Brown Bear Barney

Madison brought home from Kindergarten a stuffed bear. His name is Brown Bear Barney. He came with his own brown bag and a story book that told his story. Included in the bag was a school made story book that the kids add to. Each child gets to take Brown Bear Barney home over a weekend. Well the weekend Barney came home with us we were headed up to the cabin to get away and play...Let me tell you Barney has never had so much fun in his entire bear life! Here's what he did....


However Grandpa had him doing other things!

Drying out from sledding!

Barney roasting over an open fire....

It was a fun trip...as is always a trip to the cabin to get away, and I'm sure Brown Bear Barney will never forget it!

Cheerleading

Last year Madison participated in a clinic for "Future Northridge Cheerleaders" it was alot of fun. But the year was a totally different story! Madison is exactly like her father!...when it comes to her sleep habits. Daniel's parents would try everything to keep him awake during the winter, because Daniels body said...it's dark outside I should be asleep! Which in the winter he was going to sleep at 5:00...Madison is the same, we try everything from singing to shouting and everything outside and in between, she just does not, can not stay awake. So having the basketball game in February at 7:00PM is not good for Madison. She starting falling asleep during the first quarter, so by the time half time came around Madison was beyond grumpy and upset and so she cried through most of the cheer number. Check it out!



Sooo TIRED!
Pulling it together...sort of?

Still no smiles...

There's one...maybe?

So after a little talk we decided we are not going to try to do cheerleading again next year. We...I mean she was just not built for late night cheering during the winter months. Oh well, it was still fun...and besides we won!

Gymnastics

GYMNASTICS!
For Christmas Santa brought Madison gymnastic classes. So at the end of January and into February our Saturday mornings we were found at the Davis Gymnastic Center, watching Madison trying out the different things that gymnists do. It was fun. She was more coordinated than alot of the other girls. But for some reason she can't get the beat of the music. Hopefully in time she'll get the beat.



Here she is stretching...was I ever that flexible?

Just like her mom, she is double jointed...it looks kind-a gross.

Look at the back bend!

It was fun and now she is even more interested in gymnastics, if only it wasn't so expensive. But this little sampling of gymnastics was well worth it ($35 for 6 weeks) !

McKinley

Well McKinley is 1 and I haven't posted like I was in January. Heavens that was a record month of 11 posts. Well so sorry to all you blog stalkers that don't leave comments but do follow our blog, I have totally been slacking for the month of February. For shame! :(

Anyway McKinley went to the Dr. for her one month check up. She now weighs in at a hefty....19 lbs 2 oz. She is in the 25th percentile for her weight. (And Daniel was worried she was going to be fat!)

She is 29 1/4 inches tall. So for her height and head circumference she is in the 50th percentile, so she's a skinny average little girl. She had to have 3 shots and her blood drawn. She was NOT a happy little girl.

So for an update in our life. I have yet another sinus infection. I had one for the entire month of December and finally after Christmas was over it. Now I have one AGAIN! Madison has started gymnastics and did a cheerleading clinic I'll post pics tomorrow, once I find the camera. Carter is being tuff as a little boy. Daniel is now 31, we celebrated his birthday yesterday. He got a computer for Valentines Day, his Birthday, our Anniversary, and any other upcoming holidays. We were burning up our laptop, and our other computer was ancient and wouldn't work and had porn on it. (to sum up that statement: our computer went online by itself and downloaded porn so when you turned the computer on it would bring up porn before going to our home page. Disgusting, and we had a huge phone bill since the computer was dialing 900 #'s)

So now we need to transfer stuff from the laptop to our *new * computer! Yeah! This week though is going to be crazy! We have the Blue & Gold Banquet on Wednesday. And then on Friday... woot, woot...off to the cabin for a little weekend getaway!

Anyway I'll post more tomorrow along with some pics.
Until tomorrow.....