Zoey at Swim Class

When you live in Southern California, you can take outdoor swim lessons all year round! Zoey is really enjoying her classes, even though she is stuck in the group of all boys. Parents have to stay on the deck above the pool, but she yells up at us and waves throughout the lesson.

Here she is doing "red light green light splash time"



Here she is using the kickboard



And jumping in!!

Cute Kiddos

It's not often I get a picture of both kids, together and smiling at the camera, so I had to post!!

The boys with Daddy's Toys

Just some pictures of Max and Ross on the Chopper in progress...

Name Calling

One of our big issues with Zoey right now is name calling. She comes up with the craziest names for Max. One of the big ones is "Cagelli"; we have no idea where that came from, but she loves to call him that when she is mad at him. He doesn't mind so much, in fact, it probably bothers me and Ross a lot more, but we are still trying to correct it. Ross and I can't even look at each other when we are scolding her for this either because we crack up saying the words ourselves!! So she knows "Cagelli" is out, and she often stops herself in mid word. And when we ask her what she was going to say , she just makes something up like, "I was just saying babelli." Oh, okay, well that's better. So today we were playing outside when this took place:

Zoey (to Max running by): Hey Conjo! Stop it
Me: Zoey, what did you say? You know you don't call your brother names!
Zoey: I just said Conjo, which is Spanish for "he's wearing red pants"
Me (sort of thinking out loud, not expecting an answer): Oh, I see, kind of like an Indian name?
Zoey: Ah, no, Spanish.

Buon Compleanno

The night before Zoey's birthday, we (my mom, dad, Ross, Zoey, Max and I) went out to dinner to the Macaroni Grill. We were not specifically going here to celebrate Zoey's birthday, but told the waitress at the end of the meal that it was a special occasion. Much to our pleasant surprise, a lady brought out a cake for her and then sang Happy Birthday in Italian. It was very beautiful. Zoey sat very still and was a little shy about it, but you could tell she felt very special. It was the first time we had ever had that happen to her. It was just one person singing, too, not like other restaurants that bring out the whole wait-staff to sing their special birthday tune. (Although, that would have been fine for her too) It was just really sweet and she enjoyed it. I didn't have my camera, though. Too bad.

Zoey's Birthday pictures

Here are some pictures from Zoey's Birthday and just having fun with Grandma and Papa.

Events of the week

Sometimes you just have to laugh or else you cry, right? I haven't been able to post for a couple of reasons... First, we have spent the week trying to figure out why Max came home one day and just started limping and then hobbling and then barely walking along. It turns out he had a fractured femur! We aren't even sure how or when it happened. We went to pediatricians, and orthopedic doctors and had x-rays, all very fun with a 3 year old, and finally figured out he has a small buckle fracture. He started to show improvement on Friday, so that was a relief. He is not in a cast or anything, because they feel it would inhibit him more than help. Pretty crazy. But he is getting better, so that is a relief. We see the doctor again later in the week. In the meantime, we were told to keep him on bedrest, or at least keep him from running and jumping!! In a word, IMPOSSIBLE!! The first three days he really couldn't get around and told us, "I can't walk!" So he just played on his belly all day, which ended up making him very, very restless. So we are just trying to keep him contained.

The second reason I haven't posted is Max has figured out how to play the computer games and he no longer is content just watching Zoey. Since we didn't want him moving around too much, it was working out well, but it seems we have created a monster!! We have turned to hiding the computer!!

Some cute things that have happened or been said this week...

After going back and forth from doctor to doctor and getting x-rays everywhere, we were in one waiting room and I just sighed really loud. Max looked at me and said, "oh mom, how do you feel?" I said I was okay and asked how he was doing. He replied, "I'm happy." He really had good spirits through the whole week, before he got restless.

And Zoey got a bike for her birthday. I will post pictures soon. She didn't want to ride it, but the other day I was going to ride my bike to the grocery store, and she immediately wanted to join me. We had a fun ride. She went from never riding to taking a long ride to the store!! That's all for now... We are just plugging along. Ross is going out of town this week.