February Part 2

Baking with Mom:

Pajama day at school for Maggie.  Notice Maggie chose NOT to dress in her pj's.  Her teacher sent this pic to the parents:

Mall time with the little.  She loves a good slice of mall pizza and a big lemonade: 

A selfie of Caroline: 

February Part 1

I made a brief trip to Utah and left the girls home with their dad.  He bought both of them a little stuffed animal while I was gone.  I was getting Caroline ready the day I returned and asked her where on earth the little pink elephant had come from.  Daddy.  duh.

A rare warm day.  Sidewalk chalk.  A big person: 

I love, love, LOVE that this little girl can pick up a book or magazine and read about the pictures she's looking at.  Love it!!: 

Hair cut: 

Her love of the "big cats" is intense.  She had almost $50 saved up from allowance and she blew it all on this lion: 

Valentines day: 

January Part 2

 Caroline feeling sick.  We had dinner reservations that night so I was very disappointed to wake up to a fevered babe.  She sure knows how to make you feel sorry for her!

Texting Patrick during the day about Caroline's progress:

Below is what happened just a short while after the text exchange above:

Sweet little Maggie (STILL holding on to that last front baby tooth!): 

Waiting for it to snow: 

Finally the tooth came out!!  It was looking awful so I begged her to let me pull it.   

January Part 1

Ok, so January, February, AND March were full of ick.  I took very few pictures which makes me sad.  So here goes the first of two teeny January posts.

Randomly hanging out with my ladies:

Maggie reads to the rest of her family acting exactly like her teacher does--making sure those listening had a good view of the pictures: 

I had to come get Maggie from school one day as she fell and smacked her mouth.  Her remaining front baby tooth was hanging by a thread and I was disappointed to hear that after getting smacked and bleeding....the tooth was tenaciously holding on.  She was traumatized so she came home with me and an ice pack: 

Caroline playing with her dad's reading glasses: 

Christmas 2012

We stayed at home this year and did the Christmas thing with just us.  It was fabulous!

Here are the girls tracking Santa on the globe as well as the internet:

Christmas Eve gifts.  Always jammies. 

 

Christmas morning.  Gifts and giggles and fun.

December Part 3

Caroline had a little Christmas program at her preschool.  oh. my. cuteness!!!

Hers was the voice you could hear over all others.  She was not shouting or anything.  She was just spot on in pitch, volume, and lyrics.  You could her her voice clear as crystal over the other kids mumbling (or just plain not singing at all).  Singing is her thing.  Definitely! 

Just a cute pic of Caroline in her "candy cane" outfit.

I've discussed my kids love of stuffed animals.  LOVE.  Here they are watching a movie with just a few of their friends.

Another room, another pile of animals. 

I spotted these pink sponge curlers wandering through the grocery store and nostalgia got the better of me.  The kids refused to sleep in them (don't blame em!).  They still enjoyed curls for a few short minutes after I took them out but curls didn't stay through the night. 

Still working on makeup application. 

December Part 2

Our little town does a very good job with their Christmas celebrations.  We have lightings, parades, Santa's workshops, Santa himself, caroling with warm fire pits to sing around and sip hot cocoa.  This year was absolutely freezing as usual but I was grateful there really wasn't any snow.

This tree's lights flickered and danced to Charlie Brown music:

The ice skating rink had performers for part of the event and open skating for the other part.  The girls needed their dad to get a good view of the skating:

Santa's reindeer:

Making a baggie of glitter oats to spread on our lawn Christmas eve:

Christmas crafting:

This little night out was such a great time but we missed a lot of the good stuff like Santa parachuting in, a certain singing group that was performing that night, etc.  It's going to take a few years to nail down the agenda in order to maximize the fun while minimizing the cold, crowds, and emotional meltdowns (mine as well as the kids).

December Part 1

A trip to WalMart.  She used to be so scared of this guy.  Now she wants to take a ride next to him.

Dinner out with Patrick.  Best. Food. Ever. 

We got a new car wash in town and the girls LOVE it! They call it the scary car wash.  It reminds me a lot of the car washes we used to go through as kids.  Big, loud, colorful.  In short, sensory overload.

Our neighbors invited us to join them for the Boulder Ballet's Nutcracker.  I'd been waiting for my girls to be old enough so I could start this tradition.  Caroline stayed home with Dad and I took Maggie on a date.  It was fabulous but it was still an awfully long time for Maggie to sit quietly and stay focused.  She was a trooper. 

Sometimes I get requests to take pictures of my girls doing random things.  This was one of those times. 

A Sunday afternoon at the park.  One of the perks of living in Colorado is regular nice-weather days all winter long.