Valentine's Day

Andrew went to his first Valentine's Day party at preschool this year, and he loved it. Instead of doing valentines, the class did a valentine book exchange, which was really cute!

He brought some valentine balloons for the kids at daycare, which were a huge hit. He also brought home lots of goodies from all the wonderful parents over there.

He named this little guy "Paradise"

He also got a couple fun things from mom and dad, of course...:)

On MLK day, Mike and I took Andrew to see the Icehogs play, and Kaden and Peyton came to watch the game, too!

He also had a snow date with this friends last weekend, which I think was the highlight of his week.

He also had an exciting trip to the dentist. He did NOT want his teeth cleaned, and he was literally screaming, "Mom, please help me!!" though the entire place. It was horrible. They had 4 people hold him down while I sat with him in a private room (as not to alarm the other little patients). However, all was well 15 minutes later when  he got to hang his name on the "No Cavity Wall" again, and they awarded him some bath paints.

Doesn't he look so happy? :) :)

 A few other fun shots from the past month...

He plays A LOT of basketball in his room

There's the bath paints!

Monkey Joe's jackpot

Happy New Year!

Happy 2015! We had our usual "go to bed at 10" on New Years Eve, and we have just been getting back into the swing of things these last two weeks.

We finally had our first snow last week, and Andrew has really been looking forward to going sledding. This picture makes me laugh, because it looks like we are just sledding on grass, but it wasn't too bad!

First snow angel!

Andrew asked if he could take a pic of me making a snow angel.

We also started gymnastics and basketball up again. This is Andrew's first gymnastics class where the parents don't come in and help, and he did a great job! Usually he likes to keep me close to his side.

Last week he missed his first day of preschool ever, as they called me about an hour in and said he wasn't looking well. He was actually upset that they called me, and he started to cry when I got there. The assistant teacher told me that he kept insisting that they not call me. Ha! He loves school and doesn't want to miss out. When we got home, we read some books, and he fell asleep, which is extremely rare for him.

He was feeling better in no time, though. :)

Illini Basketball Game

Mike saw a few days ago that U of I was selling $5 basketball tickets for the 27th. They were playing some unknown small school, which we thought would be perfect for Andrew's first game. We drove down Saturday and checked in to our hotel next to the arena. Andrew had a blast at the game, but the hotel was not the highlight of the trip. Ha! Andrew didn't want to sleep, so he kept turning the lights on, and he was super excited about the whole trip. He was so excited during the game that he was yelling out when everybody was quiet. He would yell "defense" or "Go Illini", and it was adorable. Illinois was up by 50, and we asked him if we should walk back to the hotel, and he said he wanted to stay until the very end. He can't wait to go to another basketball game. We are going to see if we can find a high school one to go to soon. It's just so much fun, because Mike and I are such huge sports fans, that it makes it even more fun now that he is joining in!