Spring

We are certainly enjoying spring this year. Especially after the hardest winter this area has seen in 20 years. I know that seems laughable to my fellow North Dakotans... 2 days of snow and a couple of hard freezes.

Here was Ryan's latest dad confession: I was with Isabel at dance class so he had Liza duty. Liza needed her diaper changed and he couldn't find the wipes so he improvised with windex and paper towels. Aaahhh windex the good ole' multi-purpose cleaner. So while I monitored her closely for skin complications and imagined how to explain this to the pediatrician, he relished a job well done.

April 2010

Clowning Around




School Carnival




Taking out the trash







Ready for some shopping with her new purse from gramma




My funny anecdote from work:

I'm going to paraphrase a letter one of our kindergarten teachers received today from a parent........

"Can you help me? My son thinks he is turning into a leprachaun. He says his ears are getting pointy and he is shrinking. He keeps saying he needs to go to Ben's house to get a potion. I have told him this isn't true but he insists it is. Can you talk to him?"

Happy 2nd Birthday Liza!!

After months of practicing her tantrums, Liza is officially 2 today.

All About Liza at Age 2

Favorite color: purple
Favorite food: quesadillas, blueberries....really there's not much she won't eat
Favorite activities: reading her Elmo book, chasing the cats, playing dress-up, following her big sister
Motto: I'll sleep when I'm old, very, very old
Most frequent thing I say: Issi, bad, bad, bad (Liza is quite the tattle-tale)
Isabel's favorite thing about Liza: When we dress up in the same dresses
Mom and dad's favorite thing about Liza: getting kisses and hearing Iwuvooo (I love you)

Overheard

Isabel to Liza: "I can't wait to celebrate your birthday! I got you something already. Its a kitty piano. Can you say kitty? Liza say kitty."

Ummm....what happened to the pact to keep Liza's present a secret?