Hallelujah it's almost spring!

We have SOO been enjoying the few scattered days of warm sunshine. I love this time of year. We are so close! It's nice to have a hint of what's to come every once in a while. Last week we went to the park on one of those warm sunshiney days and I brought my camera along.

Fun to get a shot of her looking at me and smiling!

Cause usually she's more like this:

The dude didn't want to take off his 'sweet' shades:

I laugh out loud when I see this picture. What a nerd! :)

Love day

This year I decided to make valentine's with Ethan to give to his friends. He didn't really care much about it, which I expected. I had a lot of fun though. At least I got him to scribble a bit on each card. Leah joined the fun too. Hope your Valentine's Day was fabulous!

Idea for these valentine's from here (click for link):

Stop Motion Round 2

I took a whole bunch of consecutive pictures of Ethan jumping on our couch cushions. I thought it'd make a cute little video. The picture's aren't that great and the music's not perfect, but oh well.




Here's the first.

Reality Is...

A half emptied box of wipes:

A sink full of dirty dishes:

A baby high chair waiting to be cleaned post- lunch:

A little girl who can't keep her
hands out of my make-up drawer.
Also, a bathroom that is still purple:

A laundry basket that needs to be put away. (At least it is folded.):

A forever emptied bucket o' cars:

And 'Thomas' underwear that is doing NOTHING
to entice an almost 3 yr old boy to start potting training.

But this makes it all better:

Good thing it's nap time.... I could really use some shut-eye.

I read this sweet thought in a book somewhere about mother's who stare intently at their children. The author said she believed every mother stares intently at her child, but that this particular mother had captured it all in her art. She had hundreds of drawings of her daughter as a baby; all of her little details.

I love that thought and so I tried to document the things about Leah that I love. Her soft rosy cheeks and wispy hair being two of those things.

Little children

Sometimes my kids get along really well.


Before you think it's really cute that Ethan is kissing Leah's head in the top right picture, you should know that he's actually spitting on her. :)

For Posterity!

Okay, so I'll just pretend like this embarrassing lapse in blogging didn't happen and carry on. :) I've got to go back and post still about Thanksgiving. Just so I have a record!

Thanksgiving was a lot of fun except that we took a bad stomach flu bug down with us. Not only were Ethan, Ross, and I throwing up all week, but we also passed it to my parents and brother. That wasn't very nice of us.

But we did get this funny family picture. My mom was nice enough to have Thanksgiving a day late, because we were feeling decent by then, and the second half of the crew didn't get sick until a day or two later. My favorite is Ethan's face.