4th Annual Trip to Tower City with the Waybrights

Today we went to Tower City with Jen, Ken and Zack for our annual trip to see the Toy Soldier and Mr. Kringle's Inventionasium. We met them at Bob Evans off Rockside Rd. this morning.

Lily and Zack opening their gifts from each other
Zack got Lily some My Little Ponies. Lily got Zack a Diego DVD and a John Deere toy.

Zack got Dillon a fishing puzzle

Family Photo at the fountain at Tower City - waiting for the show to start

The kiddos

The Waybrights

Watching the show

Watching the show

The toy soldier

Photo with the Fairy Godmother and Toy Soldier - he's so tall. Anson shouldn't have stood next to him! Ha-ha

Bruce the talking Spruce!

Inside Kringle's Inventionasium

Lily and Zack were really listening and taking it all in :)

The think tank - to think of creative ideas and thoughts.

Our tour guide asked Lily what her favorite animal was. Lily said a zebra! Anson and I laughed. We thought for sure she'd say a kitty cat or a jaguar!

Playing at one of the fun stations.

Lily and Daddy made a silly puppet. Lily wouldn't hold it, though. It frightened her.

Making snow! New station this year where the kids mix water and a special powder to make snow. It was really neat.

Lily made a snowball!

Building toys. We broke the no binkie rule today and allowed Dillon to have it. He was really tired and cranky and it made our lives easier for the day.

Building a tower and waiting our turn to see Mr. Kringle.

I'll post their photo with Mr. Kringle later this week. It wasn't a good one, though. Dillon was crying and Lily wasn't really smiling. O-well. It's still cute.

Eating their suckers from the Sweet Factory.

Back at home, playing with their new toys from Zack!

Video of the kids watching the Toy Soldier show.

Lily & Dillon's New Room

But first, a trip down memory lane...here are two nursery pics from before Lily was born (sob, sob)! Can't believe how quickly time goes.

Now for the transformation from a nursery to a co-ed kids room...

No border...

Marshmallow white paint - no more green and yellow...We wanted to keep it neutral since we are trying to sell the house.

Bunk beds!!! We wanted Lily to sleep on the top to get used to it, but she can't do the ladder up and down very easily. She fell off trying to go down it. So, we will try again in a few weeks. We are concerned about Dillon. Not sure how we will keep him from climbing up the ladder. We took the ladder down for now.

We saved some of the border so I could make this photo to keep the animal theme alive :)

Anson did A LOT of work this weekend. He put up the Christmas tree, painted the room, helped me clean the house, he put the bunk beds together, went grocery shopping and he put up outside lights! Lily wanted some pretties on the house. He's the best husband and daddy ever!

The Elf came to our house last night. Lily found him right away. It took Dillon awhile but he saw him too.

Other updates:

• Dillon is quite the time-out boy these days. He gets in trouble for throwing things, pulling Lily's hair and jumping on Sampson. He's in time-out as I write this.
• Lily is still enjoying her dance class. She goes around the house doing her dance moves.
• Dillon is talking a lot more these days. A few weeks ago we took the Binky away from him except for naps and bedtime. He has really been talking more without it in his mouth all day. He says mama, dada, sissy, nana, papa, puppy, baby, tree, vroom (for car), ba-bye, hi, and various other words that sound like he trying to talk. He can follow instructions too. Like if we tell him to throw something away or put a dish in the sink. Our baby boy is growing up!
• We decided on a name for the baby - Lacy!
• Lily is really excited for the baby to come. She always says she's going to teach Lacy how to walk, talk, dance and do various other things. She's the mothering type.
• Four day weekend is over. Back to work tomorrow!

Putting up the Cross Christmas Tree!

This morning we put up our Christmas tree and other decorations!

Helping to fluff the tree

The kids clapped when Anson turned the lights on

Lily did a great job hanging her ornaments on the tree

Dillon tried too!

"Samba Claus"!!

Video of hanging ornaments