Rodeo Houston

On Friday night Sean's Cousins spent the night here - 3 i s a lot of kids!  Nick and Heather were at the Rodeo that night.  We drove in and meant them Saturday morning to go to the Livestock Show.  The kids loved it so much that went back today as a smaller group.  Sean had the place to himself, for a little while...

Science Museum/Butterfly Center

We made a visit to the Houston Museum of Natural Science. They are just now kicking off an expansion that will double the size of the museum. They definitely need the space to compete in modern times. The Welch Science Hall, which was very cool 10 years ago, is in serious need of updating. Sean loved the dinosaur exhibits, which we went back to several times.

Daddy's Chair Goes Bye-Bye

We finally found a replacement for Daddy's much loved chair (which unfortunately was more loved by Barley.) Sean likes the new chair a lot, and the chair is liberally coated with SmartyKat ScratchNot. It is a cat safe cat repellent. If it does not work we may need an cat repellent that is unsafe for cats.

Safety Information: Store out of cat's reach when not in use (why? so it can be used against humans?). Intended for pets only (there goes using it to keep Sean out of daddy's dark chocolate). Keep out of reach of children (double drat). Do not take internally. Use only as directed. Do not spray on pets (Come on, what fun is this stuff?).

• 1% Lemon Oil
• 0.2% Eucalyptus Oil (no more pet koalas)
• 3% SP115C (secret ingredient, no info on internet)
• 1% PEG-7 Glyceryl Cocoate (penetration enhancer?)

Barley's Old Chair

Sean and Dziadziu Sunday night - getting close to bed time...

Children's Museum

Last weekend we made a quick visit to the Children's Museum.

"Fish are not for eating!"

This dam dam won't work

What is that big glowing orb in the sky? A sun? Which sun? We don't have one of those. (It has been a cloudy, rainy, and cold 2010 so far)

Fruit Snacks!

Last weekend we were on a car trip with Sean with Sam's Club Zoo Animal Fruit Snacks (ignore the fact they laid off 11,000 workers today.) The color and animal combinations per pack struck my curiosity. This weekend, while Sean was taking a nap and could not eat my experiment, I opened the 49 remaining fruit snack packs and counted 458 zoo animals (and then counted 2 more that could not reliably be identified as anything but roadkill - they were both red.)

Luckily, we all like purple...

9.4 animals per pack sounds like a fair amount. Sucks if you just get 6, though.

I like purple seals, so I am still in pretty good shape....

100% Daily Value Vitamin C

72 pouches

Ingredients: Corn syrup, sugar, apple puree concentrate, water, modified corn starch, gelatin, contains 2% or less of: citric acid, ascorbic acid (vitamin C), natural and artificial flavor, color added, coconut oil, carnauba wax, yellow #5, red #40, sodium citrate, blue #1.

This weekend the Phillips Family: Nancy, Bob and Stephanie finally made it down to Texas after two aborted attempts. Friday night my dad hosted dinner for us all. Saturday all the troopers spent the day in the Galleria area and met them at Chuy's for dinner. Sunday we drove all over the west end of Gaslveston and Bolivar, shopped at the Strand and then had dinner at Fisherman's Wharf. (Stop editing my posts, Barbara, I will take your password away!)

Barbara, Sean, and Grandma on the Ferry

Sean on the Ferry

Brown Pelican

Sean and Aunt Nancy

Sea Gulls

Christmas 2009 Part III

With all the Boyces in the house we celebrated Christmas on Sunday morning...

Cousins

After Sean's birthday party all the Boyces spent the night. Elissa helped Sean brush his teeth. Only after these pictures were taken, and Sean said "I don't like this toothpaste," did I realize that Elissa put triple antibiotic ointment on Sean's toothbrush.

Sean's 3rd B-Day Party

Sean's 3rd birthday party was on Saturday. Loads of Sean's friends came (it looked like we were having an SUV sale in front of the house!) Sean (after debating over the last several months on spiders and cars) decided on Scooby Doo cupcakes.

Happy Birthday Sean! 3 Years Old

On January 6th we celebrated Sean's 3rd birthday at Grandma and Dziadziu's house. Pictures can be found on Joanne's blog HERE.

Thursday all the Pasta's and Nana and Grandpa were here to watch the National Championship. UT lost, but it was OK. The new quarterback shows a lot of promise.

Houston Christmas

On Monday after Christmas we traveled back to the Houston area and celebrated Christmas with Grandma, Dziadziu, Joanne and Joe. We arrived just in time to see the start of the Independence Bowl, pitting the Aggies vs. Georgia. We watched the new year arrive at the Carter's house in the old 'hood. Sean stayed up way past midnight...

Barbara counting the year left in Coach Sherman's contract

Sean and Uncle Joe read Joe's book on pre-history

Fowl Pictures

The weekend after Christmas we took a trip to the county park in Kerrville to feed the ducks and geese and then to the Beckman farm near the LBJ Ranch to see chickens and other farm animals.

Kerrville Christmas

We celebrated Christmas in Kerrville with Nana, Grandpa and Tadd. We attended the Christmas vigil at First Presbyterian. Sean went to the nursery for most of the service, but came back for lighting candles and singing Silent Night. Sean got James (from the Thomas the Train series) and Legos (strangely, also James from Thomas) and lots of other cool gifts (as did everyone else.)

Sean opening and Owl puzzle from Nana on Christmas Eve

Sean playing Gator Golf from Uncle Tadd - nothing to do with U of F!

Sean, Barbara and Nana opening gifts

Grandpa gets into the spirits (I mean spirit...)