Saturday, March 31, 2012

3-31-12

Charlie! Ugh! Could this kid be any cuter?


Or sweeter? He stopped nursing recently but still wants the same schedule of sitting quietly together and snuggling close. He's a darling.



And lily. She is growing up so fast! She recently became very motivated to get praise for self sufficiency, so almost every morning she makes it her mission to get dressed, make her bed, go potty and brush her teeth without any instruction from us. My favorite is when she needs to ask us how she should dress (like what the weather is like, or whether we have any special plans) but she wants to do it on her own. She comes up with such funny ways of asking for information.



Charlie had a belated 2 year old exam. He got to wear a baby sized hospital gown. I can't explain my fascination with my children wearing these at their checkups, but i think they look so darn cute.

He was also very calm once it was on. Maybe it's magical?





My sweet chalk artist. I think its my California genes. Her free spirit longs to be making public art along the beach. She would do the whole length of our (loooong!) walkway in an afternoon if Charlie would stay out of the road long enough.


We have exceptionally low windows in our playroom. Charlie has left the house twice out this window. He mostly likes to sit with his feet dangling outside singing to himself.


Too silly.



Charlie hair was getting out of control long.

Too shaggy pics
Exhibit A:


Exhibit B


Mommys effort at making him presentable (keeping mind I had to leave it long enough that he still felt he had his curls or "cuwlie" at the ends)
Exhibit C


Exhibit D


Exhibit E



Wednesday, March 14, 2012

3-14-12

Things we have been loving lately:

Loving playing outside!!! March 14, wisconsin, 76 degrees!!? Yes please!



Loving reading! We always love reading, but we love it even more now that Charlie has the attention span to get through the books and be excited to read more!


(Love!) <3


Loving dressing up, but I took a picture of the dress up area all tidied up because its unprecedented to be able to see the floor. It's usually an enormous pile of tutus and abandoned accessories.


Loving the art desk. We have a little built in desk in the kitchen and I loaded it up with art supplies for lily a few months ago. If it was up to her, she'd only leave her desk to eat and sleep.


Loving play sand. My mom sent me this special sculpting sand years ago and we havent used it lately because little Charlie wasn't old enough. He is now, and they love it!


(Squish!)


Loving time with daddy! He's been working a lot, but we try to make our time as a family really special.


Loving the zoo! Our Mad City Mardi Gras event was a success again, and through our silent suction and donations, we met our goal of donating $5000 to the zoo! Hooray!


And other things. But that's most of it.

Saturday, March 10, 2012

3-9-12

Here's our past week in review

It snowed!


We shoveled all the snow


Then we went to the zoo to see the animals play in the snow (yes, they are both pretending their baby dolls are in carriers, and yes, I think it's the cutest thing
Ever)


Bailey spent a few days pretending he isn't a maniacal ball of crazy, so he got to be around the kids a bit.


I taught lily how to make a Pom Pom and things got a little out of control so we made a Pom Pom garland.


Lily changed charlies diaper. I don't know why it never occured to me to ask her to do this before, but this could be a game changer if he keeps putting up with it. I would love to never change another diaper ever again.


He's blurry but look at lilys little face. She was so proud.



And Charlie had a cold. He is so obsessive about wiping his nose when its runny that his whole face is now irritated and red from all the wiping. My sweet sensitive little guy.


We ran out of things to do, so we took a bath with no sudsy motives. Just a splashy activity.


She takes the foam alphabet tub letters really seriously lately. She can sound out words and figure out how to spell them now so it's very frustrating for her when she's figured it all out and she's limited by bath letters.


And Lots of other things we don't have pictures of. We are here! We are here! We are busy and happy and here!