14 months

Andrew has not been feeling well, but he was a trooper and posed for a few pictures.

Andrew has started becoming more vocal. He says Mama, Dada, thank you, more, no, hot, go, ball, Elmo, dog, hi and bye-bye. I made masala shrimp on Friday and he ate ten large shrimp. The next day I gave the kids hot dogs so that James and I could have the left-overs. Andrew kept saying no-no then pointed to the shrimp and said more. Why won't my children eat "kid" food?

Elizabeth modeling the new flower earrings she picked out. They're pink of course.

The budding actress. She really wanted me to keep taking pictures of her. She decided to perform - here is her sad face.

Silly face

Happy tiger

???
Distraught maybe?

We can't wait for spring. There have been a few nice days. I was so excited to finally get the double jogger out.

Great Wolf Lodge Trip

We had a fabulous time on our winter getaway.
The children slept (yeah!) and were very well behaved - what more can a mother ask for?

Michael warmed up to the "big" slides quickly. He loved the fully covered, nearly pitch-black slides like this one.

But he would also hang out with his little sister and brother in the baby area.

For the first two days Elizabeth did a few slides but preferred the lazy river and the hot tubs.

By the last day she went on some big slides by herself.
It was really difficult to get a good picture.

One of my favorites were these huge slides that go outside the building. I love Michael's expression of pure joy here.

After the huge bucket of water dumped on the kids one time they weren't too keen to do it again. Here they're running away from James and the deluge.

Michael and Elizabeth had to go on the little kid slides at the exact same time.

Elizabeth and Andrew took full advantage of the other activities in the resort. Here she's bossing her brothers around in the play room. She walked into the Art room and asked, "What craft will we be doing today?" They also liked the Arcade.

My little wolf
In the evening there was a show followed by story time. The kids were tickled to go down in their pajamas.