Her squish is slipping between my fingers. We're trading diapers for panties. She sleeps in a twin bed, a whopping two feet off the ground. She asks for makeup and when I put eyeshadow on her, she says, "Look, Mama! I beautiful!" She's not a baby anymore. :/

My, my, my. These children are getting more and more entertaining every day.

I have a tendency to throw away toys that are too messy (e.g. playdough or sets with too many parts). I don't know what I was thinking when I bought the kids art sets for Christmas. They loved snapping their crayons and markers in and out of the plastic carriers, but I could only handle a few days of that. I put all of their crayons, markers, and colored pencils in a bag and put the bag up high. Connor has shot up in height recently and knows that he can access anything by pushing a chair up to something. Thus, crayons and markers have been making their way out of that bag, one by one.

Connor is fine with them and asks to, "do art". Alaina will wait until I am not watching and kamikaze color.

Exhibit A: On the wall above the kids' table.


Exhibit B: On the inside of the toy closet door.


Exhibit C: On the landing at the top of the stairs.


Exhibit D: On Anthony's closet door.


Exhibit E: On our bedroom door.



Purple appears to be her color of choice. Being the creative thing that she is, she is not held back by artistic mediums. Her range includes purple sparkly nail polish (conveniently on beige microfiber chairs).


At least I have a little robot. Now if only this robot would learn to clean, ala Rosie from the Jetsons.

Where to begin after three months of not blogging? I thought about doing a recap of the last three months, but man, have they been busy. Halloween, Thanksgiving trip to Colorado, Christmas at home, family reunions, dabbling a little too much in paid photography. If I were to sum up our current state of mind and current goings-on, I'd use one word: home. Our new family schedule (Anthony in school four days a week, Connor in school two days, and me upping my hours at work) in conjunction with the wet and dreary weather has kept us home...a lot. Anthony and I like it, the kids...not so much.

Connor has been saying and doing a lot of cute and funny things lately. A few days ago, he brought me an english muffin with Altoids on top. "I made you a birthday tate, Mama!"


Although we've had mostly rain this winter, when we do have snow, Connor asks to "doe outside and fwow snowballs"! I don't know if Alaina could be any more like me, as she stands still in the snow and complains that her boots are wet. When Anthony eggs her on and softly tosses snowballs at her, this is the reaction we get. NOT INTERESTED.



Connor, on the other hand, loves being pelted by Daddy.

I love this series:






Connor made his first snow angel!


A long day of playing in the snow (more like 20 minutes before Connor said that it was too cold and that he didn't have any fun) leaves my boys pretty tired.


I wish I could say that we've had more exciting things going on, but actually, I'm quite enjoying the slowdown after the whirlwind that was December. Anyone else ready for spring?!