Sunday, February 23, 2014

Valentine's Day

Valentine's Day just gets better and better every year with our two sweeties to enjoy it with!  This year we gave the kids a couple little gifts to play with (mini etch a sketch for Audrey, DVD and bubbles for Parker) and Parker received lots of different valentines from school.  His favorite?  A valentine with a whoopee cushion attached.  He's a four year old boy--what can I say?  haha!






Talking to the "quirrels" outside.



Parker's teacher gave them each a baby dinosaur on their valentine, so he decided to get the "momma" dinosaur out to play with her baby.






We took these pictures outside during a bubble blowing session.  They enjoyed chasing and popping the bubbles!


Sunday, February 2, 2014

Superbowl Sunday

The title is slightly misleading since we really didn't do anything related to the Superbowl today.  Today should have been a church day, but I had to skip for what we'll call "health reasons".  The kids and I still had breakfast at Mona and Granddaddy's, but we came home afterward.  When Ryan came home, we had lunch and then the kids took naps.  I may have caught a little shut-eye myself.  I was having some stomach pains and just felt like I needed to rest.  I even skipped my workout today for the first time in a few weeks.  When everyone woke up, we all played in the den for a bit while Ryan set up our new Apple TV.  The kids' new game is "Ring Around the Rosy." 




Obviously it's pretty difficult to get a "still" picture of such an active game.  haha!


Audrey was watching her Daddy pretty closely.  Can you see her mop hair?  It's almost long enough to be tucked behind her ear but not quite.  I put a bow or hair tie in it almost immediately when she wakes up so she can see, but I totally forgot after her nap!





Here's Jake--I mean, Parker--playing with his "mote control" car.  Probably driving it into his sister. :)

We went to Omi's this evening and had delicious goulash.  Ryan started to watch the Superbowl there and was supposed to continue once we got here but the Fox Sports app wasn't working correctly with Apple TV and I couldn't even get it to stream on the computer, so we switched to Blacklist.  Ah, the perils of having no cable. 

These daily posts are going to be CRAZY interesting--so be prepared!  

Saturday, February 1, 2014

January

Back at it again--here with a summary of the pictures I have from my big camera.  I am SO MAD AT MYSELF--truly.  I know I've said it before but I am definitely going to say it again right now:  I HAVE to get better at this.  Seriously.  It shouldn't be that difficult to sit down with a few pictures from each day--even if I have almost nothing to share.  I want to remember everything that's happening right now, little and big.  Major and minor.  Have to improve--just have to. 

So on the 21st it snowed overnight and we woke up to the first big snow of the season and year.  It was only a couple of inches but was enough to close schools and cause us to all have to adjust our schedules and spend a little extra time outside!  This was the first time I pulled out the big camera since Christmas.  So much shame. 

Audrey still went to Honey's house that day but I decided to take a quick picture of her outside in her first-ever snow.  Of course baby was there to celebrate, too!

  

These capture her true first impression of the snow.  She wasn't a true fan but actually grew to like it!


All in a matter of about four minutes.  haha!

Later in the day, we finally ventured out with Parker for a little bit.  Once he found out about the ice at the end of the driveway, he really didn't care too much about the snow.  All he wanted to do was walk on, stomp through, and kick the ice.  



I'm pretty sure these tears were a result of me placing him in the snow.  He didn't want to get snow on his shoes I think.  Toddler moments!

That Friday, we had Leah over for a bit in the morning so Lulu could go to an appointment.  It was fun having another baby around and Parker and Audrey were SO excited.  Leah loved watching Parker and was doing a lot of "talking" with him. 


Cousins!  Audrey really was happy that day...not sure why she wasn't smiling in the picture.  I was just impressed that I had three sets of eyes looking my way! 

 

Parker did a great job entertaining her :)
 

Trying to get her to "play" with the "tranpomup."


They just love her.

 
How could they not?

This past Tuesday night, it snowed 9 inches, so everything was shut down again on Wednesday and also Thursday.  I didn't take a ton of pics this time, but I did demand that Ryan take one with our snowman friend that I built.  I was SO excited on Friday when the snow was finally wet enough to build a snowman.  Parker was excited about it beforehand but was no longer interested once we got outside.  The ice won again!



Love love love these two babies so much.  Also, Frosty had some pretty rad hair.