Sweetest faces

Natural Light

What is it about natural light that casts the perfect light onto a child's face as they look out the window. These are my 2 most favorite pictures of the kids. Innocently looking out the window at some activity going on outside. To small to participate but old enough to teach me a hundred lessons of life in just a brief moment.

Adelynn 10 months

John 1 year

She's a climber

To Stand on her own two feet...

While we were playing on the floor this afternoon Adelynn decided that she needed the toys in the red box that was placed on a small table in the living room She climbed herself to a standing position.
It fun watching the wheels in her brain trying to figure out how this event was going to happen. She chose the placement of her feet and hands very carefully. Slowing inching herself up the table legs then Voila! she was standing. She was very graceful unlike her spastic brother who is unable to do anything without a sound effect or speed.
Moments like these make me proud to be a stay at home mom.

Can we slow it down a bit?

How is that one day your little one can hardly hold their head up alone and the next thing you know they are dropping them off at school in the carpool line, allowing them to walk into to class alone. Why does time go by so fast as you get older. Why can't time be like it was when we were children? Time would slowly pass from one birthday to the next and days seemed to last forever as the sun very slowly crept behind the mountains.
Can't that be the way with your children growing up? Can we hit slow motion allowing us to capture every moment and really let the experience settle into our memory so that we can recall every move they make?
I have been keeping a journal of the kids since the moment we found out we were pregnant with each of them. Every now and then I glance back through the years and just allow myself to live in that moment for a little while. That has been the best thing that I have done for myself as a mother. I think I drive Dan nuts with my speratic reading from the past years of John and Adelynn. He, on the computer, trying to keep up with the buckeyes or the latest must have comic book and me ranting on about "remember when..." I know he secretly loves it when I do that.
I makes me sad to think that in a blink of an eye we will be empty nesters and I will be wishing for John to leave a saucy trail on all the cabinets and light fixture in the bathroom after having pasta for lunch. Or Adelynn allowing the artist, within her, to come out while she has a poopy diaper... I will leave it at that : (
I will try to remember this blog the next time...

Funny Times

John and Addie make me smile a lot during
 the day with the silly things that they do. 

Bath Time
Bath time is one of the funnest parts of the day. It is very exhausting to get the job done but the kids have so much fun together in the tub. John makes Addie laugh the whole time.



Sour Candy
John begged for a piece of Atomic Sour Candy and we finally gave in. It was hilarious watching the faces and puckered lips. After the candy was gone he asked for another piece.



Bed Time
We let john read (look at books) for about 15 after prayers and this night he feel asleep with puzzle pieces stuck to his face and about 15 books in bed with him. I removed everything from his bed without him being bothered.



Car Time
Our car is the home to many of John's toys. He is very good about sharing his things with Adelynn. He had given her a princess book to read to calm her down because she was very sleepy and cranky...that didn't work. so he gave her his Batman to snuggle on. It worked. Within a few minutes she was out.



Play Time
If there is a bucket of toys it will get dumped, oh yes, it will get dumped. These two can play for hours with this small box of Adelynn's toys in the living room.

Star Wars

STAR WARS

John is obsessed with anything and everything Star Wars. Everything straight turns into a Light Saber. He quizes Dan and I all day long about Star Wars facts and trivia. He even sits at the computer studying photos of Star Wars characters.
He has read his 3 Star Wars books so much that we have taped them a few times and they are still falling apart page by page. He will be Darth Vader for Halloween and has decided that Adelynn will be pricess Leia, Dan Hans Solo and I am to be Jaba the Hutt. I am in protest.

Enjoying Life

Full of Love, Life and Laughter

Adelynn loves life to the fullest. She is such a happy little girl. Always full of joy and laughter, She is now 10 months. Were has this year gone?

First Day of School

1st Day of School

John's first day of school was very "john". He was so excited. He couldn't get into his classroom fast enough that he plowed past some pregnant lady which made him run into the door and scratch his cheek. He loves school but is sad that he can't take his light saber to school. If Jedi school existed he would be the first in line.