New Kicks

We were at Ross and Andrew wanted to look at his shoes. Lately he has been obsessed with trying on his size shoes wherever we go. He found these green and white Adidas shoes in his size and told me every reason why he needed them: "Mom, my black shoes are falling apart, they hurt my feet, they are stinky since I didn't wear socks..." (Which are all true!) So Andrew got some cool new shoes. He calls them his "Green Lantern" shoes. Andrew is very much into superheroes and would be happy to wear his Superman, Batman or Green Lantern shirt every day. He is sporting his Green Lantern one today.

The Boys Ganged Up

We went to TJ Maxx yesterday hoping they still had another curtain panel in stock that I bought last week. After we got the curtain (phew, there was one left), we went and looked at toys.

There was this cute monkey/blanket I showed Isaac and he started laughing and talking to it, super cute. When we were done I went to take it away from him and he immediately started crying and reached for it. I looked at him in awe thinking "you are only 3 1/2 months, how are you reacting like this?!" I told Isaac we don't need anymore toys but he cried and Andrew kept telling me "he really likes it, you need to buy it for him." Nevertheless, we came home with it and Isaac loves it. I guess I can't say no to two cute little boys.

On the flip side, I was so proud of Andrew to make his brother happy and not even ask for a toy or whine that he didn't get to buy something. He is such a great big brother who loves his little brother, who in turn adores him so much.

Thanksgiving

We had a great Thanksgiving this year!  We spent it in Seattle with Aaron’s brother Cameron and his wife Tiana and their adorable 6 week old baby girl Ellie.  We ate yummy food, played at a park and spent time with family.  We tried to go Black Friday shopping Thursday night, but if anyone has done that in Seattle, not really a good idea.  We weren't willing to stand in line to get into the stores for an hour.  So we checked into our hotel and relaxed in the hot tub and we all feel asleep watching a movie on TV.  I cant believe we didn’t get any pictures of Thanksgiving!

The next day we had breakfast with Cameron, Tiana and Ellie at the Family Pancake House, which was delicious!  We ran to Target and the Lego Store and wandered around Bellevue Square Mall for a bit.  Afterwards, we went to the Museum of Flight. 

Andrew is really into airplanes and we thought this would be a great place to take him.  Plus we got in free with our science center membership, so why not. It was POURING rain, more rain in Seattle then I had seen in a long time, so it was nice to be indoors.  Andrew LOVED the museum!  He oohed and awed over all the planes and he thought it was great that we could walk through some of the planes.  Outside they have an Air Force One from Kennedy’s time and a Concord that you could walk through.

The planes in the main part of the museum. Andrew loved this room!

Flying airplanes

There was a kids area, which Andrew loved.

Us photographing ourselves while Andrew plays.

The control tower, looking over the parking lot.

The Concord

Air Force One

 

Andrew picked out a Blue Angels plane from the gift shop, which now goes everywhere with us, and a plane medallion from one of the souvenir dispensers in the World War I and II area. 

We had so much fun and cant wait to go back!