More of Grandpa and Grandma's Visit

Grandpa and Grandma also came to be here for Bryson's Grandparents Day at Kindergarten. He was pretty proud to have them here and had told his class that they had to come on 2 airplanes to get here (Bryson and Kaitlyn like to figure out distance by the number of airplanes it takes to arrive).

Bryson loves kindergarten and loves his teacher Miss Stafford.


We checked out the Imagination Station in Lafayette while they were here also. Kevin wasn't very impressed but the kids keep asking when I am going to take them again (it is nice that kids are easy to please)




Thanks Grandpa and Grandma for coming! We all had a great time!!!

To Mark and Tamarie:

Mark and Tamarie, we thought you would appreciate this. While Brenda and Gary were here, we played lots of games!!! We played the train game several times. We had to take a picture of this game to show you all the impressive things:
Dacia scored all the way to the bottom of the other side; Gary built quite the track in the south west corner (Kevin extra good cubes finally paid off)... We missed you and wish you could have been here!

Purdue

While Kevin's parents were here we took them to see more of campus. We went to the Alumni Center and the kids loved playing on the train. Then we went to the new Neil Armstrong Building.

Snow

Kevin's parents came to visit for a week and I haven't posted anything from all the fun we had yet. There are lots of photos to go through but I wanted to put these snow photos up to start with (It is currently snowing so this post felt more appropriate. All the snow we got from the storm when they were visiting melted, we will see how much this new storm will bring.) While they were here, we got a snow storm that even cancelled school. It was great for the kids to have extra time to play with Grandpa and Grandma.
Unfortunetly our snow here is not good packing snow so the kids have never gotten to make a snowman. Grandma was so good to help them make a snowman/snowpile.


They had fun but the snow was coming down as fast as poor Kevin could shovel. Brenda went back out a few hours later and had to shovel again.

Kaitlyn is 4

Kaitlyn's birthday was yesterday and so much fun! She gets so excited and is happy about anything so it is great to watch her open each little thing! We had an especially great birthday cause G&G Mumford were here to celebrate with us! The gift from Kevin and I was a "new" room. Brenda and I painted the walls pale pink and then I sponged the dresser wall (my first time and thought it turned out just like I wanted!). We then got her a new bedspread, nightstand, lamp, rug... We also got curtains but I am waiting for the rods to arrive so I may have to post an updated photo. It is fun to see her room so cute, before it was the previous owner's office so white walled with lots of nail holes... I had more fun that I even thought I would - watch out for the next project - even though there is still a few things I want to do in Kaitlyn's room :)

Perched

As Alyssa is getting so good at crawling and pulling herself up on things, she is fun to watch find new places in the house. This morning she was excited that she could look out the window. She sat there for more than 10 minutes just babbling away about the few inches of snow we got last night and she was very excited when she saw the garbage truck come by.

Our Happy/Smiling/Laughing Girl

For 2 days in a row, Alyssa has only taken one nap. The funny thing is that she still acts like she is ready for a nap, I put her in her crib, and for the next 2 hours she just plays. The great thing is she is happy when she is ready to get up.

This is her when I went to get her, happy and laughing. She just recently learned to pull her self up on things so I am not sure if that is what is keeping her from napping (maybe not though cause yesterday when I went in and peaked at her, she was laying on her back playing with her toes). She does think she is pretty big and has that look of accomplishment all the time now that she can crawl anywhere she wants, get from laying to sitting to laying all on her own, and pull her self up on things on her knees. I actually think it is more likely that she sleeps so much and so well at night so during the day doesn't need as much. Either way, as long as she is so happy, she can do what she wants. It is such a joy in my day to hear her happy sounds all the time.

While I am on the topic of happy, cute girls. Here is Kaitlyn on her new pony that the neighbors were getting rid of. She rides it all over, she gets quite the work out. She even packed her backpack and rode to North Carolina.