Our New Piano

A few weeks back we got a wonderful piano. It's a Lester piano that was made in 1939. We got it for free from someone who didn't want it any more. The only challenge was getting it into the house. Pianos sure are heavy! Mommy got it all tuned up and I really like it. Here daddy and I are singing along to "The Itsy Bitsy Spider."

Shoot-Out with Grandpa

A few weeks back Grandpa and I had a good-old western shoot out using my new cap guns.

Cowboys ride horses. I'm without a horse, but you get the idea.

You've got to be quick on the draw to get Grandpa.

Grandpa must have picked this trick up when he was in the army. I've never seen it used before.

Time to break out my cowboy hat.

Grandpa will never get me here. This is so much fun.

Halloween-2011

Greetings everyone. So sorry we've been away for so long. Apparently it took me in a chicken costume to sufficiently motivate daddy to get the blog going again. It's Halloween 2011 and I am a chicken and Fisher is a cowboy. We had the best time trick or treating. How come nobody ever told me about this before. It's fantastic. I would run up to each house and yell "Happy Halloween" and people will give you candy!

Yesterday, we went downtown Naperville and enjoyed the city's Halloween festivities. I was particularly interested in this statue of all these army men. Fisher plays with army men all the time, but they are not this big.

I like this chicken outfit, but it doesn't work well in a carseat.

Fisher can you put my shoe back on?

Fisher is the best. Today, while we were watching cartoons, he helped me put my shoe back on. It fell off again, but that was okay. At that point we were more interested in the cartoon.

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Daddy Day at School

Yesterday was daddy day at school. Both Kitson and I got to take daddy to school and do all sorts of fun activities. The theme of the day was "Cars" and all the activities involved either racing, building, or drawing race cars. Here is a picture that all three of us took in a race car. If you look closely, you can see that I am holding a 1st place trophy.

When we first got there, Kitson was a little cranky. She wasn't real interested in cleaning a car or in race car snacks...as you can tell from this picture. But after a few minutes, she cheered up and had a lot of fun.

What really cheered Kitson up was drawing race cars with this dot pen. It makes big dots on the piece of paper. And if you fill in each of the dots you will see a super-cool race car. Kitson really likes colors. I think purple is her favorite, with pink a close second.

At the end of the session, all the kids gathered to sign a couple of songs to their daddies. There wasn't a whole lot of room, so Kitson sat on my lap. We're a good team.

I'm not sure what this kid was up to. He was sure checking Kitson out. Good thing I was there to protect her. That's what big brothers do.

A couple of days before "daddy day" our teaches asked each of us what we loved to do with our daddies. Well, you can read what I said when the teacher asked me. Mommy thought my choice was really funny.

The first exhibit was car cleaning. The teacher sprayed shaving cream all over the car and I used a squeegee to clean it up. Grandpa John would have been proud. Kitson was still a little upset at this point.

Basketball Practice

My new favorite sport is basketball. It's so much fun and great exercise. Mommy signed me up for classes on Thursday nights. Boy is it fun. My good friend Colin plays with me.

You might wonder what I am doing in this picture. It's very simple. I was telling the other kids and our coach about when the Green Bay Packers scored a touchdown during the Super Bowl. This was my touchdown signal. Absolutely true story!!

We use smaller hoop that allows us to slam dunk the ball. Here I am playing a little defense, all the while I hold my own basketball.

Kitson also really enjoyed watching our practice. She kept trying to run out on the court.

Here is a video of our game. There is a lot of action.

In this video I score a basket.

My name is Kitson Muck!

Packers are the Super Bowl Champs!!

What an amazing season! The Green Bay Packers won the Super Bowl. And can you believe that Kitson and I stayed up for the whole game!! It was a great game, but poor daddy was pretty stressed. The Packers got off to a great start, but then the Steelers made a comeback. At the start of the 4th quarter, it was anyone's game. Aaron Rodgers played a fantastic and the defense stopped the Steelers on their final drive to win the game.

Kitson thought she would give the Packers some good luck by wearing some address stickers on her face. I'm not sure it helped, but it was a good look.

Here is a video right at the end of the game. We were all jumping up and down celebrating. Daddy was calling Uncle Ben on the phone to congratulate him. He said all he could hear where our cheers.

Watching TV by the fire

This morning Kitson and I got up and wanted to watch some cartoons by the fire. Daddy got us all set up and we had the best time. Here Kitson is trying to explain something to me. As you can see from the video below, I don't always understand everything she is trying to say.

I've got this one tooth that just will not come out. I have tried everything, but it just keeps hanging on. I've even tried asking everyone I know if they want to pull on it. Mommy doesn't like it when I do that. Something about germs.

Here is the video I was telling you about. Kitson had something very important to say to me. I'm still not sure what it was, but it sure seemed important to her.

Don't try to take my chap-stick away

I am learning so much. Here I am putting on chap-stick all by myself. Daddy thinks I might be over applying.

Nothing better than a good old screaming match

Fisher and I were having the best time this evening. I was chasing him all around the house trying to hug him.

Fisher is such a good sport and very careful to make sure that I don't get hurt.

Fisher and I also had a screaming contest. I would recommend you turning down the volume.

The Blizzard of 2011

Now that is a lot of snow! We were hit with a blizzard last night that dropped a couple of feet of snow on us. I have never seen so much snow. This is what daddy and I saw as we tried to get out of the garage today .

This is a video of me trying to find a way out of the garage into that mountain of snow.

I made it!!!

It took us a couple hours of hard shoveling, but we managed to dig our way out. Everyone pitched in. Everyone was pretty tired when it was all done. Well, except for me. I found my friend Jake and we played "king of the mountain."

Kitson liked the walkway up to the front door. There was so much snow, it felt like a tunnel.

Kitson is the king of the mountain.

This is what our street looks like. I told daddy that they were going to need a super plow to find our street again. They say it may take two days before we can get out.

Now I am tired. Time to go eat some lunch and watch Star Wars.

I think Kitson was also getting tired.

That snow in the street is almost taller than Kitson.

Now, Daddy is king of the mountain.

Packers going to the Super Bowl

What a game! The Packers beat the Bears to make it to the Super Bowl. We all watched the entire game together, cheering on the Pack. Although I think daddy was the most stressed. Good thing that Mommy made some fantastic chilly. That seemed to help. We are all excited to cheer the Packers on in the Super Bowl in a couple weeks. This video was right after BJ Raji intercepted jay cutler for the game winning touchdown. As you can see, Kitson was not as impressed with the score as Daddy and I were. I think she was worried about the upcoming defensive series.