The only person whose Wii-Fit goal is actually to GAIN weight...

In general Nolan, like Carson, has two speeds: "on fire" and "sleeping".
You know he's really sick when he opts for this speed instead:

Daddy got a new pan drum for this birthday! You can guess how long Daddy got to play it...

We never really see Scott until about 10pm on Thursday nights, after his Spanish class wraps up, so the boys and I spent the evening making cupcakes that we'll enjoy tomorrow...

Then Scott and I dined on a steak dinner with a good Pinot when he finally made it home.
Happy Birthday darlin' - love you!

Here are some more pictures from last weekend, hanging out at Chris & Tia's house with the cousins and later with Grandpa Burke.

 

Somewhere around Thursday we decided the Olympics will never (well, never anytime soon) be within driving distance of us again so we decided to head north and check out Vancouver, BC while the Olympic craziness was still going on. We drove as far as Seattle last night, crashed at Scott's brother's house, and took off this morning for Canada! What a fun (random!) trip. TONS of people, although we expected that, but very cool to see the flame, feel the energy in the air and watch the world come together. Here are a few pictures from around Vancouver. Go USA!

We finally had a chance to load some videos from our Quebec trip!

Here are two from the Ice Hotel – relatively long, but they reflect the “feel” of the hotel far better than any of the pictures:
Hotel de Glace – part 1 of 2
Hotel de Glace – part 2 of 2

This is a shorter video back in Quebec City just looking at one of the main areas where Winter Carnival takes place.

It’s good to be home, but what a fun trip this was!
Enjoy!

Have you ever been in a public place and gotten annoyed at some other parent that let their kid do something you just told your kid not to do?
We're usually those other parents.

Every now and then you catch the boys in a moment of really enjoying each other - here are a couple of those moments that Daddy captured yesterday. Playing together and reading together:

The day after Scott & returned (Monday) we stayed home and spent the day with the boys. We promised Carson that we would take him to Chuck E. Cheese and, as it turned out, Nolan managed to rupture both of his eardrums shortly after we arrived home Sunday night so we spent part of Monday with him at the doctor as well. Nolan’s fine (his hearing might be off for as long as a month), but apparently he feels considerably better with the pressure off his ears and Carson has now been to one of the places he’s been asking about for months – the other two being Disneyland and pbs.org (because whenever he watches Curious George they say, “To play more games with George, go to pbs.org).