Valentines/Presidents Day Weekend at the Lakehouse.

This weekend we headed upstate for the 3 day weekend. We had so much fun playing outside on the perfect mound of snow that seemed to be left in the yard just for us to go sledding on.

Hailey & John sledding down the mountain.

Joey our future snowboarder who kept a smile on his face the entire way down and smiled even wider once he reached the bottom. He's going to be a daredevil and give me plenty more grey hair.

Joey relaxing after his several trips down the hill.Hailey dancing to Guitar Hero that the adults were playing on the WII game system. She even grabbed the microphone a few times herself. She's probably the only 4 year old that knows the chorus to the song "Living on a Prayer" by Bon Jovi.

Hailey - Conversation

It still amazes me the conversations Hailey can have at the young age of 4. I picked her up from school today and it went something like this:

Me: Hi Hails, How was school today?

Hailey: Good.....What did you do while I was at school Mommy?

Me: I did some work at home.

Hailey: Oh.....How was your day at work today Mommy?

Soooo sweet she is!!!

Kiddie Update

This week we were fighting off colds which meant trips to the doctors. The good thing about this is that I get to see how much they have grown. Here are there stats:

Hailey is weighing in at 33lbs
Joey is weighing in at 27lbs.

I asked the doctor if I should be worried that Joey is only 6 pounds lighter than Hailey. He proceeded to laugh at me and then told me that you can't compare boys and girls on the same scale.

It has a face!!!

For the last few weeks I had been going back and forth with Hailey about putting her hair up or at least tucking it behind her ears. For some reason her head seeems to be very sensitive and it was driving me crazy that she would have a full conversation with me while her hair was covering her beautiful face. After much thought, I decided there was no other option than to give her a hair cut......

She sat like such a big girl in the chair while the barber went to work. The end result.....

Hailey was so excited with her new hair cut. She loves it, and so do we. More importantly, now we get to see her face.

Mommy's Sick Day

I was hit with a really bad cold today, so Hailey and Joey spent most of the day in bed with me watching movies.

An Alves Surprise

This weekend Aunt Kristine, Andrew and Adelina came to NY to surprise Grandma and Grandpa. I had known they were coming in, so I picked them up at the airport and we headed home. Everyone was so excited especially Aunt Annemarie who hadn't seen them since they left last June. For a rare moment all 5 kids were sitting nicely on the couch, so we rushed at the chance to capture the moment.

Silly Hailey

How many funny faces can Hailey make....