Happy Binary!

My kids are in their room coloring. How in the world did that happen. Well here's to a few quiet moments to blog. Hopefully they don't color on the walls. X.

So lots of exciting things the last two weeks. The end of 2010 was exciting with Brie setting a few milestones. She started hinting to us that she's independent and ready to go on her own. Literally go on her own. She doesn't want you to help her go potty. She'll still say "potty" to you and runs to the bathroom but if you follow her she'll insist that you stop where you are and she'll go the rest of the way. It's really cute to see her tiny little body running to the potty with her cute little curls bouncing up and down as she rushes to the bathroom. She's a talker, too and will tell you stuff if you ask her a question. One of our favorite questions is "Brie, where are you?" in which she replies "I'm right here" If you ask her where Reena is she'll say "she's right there". Her vocabularies as we counted one day was about 100 words. Sentences are starting to form as well so we decided that she was ready to say her own prayers. We helped her and she did a fantastic job. For a 19 month old!
Kids are out of the room climbing on my laps now so...pause. Yay for 10 minutes of quiet.
Now back to blogging after 6 hours...
Nothing gets Reena more excited than to go see the cousins and play play play with them. We spent New Year's Eve with the cousins in Bothell and had Aunt Laurie, Dan's cousins Bethany, and Jackie there as well with Dave's family. We stuffed ourselves silly with pizza and I was the winner of the silent pizza eating contest with 6 slices of pizza. So it comes down to it again, the skinniest person eats the most.


New Year's day was fun day for us. I won 4 free tickets to the Tukwilla Family Fun Center along with a free large pizza and drinks. We did the math and it came out to be an $80 value. We got lucky. Needless to say we had a lot of fun in that 3 hours and it was mostly because it was free! Reena was so excited about the frog hopper. Then when it started to hop, anyway you can see the rest of the story here.
At the beginning of January we got a little bit of snow so nobody was really going anywhere. Dan worked from home for several days. You're probably thinking a lot of snow, but it was actually maybe about 3 inches. Seattle hills. Yep. Nobody dared driving to Seattle to work and roll down the hills into the water. That was a treat for us to have him work from home.

About 5 days after the New Year my sister Thuyen came and visited us from Philadelphia. She wanted to see Seattle's winter before deciding to move out here. While here she saw misty rain (which she also loved), sunshine, and even snow. She and I went shopping and when we got out it had snowed about an inch but because of our hills (which made this place beautiful but also scary when it comes to snow), we almost got stuck. Luckily with backing out and some momentum we got up the little hill and got home safely.


Cuddling up and playing video games with Aunt Thuyen.
Touring Bellevue to watch the sunset



The kids had so much fun with their aunt and they got new toys and clothes. We pretty much had a second Christmas with their toys from the $ they got. We decided to give Amazon Tote a try. It was amazing. Our stuff came in a tote bag unboxed as if the guy that delivered it just went to the store and shopped for us. It was free shipping/delivery also and we got it 3 days after ordering. It was awesome!

The biggest most memorable event that we had with my sister was taking her to the Harry Potter Exhibition. All I can say about the exhibition is it's AMAZING. The sorting hat, oh so fun. It's so neat to see all the props that they used to produce a Harry Potter world. The craftsmanship of over 200 props and these aren't tiny items either. Several of the rooms were just as they were in the movie and everything you can think of from Quiditch matches to iconic items like Harry's original wands, Hagrid's hut, clothes, Mandrakes, Buckbeak the hipogriff, the giant Acromantula spider and other memorabilia. We couldn't take pictures inside but did take some at the bookstore and even brought home several collector's items. So much fun.


The rest of our time when we're not up doing something, we just goof off.
And these are just cute precious pictures of the cute kids that are sound asleep right now. Time for mommy to play Warcraft with daddy and show him who the master of DOTA is!!