bye Tony

Our children's zoo is shipping their seal, Tony, off to Kentucky. The zoo was open for the day to say farewell. It was freezing, but hey it was a chance to get out of the house and the zoo is usually closed all winter.

Molly fell asleep in the car on the way to the zoo. She was pretty crabby the whole time we were there. It takes her a while to wake up.

Gabe was happy to be out with all the other people.

All About Miss Molly

This book is awfully sweet.

When I sing with Molly I point to the letters. She tries to do the same. She does pretty well until the middle.... I've been working with her on letters. She knows most of them now except for u,v, and q she consistently confuses those ones. I think it's funny that if you ask her what letter is this "w" she'll say double-x instead of double-u.

*Molly LOVES puzzles. She's really good at them too. We have a few 24 piece ones that she can do by herself. I'm sad there haven't been any in the Target $1 bins in a while.

*We play hide and seek A LOT. A couple days ago Molly counted to 11 all by herself. Usually her numbers are all over the place. Last night she was back to her usual 1.2.3.4.8.9.10.

*Molly's favorite color used to be yellow. Around Thanksgiving it changed to Pink. Here favorite book is Pinkalicous. Like the mom in the book all I hear is I want pink!pink! pink! all day long.

*Molly loves to sing. On Tuesday mornings we go to Music Makers. We've learned a lot of new songs that I get to hear all through out the day.

My 2nd Hockey Game

Eric scored us tickets to a hockey game. Eric's cousin, Kyle, is on the UNO (University of Nebraska-Omaha) hockey team. The players on the team get so many tickets a game for family and friends. The sad part of the night was that Drew and I had tickets at will call. So did Chantel and Phil, but Eric, Kyle's cousin, didn't... I'm not sure how that happened. UNO played Ohio State. It was similar to the game we went to last year. Nebraska was behind or tied for most of the game. Nebraska pulls ahead for a little bit and then it ends in a tie. In overtime it was still a tie. However in the shoot off we pulled ahead and won. Exciting and long. I felt bad leaving the kids for so long. Secretly I'm a little happy the UNL doesn't have a hockey team. I know that if we did Drew would have season tickets and would be gone even more than he already is.

Kyle started playing Hockey when he was 3. Drew asked me if I'm ready to sign Gabe up next year. smiling and shaking my head.

Chicago Trip Pictures Part 1

Two of my favorite people.

Here are a few of the people we spent time with on our trip...

Great Grandpa and Grandma Bragg.

Grandma and Grandpa Mickley.

Julie and Great Grandpa Mickley.

Dranny and all the Wilkerson cousins.

(This was my favorite picture of all the kids. Gabe was having a meltdown. I wish I could say that meltdowns are uncommon, but that would be a HUGE lie.)

Uncle Ben celebrating his 15th birthday.

*Side story*

Yesterday the phone rang. The caller id said University of N. I assumed it was Drew and let Gabe answer the phone. Well you know what they say about assuming things. It wasn't Drew and I was a little embarrassed.