The Burgess Family Blog

Sunday, October 9, 2011

A long overdue update

September flew by in a flash...with no blog updates! Sorry about that. We have many pictures to share, and had a lot of adventures along the way!

Tommy's teachers sent us some great pictures of him recently. Here is one of him and his friend Marcos.

Here Tommy is working with the color stamper at school. This picture cleared up the source of his blue fingernails for me.

We celebrated Grandma Postlewait's birthday and got a good shot of her and the kids.

Tommy and Dad.

Grandma and Ellie playing together

Another picture of Tommy at school. They say he is the smiliest one there.

I posted this one not because of Tommy, but because of the dog showdown over one of his toys in the background.

This is an older one of Tommy - he found Ellie's baby's pacifier and thought he should put it in his mouth.

Ellie and her favorite past-time - the carousel.

One of my favorite pictures of Tommy ever - on a swing at Loose Park.

Thursday, August 25, 2011

Uncle John Comes to Town

We were pretty happy to have Uncle John come in to town to help us celebrate Ellie's birthday. Here is a great shot of them reading together the first night he got here.

Ellie and I took a Friday off and went to the zoo the day after her birthday. The polar bear Nikita used to be our favorite attraction, and she gave us a good show that day. But she was shaken from her first place status by the new "Sky Tram" - a ski lift type ride that goes across the Africa portion of the zoo.

She loves the sea otters

This was her face on the sky tram. It was pretty big time!


She wanted to sit on the peacock on the merry go round. Lame because its the one that doesn't move and is a bench, but it is her day I guess.

Nikita!

Polar Bear madness

Ellie's 3rd Birthday Present

We gave Ellie her 3rd birthday present after she got home from school. She asked repeatedly for a "yellow balance bicycle with no pedals". No if you are asking yourself "What is such a thing?", so did we. I talked to her teachers at school, and it turns out there is such a thing. A friend of hers at school has a father who owns a bicycle shop, and they make small bicycles without pedals that toddlers can scoot on, teaching them how to balance. Its all a little weird to me, but she asked for one incessantly, so low and behold, she came home and found one on the night of her birthday.

First - the "ruse" to get her outside...let's pull Tom on his lion. And yes folks, Mikey has rigged up a way to pull Tommy on his lion down the street.

She saw the bike at the front of our house from the sidewalk and went running

Ready to take off immediately

Here she goes!

Riding around together - Tom is also holding a balloon. Ellie got to go to the grocery store and pick out a birthday balloon that day. Tommy really wanted one as well, plus it was his 9 month birthday.

Celebrating Ellie's birthday is a blast!

Thursday, August 18, 2011

Heading Out the Door as a 3 Year Old

Here is a picture of Ellie headed out the door for school on her 3rd birthday. Its still hard for me to get over how big she is getting. I told Mikey the other day - she is a full on kid. No toddler in her anymore, and this picture proves my point I think.

Oh What a Party!

We hosted several of Ellie's friends at Little Monkey Business last weekend for her 3rd birthday party. It was quite a good time. She and her friends got to run them around like the owned the place, and played until they dropped. Then it was back to the party room for cupcakes and present opening. The best part? 10 kids 3 and under...no tantrums!