last Day of School

Today was Christopher's last day of CDO at LUMC. (Sniffle, sniffle!) It has been a wonderful year with all of his new friends and teachers and we are sad to see it end. Wednesday will be the school picnic so we will get to see everyone again. We have been so lucky to have such wonderful, caring teachers for our little boy and we thank them with all our hearts! Here is Chris with Miss Debbie (left) and Miss Michele. (Miss Bev, his assistant on Thursdays is not pictured).

Happy Birthday Daddy

Today we celebrated Daddy's birthday with some of his favorite things... pizza and cake! Christopher helped me make the cake yesterday and even got to lick the spoon and a little bit of the bowl. And of course he was very excited to eat the cake too! Here it is before we served it to Daddy...

Then we sang to Daddy too!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrdFTNo2gCg

And here he is finally getting to enjoy his, I mean Daddy's, cake...

As you can see, Henry the engine joined us for cake as well. Unfortunately for him, Chris did not give him any to eat. Finally, here is the card that Chris made for Daddy. Until recently, drawing and coloring have not been his favorite activities. But you can see that he is getting better now!

Daddy's got some big ears, according to his son!

Goings on

Where to start? The Rangers and Devils are playing each other in the conference finals (so you can imagine what our house is like right now), we have moved into our new house, we sold our old house, Mommy went on a trip to Chicago, and school is just about over for our buds. Geesh! So much to talk about! I don't have a ton of pictures, but I will share what I've got. We've been busy meeting many different friends at many different parks and open gyms so here is what that is looking like. Major bonus of the new house=we are about 7 minutes away from Franklin Park (see blog entry from July 23rd, 2011) which is fabulous! We met Nico there last week and the water was turned on so Chris was in heaven...

We also fed the ducks with Luca last week at Antioch Park and went to open gym at Elite with him. Here are the "brothers" having fun together as usual...

While I was away in Chicago, Chris and Daddy were invited to Luca's family birthday party. We are so lucky that these boys are such good friends. Since they are both onlies, they have truly become like brothers to each other! Here they are having yummy cupcakes in celebration of Luca turning 4...

I was sorry to miss the party but I had some important things to attend to, namely Chrissie's new babies, Conor and Riley! I got to help out my dear friend from high school as she took care of her little babies and her almost-2-year-old son, Bennett. She is an incredible mom and it was fun to feed, burp, and hold the little guys... and then give them back! :) Here are some pics of the Chen-Pariso clan...

And I forgot to mention one important event... Chris is taking the first nap he's taken in his bed in over 3 weeks. Hence my ability to get a blog entry written!

Family pictures

For the first time ever, we got family pictures done by J. Smith Innovations Photography, a local husband and wife photography team. They did such a fabulous job and on Saturday, Brian and I went to their studio to pick out our favorites and decide what prints we want to get. Below is a link to a slideshow of our favorites. If you are asked for a password, type in "wogfam." Enjoy!

http://jsmithinnovations.zenfolio.com/p624329539/slideshow

Athletic feats

In the last week, we have been very busy moving and getting settled into our new house here in Kansas. In the meantime, we have to keep Chris on as normal a schedule as possible and since he's been spending a lot of time in the car driving back and forth between houses with me, I have been looking for every opportunity to get him moving and running around. This past Friday (day after moving day) we took Chris to open gym at Elite Gymnastics, where he has been taking lessons. His teacher, Miss Ally, was there and Chris tried showing off some of his moves to her! Here he is on the bars...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=105Ojb2_ot8

It is very possible that he did that forward flip over the bar about 35 times in a row! Then today we returned to hockey where Chris was showing some of his dribbling skills. This is quite possibly the slowest breakaway in the history of breakaways but Christopher's concentration is admirable!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyUde5Czrmg