Big Hearts Little Hands Valentines Event

Our family got to be part of another great Big Hearts Little Hands event put on by our great friends the Currys. This one was a Valentines carnival at a school in central phoenix for a group of Myanmar refugees. It was a great event. We didn't do much but show up & man the Limbo game, but it was a lot of fun as always. Here are the boys helping with Limbo.

The Currys arranged for Wildlife World Zoo to bring some animals out for the kids to see. They all loved it including my kids. There was a huge snake (That's Kim Curry in the background taking pictures)

 A hedgehog that my kids were very excited about because they love to play Sonic the Hedgehog.

 And an alligator named "Captain Crunch" that the kids got to touch.

It was a great event & we had a great time being a part of it & seeing our friends the Currys.

Ryan 10 Months Old

I'm a few days late but our little Ryan turned 10 months old on Feb 10th. He's made some serious progress in the area of mobility in the last month. Some of these pictures are blurry, but he's so mobile these days it's hard to get a good picture. 

He loves to pretend he's going to try climbing the stairs. Luckily this is as far as it goes.

 But seriously how could I get mad at this cute face.

 He often crawls right out of his pants. About the only thing keeps him still is my phone. 

 "Seriously Mom, stop taking pictures" (side note: I love how he always crosses his ankles.)

 He likes to try to play with his brothers while they're sitting on the couch.

 Every time he sees me pull out the camera he throws his head back & does this fake laugh. It's just plain adorable.

 He learned to clap & loves to do it. All you have to do is say "Yay!" and he starts clapping away.

 In just the last few days he has finally ventured into the world of real crawling instead of army crawling. For about a month he would get on his hands & knees & rock like he was going to crawl, but the he would get back down & army crawl cause he can move faster. Now he is doing "real crawling" much more. Here's the army crawl (once again he's crawled right out of his pants)

Now real crawling

Here he is cheesing it up every time I tried to take a picture.

 Love that adorable face.

 He is still the toothless wonder. No teeth are even pretending they want to show up. Hopefully some day, until then I just love that toothless grin.