Warm weather and blue hands

I got this for Emery's birthday but couldn't finish putting it together because it was missing the axles. She spent a week dragging it around the house, waiting patiently for the axles to arrive so I could put the wheels on. I think it was worth the wait. She loves it!

Awesome weather = exploring outside

I often hear stories about kids getting into things and painting themselves with markers, etc., and wondered (okay judged) how people could let that happen. Well now I know. Jackson got a stamp set for Easter and wanted to play with it one morning. I emphasized he HAD to keep it on the paper. Then Emery woke up and I went to get her. When I walked back into the room, he was "painting" himself with the stamp pad. And he was so proud. Never trust a 3 year old. Lesson learned (I hope).

Emery's 1st b-day party

We celebrated Emery's first birthday this past weekend with a bunch of family and friends, a flower and butterfly cake and some outside time.

ONE!

She's One! She took 2 wobbly steps today, nods yes, yells mommy when she wants something (usually to get out of her crib), dances to anything resembling music or singing, loves to eat and gets into EVERYTHING!

Easter and Buttercream

Easter morning

Emery found this one all by herself

at Nana and Papa's

I made the buttercream frosting for Emery's birthday cake today and let the kids lick the beaters....mmmm....

but when I took the beater away.....

11 Months

She's 11 months old and still cruising. She stands by herself for several seconds now and really wants to take that first step but just can't muster the courage. She says mommy,daddy, doggie, bye-bye, uh-oh and (we think) Jackson. She loves to dance and clap.

He really is as close as he looks. Jackson was a bit scared.

The baby tigers have gotten so big! One of these is the mama.

10 months old

My baby is 10 months old! How can it be going so fast? She is cruising around furniture, waving bye bye and gives high five.

I finally got around to making her hooded towels for her baths--or just sitting and playing :)

One down, two to go

A simple request to patch a hole turned into a bathroom remodel. We had the plumbing for the whole house redone back in August and were left with a hole in the wall next to the shower in the master bath. When I asked Tim to patch it because I was tired of looking at a piece of green drywall in a sea of baby blue, he decided he might as well patch the one over the sink that was covered by the medicine cabinet, as well. When we gutted the big bathroom on the main floor, we discovered the previous owners had pulled out an inset medicine cabinet in the master bath and just covered the hole with a new cabinet. Lovely. Or genius. Who would ever look behind a medicine cabinet until it's too late!? There was also a hole below the old light fixture that was covered with a piece of sheet metal and painted over. And, as you can tell, said previous owners did not take down the medicine cabinets before applying the aforementioned baby blue paint. So after much, much, much patching of holes and smoothing out walls and sanding and more mudding and moving and re-attaching the electrical box for the light fixture because it was just kind of dangling inside the wall and a few other little setbacks, we have a new bathroom! Almost. We still need to appoxy paint the pink shower. But I'm happy for now. Now on to mudding and taping the new ceiling in the basement bathroom! Then maybe we'll finish the bathroom we gutted a year and a half ago!

Sledding

A few weeks ago Jackson discovered the small hill in our backyard is pretty fun to sled down. It's the perfect size for a 3 year old to do it all by himself!

Showing off her teeth