Christmas highlights

 Michael's Fire Station and Police Station

 Santa bought a whole bunch of pretend food for the kids, but didn't get the play kitchen to go with it yet... We all had veggies and sandwiches for breakfast.

 Michael and Liz having some tea

Lizzy, baby Mary and the stroller!

a very Wegmans Christmas

 Rudolph Popovich (as he was known the last day of pre school) asked for a Wegman's truck for Christmas...

 And Grammy and Dino were very happy to oblige.

Garden Factory 2011

 Liz visiting the pointsettias

 Time with Santa Claus

Mikey driving the train 

A big slide 

A few years ago The Garden Factory people added an indoor light show set to music... It was really awesome to see the lights dance to the music... 

Failed attempts at lovely Christmas photos

 Liz running away

 Attempting to tackle her into submission

 Crawling away

My adorable kids, in their Santa jammies... 

Lemon Girl

Not sure if Lizzy likes lemons..... but isn't she cute???

Swimming like a fish

Mikey takes swim lessons at the high school in town. The facility is great and he LOVES when Thursday rolls around for swim lesson time!

 Mikey swimming without a bubble, using a barbell!

 Getting ready for the deep end

Out on the diving board. On the 2nd try he actually jumped in the water! Go Mikey!!!

Happy Halloween

The Lion and Dorothy had a great time Trick or Treating around the neighborhood!

The start of the Halloween season.

I love Halloween. As a "test run" we went to the Al Sigl agencies WalkAbout. Proceeds from the walk benefit programs like my workplace. It's in a local mall. Kids come decked out in their Halloween finest and the partner agencies of the Sigl Center set up trick or treat stations. 

Dorothy trying out her Ruby Slippers

A cowardly lion who looks a lot like Michael ]

My kiddos. Costumes courtesy of the gifted seamstress Grammy Jean. Purple Toto balloon dog courtesy of the RHSC balloon animal guy. 

Oh look. One of those cut out things you can stick your heads in! I have to train the kids better to both look at the camera at the same time. 

The Museum of Play

Lizzy loved the baby area! We never really played there before because Michael has always been too big!!! Its a great area for babies who are walking like my 9 month old girl does like a champ. 

Football Mikey! Football was the travelling exhibit. Michael loved it until he realized this meant that the giant tinkertoys from 6 months ago had been replaced!

Too much fun at the Museum. She catnapped on me for 20 minutes and then was ready to go again!

Mikey shadow dancing. He had some great moves going!

Somerset, NJ

We went to NJ to visit our recently relocated good friends. We are so glad they are closer to us now!! And in the neighborhood of some of the family!

 Liz and Mac playing cars

 All the kids

 Making faces on cookies

 Mike and Jack making funny faces

Uncle Kevin and Aunt Susan with all the kids waiting for our table to be ready at a restaurant.

The Crayola Factory

Columbus Day weekend we headed to NJ to spend time with friends and family. To break up the trip we stopped at the Crayola Factory. It's a great place that Michael adores! 

Hanging out in the dough room. You can purchase small packets of Crayola Model Magic and play to your hearts content. I love the stuff too. 

They even let you color on the walls at the Crayola Factory. 

 Upstairs from the Crayola Factory is a museum that covers early transportation methods. It's a great place that kids can roam free in and possibly learn something!

Liz wants to play blocks too!

Naming the River Boat

Garden Factory 2011

I can never resist these photo op things. The fall festival at the Garden Factory around the corner from us has tons of these things! And they had pumpkins. I didn't get photos of those though. 

Pre School Field Trip

Getting prepped for the trip to the Fire Station. Michael's class made fire hats!

The kids learning about all the things that the firemen use in the truck. 

Photo-op with a fire truck and saying thank you to Fireman Joe!

King of the mountain

 Had dirt delivered on Monday (4 tons) to fill in where trees were removed.  Mikey decided to climb on top of the dirt pile.

 Mikey at swimming lessons last Thursday.