She's not content to just sit down anymore. She stands in the middle of the room, even if she has nothing to hold onto or brace her. I thought this was such a silly shot of her drinking her bottle. We love the Podee. Remember...pass along the good news to one and all, whether they are having twins or not. Podee makes life easier! :)
We finalized everything on our house today. The kids were so excited to be out of the car and running around the model home/office. They say it takes 90 days to build the house. I guess Emma gets to finish out the school year here after all.
Lady Bendaroo! Emma created this stunning princess from her bendaroo collection. Lady Bendaroo was the most honored guest at show-and-tell Friday.
These little blocks are so fun to make...and to have sitting around. I'm doing some for the other months/holidays as well.
We had some friends over to make valentine cookies. I know it's a little late, but we still wanted to taste the sweet goodness of sugar cookies. Yum! Yum!
This is Ben's idea of a safe place for his gun. It's camouflaged in the plant, right? You barely noticed it was there, right?
I had this cute idea to use the pocket for a Valentine decoration. I like how it turned out. I didn't get to use it for this year, but now I have something to look forward to. A pocket full of candy love. I thought it might also be nice to fill it with little paper compliments.
It was our turn to help clean the church. We were in charge of the bathrooms and taking out the garbage. They were great little helpers.
...as clear as mud. We thought we knew what we wanted, not quite. We're leaning toward AHO...the 2237 or the 2239.
We were so excited to get to spend yesterday with Cousins.
Climbing with Cousin Aubrey
Attempting the daredevil move of switching slides without a net - Adventurous Benjamin!
Paul the Brave in two of his most popular death defying maneuvers!
Claire's static-y hair!
Emma wanted to spit water at everyone and get them wet. I told her I'd try to get an action shot instead.
AAAHHH!!
It's not a party without ice cream...
and a game of Simon Says!
What is Valentine's Day for again? Candy, cupcakes, and too many sweets? We went to Emma's class party. They had probably five different kinds of cup cakes on top of cookies and candy and juice. Next year I'm persuading Emma to give stickers or pencils.
You can tell from the title that we have watched a lot of Dora in this house. Tonight at the dinner table we had the boys being pirates and the girls being piggies. It was funny to me then, but really funny now as I look back through the pictures. The poor kids couldn't help but go cross eyed as they tried to look at their spoons. That's Paul's very intimidating Pirate Arrg! face.
We have been so excited about Lainey's latest accomplishment. She can stand all by herself on her own two feet. She's been doing it off and on, but today we got her to do it a lot right in a row. We've also been working on her clap, which she loves to do. So some of the shots have her clapping as she stands. It was so much fun, we all stopped and stared.
And by the way, she has two teeth coming on the bottom. Finally!
I told you a little bit ago that I had Valentines on the brain. Well, here's the latest.
What a bunch of sillies we were today during our Craft Wednesday. We made Valentines! For Emma's class we made these really cute airplanes using smarties, sticks of gum, lifesavers, and rubber bands. I'll attach a little tag that says, Have a high flying Valentines. The other kids each made valentines for one another. Once Emma gets home on V-day, we'll exchange valentines here. Nothing big, but I knew the kids would all like to do it!
Here's the actual edible plane.
Aren't these just the cutest?
