Cousins :)

We went to visit my sister and her family about a month ago, for my neices first birthday party, and while we were there, we did the obligatory put the kids in the tub together routine. Can you tell that they are related?

9 months...a little late

Not the best picture taking day, as you can see by this picture. Gabe was not impressed! I actually think he may not have liked the way the roughness of the wall felt. I know it's probably wrong, but I thought this was kind of cute, even though he was mad :)

I like this one, because it is so "Gabe" to me. It looks like he is just trying to decide what to get into next :)

At nine months my little guy is not so little anymore. He is crawling everywhere, almost walking, and literally into almost EVERYTHING! Nick and I have been saying lately, that absolutely nothing is safe from this ones little grabby fingers :) Gabe you are so inquisitive, and not afraid of anything. You are all boy! :) You won't eat baby food any more, and you love to feed yourself. You take a sippy like a champ. You are sort of sleeping through the night, which is really nice :) I love you little man, mommy is so proud of you and so lucky to have you as her son!

Easter Egg Hunt...Take One

Yup, Hannah got to enjoy not one, but two Easter egg hunts this year. We went to my side of the family on Saturday evening. Luckily, the weather held, and we had a fun time watching Hannah hunt Easter eggs. She was an absolute riot :) She was bouncing from place to place, and giggling the whole time. Oh the innocence of being three...I love it






Gabe wasn't terribly interested in the eggs, but he did have a good time chewing on his tamborine from Grandma and Grandpa :)

9 month stats

20lbs 10 ounces
28 inches
50th percentile

That's my boy :)

Clearly....

I stink at blogging. I want blog, I really really do, but most of the time, I am so pooped that it just doesn't happen. I need to just suck it up and do it :) My big girl panties are officially on, and I am now back on the blogging band wagon. :)


Ok, now that that is taken care of, I thought I would show you some pictures of something else I stink at. At least for today. I wanted to get some cute pictures of the kids in their Easter outfits today after church. IT DID NOT HAPPEN. But that's ok...I will just post all the attempts instead. Because my kids are cute (clearly), and I want to show you them in their Easter clothes :)

Even when they are not cooperative, they are still super cute!

Cookies...yumm yumm!

80's Chick

Playdate

Heaven is doing a happy dance today...

...because today my little Hannah asked Jesus to come and live in her heart! Happy tears! :)

Making Bread

I think I may be in trouble...

Why you ask? Well...someone...

thinks that this...

should lead to this...


which naturally leads to this!!!


Barely eight months old and pulling up on things...yup, I am in trouble! :)

*sidenote* Yes, Gabe is wearing rainbow striped baby legs, yes I think they are really cute, and yes Nick thinks they are ridiculous :)

Tonight...

...after bath time I sat Hannah on the potty to pee before going to bed. She told me that there was no pee in her belly, and that her pee couldn't come out. Here is how the rest of the conversation went:

Me: "So where did your pee go?"
Hannah: "It's busy eating supper."
Me : (Thinking I am so smart and changing tactics) "Oh, I see. Well what about your tinkle? Can it come out before bed?"
Hannah: "No, it's busy playing with it's Daddy."
Me: "Uh huh.... :)"

She makes me laugh... :)

Little Miss Creative

Hannah's creativity sometimes really amazes me. Her little three year old mind comes up with some of the silliest and funniest ideas. I suppose that I shouldn't have been suprised when she told me that she was going to take a nap in the towel closet, but when she said that I just kind of let it go in one ear and out the other..."uh-huh, ok honey..." Well you will never guess what I found after I was done running the vaccum. That right...Hannah in the towel closet :)

Here she is, playing in the towel closet :)

Here she is pretending to sleep.

Silly silly girl:)

Uh-oh...

So, we have a lot of snow here lately. And I do mean a lot. Last night it started snowing pretty hard, and when I got home from running some errands I couldn't get the van up the driveway. So my dear husband came out to try and help me. He was able to make it about 3/4 of the way up. He really thought he could make it all the way up, so her decided to try one more time. Well.....as we started backing out to try again, the van started to slide and we ended up parallel to the direction that we wanted to go in, stuck in giant snow drifts on both sides. Thankfully my brother-in-law came over to help us dig the van out, and we were eventually able to get the van into the garage. Grrrrr.....I am tired of snow!!

Num, Num, Nummy

Cool mom, you are giving me some real food...no more of that silly pureed stuff!

Lets try and out!

Hmmm...feels a little funny on my tongue...

But I LIKE IT!! Thanks mom :)

Gabe likes to eat. Alot. So I decided to try giving him some graham crackers to munch on. I figured that since he has two teeth, and graham crackers are pretty soggy/melty when wet, that it would be ok to give it a go. And of course, he loved it :) Yay for momma's big boy!

Cheeseball

That's my Hannah. An utter, total, and complete cheeseball. And I wouldn't have her any other way! Love you little girl!

Toofers

Enough said :)

Geometric George

This is our snowman. Due to his rather odd body shape, I have named him Geometric George.



This is Hannah, her daddy, and her Grandpa Steve, posing with Geometric George. Should I be worried that my daughters first snowman is most definitely not round? Nah...and besides, one can never starting learning geometry too soon...right... :)

Playing in the Snow

You didn't think we made our little turkey stay inside when we got such aan enormous amount of snow did you? Hannah and Nick had an awesome time playing outside. I kind of thought she might wimp out because of the cold, but not my tough little turkey. She was outside for over an hour, and only came in because it was time for lunch.



She had fun "helping" daddy shovel the driveway... We don't have a kid sized snow shovel, so she used her little rake instead :) Hey, it worked in a pinch, and she didn't know the difference. :)

Outside my window...

This is the beautiful sight that greeted me this morning when I got up. God is good, and his creation is amazing!