Halloween cupcake party

Cecily had a little cupcake decorating party with a few of her Girl friends. She waited paitently at the table for a good 30 min before her guests arrived.

 Many of the cupcakes were eaten before the frosting even hit them.

 I gave each girl three little cups with different colored sprinkles in each cup, the Moms helped the girls pipe the icing on the cakes and cookies. It was a fun way to celebrate Halloween.

It is so much more fun celebrating holidays when you have little kids! I think we will have gone to 5 different halloween events/parties before the actual day even gets here! Pic to come of my captain hook and peter pan. Betcha can't guess who is going to be who!

My Little Man

He melts my heart everyday!

(Thanks Rho for the great pictures!)

Rain, Rain please STAY!?!

Cecily is still obsessed with her umbrella, the other day it started sprinkling outside, when I told her she immediately grabbed her umbrella and went out on the deck in her jammies! Sadly the rain did not stay and she was bummed not to get to use her umbrella to full capacity.
Silly Girl!

PB Bear

Cecily got to bring home her class bear last week and boy was that a treat! She loved including this bear in all her activities, she even taught her about Jesus and how to pray! It melted my heart. She loved reading books to the bear and was a little sad to see her go, I reassured her that she has lots of bears and dolls she can play with, then she was over it. 

She is getting so big and acting so mature lately. There is a new girl in her nursery class that cries eash sunday so CC has taken it upon herself to befriend her and try to include her so that she wont be sad anymore. When I found this out (one of the teachers told me) I felt chills, knowing that she really is listening to the lessons I teach her. When I asked her about it she said "well she doesn't know anyone so I am helping her so she's not nervous. I'm her friend!"

We're excited for HALLOWEEN!!

We have been having fun doing halloween type activities, like decorating sugar cookies and cupcakes, dressing up in our costumes (pics on that later) and halloween clothes. Next on our list painting pumpkins, halloween parties, and watching a scary movie (kreg and I only).
The holidays are so much more fun now that Cecily "gets" it and has fun with it!

Thanks Gram for all the halloween Loot!

Obsessed

This little man is obsessed with his toes and Im obsessed with him!
Oliver at 5 months is:
 "Talking" all the time
Laughing at his sister
wearing 3-6 month clothes
Sleeping in a real crib
sitting up with just a little assistance
Rolling from belly to back(refuses to go from back to belly)
Eating green beans
standing every chance he gets
Still loving his swaddled life and his binky for bed
Still loving the front pack carrier. But mom's shoulders are about done
going on walks sitting in the stroller like a big boy
Playing with toys and loving to read books

I am amazed at how quickly time is passing with Oliver, he is getting so big so fast and doing new things daily. I am trying to charish every min. I can with him!

Summer in October

I NEVER thought I would get the chance to say nor post about having summer weather in October. Especially since last year we had weather like THIS! We have been going on walks at the lake, and even swimming outside. Cecily even got a little sun burn at the park the other day. You know I am not complaining! I am one happy girl with this weather!

pictures of my cute family

 Always so HAPPY!

 Watching home videos together! Cecily's favorite thing to do.

 Found her sitting in her room taking care of her baby, such a good mama!

 Swim lessons

Her new umbrella, she insists on taking that thing everywhere! This day she prayed for rain so she could use it. It did end up sprinkling in the afternoon and its was all she could talk about."Mom I just loved using my umbrella in the rain so much!"

Rolling, Rolling, Rolling!

This little man is now a Roller.

Friend time

 Cecily had some of her fun boy friends over one evening so we set up the tent to they could watch a movie. They loved it and loved being silly inside.

This little friend of CC's is obsessed with reading so naturally I found them on the couch looking at books. Cecily listened to Ella's story very intently.

prima ballerina

Sunglasses

CC has seen me wear my sunglasses over my regular glasses a little to often.

Bra? Balero?

(pic from my phone)
The other day I put this balero vest on CC Here is our conversation:
CC "Mom is this for my Boobs?" (I know I should have never used that word)
Me: "What?!"
CC: "Is this like a bra or something?"
Me: Ha Ha Ha No sweets its a balero.
CC: Oh a Bra balero. ok!

Self Portrait

(I have no idea how this ended up sideways)

This is a picture CC drew of herself at school the other day. When she gave it to me in the car she said this is a picture of me, sorry but I have little legs (the 2 small lines under the face). HA HA She really does have short legs so its quite appropriate that she would draw them that way!

1st day of School 2010

This cute girl on her first day of pre school. This year she goes 2 days a week for 2 and 1/2 hours by herself. It will take both she and I some time getting used to it but I know we BOTH need that time apart. She loves being so big and is little miss independent. Its fun for me to spend some one on one time with Oli as well.

4 months stats

4 Months:

13.1 LBS 15%

24 and 1/4 in Long 25%

I gave him some cereal the other day because he was acting hungry and took my smoothie straw out of my cup and started drinking. He took the cereal really well but I will wait a little longer to start on solids. It was more of a see how he did experiment.

Loves his jonny jumper!! Im such a lucky Mama to have such a sweet boy!

Bliss

Nothing overly exciting happening in our home lately, Kreg went back to school two weeks ago so mostly we have just been adjusting to having him gone a lot more. I am lucky to get to spend my days with these 2! I just cant get enough of their smiles! I have got some pretty happy kids. I feel so blessed to have such great spirited kids, they keep me on my toes while keeping me grounded. They love me unconditionally and try my patience, It can be a very trying job but, I wouldnt trade the opportunity I have to raise my children on earth for anything.

Top is CC at 4 months, Bottom is Oli at 4 months. So fun to see the similarities between the two. Oli is so much chubbier than CC was! I love it!
Note: Oliver is in a smaller basket than CC , I should have done the same one to get the full affect.