Taking Care of Babies

Gillian has been more into playing with her babies in the last few weeks. Mostly she likes to feed them, take them shopping, change their diapers, and put them to bed. Her favorite place to play babies is on the stairs though.

All ready for a bite to eat.

Oh wait, now it's time for bed! Think this is like bunk beds?


What a girl.

Life is Like a Box of Raisins.

The other night at dinner, Gillian asked for raisins as her fruit. We usually just have a big container of raisins and I give her a handful. But I had bought boxes of raisins to send to school for a snack at some point, but I never sent them, so I gave her her own box of raisins. She was stunned. She looked at the box. She looked at me. She said, "This whole box is just for me? To eat out of?" Umm, yep. It made her much happier than a simple box of raisins really ever should have.


Hopefully you can find a small pleasure in life this week.

Macaroni Penguin Monster Truck Hair

V-Day Rundown

We had a nice, sweet little Valentine's Day last week. In the morning the kids and I went to our indoor play center, The See Saw Center, for their Valentine's Day party. They had their usual fun toys and then had some crafts and snacks set up in the back room. The kids had fun making Valentine's for me and Daddy. And having a cookie. We even took our favorite See Saw lady, Miss Thelma, a Valentine we had made her!






After nap we watched our new favorite movie, Rio. What a great movie! Not sure if the it's the kids or me who like it better! Anyway, we had decided to have "brupper" that night (breakfast for supper) since the kids absolutely love it. Seriously. If Colin knows it's brupper night, he'll talk about it all day long. Special for Valentine's Day, we had some heart shaped pancakes and waffles!




After dinner we let the kids open a few treats from Daddy and me. They went over well.


Thomas lunch box!



JEWELS! (And the Cinderella dress from last V-day!)


Princess lunch box too! And poor Colin got a bummer gift to go with his lunch box. I had picked out a cool looking flashlight for him. Then forgot to get him batteries for it. Once we GOT the batteries, the thing worked once. And never again. Boo.

A very nice holiday. Colin was even my Valentine all day long!

Sending Valentines

Last year we made a big batch of Valentines and sent them out to some of our family and friends. And I thought the kids would be excited to do it again this year. And, they talked a good talk. In January I started asking them who they wanted to make Valentines for and they came up with about fifteen people! Well, in that case, I thought we had better get started early!

Good thing we DID start early. Umm, let's just say that enthusiasm was lacking in the worker bee department. So it took us a while. Doing about two cards a day a few days a week. For WEEKS.


Gillian working hard. In her swimsuit. What? Don't you make your Valentines while wearing a swimsuit?

And pose?


Our results:



We certainly hope the recipients enjoyed them.

A&P

"And that's poop."

Cheesey Valentines.

Daddy took these before the kids' Valentine's Day Party on Friday.








Oh my. That's a lot of cheese.