17 months

Abby will be 17 month olds tomorrow, and I realized I am not writing anything down about how she is changing each month. This is such a cute, fun and suddenly very busy age! Abby has finally gained a couple pounds, (around 21 now) and loves to climb on things and is proving to be even more fearless than Luke. She is talking more and more, with her favorite words being no!, mine!, Abby, Belle (the princess) and uh-oh. Her first multi-word phrase has been "no no mommy!", I was hoping for something sweeter...maybe next month. While Abby can definitely be charming, she definitely has an attitude - she is known to roll her eyes, throw herself on the floor while kicking her legs in the air and screaming "no no!!" all at the same time, quite talented for 17 months. Abby's favorite things to do are eat (I am told she dives toward food at church), play outside, play with dolls and read books, especially princess books. Abby definitely know she is a princess, but that's ok with me :-)

This is Abby modeling her princess bathing suit

This was Abby's first paint experience. She liked running around with the paintbrushes, but did not want to sit down, so it did not last long.

Happy Valentine's!

We had a fun Valentine's day this year with parties and lots of candy! Here are some pictures -

Enjoying our "fancy" dinner, except the kids won't eat steak so they had mac-n-cheese. I hope their tastes change some day!

We cut out jello hearts for our valentine's dessert. Neither of the kids had ever had jello, so they weren't sure what to think at first!

Luke had his school party yesterday and it was lots of fun. Here they were decorating a heart ornament.

Since I was the party helper, my mom and Vic came to help with the party and Abby. She just made herself at home and enjoyed the party too!

Snow day...with no snow

It was predicted yesterday that we would be getting snow.... well none came, which left me with a crying 3 year old who was upset because he had already described in detail how he was going to decorate his snowman. So, fortunately Vic was home today and we were able to salvage the no-snow-day with some fun activities :-)

First was pin-the-nose-on-the-snowman....this was a big hit with everyone in the family!

Then we wrapped Luke up in toilet paper to look like a snowman....

Then used the toilet paper to make snow balls and throw them at each other....

And my favorite - snowman brownies!

I would have preferred a little snow, but am thankful for a fun day with my family :-)

Visiting Chipper

This past weekend, we took the kids to go visit my grandmother, Chipper. It was such a fun time for the kids to get to see their great-grandmother and they did great traveling in the car.

January Fun

These are just a few random pictures of fun things we have done in January...

Grandma and Granddad gave the kids a cardboard house to play with, perfect for cold January days....and when Granddad comes over to play!

We had a chance to stop in College Station last weekend and visit Uncle Andy on his birthday :-)

I took the kids to the zoo this week to enjoy the outdoors before the winter blast came in, it was such a nice quiet day, the kids had a great time.