Steps of Hope Walk

On Sunday was the Steps of Hope Walk for Autism awareness. Whitney and I walked with the Osseo team (Elliot was with Ryan and Lorelei). This is my 5th year of walking. We have the largest group of walkers for the state! Denise Blanchard, a parent from Weaver formed our group 5 years ago. This past summer Denise was diagnosed with lung cancer. So this year in her honor we all wore pearl ribbons and then presented her with a dozen pearl colored roses. Pearl is the color that symbolizes lung cancer. Stacy Ness (Autism teacher at WVR) gave the speech to recognize Denise for our group.

Jack and Becky joined us in the walk this year. It was great to have there support and Whitney enjoyed having her buddy walk with her!

Stacy and Denise

Play Dates

Last Sunday we had a play date with our buddy Jack. We took the kids to the mall and let them play on the indoor playground. They all had a blast!!

We also recently went over to another little boys house. At this play date there were 5 of them all 3 and under. They all played so well and had so much fun and for a bonus the moms had a nice visit!!

Is anyone watching me eat all these crackers? If don't put them all in my mouth at once one of the boys might try to steal them!!

Oliver and Whitney in the Coozy Coup. Oliver was not a huge fan of Whitney joining him. She hopped in and took right over. Oliver tolerated this for a little while and then he politely opened the door for her and gave her a gentle shove to help her out of the car.

Johnny lounging in the ball pit

Elliot and Jack playing with the race track.

Trip to Williston

Over Valentine weekend the kids and I took the train to Williston to see Grant. The kids absolutely loved being on the train!

On Saturday we had a wonderful lobster dinner. We were lucky enough to celebrate Valentines Day with both sets of grandparents. Thanks Doug and Mavis for the wonderful meal. Elliot did not know what to think of the live lobsters. He kept calling them monsters. Once he found out that we were having them for dinner he had quite the concerned look on his face.

Hanging out with Grandma Sala

While in Williston the kids got to spend sometime with Great Grandma Mildred.

This is what we have been up to this week.......

Elliot put together his first puzzle

Whitney spent her time emptying the magazine basket

Both kids enjoyed playing out in the sow with dad. Elliot and daddy buried Whitney. Looks like she thought it was fun!

Elliot pulling Whitney around

Here is a video of Elliot pulling Whitney around in the sled. They both had so much fun.

Go Vikings!

Supporting our team! Dressed in our purple for the Vikings Party!

Randoms

Here are a couple recent pictures of the kids.

Whitney's favortie activity is to climb into cupboards. This particular morning we were in the middle of getting dressed and she crawled away from me and went into the bathroom cupboard.

Last weekend the boys had a slumber party in the living room in their blow up beds. They were so excited about this at 7:00 they were both ready to go to bed!! We just might have to do that again!

Rock Out

Here is a video of Elliot playing guitar hero. He loves being the singer.