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Sunday, March 20, 2011

Ready for Spring

 We've been playing a lot of hide-and-seek.  It's a pretty easy game for me since the kids always hid in the same places. Josie really likes to hide in these curtains (though her feet stick out the bottoms and she wiggles the whole time) and she comes out with a little extra electricity.

One day, the kids had it in their plans to make messes.  This was the first of the attempts. Caleb dumped all of the Trio blocks in the kitchen with his dump truck (he said it was a parade), then he and Josie kicked them around for a while.

 Next they threw all from the diapers from Josie's room down the steps and slide on them.  That's what I get for changing out of my school clothes by myself.
 Thankfully, Caleb is old enough now that he could help pick these up...and it actually was helpful.
We made a wake board out of this old box.  I was the boat, pulling Caleb by a jumprope (don't worry, it's completely safe).  Boy, are we ever ready for spring!
Rainy Sunday afternoon.
 Josie's enjoying every bit of learning how to bake cookies.

 "cheese"
 The new big girl bed.  So far, she hasn't come out of her room during nap or nighttime.
 

Saturday, February 26, 2011

Birthday party at the Fire Station

 Driving the truck (with eyes closed??)

We couldn't get a picture with Josie wearing the hat because it pretty much toppled her over.
Our Neighbor friend, Tate, celebrated his 3rd birthday with a party at a fire station.  The kids climbed all over and through the trucks, rang a very loud bell and tried on the boots, pants, coats and helmets.  We've been looking forward to this once since we got the invitation.

Welcome, Baby Bria Lynne!



Josie LOVES babies, so she was very excited to go visit her new cousin, Bria.  Congrats, Aunt Kara and Uncle Brad!

Sunday, February 13, 2011

Cottage in the winter

 
I wasn't there, but this looks a bit like a figure skating routine.  What are you boys doing up there?

New interests

Once in a while we even get the diaper off and make good use of this chair's purpose.  Other times, it's just a good place to read a book and wait while Caleb sits on the nearby, bigger potty. 

Thursday, February 3, 2011

"Snowapalooza"



 The pictures above were taken before the big "blizzard of 2011" .  Below are pictures of the kids helping with clearing the driveway after the storm.

GR Children's Museum

 Caleb's cream come true: A fire truck with a siren he can operate
 She's so happy to be taking in the germs from those other kids.
This is what we get when we tell her to "smile pretty". 

Better Late than Never...More Christmas pictures

 All of the cousins on Kyle's side so far...more in the works!



 All of the cousins on Rachel's side, looking decently happy (or scared) for the picture.
Josie dominating the rocking horse and the "bouncy castle"

Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Christmas Eve Morning (at home)






Playing a new Wii game

Pre-Christmas Activites

 Our little helper...when it's his own idea 
Gingerbread houses the kids made with Abbie (Abbie, you're wonderful). Josie was so proud of hers, she cried when I broke it apart to let her eat part of it.  Who knew she was so attached to her work?

Thursday, December 16, 2010

Artwork

Caleb has entitled this work "Traffic Jam", inspired by Dawson and Jamie on the day to the beach. Seems fitting.
Here's Josie's silly pudding face. She's getting sillier all the time.

Monday, November 22, 2010

Christmas Cards

We, like Janet, are planning to use Shutterfly for our Christmas cards this year. Unlike Janet, I am not normally more ahead of the game on this—in fact, reading her blog post reminded me that I should get started on something. So, Shutterfly has a great promotion going that gives Bloggers free holiday cards simply for posting about it as a blog post. Plus I think I saw a free shipping promotional code and maybe even one for ten dollars off. If you have a blog and want to get in on this, click HERE to follow the link and get an email with the directions. I think the promotion goes until Christmas.

This year, we will be making a stationary card ( http://www.shutterfly.com/cards-stationery/holiday-cards ) with a picture of the kids we took on a Sunday morning after church. It was the best of many attempts, and both kids are smiling and no visible after-church windmill cookie crumbs, tears, or runny noses! We haven’t settled in on a design, so you’ll just have to wait and see. Here are our cards from last year and 3 years ago. I have no recollection of what we did 2 years ago ???