Playground Fun

The kids are enjoying every ounce of warm sunny weather here in Florida!

Banana Pancakes

Yummy homemade pancakes have been a special treat for the kids and fueled them for the day while visiting Grandpa and Grandmuhie in Orlando this week.

Disney 2013: Animal Kingdom

The kiddos had a fun day filled with character visits, stage shows, and rides. Sam enjoyed the Triceratops Spin ride and clapped and pointed all the way through the stage shows. Grace was excited to see Mickey and Minnie again this year and met a few other new characters, too. We plan on taking them to Fantasyland in Magic Kingdom on Monday. More pics to come. Hopefully we remember our camera this next time. All these photos were taken with our phones :(

Good Girls Get Pie

Trading Slippers For Heels

Mommy got some new shoes today...I think Grace approves!

Little Stinker

Grace: "Moooom, you have scratches on your forehead."

Me: "No Grace. those are wrinkles."

Engine House 14

As apprehensive as we were to put our kids in daycare so young, we totally love the daycare center our kids attend - a lot.  They are constantly doing cools arts and craft stuff that even Pinterest couldn't comprehend.  Not along the arts and crafts line, but even cooler in my opinion, they were visited recently by the local fire department, Engine House 14.  

I'm not sure if it was the bewildering reflectivity of the firefighter's jackets, or the divine skills of the daycare staff, but any group of adults that can get twenty 2 year olds to sit still for more than a millisecond are heroes worthy of endless praise in my book.  I only have two kids and I think I've only gotten them to sit still together.. eh, maybe twice - and that may have been by luck.  Hats off to the firepeople and the daycare staff.

Although Grace isn't the center of any of these photos, she's easy to spot in her red jacket.  What I would give as a father for her to look at me with a face full of awe and wonder...