Happy Birthday Paul!

Happy Birthday Paul! My handsome husband is 33!! Paul is the most amazing husband who always puts his family first. He is outnumbered by a houseful of girls and he wouldn't have it any other way. One of his biggest jobs in our house is fixing all the "broken" toys. He fixes princess shoes, jewelry, and tiaras. He spends hours eating tasty, fresh from the play kitchen dinners.

Happy Birthday Love!

Snow Day

Nothing burns off a bunch of energy like sending the girls outside to play in the snow. Thankfully, they consider this to be the highlight of their days!

Up and down the play set over and over again.


Grace and Lydia are great shovelers too.

The "Real" Earth

I knew it would happen. I just didn't realize that it would happen so early. Grace already thinks I am a bit crazy and that I surely don't always know what I am talking about.

All three girls are playing happily in the dining room talking crazy gibberish that I tend to ignore. When I ask them what they are doing and tell them to start picking up their toys. I got some crazy response about how they are watching the lanterns. All of them (all their barbies and babies and Grace & Lydia too) are lying down watching the ceiling.

Then Grace reminds Lydia not to touch "earth." So I kindly remind Grace that we live on Earth. Grace looks doubtful. Then she turns to Lydia and says, "our real mom with dark hair doesn't know a lot of things. The real Earth is just blue and green and looks like a beach ball. We do NOT live on Earth."

Don't all these Barbies look happy looking at the lanterns?
My little know-it-alls staring at the ceiling...

Mini Mommy and Daddy

Grace and Lydia have lots of clothes, lots of shoes and certainly plenty of outerwear. But apparently nothing they have is as cool as it is to dress up as Mom and Dad. So they take our clothes and add it to their already large wardrobes.

So not only do they dress the roles of mom and dad, but then they act it out too. They pretend to be madly in love and talk about going on dates with each other.
She does look darn cute though.

Silly Sisters

Most days Grace and Lydia can spend hours making up games and entertaining each other. They laugh at everything,,, and nothing at all. It seems like every time we get in the van to drive somewhere they play a new game. Sometimes it's I Spy, other times the count cars, or look for the best houses along the way.

At home they chase each other around the house, they play mommy, they play Barbies, and cook together.

Occasionally the fight. They kick, hit and pull each others hair.

But for the most part they love each other's company. Today as we were getting ready for the day, they wanted to be twins, so they wore matching tights, similar dresses and matching boots. Still convinced that their efforts weren't great enough, Grace figured that they needed to be "real" twins like their friends Kylie & Ella. Unfortunately, I had to break it to her that I couldn't turn Lydia 4 and make them real twins.

I love watching the girls grow up together!

Ella - 15 months

My littlest peanut has been busy in the past couple weeks. Between Christmas and New Year's she started walking. She still hasn't convinced herself that walking is always the fastest method of movement; so, she hasn't dropped crawling altogether yet.

Check out this beautiful new smile. In the past three weeks, Ella nearly tripled the number of teeth in her mouth. Yes, she has been a drooling, chewing, sometimes less than 100% happy for a couple of those days. It didn't help that she also has a cold on top of teething. Thankfully no ear infections for over a month.

She's quickly claimed a new tooth brush for those new pearly whites. She loves brushing her teeth while she is teething. The toothbrush is easy to get back by those one year molars and gnaw on for comfort.
Ella is still a petite little baby. She finally made it to 20 pounds (plus an couple ounces) putting her in the 10th percentile for weight. She's 30.5 inches tall putting her in the 50th percentile for height.

Her favorite toy is her glowworm that she got from St. Nick in December. She considers it her baby and gives it lots of hugs and kisses. Ella has also been watching her sister, Lydia a little too often because she is quite the climber. Ella likes to climb and stand on everything: shopping carts, rocking chairs, the play kitchen, furniture...

Busy

I apologize for the lack of posts in the past week. The girls are at Grandma & Grandpa's this weekend while I am home with a cold. Although I am thinking that an afternoon shopping trip is in order.

I promise to have more posts (and pictures) for this coming week.