The Ricci's in Arizona: Big Things for JT and Sam too!!

JT RIDES A TWO WHEELER!!!!

After a long time of him doubting himself, JT finally got the courage up to try a 2 wheeler seriously. To his surprise.... he rocked it! He is so excited to be on a big boy bike. He asks to ride all the time! :)

It won't be long before Eli is right there behind him! Our baby isn't much of a baby by typical standards!

Happy Big Boy

Sammy on his BIG bike. He actually has been practicing on his new bike too. It is so big and doesn't have brakes on the pedals so it has been an adjustment for him too.

Eli trying out the Jeep.

Video Clips....

Cruisin'

Eli following along

Stopping ... well , sort of :)

Eli Pushing the Jeep.

He tried to make it go by pushing the pedal, but I guess he thought he could make it go faster if he just did it himself. Little Toughy!

STAR STUDENT JT!

Last week JT came home with the Star Student bag from school. He was SOOOOO excited. He had been waiting patiently for Olive to come visit (the stuffed Octopus they bring home). Here he is with her and his journal.

He took her everywhere in the beginning. He started by our weekly trip to Buffalo Wild Wings with the Lee's on Friday night.

A typical Friday night scene at BWW. :) Happy kids.

Don't forget the little guys!

Here is JT's poster. We used up all the ink in our new printer and printed out a bunch of pictures of him. Most of them from NY and Uncle Buddy and Aunt Lindsay's wedding. He had lots of fun putting together a poster all about HIM! He even decorated it with some special stickers.

One of jobs of the Star Student is to bring in an estimation bag. What better item for JT than suckers with gum inside?

Looking at his poster. so cute.

At the end of the week he had to bring back Olive. He was sad to see her go, but she went to Ella's house next, so that was a little easier to share with his Share Friend. :)

Sammy's Football!

Tomorrow we are playing in the championship games. It has been a great season and Sammy has done AWESOME! I, on the the other hand, have done a pretty bad job at capturing him this season! Here are a few shots. I told him he had to make a couple touchdowns tomorrow for me so I can maybe get ONE on tape!

in the huddle.

Defense with his buddy Ryder.

Video of Sammy Pulling a Flag

I think this is a touchdown... just not on video. :)

Eli is always happy to run around the field on Saturday morning!

Sammy, JT and his buddies Mason and Drew. After the game we have been going to the "Burrito Shack" together for a breakfast burrito. It truly is a SHACK... but they make good breakfast burritos! The kids love it.

Wish us luck for tomorrow! IT will be a tough couple of games!

I will blog about it later!

ANOTHER visit from the Tooth Fairy!!

Sammy lost his 3rd tooth. The poor kid has teeth that want to stay in FOREVER! The dentist has said she wanted to pull them for him, but this kid is SO tough, he just rips them out! This time he made me do it! I felt so bad, but look at this face....

He doesn't seem upset!

Baby tooth #3. Goodbye!

Phoenix Zoo

Sammy has been asking to go to the zoo FOREVER. He has such long days at school that it is hard to do fun things after he gets out. Well, Wednesday he had a half day and we made the most of it! Arwen took us to the zoo on her zoo pass and the boys had a ball!