Holiday Greetings from the Heasley's 2010

Well, we didn't send out holiday cards this year so this is as close as you're going to get if you've been holding your breath waiting for your card to come....so what if it's the end of January now.

Scott completed his last law school final December 15th. The next day we drove to Cincinnati for the wedding. It was nice to visiting with family just before the holidays. When we came home I was furtunate enough to spend time with all my neices and nephews. It's the 1st holiday that everyone was in town...even if they weren't in town at the same time...it was a blast. Now if I could just convince everyone to stop growing up so quickly.

A Cincinnati Wedding

In December we went down to Cincinnati for Scott's "Little" brother's wedding. We were honored that they asked the kids to be part of their special day. The kids were great and were the rock stars of the reception. Leah dumped her school boyfriend on the spot when a handsome Marine playfully called her his girlfriend and asked her to dance. She fell head over heels for him and was on his heels for the rest of the night. At one point she couldn't find her him so she dragged Scott from his chair to find her boyfriend. When Scott explained that he was taking a break Leah looked around the dance floor and exclaimed... "That's ok there's some one who looks just like him over there".  Oh Boy! My baby has a thing for Marines.

My Baby is 4!

Not sure how this happened but my baby is four! Gone are the baby years, gone are the toddler years. Now we're full fledge in the preschool/grade school years. Not quite sure how I feel about all this but here we are. Don't get me wrong I like that the kids are more independent and we're able to do more things as a family but the nagging thought of what am I going to do when my baby doesn't want to cuddle with me any more is haunting me more and more each day. Lucky for me Tyler is still as much of a cuddlier as he was on day 1....he just doesn't fit in my lap quite as well.

At 4 years he's all boy. Very physical. Yet he's sensitive. Easily upset if you have a cross tone to your voice. He loves wheels, planes and Toy Story. He's working on learning letters and their sounds. He knows how to spell his name but is still working on getting it on paper. He loves bed time stories, his sister and time with his "best" mommy and daddy. He's so cuddly perfect, if you're lucky enough to have him curl up in your lap for a movie it's all you can do to stay awake. I love that boy more then word could ever describe.

For his birthday we took a ride on the Polar Express. I think the kids had a wonderful magical evening although Tyler passed on the "Hot" chocolate. Seems he only likes "warm" chocolate. Sunday evening we had a small get together with our new neighbors, my parents and some friends.

For months Tyler has been asking for a scooter, a skateboard and Eeyrore. The scooter was my attempt at talking him out of the skateboard but that obviously back fired. Eeyore was because he saw one in Kohl's he wanted and I tried to talk him out of having a fit by telling him maybe he'd get one for his birthday. I never dreamed he would remember. So yet another mommy fail. The Eeyore I could have bought for $4 dollars had I given in, cost me $20 on Amazon....lesson learned. 3 year olds cannot be deterred from what they want. Well I made sure he got everything he wanted and when the neighbors gave him a Buzz Lightyear (which he loves) he wanted to take it back because he hadn't asked for it. He's so stinking sweet I could eat him up.

Leah's 1st horse show

Leah had her 1st horse show tonight and she did pretty well. 1 first, 2 seconds and a third which made her 2nd place reserve champion in the walk division. Not bad for only having had 6 lessons so far. More importantly she enjoyed herself and got to watch some more advanced riders to get an look at what she'll get to do with lots of practice.

Just wish horses and flash photography worked a little better together because all my pictures are blurry.

 

Trick or Treat

So I'm a little behind in posting this...again

We went to Boo at the Zoo for the first time this year. It's pretty much just an excuse to get dressed up and walk around the zoo in the dark but every year it sells out so we figured we'd see what all the hoopla was about. We ending up stopping in one of the tents to see a magic show and Tyler got picked out of the crowd to go on stage. It was so cute, I was in tears. Luckily I had our handycam on me so I was able to record most of it. If I feel inspired later I'll try to post a little clip.

Fall 2010

2 down 18 to go

I had to travel for business earlier this week and before I left Sunday evening Leah's 2nd tooth was hanging by a thread. I was a bit nervous she might lose it while I was out of town and the tooth fairy wouldn't know what to do. Leah promised me if she lost it while I was gone she'd make sure the tooth fairy didn't take it just so I could see it when I got back. She kept her promised. I got home late Wednesday and about 12 hours later Leah lost her second tooth just after having her school picture taken. It's a good thing the tooth fairy was ready.