Friendship Dance

Shannon's class celebrated Valentine's Day with a Friendship Dance. Everyone was encouraged to "dress fancy." Shannon was so excited to go to school in her party dress and shiny shoes.

Things only got better when her BFF Natalie arrived. These two are joined at the hip when they are together and are so cute watch. They love playing shopping, dress up, birthday cake and reading books in their classroom.

Get used to this adorable face... Shannon is going to marry Natalie and they are going to live in the Phillies stadium with the Philly Phanatic. When he comes over for dinner, they are going to make him mashed potatoes and chicken.

Happy Valentine's Day!

Here we're celebrating Philly-style.... heart-shaped soft pretzels.

Kelly's true love is these days?

FOOD!

Blizzard 2010

Last week we got slammed with two big snow storms. Fri-Sat's snow brought about two feet and Tues-Wed's storm added another foot. These pictures were taken after the first snowfall... imagine even more on top!

It was the first time we took Kelly out in snow. She loved it! (For the whole 4 minutes she was out there.)

Shannon's class has been talking about bears and hibernating so she really enjoyed the snow cave Daddy made for her.

And speaking of Daddy... thank you for all of the shoveling you've been doing!

Train Ride

Shannon is obsessed with trains right now so we decided to take a ride into the city. We live 5 minutes from a stop on the local commuter rail so she was really excited about riding the train that we see many days as we go to and from school.

(All of that pretending train on dining room chairs paid off, she knew just what to do with the tickets.)

Both girls liked the dark, dark tunnel as we got into the city. Shannon confirmed her Nally genes by insisting that we look at the "map."

Our destination was the Reading Terminal Market in "Philly Delphia." We had some yummy breakfast (shown here on Shannon's face), looked at the "lots of kinds of foods" and bought some cheese and produce to take home.

Yum. We need to do this trip again soon.

Kelly: Ten(ish) Months

So as long as she's not eleven months yet, it still counts as a ten month photo, right?

Here the shots that give a more accurate report of what Kelly looks like these days:

Standing on her own! And she's taken her first steps this month. Still prefers to crawl but if you are less than 3 feet away and encourage her to come to you, she'll give walking a try, cracking up with each step.

Other firsts this month... first tooth (yesterday, bottom left), first ambulance ride and first trip to the ER.

We had quite a scare last weekend. Kelly had a febrile seizure as we were on our way home from the Please Touch Museum last Saturday. She's totally fine (minus two ear infections which caused the high fever which caused the seizure) and the good news about febrile seizures is that while they are horribly scary to watch your kid go through the medical community describes them as harmless.

Kelly continues to be a big old goofball. In these next photos, she was just having a ball in her crib with Lamby.

She's also got a new trick. If you say, "Awwww, Kelly" she'll assume the official Aww, Kelly Pose.

She's also a dance machine (loves Wheels on the Bus, Row Row Row Your Boat and is one of the babies mesmerized by Beyonce's Single Ladies-- just the song though, she hasn't seen the video).

Her hair is getting long and curls when its wet. I can't even begin to imagine her with a fro like Shannon's.

Kel, you crack us up.

Dear Blog,

I'm so very sorry for neglecting you. Is it really February already?

Love,

Jodi