Turning 27

I turned 27! I still feel young. I refuse to say I feel old until either 29 or 30. I had a good birthday. All I wanted to do was go out shopping with Robert and out to eat at P. F. Chang's. It was a wonderful day and I couldn't ask for anything better.

Snow!

Emily and Lindsey wanted to play out in the snow. Being a morning sick wimp that I was at the time, I stayed inside and took pictures of my cuties out in the snow with their buckets and shovels.

Emily shoveling.

Lindsey didn't want to leave the porch, the snow was too cold.


Lindsey never did leave the porch and came in first because her hands were frozen once she took off her gloves. Silly girl.

Favorite Past Time

The girls LOVE to color and draw and they are both good at it. Lindsey could color, draw and paint all day if it suited her. She is getting very jealous when I use my expensive art materials and wants to use them to. How to explain to her that her cheap crayons and my pencils that are worth over a dollar per pencil, can't really compare and she should stick with her crayons? I am finding lovely "art work" all over my walls from this very creative child. I am raising monster my mother always wished I would. Serves me right since I colored on the walls until I was... *cough*... 10... *blush*.

Christmas

I always think I overload my camera with pictures of the girls opening presents and I never remember to take videos. Well, this year I remembered the video and forgot the pictures. At least I have some from Christmas Eve day and Christmas Eve night.


I have two of the most beautiful girls!

Retelling of the Christmas story with their new Fisher Price Little People Nativity. I got it for a great deal and they loved having something they could actually play with and not worry about it getting broken. They acted out the story just great!

Christmas Party

Before Christmas we always have a family reunion party. This year was a lot of fun. The girls saw Santa and Emily sang a beautiful song and without prompting Lindsey grabbed the microphone and sang the ABCs. It was pretty cute.

Emily and Andy decorating a "Christmas Tree" ice cream cone. I later found them licking the spoons and sticking them back into the container. I am sure they weren't the first kids to do it.

Lindsey earnestly making a Christmas tree ornament.

Present from Santa (we actually don't 'do' Santa at our house, but the girls still love to see him as a fun part of Christmas. We know that the presents come from their wonderful Grandma.)


Lindsey's fearless singing with her cousin Sienna by her side.

Exciting News and Crazy Times

I haven't updated our Christmas pictures or anything yet. We have been very busy. We are ready to announce the July arrival of baby #3 to our home. We are very excited. Emily especially. She asks daily what is going on next with the baby, how big is it, what is growing and oh when, oh WHEN is the ultrasound? She is really cute. She wants the baby to be here now she says. Having this be a big part of the chaos is a large reason I haven't updated. I think it is a boy this time, but will truly be happy with whatever I get. I LOVE my girls and another one would be wonderful and a boy would be awesome to experience and buy infant bow ties for.

The other reason is just every day crazy and bouts of sickness in the house. The usual fun stuff life is made of. Everything else is going really well. Emily is learning and doing really well. Her writing has improved a lot and looks so cute. She has been writing in a journal for her school work and that has really helped. Though she is too advanced for Kindergarten math and understands a lot of 1st grade math, we are getting stuck on place value so that is taking some extra time to make sure she really understands it. We have been spending a lot of the cold gray days with friends and having fun play dates at least twice a week. It really helps all of us cope with the blah of winter. Lindsey has been learning more and more of her letter sounds. I love it! Like when she says "Rocks Mommy, R-r-r-rocks" or "Gone, G-g-g-gone". Its really awesome to watch her already be showing pre-reading readiness. Like asking me what things say and knowing that the words are what tells her the story. Or recognizing letters on signs outside. And Emily is so great and encouraging about it too.

We are busy, there is disorder and clutter while I have struggled with morning sickness, but hopefully the worst is behind me. Everything is great.

The Christmas Symphony

Last year we went to the symphony with our girls and their cousins and grandparents. We had such a good time we decided to do it again this year. It is really fun taking the light rail train up town and seeing Santa Claus with the symphony and hearing beautiful Christmas songs. We had a great time. Then we love to go take the train back the the Little America hotel and eat in their restaurant. I was so happy they even had a gluten-free menu. The food was very good and my girls ate every bit of it. After wards we went and took pictures in front of the beautiful trees in the lobby.

Emily and Lindsey with their cousins, Kara at the top, Sienna at the bottom and our Alex on the right.

Waiting for the train in the cold.

Crazy Emily and Kara on the train.

Christmas pictures. They all matched perfectly and we did not plan it.

Beautiful girls!

They are so cute looking at the gingerbread house and Sienna in the corner picking her nose is priceless.