More Birthday Stuff

Ella & Felix had their 5-year and 2-year well-child visits with Dr Liddy today. They are both in the 40%ile for height in their age groups (3 ft 6 1/4 inches/107cm and 34 1/2"/87.7cm). Ella is 20th %ile for weight (35 lbs 14 oz/about 16 kg), Felix 30th (26 lbs 10 oz/about 12 kg) , but he has had croup this week, and weighed 6 oz more at the doctor's visit a couple of days ago. Luckily he is feeling a bit better today, his breathing is much clearer and no more fever.

Making Felix's birthday cupcakes:



A happy 2-yr-old



Dessert at CPK for the birthday dinner...




Playing along with the video song "Put Your Toes To Your Nose"

Here's a little video of Felix's birthday cupcake ceremony at home - of course 2 seconds after I stopped filming he did actually blow out his own candle. Oh well...
[UPLOAD PENDING - NOT HAVING MUCH SUCCESS RIGHT NOW]
And lastly, our annual visit to the pumpkin patch (Felix was a bit scared)

Ella took these two pictures

Happy Birthday Felix!

Felix is TWO years old today!!! We love our little monkey so much and are very excited for him to be a big boy toddler. Since we already had a joint birthday party last weekend, we will be celebrating at home this weekend. He will be sharing cupcakes at Carousel Kids preschool today. 

He is such a talker, and is putting words together into little sentences (Ella fall down, Dada make coffee). He is in underpants all the time except for when sleeping, loves to color & paste (and cut with scissors when Ella has left hers lying around!) and loves playing with his big sister, jumping on the bed, or outside on the swing or in his new sandbox. Also he sings along with his favorite songs, "CAR!", "Puff the Magic Dragon" and "Dreams".

Cupcakes!




And here's Felix playing in the new sandbox he got for his birthday!

Happy Birthday Ella!

Our little Ella is 5 years old today! We are so very proud of her and happy for her. She is so excited that it's her birthday today and is bringing pink and white Hello Kitty cupcakes to share with her class today. Here are a couple of photos taken in the past week or so. Ella showing off her Encino Elementary Explorers temporary tattoo and her new haircut.

Ella's favorite food: tortilla with butter

Ella's favorite color: pink and greenish-blue

Ella's favorite princess: Sleeping Beauty

And Felix wishing Ella a happy birthday!