Month: December 2016

This week Eleanor and Henry celebrated Christmas! It was a lead up with the kids off school for the whole week. They got to do Winter Wonderland at Navy Pier, the train exhibit at the Botanical Gardens, ride the Santa Train, and see a play at Emerald City Theater. Lala also had the whole week…

Eleanor and Henry had an action packed week, including celebrating Henry’s birthday four times! Early in the week the kids took a trip with Lala to the local animal shelter – Henry’s class was supposed to have a field trip there, but it was cancelled at the last minute and they encouraged kids to visit…

Eleanor and Henry had a fun sleepover this weekend with Uncle B and Aunt Breanne. We had a blast playing with the new camping set, and also making graham cracker houses. We also kicked off Henry’s birthday celebrations with his party for his school friends at Pump It Up. Henry was very excited to have…

Eleanor and Henry enjoyed our first snow accumulation this week with some snow fun in the back patio. At first I couldn’t get them excited about going out, but then I showed them how it was perfect snowball snow and then they were in. There wasn’t quite enough for a full size snowman, but we…