Visit to the Please Touch Museum

On Saturday, February 7th we were invited to a birthday party at the Please Touch Museum in Philadelphia. The Please Touch Museum is a fantastic place with children and adults. The entire museum is child friendly and children are encouraged to touch everything! There are full sized city buses an entire city street with stores they can play in and explore. One of the most amazing attractions is a full sized antique carousel that was built in 1908 and that was recently lovingly refurbished.

The museum recently moved to Memorial Hall in Fairmount Park Philadelphia. Memorial Hall was built in 1876 for the Centennial Celebration of the United States. The building is magnificent and it was worth the trip over the bridge just to see it.

Lizzie had a FANTASTIC time at both the party and the museum. She was exhausted and was asleep within 10 minutes when we started home. Here are just a few pictures. My personal favorites are the Lizzie "Elton John" pictures!

Finally A Snow Day!!

Sadly, snow has been lacking in these parts so far this year. BUT we finally had a snow storm worth mentioning. On Tuesday, February 3, we woke to a winter wonderland. Lizzie's school was closed so we went back to bed (for a while anyway) and the three of us slept, in our bed of course, unitl 9:30! We finally got up and I made pancakes and Lizzie finally realized that she wasn't going to school. Right after breakfast, we got all bundled up and went outside to play in the snow. Here are some great pictures to enjoy!

Some Random Pictures!

Before I fall behind again and get "reminded" that I haven't updated, here are just some pictures from the last month.

Lizzie was invited to a "Princess & Pirates Birthday Party" two weeks ago. All of the kids came dressed up. Lizzie had a choice of Sleeping Beauty, Belle or Cinderella. She decided, once again, to be Cinderella. At the party, they had two hair stylists to do updos for the girls as well as makeup! Here are some pictures from the party!

and... just some cute pictures:

Every morning, I get up first and of course, Lizzie is in our bed. There are always really cute pictures of her and Guy. Here is another

and a really cute one of Lizzie with her fairy wings on:

Gong Hay Fat Choy (Happy New Year)!!

Today our family celebrated Chinese New Year... the Year of the Ox! Each year a restaurant that we go to has a special Chinese New Year menu. The food, as always, was wonderful. Guy's mother, his sister Stephanie and her husband Fran, my parents and my sister Lisa all came and we had a great time. Here are some pictures.

Christmas Day!

Christmas was amazing! Lizzie has been beside herself with excitement for a while now. Christmas Eve, Guy's mother and sister stayed overnight so Lizzie spent the night in our bed. On Christmas morning, we were still sleeping at 8:30! I rolled over and whispered to Lizzie "Do you think Santa came?" She said to me, "I don't know", so I said, "go look"... she actually said, "I'm too tired, tell Daddy to go look!" Anyway, we finally got up and we all went down to the living room. She was so excited, she didn't know where to look first! The pictures will tell it all. Enjoy!

Milk and Cookies for Santa and some carrots for Rudolph and the other reindeer!

A little snack before bed...

Christmas Day!

Still more from December....

Couple of cute pictures before I continue....

On December 14, we went back to the Strasburg Railroad for the Santa Train Ride. It was the same train they use for the Thomas Train Ride. Santa came through and gave each child a little gift. They also had carolers walking through the train singing. It was really very nice and we really enjoyed ourselves. Just a few pictures!

(Almost forgot to mention, we got Lizzie's ears pierced again. We did have it done when she was about 18 months old, but it wasn't really successful...this time, she is doing really good and in about two weeks we can change out the earrings)

On December 17, Lizzie's class had a little Christmas show. The sang "I'm a Little Penguin" (I'm a Little Teapot) and Frosty the Snowman. It was really really cute.

More on next post.... :)

Final Post of 2008!

Well, there is much to catch up on since my last post.

Thanksgiving We spent a very nice Thanksgiving at Lisa and Rob's house. We had a great dinner and we all had a great time. Unfortunately, we didn't even think to take pictures!!

So, after Thanksgiving, we had the snowball to Christmas. We started the season with going to the mall on the Saturday after Thanksgiving and having Lizzie's Christmas pictures taken and the visit to Santa Claus! (We do have pictures of this!!). We had her pictures done at Sears this year. They were so good we bought the whole CD! Here are just a few of our favorites.

Here is Santa Picture 2009

Fall School Pictures

Teddy Bear Portraits came to school two weeks ago for the fall pictures! They turned out beautiful. She looks so big!!

Halloween!!!

Well, let's just say that Halloween in our next of the woods was very VERY exciting this year. As you may have heard, the Phillies won the World Series this year!!! Philadelphia through a spectacular parade on Halloween. The estimate was that at least 2 million people attended the parade. Here is the link to the pictures from the Philadelphia Inquirer. We didn't attend the parade, but the parade started right outside my office building. My firm held an open house for employees, families and clients and their families. Our day started by taking Lizzie to school in her costume, Sleeping Beauty so she could attend the Halloween parade and party. We dropped her off at school at 8:15 then came back for the parade at 11:00. After her party, we headed into Philadelphia to stop at my office for the party there. We got to my office around 1:30, had lunch and then headed back to New Jersey to get ready for trick or treat!

Miss Jannine

Ok. Now we our home for our costume change. She is transformed from Sleeping Beauty to Belle!

We visited our neighbors and had a wonderful dinner with them and then trick or treating with Aunt Lisa joining us! Lizzie got lots of candy, some of which I am taking to work!! She was so tired she fell right to sleep!

We had a fun and busy day!

We had a really fun and busy day!

Disneyland Adventure on Ice!

Well, we finally got to see a Disney Ice show. Disneyland Adventure on Ice came to the Wachovia Center this month. My sister, Aunt Lisa and I took Miss Lizzie. We had really good seats (second row from the ice). Spent too much money on Disney stuff, but had a great time! Now we are planning and waiting for Disney Princesses on Ice... coming between December 26th and January 4th!! Of course, Lizzie wore her Sleeping Beauty crown too!

My "Official" Birthday Party

Lizzie's birthday is September 20. So on September 20th our families came over to celebrate. Our very dear neighbors also came over. We had another Princess Themed party... Cinderella of course!

Lizzie had a wonderful time and we all collapsed afterwards!

Long Overdue Update!!

I know, don't say it. Here we go:

Lizzie's 4th Birthday: We can't believe that our baby is four years old! She has grown so fast. Now we know what it means when they say Time Flies!! Even though she is only four, she acts like a little old lady sometimes. She is definitely an old soul. She also is at that little girl stage where she talks constantly! Sometimes she talks so much I feel like my head is full of scrambled eggs. She questions everything and after we give her an answer we get "Why?" Truly it can be exhausting answering questions all the time, but listening to her little voice is so great. She has the sweetest little voice and her questions are always two or three minutes long!

Well, this year we had a separate kids party. We had the party at Build-A-Bear for about 10 kids. It was really fun. Each child got a bear and an outfit for the bear. We had a party host that stayed with us for the full hour. After the party at Build-A-Bear, we went to the mall's food court. We had pre-ordered food from Chick-Fil-A and saved some tables. There were lots of balloons and the kids really had a good time! The best part was that it wasn't at our house!! One thing you will notice, Lizzie is tiny compared to the other kids in her class. Her little boyfriend Anthonny, is the tallest!