March 31 - I Want That

The bean's new favorite phrase: I want that!

So, our little dancing diva hit the stage this past weekend at her school's International Festival. After jumping in the bouncy house and getting her face painted, she only had eyes for the stage. She wasn't content watching the older kids perform their routines, she wanted to be part of them. Good thing J.D. and I were there to hold her back! In between the performances, the bean took advantage of the empty stage to bust a move! I cannot describe how thrilled I was to see her shake her little booty. I was hoping she'd be a ham and there is no question she loves to perform! It also seemed like every teacher in the school came up to us to tell us how they have never seen a child love dancing as much as Julia. I can't wait until she is 3 and we can sign her up for real dance classes.

Otherwise, we spent a lot of time at the park this weekend as well as one of my most favorite places in the world: the library. I also had my first experience watching and putting 2 kids to sleep Friday night when Hannah came over for a sleepover. Luckily-the girls were great. They were adorable in the bath and Hannah had a great time playing with Amelia. She doesn't have a dog and seemed amazed that Amelia liked all the food she tossed her (look! The puppy is hungry for dinner too!) and insisted on sleeping with a little black lab stuffed animal as well has having Amelia snuggle next to her on the bed for story time.

Overall-great weekend!

March 26 - Fall Preview

Baby Bean #2, due October 14, 2010!!

March 25 - Spring Fling

A bouncy house, egg hunt, petting zoo, hot dogs, cupcakes and fun prizes that included bubbles and stuffed frogs....I'm pretty sure kids and adults of all ages had a blast at the NASA Spring Fling last weekend! The weather was chilly and it was raining-but it didn't stop the Yamo family from enjoying every minute of the festivities (most of which were indoors). It was tough to drag the bean away from the bouncy house (which she LOVED) but she enjoyed the egg hunt and petting zoo. She wasn't interested in taking a pony ride (sorry Uncle B!) but she thoroughly enjoyed the chocolate cupcake. Overall-it was a fabulous day!!

March 19 - Blond Resurgence

I'm sure all of you have seen articles about how recessive genes (blond hair, red hair, blue eyes, etc) will eventually be a thing of the past. Whenever I read an article like that I expect to start seeing a lot more brown haired, brown eyes kids running around (or at least the majority). Interesting enough-I just realized today that almost all the kids in Julia's class at Baby Gator AND at Clear Lake Montessori had/have blond hair and blue eyes. Amazingly-EVERY girl in her class has the combination. Maybe our genes are realizing that blonds have more fun? At least during the rumbling and tumbling toddler years? Just a fun observation!

March 15 - Ready for Summer

The Yamo family had a HEALTHY weekend here in beautiful Houston. Both days were clear, sunny and warm (high around 80). On Saturday, the bean and I went to the pet store to buy Amelia some dog food and shampoo. For anyone with small children-I highly recommend the pet store. There is so much for the kiddos to see-fish, gerbils, hamsters, rabbits, birds, dogs, cats. It's amazing! Also-weekends are pet adoption days at most stores and the cats were all out this Saturday. As dedicated readers know-our little bean is a feline lover and had a great time petting all the kitties. After the pet store, we went to the library where had a great time being 'bookaneers.' Then we went to the park and bagel stores. After a much needed nap, the Radford's came over and we went to the park. The girls had a fabulous time playing together. Afterward, we all had pizza at our house. And all that was just on Saturday!

Yesterday was a little bit more chill, with a trip to the grocery store and Target. The bean has a new bikini..I couldn't resist, it was just too cute!! We also got some cute summer dresses and outfits. Target has some great deals right now if anyone is looking to beef up their kids summer wardrobe.

March 10 - Germs, Germs, Go AWAY!

It has been quite a week in the Yamo household. I came down with a stomach flu last week, J.D. had the flu over the weekend and our little bean has an ear/sinus infection. Except for a trip to the park on Saturday (where Amelia decided to roll around in a mud) it was a rough weekend. Luckily, J.D. is finally feeling better and Julia has a few days of antibiotics on her (her energy level is through the roof!) and she is feeling great during the day. She isn't sleeping well at night, but I'm hoping she'll be 100% better in a few days. Mommy and Daddy need their sleep!

Oh-I have a fun, cute update about the bean's potty training (I say 'training' loosely because we aren't really potty training her-we just have the Dora seats and if she tells us she wants to use one, we put her up there). She peed on the potty the other day for the first time and she has tooted (yes-I typed "tooted." You can refer certain things as 'toots' when one's an adorable toddler) twice. We think she is kind of getting the hang of it! Go Bean!

March 2 - milK

The bean has a new favorite word: milK (emphasis on the 'k'). She still loves her previous favorite word (apple-she goes nuts at the grocery store when she sees the fruit display) but for the last few days, milk is #1. When I picked her up from school yesterday, all she said on the way home was 'milk, milk, milk!' It was adorable!

So-did you all have a fab weekend? Ours had its ups and downs. Saturday we went to Barnes and Noble for Biscuit story time. We were a little late and missed Biscuit, but the bean was able to color with the other kids and had fun walking around the bookstore. I also found out B&N has story time every Saturday for kids, so you know where you will find us from now on!! That afternoon we went to the park (it was a beautiful day) and she had a blast on the swings and slide. After such a great day....we didn't have such a great night. Our little bean came down with a stomach bug and was up multiple times throughout the night sick. I think I did 4 loads of laundry between 10pm and 4am. Poor thing-luckily she seemed fine on Sunday.

On Sunday we went to Babies R Us, where we bought little Dora potty seats (to fit over our toilets). So far she's ignored them (I think that first experience sitting on the full sized potty scared her a little) but when she is ready-we'll be ready!

Not much else is going on in Casa de Yamo-except Amelia pulled a Guinness and ate an entire box of crayons today! Have a great Tuesday everyone!