Monday, March 1, 2010

end of feb stuff

Nothing like a great title to suck you in.....
Ike was selected to participate in a local school basketball shootout. He did it last year and was pretty pumped to try again. He has no problems shooting solo baskets in front of a crowd, but please don't ask him to say a prayer, talk, scripture at church. Anyway, he did well and got over not placing in the top 3 after a few minutes of self-defeating ranting. And in his defense our basketball court had snow on it again so there was some lack of practice facilities!
Then we had Syd's first Birthday. Fortunately for her and me, she had no expectations. Noelle was the one pretty stressed about making sure Syd had any actual gifts. Syd spent the morning at the doctor screaming through all procedures (I'm pretty sure the Doc was faking when he said her heart sounded fine. There's no way he was able to hear it over her cries!) She got 6 shots, then spent the next four hours sleeping off the memory.
Here she is fighting for some space to actually be the one to play with her new toys.

Here is the obligatory cake and ice cream. As you can tell it started out in a bowl. I always try...

Syd is a joy to have in our family. We all love her robot walk and her squawky laugh. There are some areas of needed self-improvement in the sleeping department and friendliness to others. But don't we all have things we need to work on? And that, my friends, was the end of feb stuff. On to March! Oh, and we are very sad the Olympics are over. Our family enjoyed cheering for our country in a variety of sports. Interestingly, the men in my house must be rubbing off on me because figure skating was one of the least favorite around here. And that is really the end of feb stuff.

6 comments:

The Allreds said...

Happy Belated Birthday to the cutest girl we've never met!!! Sounds like quite the birthday with all those shots - youch! I would have thought Isaac could have beat everyone at the shootout with his eyes closed - better luck next year, this event might help him REALLY practice! Yes, saying goodbye to the Olympics was sad for us too, but maybe it will help me get back to the motto, "early to bed - early to rise!"

cold cocoa said...

Good job everyone. I agree with the figure skating. THe last time I remember it being anything worth watching was Harding/Kerrigan era. And nothing else in the olympics drew us in really. Glad it's over and back to regular programming!

stephanie said...

Syd makes an awfully cute birthday girl.
Isaac will reclaim his title next year.
I loved the olympics, except for some of the cross country ski crap.

Michelle said...

How odd that you disliked the thing I liked best. How can you stand to watch skiing? It is the same thing over and over again. Anyway, happy birthday to Syd and good job Ike, even if you didn't end up with the desired result.

big8smiley said...

Sounds like our February, just without the bday and the bball. :) Happy Birthday Syd!! How is she already one? Really it seems like you JUST had her. She is soooo cute.

The olympics were fun, but I'm so glad they are done. We stayed up way too late watching our fair share of them. (DVR)

Now moving on to March. Hooray!

DKAZ said...

Thank you for the run down. Figure skating without scandal makes for a pretty boring sport. Who wants to watch that when you have short track and the crazy bobsledding and luge?