Alina is a star!

Would you believe one of these 2 photos won us 4 tickets to Sesame Street Live!?

I entered a contest put on by www.momslikeme.com (which is affiliated with 9 News) last week to try to win tickets, but after uploading my photos for the grouchiest kid contest, I decided I probably wouldn't win. I really thought Alina would like it, though, so I bought tickets. Well to my great surprise, today when I checked my spam email account that I used to sign up, I found I had many messages from them trying to tell me to come pick up my tickets (as well as one asking permission to put the picture(s) on the news... but I missed the boat on that one - darnit!). We didn't win first place, but we were runners up. How exciting!

So even though I already bought tickets, I decided I needed to drive through the terrible weather today to 9 News to pick up my tickets so that someone else could go as well. Here are some pictures of the tickets. :)

Here are some pictures of Ania from tonight. She is sure getting big!

In case anyone is curious, Alina still thinks "smile" means "close your eyes". I tried and tried to teach her what it really means. I say "No, Alina - THIS is smile" and I point to my cheeks while I'm smiling... so now occasionally when she "smiles" she closes her eyes and points to her cheeks. Ha! :)

Here is a big smile on Easter morning. In case you are wondering about the outfit, I asked her which dress she wanted to wear, and she pointed to the CU jacket. In the end, I did convince her to put a dress on under the jacket, but the jacket was what she really wanted to wear.