Academy of Sciences - Malcolm

Malcolm also met his buddies - Sammy and Addie - at the Academy of Sciences today. He's been before as a young infant so this was probably the first visit he could really appreciate what he was looking at. He was mesmerized by the huge tanks and loved watching the brightly colored fish. I think his favorite part was crawling around outside with Addie.

Academy of Sciences - Wyatt

We met friends Stella and Levi at the Academy of Sciences today. Wyatt stopped by all his favorite exhibits - the zebras, penguins, the wave and the hand dryer (yes, that's right, the hand dryer. Its used after the kids play in the tide pool exhibit touching starfish. Wyatt has become more interested in the dryer itself and, I suspect, was only sticking his hands in the tide pool to have an excuse to use the dryer.)

Wyatt's first ski trip.

Yesterday we brought Wyatt to Sugar Bowl. We weren't sure if he'd actually make it onto the mountain or not since he protested the whole way, but once we got there he was ready to go.

Christmas 2008

We've had a VERY white Christmas in Tahoe - close to three feet of snow so far. Wyatt and Malcolm have really enjoyed opening gifts and playing with lots of new toys. Wyatt is having the Christmas of tool toys and is "fixing" everything around the house. And, of course, he's enjoyed being a rock star with new guitar hero guitar and drums. Malcolm has gotten lots of soft cars to play with and chew on but seems most interested in playing with whatever is in Wyatt's hands. Everyone has had fun sledding, except mama who had an unfortunate fall first run down the driveway. Thank goodness there are many hands around to help with diaper changes!

Aside from all the new toys we are playing with, we've enjoyed playing Wyatt's favorite game "HigenSeek" which we are guessing is the German version of Hide & Seek. You close your eyes, count to about 6 or 7 and go screaming through the house till someone jumps out at you. Very fun, guten times.

Wyatt The Hank IV Guitar Hero

Pancake Sundays

This Sunday we started a new tradition of making pancakes for breakfast on Sundays. Wyatt helped mix the ingredients and stir the batter. He loved dunking his pancakes in the syrup - so long as no syrup got on his fingers that is. Poor Malcolm just starred longingly as we ate pancakes and he ate baby food. Soon enough, he'll be eating them too. One problem with this being a once a week tradition...Wyatt woke up this morning requesting pancakes again!!! We tried to explain that it wasn't Sunday then started in with other excuses like, "we don't have anything to make them today" and "we don't have time because we have to get in the car and drive to Tahoe today!" Apparently none of those excuses cut it because when I got downstairs Papa and Wyatt were making pancakes on a Monday. Oh well.

Visit with Hector

Gissela brought Hector over on Friday to exchange Christmas gifts and let him and Malcolm do a little playing. They haven't seen each other in a few months and boy what a difference a few months makes. When Malcolm saw Hector he got so excited he started squealing and clapping his hands. He crawled right over to him and wanted to touch his amazing locks. They were interacting and even holding hands at one point. Hopefully he'll come back to play again soon.