Summertime fun...in March! :)

We dragged out the Slip'n Slide once again and Bear Cub L-O-V-E-D it!  He got the hang of the 'sliding' part and had a blast.  I loved sitting outside, in the shade, watching my boy laugh and have such fun.  Spring is the best in Florida!

Weekend Fun!

Hi! We had a great weekend, starting with celebrating Grandpa's birthday on Friday night with a yummy dinner out and some playtime at the mall.  Saturday took us to the zoo with a friend of Daddy Bear's from when HE was a little guy.  His friend and family live in Canada and were reconnected through Facebook.  We had a good time at the zoo and Bear Cub was SO great with his new little buddy, who is about a year younger than him.  It was SO cute when they walked off, hand and hand, to explore the zoo.  They chatted together and acted like they'd known each other for years.  Too bad they live so far away!  Hopefully we'll see them again next year when they come to Florida for their yearly visit.  Enjoy the pictures!  :)

Some Friday pics...

Having a picnic lunch with best buddy J from the neighborhood.  Notice Zoe's bowls too -- BC brought those over for her to eat with them, too.  

Fun at the park!  Love the dirt smeared on his cheek!

Umm...yea...I think he's finally outgrown the baby swings.  Ha!  He does swing 'big boy' style too -- still working on that crazy skill of pumping!

Howdy, all!

Hello there!  Wow...where did February go?  Happy March!  It's been a busy few weeks for us.  Hate to rub it in, Northern readers, but we are back in the pool again, enjoying the sunshine and Spring.  It has been gorgeous!  And I am so happy to say that Bear Cub still has his mad swimming skills...need to find that boy a swim team!  Seems like most of them start at age 6, but I'm going to keep looking!

Bear Cub had to miss a couple of days of school last week due to strep throat.  It is amazing how quickly he got over that once he had antibiotics!  Thank goodness for modern medicine!  He went back to school last Friday and we then met up with Mimi at a yummy Spanish restaurant and did some shopping (well, more looking than anything else!) at IKEA.  That was fun!  BC wanted to go into the kids play area there...it was awesome!  We dropped him off (with IKEA supervision, of course) and had 45 minutes to poke around and look at what we wanted to.  I was just so proud that he wasn't afraid to try that and he LOVED it!

Last weekend, we met up with Grandma, Grandpa, Aunt S, Uncle T, and cousin A for a fun meal out and play time at the mall for the kids.  BC must've ran 10 miles that night around and around that play area!  Wow!  He was  a sweaty mess by the time we left.  :)

This week has been a good one so far...life is SO busy.  My work is going well, but it is a lot of just that...WORK.  We seem to have adjusted to our new schedule here at home and I am thankful to have such a wonderful husband that will do so much to help me.  He does a lot!!  :)

Enjoy the few pictures here!  I need to get back to my old photo-taking ways...BC is so active that it is sometimes hard to catch him to take a picture!  He's been riding his bike a lot and of course, hitting the pool...so I am constantly RUNNING to keep up with him and always have a watchful eye on him when he's in the pool.  Most of the time I'm in too...tossing him, giving him "turtle rides," or playing some kind of fetch game with whatever critter he has brought with him.  He is one BUSY boy!  :)

 Looking so handsome in his new shirt before school yesterday!  Busy reading his snake book before we left...

Relaxing with Zoe...watching some TV

 Zooming on the firetruck ride at the Fair a few weeks ago

 YUMMY cotton candy!  :)

Have a great rest of the week!!

Happy, happy Valentine's Day!

Hi there!  I hope your week is off to a great start.  What better way to start the work week than with VALENTINE'S DAY!  :)  Bear Cub was THRILLED with his new Phineas and Perry the Platypus stuffed animals.  The boy LOVES the Disney cartoon, "Phineas and Ferb."  I have to admit...I do too!  It's pretty funny, yet still not TOO big kid-ish for my lil man.

BC also had a Valentine "Friendship" party at school which he said was "very fun."  He was excited about his Valentine cards and most definitely the CANDY!  He went from no sweet tooth to a mouth full of them!  Ha!  Takes after his mother there.  ;)

Sorry for my short blog -- I will update again with pics from last week's trip to the fun Florida State Fair!

 He look so big in these pictures!  My baby!  I know I'm biased...but that face!  He is so dreamy!

My homemade Valentine treat!  BC and I couldn't decide between chocolate chip and peanut butter cookie dough to make our cookie cake, so we did half and half!  It was YUMMY!!!  :)

It's Official..for the second time now! ;)

Hi there!  Well, Thursday was our court date to readopt Bear Cub here in the States.  This was an optional thing to do, but it will make HIS life easier as he can know obtain a copy of his birth certificate from the good 'ol US of A, instead of Russia.  :)

It all ran smoothly and it was an easy process!  We were in and out of the courtroom within 10 minutes...at the most!  The judge seemed really nice and he said he LOVED doing these cases as it was for something GOOD instead of what he usually sees.  I'm glad we could brighten his Thursday some!  Bear Cub was a wiggle worm...surprise, surprise.  But thankfully, he is so gosh darn cute and young enough still, that everyone thought he was adorable.  Phew!  ;)  He did shake hands with the judge and answered the few questions he was asked.  All in all, it was a great experience and now truly, the end of the adoption process.  I'm glad we did it!  We'll be getting his new birth certificates within the next few weeks.

Happy Super Bowl Sunday to you!  I don't have a preference as to who wins...usually I enjoy the commercials more than any of it!  :)  Have a good one!

 Getting sworn in...BC did great with the hand raising!

 BC said he was going to make a silly face for this one...and yes, he did!

 Here he is...spinning around and around me while the attorney asked us a few questions.  

 Listening in for a split second?

 Split second GONE...trying to climb into the juror box.  Oh my.  Me...TRYING to pay attention still!

 Shaking hands like a big boy!

A nice picture!  The judge asked BC if he wanted to sit up in his judge's seat.  BC very seriously shook his head 'no.'  I don't think he knew WHAT to think of the guy in the black robe!  Ha!  :)

Friday surprise...Busch Gardens! :)

Hi there!  Look at me!  Look at me!  2 posts in two days!  :)

I picked Bear Cub up from school yesterday as usual but surprised him with an unexpected trip to Busch Gardens.  He'd been talking about going again and we got  the news that his free preschool pass from last year was renewable again this year...FOR FREE!  Woo-hoo!  Love that! My pass is good through April, so I want to take advantage!

Wow, it's great to go during the week...it was so uncrowded and the weather was so pleasant!  I'd say this was  our most successful trip to BG.  Normally, BC is only into the animals, but yesterday he really got into the kiddie rides at the "Sesame Street" play area.  He LOVED the swings, which I knew he would!  He rode twice in a row and yelled out to me, as he whizzed by a few times, "I really.....do like.....these swings....Mommy!"  So cute.

The BEST part of the day for me was when he looked up and smiled and said, "I loved today's surprise, Mommy!"  Now that did my heart good!  :)

Enjoy the pics and have a wonderful weekend!