Black History

Oh boy.  Miles participated in a "Black History Program" with his 1st grade class.  They had to memorize their parts which were, in my opinion, WAY TOO LONG.  But, whatever, I don't teach 1st grade. 

I totally cut parts out of his part to help him memorize it.  Gotta do what you gotta do.  He did great and while all the preparation and nagging from his teacher drove me bonkers, I think it was a good little experience for him.

Check him out and make sure you watch him at the end of his part.  It's a little hard to see since it's not too clear of a picture, but it's priceless:

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Avs Come to Dallas

We did it again.  We went to Dallas to see the Avs play the Stars.  We surprised Miles and pulled him out of school early.  We were dressed in our jerseys so he would immediately know what was up.  He was totally stoked!

 We went early, to watch the warm up, per the usual, and wound up right by one of the Avs' players, Matt Duchene while he did his little pre-game water drinking ritual.  You have to really be a fan to know he does it before every game.  I thought Miles would be totally beside himself being that close to a real live hockey player and one of the better ones on his favorite team, but he played it pretty cool.

Anyway, it was a great, exciting game.  The Avs won in a shoot out and Miles was super happy to get to be at a game that went to a shoot out.

Then we turned around and came back to Houston!  Miles slept about the first 3 hours and then was unbelievably restless and dramatic with discomfort.  I so wish I had it on video.  It was equally painful and hilarious to watch.  And he literally thought he hadn't slept.  He's so weird about sleep/never wanting it to be a part of his life.  He goes to bed great, but wakes up early whether he goes to bed at 7pm or midnight and would rather die than take a nap.

Anyway, go Avs!

CO + Hasta la vista Mom & Pops

Dave's parents are on another mission!  Old news!  They left in January and are in Chile this time around!  A few days after we got back from our Coeur d'Alene Christmas we headed to Denver to see them one last time before they left.

Sadly, these are the only pictures we have from the trip:

Cousins.

Grandma Great waving from her window.

And Greg:

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Love the Lawson family!

Plowing with Grandpa Doug

Miles got to plow with Grandpa Doug while in Coeur d'Alene.  He loved it.

Then Grandpa Doug took him for a ride and he came back completely wind blown and frozen to the bone.  Fun times!

Eagles

After it finally snowed in Coeur d'Alene, it got freezing cold.  We all bundled up and braved it one day to go see bald eagles.

Before we go on the eagle trip, I feel obligated to put in these pictures of this blue heron.  It's a pretty cool bird and, as a matter of fact, it's the animal I would be.  Nothing special about the pictures but I bothered to take them so.... here they are!

Now on to eagles.

I saw about three from the car window just driving to the look out spot.  Pretty cool!  But here's the one I actually grabbed a picture of:

And here's some snippets from the whole outing:

Snow

Thankfully, we did get dumped on by snow while we were visiting beautiful North Idaho.  Miles thoroughly enjoyed playing in the snow and it made me miss seasons.  Snow is so pretty and so quiet.

Miles would eat the snow right off the ground, as you can see.

Making snow angels.

Building a snow man:

Like I said, Miles really loved playing in the snow and had so much fun throwing snowballs with Dave and sledding and just being out in it.

This is what having fun in the snow produced at school:

Well then.  He's a charmer, ladies and gents!

P.S. I'm 100% positive the kid says summer is better in Texas because of swimming.