Meyers Minutes

Thursday, March 26, 2009

What did you say?

Mr. B (almost 18 months) has quite the budding vocabulary. No surprise considering his big sister and her non-stop chatting! Here are a few of the fun things he says:

"waff" - waffle

"ee a go" - here you go

"ank oo" - thank you

"man e nin" - Madeline

"guck" - truck

"gack" - snack

"wadoo" - water

"muck" - milk

And of course, too many more too count, a few of which are mama, dada, ball, bowl, night-night, cat, dog, and lots of animal sounds.

It is so fun to watch his personality continue to develop. He is very much a mamas boy right now (much to my chagrin!) and he screams whenever I even leave the room, but we are assuming this is a passing phase and hope it ends quickly! Other than that, he is so easy going and loves to play with trains, cars, and anything else that "goes" - typical boy, right???

Monday, March 9, 2009

Trip to California

We returned a few days ago from a fabulous week in California! We visited family, spent 3 days at Disneyland Resort (see photos in next post), enjoyed a couple of beach days, and celebrated Madeline's 4th birthday. Jon's parents drove over from their winter place in AZ and joined us for one day at Disneyland and then we went with my parents on another day. The day in between was spent at CA Adventure (the other Disney theme park) with just the adult Meyers - Maddie and Brogan went to the beach with my mom and dad. After all the birthday madness, my grandparents came to visit (from AZ) and spend time with the kids. We went to Irvine Regional Park to ride the train, feed the ducks, ride ponies, and visit the little zoo there. It was a blast!

Maddie, Brogan (quite grumpy at the time!), Great Grandpa and Grandma Tait

Brogan's first pony ride - his trusty steed was named Rocky

Train ride with Grandma and Grandpa

Maddie and Daddy at Newport Beach

Brogan at Newport Beach

The birthday girl!

Madeline's Disneyland Birthday

Disneyland was a wonderful as I remember - we had perfect weather and it truly was magical to experience "the happiest place on earth" through the eyes of a little girl. We took hundreds of photos but below are just a few of our time at the park.

Tinkerbell and the Birthday Girl

Upon arrival with Grandpa Lynn and Grandma Sue

Meeting Minnie Mouse - Maddie's favorite character!

With Nana and Grandpa Bill in front of "It's a Small World"

Our family at the signature Disney locale - Sleeping Beauty's Castle

Friday, February 13, 2009

Where Did January Go????

The last month flew by! Not sure what "major" activities we did, but from the looks of the photos, we did a lot of building and constructing. The kids both love to work with their hands when it comes to play time and it's lots of fun for me and Jon, too!

One of Maddie and Daddy's famous pillow forts

Brogan had so much fun playing in this bin!

Shaving cream mountains

Our little engineer. I hate to label the kid at such a young age, but he seriously gets it done with the tinker toys and other blocks!!

Our church skate night - Maddie's first time on wheels and she loved it!

Zoo outing on one of the many warm January days - here's Maddie with Josh and Ethan

B and Maddie wearing their "capes"

Just about the only snow day last month - we made the most of it!

A floor to ceiling block tower. Clearly Daddy's project as I can't get more than 2 blocks to stack up at a time...

Maddie built this domino tower all by herself!

Ping Pong Madness - installment #2

So sorry for the delay in posting - the last month has been a blur! Here's a video clip of Brogan with the ping pong paddle and ball. He went through a phase of being completely obsessed with carrying the paddle at all times (he even went to bed with it one night!) and actually got pretty good and making contact with the ball.

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Ping Pong Madness - installment #1

So the obsession for ping pong in this family runs strong for ALL members of our household (except for me). The kids both love it (more pictures and video of that to come) and it seems even our kitty Hazie enjoys the game. This video is the real deal; she just hopped up on the table with my dad and Jon and joined in the game!

Christmas Chaos

We had a wonderful time during the Christmas "break". Jon was home for most of two weeks, which was such a blessing to me and the kids. My parents also spent a week here so I was very spoiled with all the extra hands! The kids loved all the additional playmates, of course. We hosted Christmas Eve dinner for my family and our friends the Crawfords; it was a great way to usher in that most magical of days - Christmas!

Santa managed to find our house and with Maddie being almost 4, it was a very big deal. She actually heard his jingle bells when she was getting ready for bed the night before and couldn't run fast enough into her bed. She was truly afraid he would pass up our house because she wasn't asleep yet. :) It's so fun to watch the magic of make-believe with kids at this age and it's such a blessing to be on the parent side. Thankfully Santa's helpers had the bike put together BEFORE Christmas Eve...

We were also able to celebrate a belated Christmas with some of Jon's family up at his Grandpa and aunt's house in Fort Collins. The Colorado cousins had so much fun together it was nice to have Uncle Warren visiting from CA.

All in all, we could not have been more blessed at the end of 2008 and are eagerly awaiting what God has in store for us this year.