He played well at Benita's house, who we also call "B" and my B, was meeting her & family and Aunt Gene for the first time. Of course they thought he was darling! They only had two days of him..lol!
We went to Lake Michigan shore/beach and played in the COLD, COLD, COLD, water and to my amazement there were people swimming. No thanks, too cold for me. We also went by Michael Jordans (house),make that gate,as that was as close as we could get, you know short notice and all! Ha!
Benita is a voice teacher and plays piano and sings professionally and my Aunt plays piano too, so My B, loved the fact that they helped him play the piano as he is very excited to play every time he sees one.
In the evening we went for walks and tried to wear Berik out at the parks,and we loved the beautiful neighborhoods and trees. We enjoyed it as it was much different than Texas. After the couple of days, we put Aunt Gene back on Amtrack to Michigan and then Benita took us to the Lincoln Park Zoo,where we
had a good time looking at all the animals. Late afternoon B dumped us off at the hotel for the Kazapalooza,and you thought we'd never get there!
We took this fun bag as a donation for the raffle and it was a huge success as it had the most tickets sold toward it, so I was told. I will have to have a bag made for me one day and will most definitely have to get these books for some fun with B. We finally met up with some of the people we blog with from Kaz and it was really neat to catch up with them. The Kaz kid's are even cuter in person, here are a couple to drive the point home!
We had a pizza party, meet and greet the first evening,a luncheon with activities such as facing painting and a balloon artist for the kids.In the afternoon several groups of peeps went to the aquarium and/or to the park with this neat water feature!
Berik and Serena had fun on this turtle. Aren't they cute?!
Also a slight malfunction with a group shot. You see my child is oh so cooperative!
We had a lot of fun. We saw "the bean" ,
a reflective art piece of sorts where you can see the whole city in kind of a 360 kind of view. I guess that's what you would say. Here is a regular picture of it and then one from underneath.
We also meet up at the pool and Jessi was good to help with Berik as always!
Thanks, Jessi! All in all we had a fantastic time and visited Navy pier were I was dumb enough and still barely not fat enough not to fit on the swings, so I went on the ride. Ugh..
it kind of made me sick to my stomach.We loved the view of the lake and had a nice person take a good family picture of us.
We snuck in a quick trip through the stained glass display but Berik was bored and tired so he tuckered out with Manny's tail literally cliched between his teeth.
We have had Manny since before Kaz so he goes with us everywhere. Here is a 9-11 piece 
that I thought was pretty neat!Here is the little blurb about it, quite interesting really. You can enlarge it to read it.
After so much fun in Chicago we hated to go home but the time came snuck up on us in a hurry and we returned home to the hum drum work schedule and Jessi returned to "My Space" and Berik to daycare.He is having an awesome time there!He loves Splash day on Fridays and making food like the cinnamon rolls he was up to his elbows in ! I got to see pics of that but none of making pizzas but I can imagine that had to be equally messy! He is learning alot and we think he has learned some daycare defensive tactics as he tried them out on Jessi. A little nibble here and there, some hair pulling and a little bull dozing! Along with that, his verbal skills are progressing nicely and daddy has really taught him some great things to say like, "boodylicious" and has taught him to cup his mouth with his hands and YELL, "Mama" in Wal-Mart. It is effective I must say as I do hear him. The cutest is his fichin po (fishing pole),pot/sit/sul (popsicle) and poo man (policeman) and of course they go, Woo Woo! and he yells that out daily as you arrive to daycare, which backs up to the police station parking lot.Not to funny when your inspection sticker is expired and you are feeling guilty. I know, I should get it done before I get a ticket. He is also extremely curious about everything. One evening he was sitting up on the island in the kitchen "helping" make dinner. We had a box on the counter and he points to it and exclaims, Chicken! Jessi and I said , no and before we could tell him what it was, he exclaims, Spaghetti! and again we said no and he exclaims, French fries!!! and we said no and he looks up at us and says,(in very plain English), "Well, what is it?" as if we were being mean to him and he was wasting his breath and effort on us. It was really cute, you probably just had to be there :).
Dora Dora continues to be a big hit and he is learning Spanish well. He knows "empuje" means to push and when that particular episode comes on (we have it taped , look out, as he will run up behind you and push back and forth on your booty trying to move you and says over and over, "empuje, empuje". The song is about the characters trying to get a boat off the sand and into the water and it seems like it takes them forever and he stands behind you and pushes!He says alot "that's funny" and then starts cracking him self up at what? Sometimes we don't know? Hum? He has a good imagination! He also does this dance about stiring up a bowl of choc and sings it in spanish. So far I have managed to catch nothing on video as he will stop completely if you get the camera out.He is very funny and I hope one day to catch it secretly. Well this about sums up June as we were broke and tired!
All the little stuff sure adds up in a hurry! Until next time, you'll take care. Love, Gena, Jaimie and Berik
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