Henry Turns 4!

By the end of tomorrow, Henry will have been celebrating his 4th birthday for a full week. He keeps asking me if it's still his birthday...and it's no wonder since we started celebrating on his actual birthday (last Tuesday), had his family party on Wednesday, his friends party Sunday and tomorrow will be celebrating at his school. Henry and I went to the beach with the our friends Molly, Anna and Connor last week and were there on Tuesday morning for Henry's birthday. We went to Benihana that night for dinner - Henry's choice...it's one of his favorite restaurants (if not his favorite), he loves to play teppanyaki chef at home.

The next night we had everyone over for his family party. He loved, loved, loved all the wonderful presents he got and his Batman cake (courtesy of Gigi). Then on Sunday we had his friend party at the Little Gym which was absolutely fabulous. The kids all seemed to have a wonderful time and it was so fun to watch them all enjoying themselves so much. The theme was superheros again, but this time with Spiderman cupcakes. Tomorrow I am the parent helper in his classroom and since it's his birthday they'll have a special little celebration for him....but the thing he is most looking forward to is that he gets to be the line leader tomorrow. :)

March Snow!

It's the middle of March and we have snow! So much snow, in fact, that Henry's school was cancelled on Thursday! We got up and headed outside and went for a long walk and played in the snow for more than an hour. Luckily we did that first thing in the morning, because by noon the snow was gone. But we enjoyed it while it lasted!

New Blog Design

I decided to change it up....what do you think?

Dim Sum for everyone

Henry got a book from the library called "Dim Sum For Everyone" and for whatever reason fell in love with it. We read it every day (at least once) for a week. So I asked him if he wanted to go get some dim sum and this past Sunday we did just that. Unfortunately, I think the real life dim sum didn't live up to what he imagined it would be. It took quite a bit of coaxing to get him to try a bite of different items and he didn't care for any of them....not even the coconut pudding squares he had been most looking forward to. Oh well! At least he got to have the dim sum experience with the carts coming around and picking plates off of them. Below is a picture of the book and one of the dishes from the book on top of it.

Preschool

Henry started preschool last week. He is attending Burlingame Cooperative Preschool two mornings a week. The first day was a little rough - he cried when he thought I'd left (I was actually just in another room), and so I ended up staying nearly the entire day. The second day was better - I still stayed for a while, but was gone for about 2 hours. I'm crossing my fingers that tomorrow I will just be able to drop him off and go. We'll see! Adding preschool to our weekly schedule has caused quite a shift in our activities and sleep habits. Henry is still doing his speech therapy and also taking gymnastics at the Little Gym...so we have a pretty busy schedule.

Coming up is Henry's 4th birthday - I can hardly believe it! His latest obsession is superheros, so I'm trying to plan his parties around that theme. He's going to have a little party with his friends at the Little Gym and also a family party at our house.

SunRiver Mini-Break

A few weeks ago we went to Sunriver...and, true to form, it's taken me until now to get the pictures off my camera. I also made a little video of some of the activities we did - the quality is poor because I had to compress the file in order for it to be within the upload limits of this website...but you get the picture. :)

We had a fantastic time. I was worried that, since it was the middle of winter, there wouldn't be enough to do to keep Henry busy; but, in fact, the opposite was true. We didn't get to do all the things we had talked about doing and could have definitely used another day (or two!) there. We stayed at the Sunriver Resort and went swimming both nights there. We also went ice skating twice and spent a half a day up at Bachelor sledding.

Basketball Class - 2012

Henry just wrapped up a 5 week basketball class at the SW Community Center. As before, he loved it although he did claim that he was "exhausted" (his word) a couple times and had to lie down on the gym floor to rest. His skills have really improved since the last class he took - he can dribble while walking, do chest passes, bounce passes, and is getting much better at shooting. He also insists on wearing his Blazer jerseys every class which is so cute. The pictures are all from his classes except for the first one, which is him at Pump it Up (a bouncy house place in Beaverton) where he is, what else?, playing basketball!