Blue eyed beauty...

...she's our...blue eyed girl!

cupcakes on a Thursday...

The boys decided to get their baking on last Thursday..."cupcakes, really?" I said...they were yum and they had a great time baking together. Don't you just love my sweetie in his "sweet" apron!

In the backyard...

The snow and ice are finally melting around here. The sun was warm and the brown grass was inviting this afternoon as the kiddos and I headed to the backyard for a snack. It is mostly fun to see these two together these days...the amount of "brother/ sister" interaction both good and bad is alive and well! He puts goldfish on her head, she reaches for his milk cup full of cow's milk, he gives her a kiss, she fusses when he takes the cup away. You get the picture, :).

But mostly she looks at him like this. So sweet.

Sweet until he does tricks like this...oh the joys!!!

Besties...

(Abby, 13 months and Sarah Claire, 10 months)


...well at least we hope they will be super duper friends for life!

Love the facial expressions and love how much of their big brothers I can see in each of their faces!

Flashgun...

Matt got me a Bower, SPD290 for Christmas...a sit on top flash if you will. I've been playing around with it some...it's a bit tricky. These are some snaps from a play session in the foyer the other night. There was very minimal light in the foyer...so the light that you see was from the flash...love any tips on this!! :)

Please note that SC is into everything her brother is into or doing now...he's having to learn patience with her new found freedom of movement and will power. Please note also that Ollie was drawing a space ship that had a shower and a bathroom and he plans on taking it to the moon one day!

New years eve nap...

Look very closely in the corner of the pink and lime green...it's Sarah Claire. No, she's not playing hide and seek, she's sleeping! Ha!! It's been a really big week for this little girl. She officially started crawling, is pulling up like crazy, goes from laying in her crib to sitting, which prompted the crib mattress to be moved down last night and another tooth popped through bringing the total to 7!

She was fussy and sleepy around 10 this morning so I gave her some milk then put her in her bed. She played and laughed and talked and probably crawled and stood up...times like these I really wish we had a video monitor, but we don't. Then about 30 min later, it got quiet and when I went in to check on her...this is what I found. A sleeping babe...sleeping sitting up with her head in her bumper. Don't worry she was breathing fine. I wanted to move her but Matt said "never move a sleeping baby" or something like that. We kept checking on her, eventually her arms dropped down, but she slept this way for 1 and half hours!

Thanks to Kristen and bestie, Abby for the Baby Legs...so fun! Can't believe this paisley pink princess will be 10 months old tomorrow!

One snowy day...

One snowy day...Ollie's Grandaddy took him up the hill down around the corner.

Down the hill they went, snow flying everywhere...one snowy day.

One snowy day...crash they went and flip and turn.

One snowy day...Ollie and his Grandaddy got "all snowed up" and had the ride of their lives (well for a while at least.)