Rhea's 1st birthday Party!

We celebrated Rhea's first birthday with family and friends this past sunday. Rhea was a sport the entire afternoon and gladly obliged to everyone who wanted to carry her. We had an action packed day...here are some pictures...

Making a giant leap into the world of letters!

Sean has been practicing his letters everyday for the past couple of weeks weeks. We have started with Uppercase letters. He does it in school but I wanted to give him an extra push from home and so far he has been very positive about it. I did promise to get him a 'Thomas' backpack when he is done with all his letters. Today he completed all of the uppercase letters...a big acheivement in itself..we still need to practice everyday and perfect them. I guess its time for me to go shopping for that backpack I promised him :)

Below is a snapshot of the first time he wrote his name on his own ...this was about 10 days ago...i know I've been a lazy poster...



Seany, we are so proud of you!

Tomorrow we start with numbers and then slowly progress to lowercase letters...

Rhea is a year old!!!

Last year this time(8:33 pm) we were at the hospital. Seems like yesterday...time flies...


She also had her 1 year appointment. here are the stas,

Height: 75th percentile
Weight: 25th percentile
Head circumference: Right on..

Here are some pictures from today...

Getting smarter than Mommy?

Yesterday I started from work a little early and picked up Sean first since it was too early to pick Rhea as it was still her nap time. On our way to Rhea's daycare there is a farm and I told Sean that they have cows and sheep and horses there. They just had a baby calf and sheep and I promised him we would visit the farm on a weekend when the weather was good. There were couple of cows outside in the fields so I pointed to them for him to see.

He was silent for a minute and then said,

Mom, cows don't have hands??

My mind was racing fast to come up with a good answer for him but all I could come up with was,

Sean, the two front legs are the cows hands.

I know that does sound ridiculous...even to me now that I think back.

He immediately shot back, Mom, that's for walking right?
Duh, yes son...legs are for walking not hands...what was mommy thinking???

I guess at some point i can explain how hands and feet are used differently by different 'Species'....good topic for our day in the farm that I promised him I guess...

Needs and Wants

Sean is pretty vocal these days about his 'needs' and 'wants'. Here are a few conversations from last week on our way back home from school.

Sean: Mama!
Me: Yes Sean
Sean: I want a baby brother.
Me: Why?
Sean: I want a baby brother and a baby sister. I want our baby but I want a baby brother too.
Me: How come?
Sean: Joseph has a baby brother.

At that point I had to giggle to myself...i was also glad that he mentioned he wanted to keep rhea and still want another baby. Whenever he throws a tantrum I ask him if he were to have a baby brother who would take care of the baby brother since he himself is behaving like one...that seems to calm him some...well for 5 seconds :)

Another one on the same day went like this,

Sean: Mom, I need a compuuuter.
Me: Why Sean. Why do you need a computer?
Sean: Because I dont have a computer...

kids...gotta love their honesty huh...