Who's two?

Two of the cutest two-year olds I know! They were a little weirded out with everyone singing to them! Happy Birthday Arlyn and Penny...

2011!!!

Okay...guess we made it through the holidays...and most of January already!

Girls started gymnastics last week, which seems to be going great. Jane is in the 5/6 yr old class which she does independently. Penny is doing the parent/tot section, so one of us goes to help her. She pretty much just wants to climb the ladder, 'cause she's a monkey!

The girls either get along so incredibly sweetly (as this pic of Jane reading to Penny shows) or they are FIGHTING like cats and dogs. Penny has gotten a real stubborn and independent streak lately. She wants what she wants....and Jane is already that way, so it's interesting. And loud...very high pitched loud. Penny's favorite thing to do in the whole wide world right now is to scream. When she's happy, when she's mad, when she wants something, etc. Awesome. She also really wants to do everything big sis is doing; including sitting at the table and drinking from real cups. I love the highchair, and I do not want to see it go!

I'm staying on the Scraptales design team, making some little projects and scrapbook pages, which is very fun.

Someday we'll get time to work on the house. We've had colds and little bugs off and on seemingly every other week.

Doing some research on some future projects, and maybe a garden.

And--we're super excited that we'll be having a new niece or nephew this July-Amy is pregnant!

18 months

Whew. She's a year and a half. How'd that happen?

Check-up today...not quite 19 pounds. Off the chart low, but her height is in the 25% and both are following their curve, so all good according to the dr. Glad we've finally found someone we're fairly comfortable with.

Off to K'zoo this weekend...

Happy Halloweeeeeeen!!!

The pumpkin is fast asleep...and hoping the princess is as well!!


We had a great day, starting with French Laundry for Mike's birthday breakfast, mmmm.


Girls were super cute tonight. Penny's pumpkin costume rocked. Perfect pumpkin; we got lots of comments. Jane was super sweet Cinderella, and was oh so pretty!

Penny got the hang of trick-o-treating pretty quickly, she was starting to grab for stuff from the bowls by the end of the night. We were out for about an hour, and Jane discovered that it's hard work being a princess...wearing fancy new shoes and lugging a HEAVY pumpkin around! Mike kept unloading Penny's into his jacket so she could still carry it.

Our pumpkins greeted us at the end of the drive when we got home, kind of fun, might be a new tradition!

Candy everywhere in the living room afterward. Let Jane have a bit of a free-for-all tonight...then she lay down and stuck her belly out, uh, utoh! Hoping it's more the breadsticks from dinner and not the candy! :)


Happy Halloween!!!


55 days to Christmas!!!

Pumpkin Goo!

Today was supposed to be warmer..I guess by the time we
were done, the sun was out and it was nicer, but...we ended
up carving in the house this year. Just seemed a bit too cold to be digging in pumpkin seeds.



Penny had a blast with pulling off the tops, and spooning seeds---back INTO the pumpkins. Heehee. Jane helped clean out Mike's pumpkin as well--had to go up to her shoulders to get in there! She said she wants a BIG one next year.

Jane drew a fantastic face on hers...complete with ears, legs, arms, earrings, boo boos, a nose, eyes, eyelashes, and who knows what else. OH--and a crown, of course! I managed to cut some eyes, nose and mouth of out it. Yeah, I need some fancy pumpkin carving tools to attempt that, not a big knife. You can kind of see all the marker lines on it to see what I had to work with!

Mine is the round happy one with teeth. Penny's is the weird bumpy grumpy one (although, I keep saying that should be Jane-who seems grumpy a LOT lately!), Jane's is the one next to it with the jagged teeth, and Mike's is the remaining one with the goofy grin. So fun. Our pumpkin family! I love pumpkins. I love this time of year. I love sharing it with the girls. It's messy, and there was a lot of 'sit down, Mommy has a BIG knife' commentary, but it was fun. And super fun to light them tonight, both girls thought that was pretty fun in the dark!

Ron came up to take us to dinner for Mike's birthday. Crazy chaos at dinner as usual, but yummy Lucky's steakhouse. Looking forward to tomorrow's fun!

Library fun...

Today was Jane's library storytime day, and they got to wear their costumes. I need to do her hair a little better next time, but it was our first run! Princesses everywhere!

Penny is probably the worlds cutest pumpkin. Seriously.

Goin' batty!

Been making bat cookies with our Halloween cooky (yeah, it's an OLD set) cutter set. Cute stuff, and Jane brought home a cute bat hat today as well!

Penny was super cute yesterday in her Gram Sandee outfit-fall fantastic. I finally reset some more snaps on it, so it fits a little tighter. I think she can wear it next year too, lots of room. But--I think she has grown a little-the bloomers are a little harder to see peeking out than they were a few months ago!