We are experiencing technical difficulties

Our computer is old, cranky and riddled with 8 years of viruses, spyware and other garbage. So this past weekend we finally went out and bought a pretty new Apple laptop. Now we just have to figure out how to hook it up to the internet. Should be straight forward, but so far no luck. Not that we've tried very hard. Hopefully sometime in the next week or two we'll either hire the Geek Squad to do it, fly my brother in to do it or really give it the old college try and figure it out ourselves. (Those are listed in order from most to least likely to happen.) In the mean time, my motivation to do anything with this computer is minimal because it takes forever. For. Ever.

Since my last post, David has done the following:

Gone to the Field Museum and a Blackhawks game

Blown out my birthday candle and helped Kevin install new smoke/CO detectors

Attended a Bulls game and conned us into a Benny the Bull head

Won a prestigious gymnastics medal (for showing up to class) and gone to free cone day at Ben & Jerry's

There's no good segue into this, so I'll just add that he insists on calling oatmeal "meatloaf." It make me laugh every time.

Last but not least, David refuses to be videoed doing a cartwheel, but here's some good stuff from gymnastics.

David's birthday: month 4 of 6

Here are a few pictures from the last week or so. David and Alma went to the zoo. Alma painted his face like a kitty, and he spent the next 48 hours refusing to have his face washed.
Last weekend I went to visit Aimee in Atlanta, leaving Kevin and David to fend for themselves. They had a great time. The third picture below is from their trip to the Museum of Science and Industry. Kevin was very pleased that David broke out of his farm equipment/model train rut and checked out the submarine and a few other exhibits.

I made it back last Sunday in time for the family February/March birthday party. We're coming to the home stretch of David's 6 months of birthday which began with early Christmas gifts and October and extends through Gotcha Day in a few weeks. David loved all his presents. Highlights included the firetruck card that he gave to himself (and a second copy to Uncle Dave--Kevin was lucky to leave the store with only two of them David loved it so much), his new Blackhawks shirt and Chutes and Ladders which he played with great aunt Barb.

Tomorrow David and I are looking forward to Mandarin class followed immediately by some ACC basketball. He is currently sleeping in his Duke shirt for luck.

I should be exercising, cleaning, sleeping or really anything other than this

In lieu of being productive or doing the smart thing and going to bed, I have chosen to post pictures from this past weekend. We did what all idiot midwesterners do when the temperature cracks 30 and went to the zoo. We saw some of the indoor exhibits that we don't usually visit during our 3 week summer. We also spent an eternity in the play zoo where David insited on sweeping the toddler toy area for about 20 minutes. He also misted the plants in the greenhouse and pretended to be the zoo director.

Sunday we attended our friend Eli's 2nd birthday party. David had much fun playing with his friends, especially Evie (pictured below coloring with Maya and Nick).

In other David news, he can do a cartwheel. I'm not even kidding. Legs straight up in the air over his head cartwheel. His landings could use considerable work, but it's still pretty sweet. I'll try to get some video this week. He was so proud of himself that he even showed Coach Mandy today at gymnastics class. She seemed genuinely impressed, or at least that's what I thought in my extremely biased opinion. Surely this can only mean he's headed to the Olympics in 2028.