Happy Chinese New Year!

Nehou! I think that is the way to spell it!

Welcome Year of the Rat.

Uncle Kent gave this outfit to Lon when he was very small. I was not sure if it would ever fit! He did not want to take it off today!

Country Village

Mark was driving home a different route and passed a giant chicken on the side of the road. He thought it looked interesting. On Saturday, we went to see what it was. Of course I did not get a photo of THE giant chicken, just this one on the side of one of the buildings.














Country Village is really fun! There are alot of great stores, but more importantly there are ducks, chickens, a playground and a TRAIN! Mark played with Lon while I went into Ada's Polish Pottery (which I will go to again!), and a couple other places. We all went into the toy store. Toys that Teach. What a cool store. They have a train table set up and Lon did not want to leave there at all. They have the best toys in there. I can see Lon getting lots of fun things from there. They have the playmobil roman amphitheater. I think Daddy might get that for his birthday. I can see Lon, Daddy and Mommy having fun playing gladiator!


Lon found the Daddy powered merry go round. He loved that too!
Notice the color change in the pony. He would get off and say I am all done and then get back on another pony. Apparently he was just all done with that particular pony.

King of the parking lot snow mound!

A different Daddy powered merry go round. This one had bouncy horses!

I can climb the ladder all by myself!

WHOOOHOOO!

Swings!

There was a giant worm thing that the kids could run though. Lon went through it about 6 times.

Finally, we got to board the train. There are some photos of me on the train with Lon. However, they will not be posted. I think those Christmas cookies caught up with me! Lon loved the train. He wants to go back and do it again! Several times!

Chasing chickens!

Feeding the ducks! They have a quarter machine that will give you chopped dried corn. Lon wanted to feed it quarters till it was emptied of corn.

A rooster!

After a super fun time at Country Village, we went to Snohomish and had a nice lunch at Java Inn. The coffee is good! Mark had chili, Mommy had half a chicken salad sandwich and Lon had a pickle and part of Mommy's bread.

Pickles! Good Kosher Dill Pickles!

After his lunch, Lon went played a little in the cafe. He was exploring, not making a pest out of himself. He was good.

He liked the furnishings. He kept asking me who made them. I wish I knew.

We did some window shopping after lunch. At Black Cat Antiques, they had giant chickens in front of the store. Alas, this time they did not have black kittens for adoption. We had a great time last Saturday. Lon wants to go back!

GO Patriots!

I finally got GiGi's Christmas nightgown finished.

I mailed it out to her and I think she liked it.

After I got that done, while I still had the sewing machine out, I made Lon's outfit for tomorrow!

Go Patriots! The pants are silly in the extreme, but they are comfy. Lon wore them to baby gym.

We are going to set up the family room and watch the game together.

Meet the Snow Family!

The snow that was promised finally came. Not much, but enough.

Let's go outside. Please. Please. Please.

Okay, we need to figure out how to make these snowmen I have heard so much about.

Now, he has a bottom!

More snow to roll...

Hello Daddy Snowman!

I am going to make a Lon size snowman this time!

Getting the size right.

I think it looks good, but we are missing the Mommy snowmans

The Lon size snowmans

Hello from Lon and his snowfamily! The Daddy, the Mommy and the Lon size snowmans.

Happy Birthday, Drew!

Today was so much fun! We all went to Drew's Birthday. They had it at My Gym, which was like our baby gym, but SO much more!!

Drew was in constant motion!!

The little guys in the ball pit. Lon had never been in a ball pit before. This is VERY COOL.

a little break! We all sat in a circle and each child said their name, and we sang the hello song.

There were cool things to climb on! Lon climbed on them all!

They brought out the Thomas Train! There were three boys that thought this was the coolest! Drew, Micheal and Lon. They each took turns riding on it. The conductor made sure that each boy went around twice, then it was the next boys turn. Lon is still talking about the Thomas!

CAKE!! Happy Birthday, Drew!!!

Cake, and snacks! Yummy!! Thank you, Drew! This was a great party. Lon had tons of fun!

Soccer Shirt

October 2006, Grandma went to Paris. She brought Lon back a Paris-St. Germain Soccer shirt. It is size 2/3. I think Lon will be wearing it until he is 4.

He loves to wear it, it is still just a little big....

Lon's first photos

Santa brought Lon a camera for Christmas. Lon LOVES his camera. I have picked out a few of the over 700 photos he has taken so far. What can I say, he takes after his mother.

DADDY!

TOYS!

Grandma!

Squirrel Friend!

Oh Christmas Tree!!

Drew!

There are many more photos, we have TONS of photos of the floor, shoes and other assorted unidentified things.