Danni's First Soccer Practice!

"You have to kick the ball, Danni!!"
"No, I luff my ball!" 

She got over it and showed some pretty fancy footwork!

Playing games with Coach Gabriel!

Balancing act!  

Ringleader!

Training the Beast...

Getting ready for a throw-in!

I practiced right after Danni got done!  It still makes me smile!

Yay!  Soccer is back in season!!  And, now that Danni is 2 1/2, she can play too!!  She was SO excited to put on her pink 'crusher shoes' and join in the action.  She also was super proud of her brand-new pink soccer ball.  It rode in the car with us everywhere for about a week before soccer started, and everywhere we went, she'd ask, "Are we playing soccer now?"  She minded her coach and played all of the games just perfectly!!!  My class started back up -- but I'm in the big boy league now, so I play when it's dark!!!  It was just as much fun as I remember it!

Valentine's Day Pictures!

Could it be?  A shot with both of us facing the camera and looking decent?!  ;)

Happy Beast!

Picture perfect....

Most of our pix are like this.... one off, one on....

Or BOTH off....

Sillies!!

Making up for HER lack of enthusiasm!

And again....

Any photo shoot is not complete without at least one shoving match....

Danni needed a nap part of the way through...

Sweet Beast!

SO close!

We were nice to Mommy and gave her a second decent pic too!  :)

Danni has to beast for a few frames too...

She saved a bunch of smiles, though!

And so did I!  :)

Mommy always likes to dress us up all matchy-matchy to take pictures for the different holidays.  Sometimes it works out for the best, but most of the time, we all lose patience with each other and end up junking the shoot.  :)  This year, she took 219 shots to get the three pictures that we used in our Valentine.   Thank goodness for digital cameras!  Here's a glimpse of some our outtakes.  You'd think she'd quit trying after dealing with our craziness!  ;)

Baby Builders!

All ready to get to work!

I'll need to give her some pointers....

It's MUCH easier this way!

Hammering her heart out....

All done and ready for PAINT!

Blue!!

Danni chose pink!

Happy little painters!

We haven't been to the Home Depot Kids' Building Workshop in a LONG time!!  We stopped by to make a cute little Valentine's box!  Danni got to make her very own project for the first time!  She was excited... and Daddy and I helped her learn the basics.  We particularly liked this project because it included a PAINTING option.  We could have painted all afternoon...  So fun!  Originally, I was going to give my heart treasure box to mommy for Valentine's Day...  but when it turned out super cool, I decided that it would be perfect to hold all my moneys and decided to keep it for myself!  :)

First Field Trip!

Getting apron-ed up!!

Gannon and I are the tallest guys in class!  (And the handsomest!)

There's just something romantic about learning about different types of saws and drill presses!

Painting the edges of my heart first...

Almost ready to finger paint...  ;)

Painting complete!!

Making sure everything is dry!

Our teachers sent in a tracing of our hands...  then the Sawdust Factory people cut them out of wood!  It was a perfect match!

Finished product!!  :)

Class picture!  

My preschool class took a field trip to the Sawdust Factory in Upland!  We got to take a tour of the factory (Which included all sorts of cool machines that cut, drill, and sand wood!), then we got to paint and assemble a Valentine's Day sign with our hand print on it!  I was a little upset at first, because the Factory people had only set out purple, pink, red, and white paints for us to use.  No BLUE (my favorite best color!)  ...  I begrudgingly painted my sign purple.  When I went to the 'Speckle Station' (where we could do polka dots and speckles), I asked the lady there nicely for some turquoise blue paint.  She thought I was super polite, and granted my wish!  Yay!!!  All of the other guys in the class wanted blue too... but none asked as nicely as me!  :)  It was SUCH a fun day!!

Perfect Park Day!

I climbed up SUPER high!!

She found a little window....

Mastering the monkey bars!

Sliding down the tall curly slide with my sis!

Is it really WINTER?  Danni and I have soaked up every last minute of these gorgeous days with lots of trips to play park!  :)  Shhh!  No one tell Mother Nature that it's supposed to be cold and dreary... we're having too much fun!!

Rockin' Chapel!!

I played a Heavy Metal Drummer in the chapel skit.  :) My 'name' was Larry ... just like Papa!

Getting ready for our performance....

Making time with one of my costars!

I love being on stage! :)

There was a proud sister in the audience!

I helped to get things started by holding the Bible.  I also said the opening prayer in the microphone!

No one could understand what we were singing.  But we looked adorable doing the hand motions. :)

My drum solo.

Kickin' it after our performance!

Hanging back in the classroom with Sakai... (my favorite girl at school)  :)

My preschool class hosted chapel this week.  That meant that we got to do all of the pledges, prayers, songs, lessons, and readings.  I was the Bible monitor.  And, I got to do the opening prayer too, since the girl who was supposed to do it cried.  (I REALLY like to talk into the microphone!)  :)  My class sang a few songs and then did a 'Battle of the Bands' skit.  I was Larry the Drummer, the leader of a heavy metal band.  I got to bring my new drum set to school and I did my first solo onstage.  I rocked it!  I was also super excited to have my hair faux-hawked for the first time 'with blue jelly on top'  (blue hair gel) ...   Mommy says that I was so cute, I am forgiven for wearing a skull shirt in church!  :)