Discovering a Child's Talent

I will post more about our wonderful Christmas adventures later, but first I would like to reveal Liam's special talent.  For a while now, we have bemoaned his manners and behavior at the dinner table.  On Saturday with the Hales, we discovered that he is truly just a culinary artist.  I don't mean cooking, I mean an artist whose medium is food.  Hope everyone had a wonderful and delightful day!

Love, Mike, Emily, Graeme and Liam

The Artist

and his masterpiece

Video Test

Well here is my first attempt at taking some video and making a "home movie".  This is clips from our trip to Pullen Park last Sunday.

Hope you enjoy!

Train, Look a Train!

Mike and I had a great trip out to Colorado Springs last week.  While it was great to have some time together just the two of us, we missed our boys so much.  So after we got back, we decided to head to the newly remodeled Pullen Park in Raleigh and visit the miniature train.

While the boys enjoyed riding the train, Graeme especially loved watching it chug around the park.  We also enjoyed the indoor carousel (especially since it was pretty chilly).  Playing on the playground was primarily us chasing the boys and Graeme looking for the train to come around.

We weren't sure that Liam wouldn't jump into the water of the boat ride, so we just let Graeme ride the little boat ride this time.  He had a blast pulling the bell and of course, looking for the train to come around.  Hope you enjoy the pictures as much as we enjoyed the day!

The boys waiting for mommy to get tickets for the rides

Checking out the train car

Looking for the train

Liam and Daddy waiting for the train to start

Graeme was very excited to be on a train

Okay, mommy, enough pictures, let the train ride begin!

Onto the carousel!

Getty up!

Liam rode a very nice giraffe :-)

Waiting at the crossing to see the train come by

Sweet smiles

Look, look, look a train!

Driving the boat

Ringing the bell

And one more time, looking for the train.