February Snapshot

A lot happened in the month of February. We had a surprise visit from my aunt Jhaleh and cousin Arsalan from the land down under. We had a weekend together that sure was fun for us, and hopefully they enjoyed it too. We visited the Navy Pier and the Sears tower ( I still like to call it Sears! ), and my first time visiting Skydeck Ledge. We visited the CC's pizza, and Matthew enjoyed few games at their arcade. We also visited downtown Downers Grove and the ice sculpture festival, as well as watching the Avatar in 3D. I thought it was way over rated!
Nathan and Matthew received their treadmill and amazingly still excersice on it. Maya won every one's heart by her big smiles, and her favorite new game was to get piggy back rides from her brothers.

December, already gone!

Even with this month almost gone, there are a lot of updates I can still mention; besides our painful trips to doctors and feeling sorry for kids in pain.
Matthew had his sing along at the Preschool and told everyone about the Baha`i faith. He made me so proud, after giving a little presentation about how the holidays are for him. He was unprepared, yet stayed focus on the subject.

We started Maya on solid food and she had half a banana for the first time, last evening. Nathan had his first snow sliding and we all had fun with the gingerbread house. Kids enjoyed the candies more than anything else and the 20 minutes of this project's short life, we laughed all the way!
Nathan, more than everyone else enjoyed putting the candies on the house. I think his formula was "one on the house, two in my mouth!"
We also enjoyed visits from our families during this month, and great cookies our families, friends and neighbours provided for us. Now I can start my new year's resolution, one week earlier!

November Summarized

Most of these pictures were taken in November at my Mom and Dad's birthday party. We bought a chocolate cake from Portillo's and everyone enjoyed it. It was lucky that Mina was present, as she's rarely seen these days (busy with school.) Bahareh had a very nice candle that looked like a cake top. Looks totally awesome in picture!
Pictures of my Mom and Dad with the kids were taken today at our place.

Halloween & Birthday Parties

So, I'm writing this blog well after Halloween, Matthew and Linnet's party. This year we held Matthew's party at a Gymnastics GYM in Naperville. Matthew invited his friends and everyone had lots of fun playing. We had a small party for Linnet and Matthew the weekend after I return from my short trip to Lawton, OK. In the above collate picture, Matthew sang in his class on the Friday before the Halloween. This year Halloween occurred on the Saturday and after helping out Mina with her car trouble, I joined the family and our friends Michelle and Rich on our little candy picking journey. It was nice to meet our neighbours again and see the kids having fun. Kids wore their pumpkin customs and Linnet and I went as farmers. We wore signs Linnet made that said "Shahrokh Family Pumpkin Patch".
At night we went to my parents' condo and raid their neighbours too. Overall, this year we had a more special Halloween.

A picture with my children

So, I decieded to take a couple of pictures with the kids for company's annual family picture book. They co-operated for most parts and we loved these pictures too.