Birthday Bash

A lot has been going on at the Smerry's since our last post (way back in December). We are still settling in to our new home in Oak Park. Kerala loves school and Kian loves all of his classes during the week (particularly, his gym class). Right now we have both kids enrolled in soccer on Saturdays and they love it. Kerala does a fabulous job listening to instructions in class and actually doing the soccer drills/games. Kian's favorite part of class is jumping into the goal (not a class sponsored activity...but fun for him nonetheless).

The kids are at a really good stage with each other. They are generally very sweet and respectful. Kerala loves to pretend like she is the grown up with Kian and will try to read to him, dry him off after bath and generally just being attentive. Tonight, they were running around pretending to be super heroes and then pretending to be on a camping trip. It is so cute to see them and how they have developed a friendship.

I was having some technical difficulties with the the post - I was trying to embed some photos of the kids' birthday bash in the link, but for some reason I couldn't so check out the April 2011 photo link. The kids had their party at My Gym and I must say that I was really impressed with the staff and facilities. It seemed like everyone had an absolute blast and we couldn't have been happier. We were also really fortunate to have Ellen, Kerala's former nanny, come in and stay with us. It's really interesting to see how Kerala still has a connection with Ellen, although we are not sure how much she remembers of Ellen since Ellen left when she was 2. It's clear though that she knows Ellen has a special place in her life, which is really neat to see.

Now that my busy season is over, I am going to try to post more often. Anyway, please check out the March and April photos to see what we have been up to.