Greta: This girl has such a vivid imagination. She cracks us up with her stories of an elephant tickling her at night or her imaginary pet snail named Scissors.
Here she is painting with water on the inside of a cereal box. She said, "Look Mommy, an umbrella!" Well, wouldn't you know! Can you see it? It's upside down and it must've been a windy day picture that she was painting because it's inverted, but an umbrella it surely is!
Then, one day she took a bite of her chicken nugget and said, "Look, a rainbow!" I realize this is not brainiac stuff, but it's a first for her to see these objects out of something and I am so enjoying this stage of learning.
Oh, and she's funny.
Will: He is in SUCH a learning stage right now. I am constantly surprised at what he knows and discovers each day. He moos when he sees the cows on the side of the road, he knows that ducks quack and can sign for "all done" and "more".
Here he is signing "all done" by waving his hands up in the air and he says, "Ah dee, ah dee".
He is such a stinker when in his high chair. I seriously couldn't ask for a better eater. He is a vaccuum and just shoves it in, but when he's done, he's done. Here he is beginning his cleaning ritual of his tray by dropping his sippy cup. The peas and corn will follow and so on and so on. Of course, we've been trying to correct this behavior by a slap on the hand and a firm "no-no" but he just squinches up his eyes and turns up his nose like he's so bummed he can't continue. It's hilarious.
Will had to take a bath in the sink because we don't have a working tub at our house yet...just a stand up shower. After looking at this picture though, don't you feel just a smidge bad for me? :) No shower, make-up and yes my shirt is backwards and inside out. And yes, I kept it like that the entire day so people would feel sorry for me. Is it working?
My sweet buddy didn't seem to mind and is hopefully almost done with this little bug! 6 days and counting...Greta was on hand to give him toys to keep him happy. She's been my little helper getting me extra clothes and diapers when I'm doing his diaper changes. She tells him when he's crying "It's otay, Will!" and then when he's crying a lot she'll say, "That is E-Nough Will!" (emphasis on the E). :)
7 months pregnant Danielle trying to get out of a recliner.
10 bucks for a vintage suitcase to hold dress up clothes for Greta. (Complete with remnants of an old Air France sticker!)
Dozens of other wonderful gifts! A coat for me, Hungry Hippos for Greta, I Love You Stinky Face book for Will and an outfit we bought for Eden, just to name a few.
Greta cracks me up in this picture. I think she's mimicking a mom who's trying to get her daughter to smile for a picture behind us.
This is Will's whiney face.
G was so funny in this picture too. I told her to go sit by the presents and she sat on the presents. Then, I told her to stand up and she stood on the presents. By the time she figured it out, she was way to into her apple cider to oblige me anymore.
Then, a nice lady came up to us and gave us a coloring page with crayons and a stuffed snowman! Yay for richie-richville!
Such a sweet happy boy!
Our house's roof caved in and so we called it a gingerbread church complete with a steeple and stained glass windows (Ryan's idea, ha! I'm telling you, we were way into it).
And so did Will. He was so cute, I don't think he even knew Cole was real until he started wiggling and then Will started giggling and kept going to touch him and would retract his hand to just laugh some more.
