Potty Song

Brian has been busy converting all of our VHS videos into digital video files. We've been having lots of fun seeing videos of Brian when he was younger. We are having even more fun watching video of Kaylyn when she as younger. Here is a clip where she is just a little bit older than Jack is now. Brian is trying to get her to sing the song that plays on her fancy potty. (We're in the midst of potty-training) All he gets is an echo....a pretty funny echo at that. Stay tuned for more video clips as we continue to discover all those funny clips we have forgotten about. I can't wait to get hold of the VHS tapes at my parents house. Then we can add "young" Charlyn to the collection.

Some Olympic Fun

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Made this video on the JibJab site. They have lots of fun stuff. Check it out sometime!

Be My Valentine...

Kaylyn had so much fun doing Valentine's Day crafts. We made construction paper cards, a valentine mailbox for school, and egg carton ladybugs. Kaylyn made a special Valentine card for her daddy. Brian had to work on Valentine's Day so we had a nice family dinner the following night. Brian asked me where I wanted to go and I had a craving for breakfast for dinner. I suggested IHOP and Brian agreed and didn't even try to make an alternate suggestion! I guess there's a first for everything. I say it was a double date- Jack was my date and Kaylyn was Brian's date.  The best part for me was when Brian and the kids sent me flowers by surprise to me at work. I was having an especially bad day and it made it so much better! 

School Projects

Kaylyn had a project for school for Black History Month. It was to be a "family activity" in which she chose a person to do a poster presentation on. Kaylyn did her poster on Dr. Daniel Hale Williams, a prominent black surgeon in the Chicago area in the 1890's. He is most well-known for founding the Provident Hospital and Nurse Training School in Chicago. He was also a pioneer in surgery. He once saved a man's life when he performed a brand new technique to repair a stab wound to the heart. As Kaylyn presented it to her class...."This Dr. Williams and he fixed people's broken hearts." I thought it was adorable! And it went well with the Valentine theme this week. Afterwards, her class had a Valentine pizza party with cupcakes and cookies for dessert. Kaylyn came home with an overflowing box of cards from her friends.

Williams Family Video

I am so proud of all the work that Brian has done with his family tree. He has an amazing assortment of photos, stories, videos and other precious pieces of history collected and saved. He recently created a video clip to showcase pictures of his mother and her family. He chose great music and did a wonderful job of putting it all together. He could do this kind of work professionally I think. It made me teary-eyed when I watched it.

Houston Museum of Natural Science

Earlier this week we took Jack on an outing to the Houston Museum of Natural Science. The weather has been so nasty and poo Jack has been stuck indoors the past several days. He had lots of fun. He especially liked the Weiss Energy exhibit and the chemistry exhibit....mostly because there were lots of buttons to push and wheels to turn! After we left the museum, I went to my 1 week follow-up appointment at the Mann Eye Center. My vision was 20/15 in both eyes and the doctor said my eyes were healing great. Exciting!! Anyhow, not much else going on right now. Kaylyn is getting geared up for Valentine's Day festivities at school. More to come later....

More Disney pics and LASIK news

Okay, for those of you who have been waiting to see the Disney Photopass pictures, click here. Brian was so good to me that he uploaded them to Flickr while I was at work last week. Sorry for the delay. Enjoy!

On a side note, I finally had my LASIK procedure done yesterday. Thank goodness because 2 weeks in my coke bottle glasses was starting to feel like an eternity. Good news, at my post-op follow-up appointment this morning, my vision was 20/15!! I am still having a little bit of intermittent blurriness. It usually means I need eye drops. I'm so excited and happy about the results. I'm also pretty amazed....I mean I could read the street signs on the way home from the procedure. Never could do that before without my contacts/glasses. On my to-do list today....clean out all the contact solution bottles and lens cases out of my medicine cabinet! YAY!!

Ka-chow!!!

Well, my Disney Photopass picture CD has finally arrived. There are so many great pictures on there! I will post a link to Flickr once I have an opportunity to upload them. But, for now, this is one of my many favorites. It just makes me smile. Can you see the attitude/sass in the stance?? LOL! More pics to come later.

Kicking Off the New Decade at WDW!

I know I haven't posted in a couple of weeks, we've just been so busy! And now we are all getting over some sort of illness/ailment since we've been back. We had a great time at Disney World (who had any doubt?). It was cold, but DRY! We all dressed in layers and wore hats and gloves and we barely even noticed the 30-degree weather! The parks were busier than expected, but we still did everything we wanted to. I've never seen so many characters out! My personal favorite character sightings were Mr. Carl Fredrickson and Russell from Disney Pixar's UP and Princess Tiana and Prince Naveen from Disney's The Princess and the Frog. According to Kaylyn, her favorite ride was Soarin' at Epcot. We had a nice birthday dinner for Jack at Whispering Canyon Cafe. It included a special-order chocolate cake with chocolate mousse filling. Yummy! The kids had so much fun...can't wait to go again!




Click here to see pictures from our trip. Coming soon.....Disney PhotoPass photos!

Happy 2010 Everyone!!!

Bringing in 2010

We brought in the new year pretty low-key. The weather was nasty outside and I had to be at work by 6:30am on New Year's Day so the Davis clan decided to bring in 2010 with a movie night. We spread a blanket on the floor and popped popcorn and popped in the kid's new Christmas present, G-Force, on DVD. It was a cute movie and Jack showed off some dance moves to the Black-Eyed Peas on the soundtrack. I think Brian and I were the only ones who got past the first 20 minutes of the story-line though. Kaylyn and Jack were too busy running around the living room and wrestling with each other. By 11pm we brought in 2010 with the kids by watching Dick Clark and celebrating it East Coast time. Then, the kids went to bed and Brian and stayed up and watched the remaining hour of terrible lip-synced performances until we could celebrate 2010 on Central Standard Time. Nothing exciting, but we had fun. Got a couple of cute pics of the kids too. Happy New Year!