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Children's Museum

Today Grandpa and Grandma Schneider met us at the Minnesota Children's Museum.

This is the first time that we have visited the museum since becoming members (thanks Mom and Dad!). This is a perfect activity for families with young children especially when the temperature dips below zero.

Some of the activities include an area dedicated to water, an assembly line, an area based on the Earth (including a a small stream and an aquarium with a suicidal turtle)...

There is a also a special exhibit about Dinosaurs...this was Andy's favorite! He loved roaring at them, until he realized that when they are life size they do resemble "scary monsters"

One of the best parts of the dino exhibit was an excavating sandbox

that was filled with

something that looked

like thepepper flakes they serve at Pizza Hut...Andy had tons of fun

Our top 10 videos from 2009

Thank you for reading Team Schneider, we have enjoyed sharing pictures and videos with you over the past couple of years.

In 2009 we posted more than 50 videos, so we decided to recap 2009 with some of our favorites.

10. "Achooo" - this simple thriller brought smiles to the faces of many and showcases Andrew's "fake sneezing" phase

9. "Singing to Aunt Chris" - this Christmas time classic is a short preview of the many songs Andrew sings on a daily basis

8. "Andy Wants to Drive the Car"

7. "Andy Counting to 10" - One of those things he picked up at daycare...

6. "Learning is Love" - This heartfelt video featuring the true meaning of dirt, took home the best video of the week for the Mofilm Cannes Film festival

5. "Boo" - We had to teach Andrew how to scare people, this was our attempt

4. "Andy Has a Strange New Pastime" - I have no idea how this started...

3. "Andy goes from dirty to clean thanks to a bubble bath" - this is a daily occurrence

2. "Andrew Walking" - a better title for this video should be "getting back up again"

1. "Why are people saying Andy can speak French, Fight like a Ninja and was attacked by a bear...."

What was your favorite? We would love to know!!

Thanks again and we look forward to sharing more in 2010!

For Those Dreaming of Summer

This is an Epic story of 3 young men whom traveled long distances to catch a monster..

Happy New Year Everyone!

We've been doing some redecorating to TeamSchneider.com. Less is more, right? During the process, I lost a post that we did yesterday and I'm running on little sleep so there isn't much motivation to recreate it.

We have updated our Flickr account! Scroll down to the flickr badge, click on any picture and it will bring you to our photo page. Click on "the teamschneider photostream" on the right side and it will bring you to any new set that we've uploaded.

We spent last night with the Gundry's and Leiran's. The kids were all tucked in by 8:00 and we enjoyed playing the Wii, eating, catching up, and ringing in the new year. This morning Pete and I were able to sleep in until 8:00am! That's some sort of record. Andrew was probably awake earlier, but he quietly played in his room until then. This morning Pete, Andrew and the neighbor kids skated and slid around the rink on the pond. They came in with rosy cheeks, filled up with tomato soup, and Andrew is back in bed sleeping again. Pete might head out in a bit to go ice fishing and I'm on a search for a fun cake to make Andrew for his birthday. We're planning on heading to the Children's Museum later in the day.

Hope you all had a safe and happy new year's!

Swimming in December

Andrew and I went swimming at the Monticello community center. The pool was packed with kids off for Christmas.

We started the night dunking per Andy's request. He couldn't get enough going "under the pool".

We enjoyed playing "blast off" and going down the slide...

and of course we had to take some pictures of Andy in his rocket ship PJs.

Schneider Christmas 2009