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Champ and Princess are sitting on the Chicago anchor.

Princess and Champ pose by the sculpture.

If the weather was warmer, this would be a great place to relax.

We finally made it to the end of Navy Pier.

Another picturesque spot along Navy Pier.

Princess posed with Bob Newhart, but I doubt she has any idea who he is.

Champ and Princess are waiting for the boat ( shoreline ) to start.

Mom is holding Princess at the lower deck in the front of the boat.

Princess and mom are getting there picture taking.

Princess is by grandma getting a picture taken near the end of the trip.

Champ and Princess are on the upper deck in front of the boat.

This is probably Champ with a famous captain.

This picture was snapped from the boat.

This entry was created by both Champ and I.  The first 2 Chicago posts were done by Champ.

Chicago here we come

   Champ is on the subway again.

 

 Princess and Champ are by the Chicago bean.

  

Princess and Champ are by the Chicago bean. You can see their reflection on the bean.

  We took a picture of are selfs.

 

   We went under the Chicago bean.

 We went by a orcastra but they were not playing.

Champ and Princess are waiting in line to go down the slide.

Princess and champ waging in line for the big slide on the left.

Princess just went down a crazy slide.

 Champ is moving a allusion.

 

Princess is about to go down the crazy slide.

Champ is going down the crazy slide.

We are waiting for the EL to come to take us to are home.

Champ and Princess are on the EL!

Champ and Princess are looking out the window, they see the city.

 We took a picture at the Hard Rock Cafe.

Champ and Princess are by there mom.

Champ is going to eat on a guitar.

 We went swimming at are home then we went to are room. We had a great day.

Chicago Get Away

Waiting on our first subway experience.

Champ is getting on the subway. It's crowded.

Princess is looking out of the 360Chicago.

 

Princess loves the view.

Princess is in the American girl shop.

Princess is pushing a button  in the American girl shop.

   Princess is looking at the American girl doll.

 

  Princess is in a dolls egg chair.

   Champ is in the Lego store right next to a storm trooper from Star Wars.

 

   Princess is right next to Olvia from Lego friends.

Easter 2016

The kids were thrilled to see their Easter baskets.  I used to aimlessly buy gifts for kids.  These baskets, however, were designed to help meet some of the goals of our family: fitness and spending time together.  Therefore, there were was no candy.  They only got gum.  I also put things in the basket things that they needed.

Batting gloves were a "hit" with Champ.  

We developed this secret signal at Christmas for when he wanted to thank me without ruining the fun of Santa for his sister.  We did this for Easter too.

I was glad that I was able to loosen these googles up for Princess.

We played the Shopkins' version of Go Fish before bed.

We ate our Resurrection rolls before meeting my parents and my brother at church.

It was so exciting to have Uncle Matt over for a visit.  He kindly played PIG with Champ.

Uncle Matt had never seen a tiara on a bike helmet.

After a delicious meal prepared by mom, the kids had an Easter egg hunt.

Photo time!

How did Princess get the Cadbury egg's cream in her hair?

Champ was thrilled that Uncle Matt played catch with me.

Princess was really fond of Doodle today.

Both kids fought over who got to walk Doodle.

This is the overwhelming sadness you feel when you find out the neighborhood girls are still at their grandparents' house and can't come out and play.

The afternoon was gorgeous.  The neighborhood kids were running all over.  It brought me so much joy to see the kids playing so well together.

Princess was able to get 2 jumps in a row on her new jump rope from her Easter basket.  She said she did it 3 times in a row too, but I never saw it.  We also practiced throwing and catching the ball with her new ball and glove.

These are the new tighter headphones that came in Princess's Easter basket.  I'm hoping that they will stay on so she can run while she listens to music.  She has been choosing walking recently because her My Little Pony headphones stopped working and the ear buds kept falling out when she ran.

We played Champ's new game, Uno Dare, a few times before bed too.  The thunderstorm in the evening was scary for some people.