Happy Saturday! I took Corey and Brody to the D'backs Fan Fest this morning while Carrie cleaned the house (great deal for me, I know). Here is a picture of Corey and Chris Young (with another family favorite, Connor Jackson, in the background). Corey actually hit a Whiffleball home run off of third base coach Chip Hale OVER All-Star 2B Orlando Hudson on one of the little fields they had set up on the street.
It was fun to walk around and see the players while they were hanging out and all of them were eager to interact. We also saw Baxter (the mascot), saw/heard the organ player, got free ice cream, chips and mini-baseballs. Brody was pretty excited about "Bobo ball!"
I found some old photos of Brody while I was cleaning up the camera. Here he is ...
1) playing with his Big Wheel after Christmas,
2) reading books with Elmo, and ...
3) reading a book in his room before bed. (Brody LOVES books!)
Corey had a GREAT week at school this week ... only ONE SAD FACE in FIVE DAYS! So he invited his friend, Justin, over this afternoon for a play date. Corey's class also had a fieldtrip to Shamrock Farms (a milk farm facility). Did you know chocolate milk doesn't come from brown cows?!? Corey knows all about milk now!
Hope you have a great weekend!
Rob
I know, I know ... I said the same thing: Corey is special every week. But, as it turns out, Corey is "Someone Special" this week at school. "What does this mean?," you might ask. Well, he got to bring home Weekend Bear this weekend and wrote in the diary what we did. Tomorrow he's bringing in "Mystery Bag" (with a team photo of the Coyotes) that the class is going to try and guess what it is. Another day this week he's bringing in his favorite book (good luck chosing one!), another day he needs to fill the "Estimation Jar" with something for the class to guess how many there are and another day he's bringing in his favorite snack.
As far as a blog update goes ... Corey and I went to the Coyotes-Blues hockey game last night. As we were waiting in line to trade in our coupons for free tickets for being a Howler Kids Club member, somebody walked up to us and gave us two tickets in the lower level across from the Coyotes bench! He just said, "There great seats. You guys will have more fun, so enjoy the game." And we did ... especially since Bryzgalov had a shutout. It was an early start time (6 p.m.) which was nice since Corey wanted to stay until the very end.
It sounds like Carrie and the boys survived while I was in Kansas for a couple of days last week. While I did enjoy seeing snow, the minus-7 wind chill while waiting for the bus to the rental car place at the airport was a rude awakening. The photos of the three of us above was taken at the Hand of Hope suite for the Coyotes game last week. The photo of the two boys was taken on Valentine's Day (notice they're both wearing red?) and Brody also is sporting his new Wild hat from Grammy and Grandpa. Also, here's a photo of Corey doing some of his favorite things: eating, drinking milk, watching TV and savoring the fact that he can climb onto the couch all by himself!
