The other Friday, Alicia had a playdate with her friend Roger and his little brother, Bruce! Nicole and I had a nice time catching up as it had been over a month or so since the kids had a playdate. Alicia was very excited to see Roger, as I was telling her in the van that we were going ot meet Roger and Bruce at the park. The minute she got out of the van, Roger met her in the parking lot and the two were off running running around together and playing nicely actually. There was no fighting, pushing, or crying until we had to leave. Then the kids were like super glue stuck on the playground! Alicia was being very cute, er.. or should I say authoritative at times with Roger... she was like "Roger- come here" "where'd Roger go" "Roger, now" "Roger sit, Roger swing" it was everything Roger, this, Roger that.. very cute, but man, she is a pushy little one! I'm glad Roger didn't mind playing nice and coperating with all of Alicia's beckons and calls :)
Also, this was one of the first times that I saw Alicia climb up a rope ladder and be able to climb up this spring looking thing. (its the middle picture in the bottom row) She also was able to make it up the big ladder to the "fun" slide this year all by herself holding on to the railing. It was awesome! She would have never been able to do that last summer or fall even.. she really has been working hard lately and not giving up as easy! way to go Alicia.
The other night Lucas and Carl were over visiting Alicia and they were having their own little jam session in the kitchen. Alicia and Carl have really taken a liking to a band called "They Might Be Giants." They sing some Disney songs, and a lot of other pretty cool kids songs. Yes, mom and dad's out there, they are a pretty tolerable kid music band to listen to. Here's a video of Alicia and Carl and Lucas singing their best to the Number Two song. Next time we'll try and get them to sing more...but they are getting the gist of it...
When we were in Disney World, Alicia had nothing to do with the ears we bought her. I totally wanted a cute picture of her in her Mickey ear hat while on va
cation there... go figure she didn't want to wear it when mommy asked nicely. So I put them in her room on top of her dresser/tv area as a nice keepsake. The other night she was like mickey hat- mickey hat. I was like ok, show me wear it is, since I wasn't sure what she really wanted. I didn't think she even really remembered where I her ears, or the fact that she had a "mickey hat" and had a desire for wear them. So she took me by the hand and pointed up and we found them in her room. Alicia got really excited and wore them for like half the night marching around singing her Disney songs. It was very cute. And I'm glad I was able to snap a few pictures of her in her ears :) 
