Summer is HERE!

Summer has begun! I finished on Monday, raced around the house in attempt to semi-organize, and started out with Kyle at the Splash Zone in Oxford with friends yesterday! He LOVES the water! Even better, on our first day of spending summer time together, Kyle never laughed so hard! I even caught a bit on camera before my memory card was full (add that to the summer list of things to do). Check it out. So far, Kyle has had fun eating mud, we started potty training yesterday, LOTS of laughing, baking (and eating the dough like his mom) and then we topped it off today when he reached his hand in his pants today and had a few fingers full of poop! Eewww!! Wish us luck on this potty training thing. Oh, and on top of this fun stuff, on our way home from buying big boy underwear at Target, the car decides to stall on me a bunch. We made it home before the rain..and the earthquake, but who knows what's wrong with it! Never a dull moment around here!

Kyle's Second Surgery

Yesterday, Kyle had surgery on his eyes for strabismus (in doctor's terms). basically it means his eyes are not working together, which was making him see double. He has been a champ about wearing his glasses and a patch 3 plus hours a day. I was nervous as a mom can be before Kyle's surgery. He was a champ, though! It took a little over an hour. When he woke up, he kept saying "I don't want to open my eyes" because his eyes hurt. The nurse said that often times kids who have this surgery don't open their eyes for a whole day :(. Kyle, being the feisty little red, opened them soon after he woke up and scared us when he said "I can't see". But then he noticed Barney on the t.v. and we all breathed a sigh of relief! He is healing well so far...even after throwing up in the hospital and in the car. He tried to eat absolutely everything in the house last night after he hadn't eaten all day. Now we are just trying to keep him from rubbing his eyes and keeping his hands really clean to prevent infection. We are so lucky to have great friends and family's support! Thanks everyone! No pics now because he's sensitive to light and I didn't think it'd be so nice to throw a flash his way! he looks the same, but with really red and dilated eyes.

Meeting the Easter Bunny

Kyle was excited to meet the Easter bunny with his cousin Coral at the zoo. After Coral had a turn, he walked up and said, "Hi Easter Bunny!". Then he sat down next to him but after I moved away, he became afraid, folded his hands as if in prayer, and would only look at him out of the corner of his eye and above the rims of his glasses. So I jumped in so he would look at the cameraman for a picture. Later, when we got home from the zoo, Kyle says, "I was afraid of the Easter bunny. but that's o.k."

Choosing a winner (loser)

March Madness

As I was going to fill out my own brackets, I decided to see if Kyle would participate...and he picked ALL his own teams! He has Robert Morris winning it all. He loved doing it too. Take a look.

Kyle's BF

Kissing him goodnight Covering Mr. Mouse up Giving him a kiss. Kyle has a best friend. His name is Mr. Mouse. Every day he sees him, he runs up to him and gives him a big kiss and hug. Then we get to give him one too. He covers him up, sings to him, dances with him, puts an eye patch on him, and puts diapers on him too. Lately, he is the voice of Mr. Mouse. It is too cute. Thought I better add some pics to remember this later in life.

OPRAH!!!!!!!!!!

The red carpet A view from our hotel near Rodeo Drive I really discovered that I LOVE nice cars (sorry Jess for listening to me ramble about them) 90210? The actors from the Israeli film up for nomination right in front of us. Someone famous going to the Oscars. My dream came true...to see Oprah LIVE! It ended up being in L.A. instead of Chicago, but that made for a fun girls' weekend. We went to Laguna Beach and ate a delicious lunch at Nick's, went shopping, and wound up with a lovely 40 dollar parking ticket on our fun Hyandai Accent. Then, we drove along the coast and stopped at Long Beach and watched a surfing contest in action. We stayed in Santa Monica for 2 nights, ate in Malibu at a really nice Italian place called Tra di Noi (where the paparazzi hang out in search of stars), and did a lot of shopping. Then on Sunday we went to L.A., got close to the Red Carpet, saw the cars being driven to the Oscars, and watched the Oscars back at our hotel after looking for a fun place to watch it (but just like here, everyone watches it at home). While watching it at our hotel, the Israeli actors and actresses up for an Oscar for Best Foreign Film invaded our watching area with lots of camera crew, as they watched the T.V. with us to see if they won an Oscar (they did not). It was great fun...but the best was going to the Kodak Theatre to see Oprah Live! She had the Sandra Bullock, Jeff Bridge, Monique, and Christophe Waltz on. It was so neat to see (even after waiting in many lines). We didn't get on T.V. and didn't win any prizes, but we had so much fun. And Jess was a trooper being almost 7 months pregnant and full of energy. Here's the pics.