August already?

We took a quick trip up to the cabin this past weekend. Just an overnight, and it was quite lovely. Syd loves it so much up there it's really ridiculous. We took walks down by the river, dug in the dirt, swang and swang (is that what you say? Syd and Liese went for rides in the swing) and visited the llama farm up the road. Those babies are ridiculously cute - the llamas, ours are too, but I meant the llamas.



Just the girls at the new house, guess I should post some pictures of that too.


Oh, and we got "WeeRide"'s for the bikes they are way too fun. Liese just giggles the whole time and points out all of the animals she sees. Sydney attempts to steer Dave's bike and a couple of times now Annaliese has lodged her head between the front dashboard and the handlebars. Fun but not without risk.

More apologies

So, I'm not a very prepared Mom. Syd's 3rd birthday came and went and I didn't have the camera charged. Whoops. So, I might post a pic of the girls that I had taken by a photographer a few weeks ago.

Syd's three, and is a delight. She had come down with a little cold this week though. Her birthday was on Friday and we celebrated on Sunday. The idea was to go to the zoo and have cupcakes. She loves that place and we tried to do it last year and the weather got the best of us. Of course this year I try to do it again, and the weather was poopy and Syd was sick, so we called it and had people just come over to the house.

One of the reasons Dave and I decided to keep the party to the house was the dreaded parent threat. Syd wouldn't take her nap, she was fighting it even though she was exhausted. One of the times I went in to help her fall asleep, I told her that if she didn't sleep we wouldn't be able to go to the zoo with her friends and have cupcakes. So she thought about it a minute and says to me, "call my friends and see if we can do it on Saturday."

She's a wheeler dealer.

Annaliese has her 4 top front teeth coming in all at once- she's efficient if nothing else. She's also crawling and is pulling herself up on everything. I'm convinced she's going to walk by her 1st birthday. How do they grow up so fast?

That's what I have for now, I'll work on some pictures now that the camera is charging.

We've been moving okay

I know we're long overdue for some pictures. I'll see what I can do about that. In the mean time - let me regale you with a bath time story.....Sydney's in the tub with her sister and both Dave and I are overseeing.
"Grandma and Grammie have big boobs. Mommy has big boobs. Daddy has boobs. Me and Annaliese have little boobs. The kitties don't have boobs."

Lots of boob talk around these parts.

Goodness Gracious

While it's been a month since I've posted, all of our news has happened in the last week. It's been nuts around here.

First, Sydney's now joined the rank of big girl. She decided to start using the toilet this week, not the potty, the big toilet! It's pretty awesome and we're so proud of her. I didn't know how great this would be, but boy am I enjoying it and it's only been a couple of days. She's wearing big girl underwear during the day and diapers for naps and night. Away she goes!

This blog post was prompted by a funny interaction I had with her today. It was the third time to the toilet before her nap, each time she had a little pee come out (the girl's been doing her kegels), so we washed her hands each time and she got her treat each time. This last time she steps up on the stool and sings, "we're washing our hands together, because the Bible tells me so."
It's stuff like this that keeps me laughing all day long.

Annaliese surprised me on Wednesday by weaning herself off of boob. She was a four-time a day-er, but now all of a sudden it's once. How did that happen? I was so offended. Truly I was really sad, I wasn't ready for this. Now, two days later I'm coping much better, but there were some tears. I think she's just too interested in what's going on around her to be facing me and just seeing skin. So, not only is she loving life with a bottle, she's almost crawling. On all fours and successfully scooting backward, just need to figure out the forward motion and she'll be on her way.

That's our world right now. The house is well on it's way and we expect the builders to be done with it by June so then we'll have to show you all of that.
I'll see what I can come up with in the way of pictures for the next post.

some new pics

Just a little girl time while the super bowl was on. When you don't have a sled, use a wagon, All Terrain Wagon that is.

Friggin' cute

They're not in the right order, but it's Christmas morning, Sydney at the National Western Stock Show and sisters looking really grown up yesterday morning. I didn't notice it on Christmas day, but Syd's Jammies and her smock, or smoke as she calls it, are quite a sight. Perhaps her hair pulls it all together?

holiday party