Saturday, February 21, 2009

The past week

Good morning sleepy head. Woa...look at that bed head! This is what Taylor usually looks like in the morning:) :
Building towers, or rather- castles, as Madi likes to think of them as. (Madi loves her new hippo bib so much that she wears it even when she isnt eating):
Going in for the knock down! Oh, little sisters can be such a pest!:


Gotta love after holiday sales. Heart jammies for a bargain!






Sunday, February 15, 2009

Valentines Day

Dan and Dee and the kids came up for the weekend. It was so wonderful to have them around. We had so much fun. One thing we did was decorate heart cookies. Its so fun that the kids are getting old enough to do fun activities and so great that they are all close enough in age to enjoy the same things. Of course the best part about decorating cookies is eating them!




Arent they cute? They were VERY into the cartoon! Either that or they were all still half asleep! I think Emily fed Taylor every bottle while they were here, except for when she reluctantly gave Andrew a turn.


Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Madi-baby and Taylie-bear

I just cant resist matching my little girls! Eric tells me I treat them like little dolls- I said, -Yeah, obviously- they are my real life dolls! I dont have to play pretend anymore! :) I think they are really starting to look alike. You can see Taylors teeth much better in this picture, and yeah, once again I have a dirty girl- I didnt clean Madi's mouth after lunch!


Saturday, January 24, 2009

We really dont have anything too interesting going on right now, I just thought I would post a few recent photos. Eric has started the outage at work, so that means he is working 12 hr nights, 6 nights a week. Ugh! Us girls are glad to be back in the swing of things and going to Bible study again on Weds. Madi likes to fill our days with playing Old Maid every chance she gets.

Mmmm... graham crackers! Taylor does enjoy her food! Except for peas, those are a challenge to get her to eat:
If you look closely you can see Taylors two little teeth that she got a month ago. And you cant miss all that drool! or soggy cheerio on her shirt! What a mess! She is managing to pick up cheerios and get them into her mouth. Its a great distraction and practice for her:




Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Christmas

We had such a wonderful Christmas this year. Eric had to work Christmas Eve and Christmas day so we celebrated on Tues. It was so much fun watching Madison and Taylor enjoy their presents and all the festivities.




"Ssshhh...Dont wake me baby up" My parents sent my old baby crib for Madison this year and a new baby to go in it! She loves to play mommy. Madison had so much fun opening presents that after about an hour of playing with her new toys she told us she didnt like any of them (she was hoping that would get her more- sorry, no such luck!- good try though :)


Taylor had fun trying to get her presents opened. She actually succeeded and I had to make sure she didnt eat the paper. The tooth she got the day before must have helped (the second one came in on Friday)







Saturday, December 20, 2008

Taylor's 5 months old!

Taylor is getting so big, so fast. She is such a good baby!- hardly ever cries. Im sure having a big sister to entertain her is a big help. Madison loves to "help" Taylor- although sharing toys is slowly becoming a challenge now that Taylor is become more mobile and grabs things.
Taylor finally decided she LOVES to eat! You can see in the picture that she is lunging for her food because mommy is just too slow! She likes to grab my hands with her grimy little ones and help guide the spoon into her mouth. Then sucks her thumb while she works on that bite- Just like Madison still does! :)
She also sits now, for the most part anyway. I still have to put pillows around her or sit next to her so she doesnt throw herself backwards or fall face forward into toys. I love this stage of being able to entertain themselves, but not able to move from where you put them!


Monday, December 15, 2008

Santa Cookies!

Madi and I made Santa cookies today- one of the many traditions from my childhood. They are cute, easy, yummy and fun to make!
Madi worked on designing some of the end pieces of dough:



Madison's picasso santa's and her original designs (which she says are for daddy):