my little man

He came home with the above grin on his face, bursting with excitement to tell us that he had been chosen by his teacher as student of the month! I'm so proud of him. I believe this is her way of rewarding him for his effort to not be so squirmy in class as of late.


I just thought they had such pretty color that I had to take a pic of them. I love running my hands through dried beans and peas. However, that was the best part of this as they stunk up the house, and then tasted super bitter so I threw them out, boo.

a bit late

When I picked E up after her Vday party at preschool, they all sang a special song to the parents and I caught a bit of it to share. I love how she makes a face at me whenever we had eye contact. I had to act like I wasn't watching for her to not act embarrassed.

baby's got a new do...

so it's just a new template, but i've been wanting a change with the new year, and this will do for now, i'm done with winter and ready for some color!

The past week

V is continuing to take more and more steps. His latest accomplishment his standing up all by himself, without help of people or furniture. He'll take a few steps and then decide he's rather go fast by crawling.


Contemplating a tumble



J made dinner. I'm hoping to do this more often. He picked the meal out of a kids cookbook that we found at the library and we made it together. I enjoy cooking but the hardest part for me is deciding what to make with out feeling like it's the same old thing. Having the kids do that part is huge for me. E will have her turn too.


He chose an "accordion sandwich". It was yummy and we had some tomato soup with it. He was quite proud of himself.


Valentine's from Grandma Linda.


E's preschool class went swimming last Wed. It was a bit steamy being a indoor pool.


On uncle Michael's back at market.


Checking out his new truck, a Vday gift from Grandma and Grandpa.

Happy Birthday Grandma Lee!

Happy Valentine's Day!

a few days

Why does he look so interested?




because he got to chase Zeke!


the puppy was afraid of V...but V was not the least bit afraid of him.



We are also playing with the containers now.


saturday was at the farm, this is a timer shot from a stump...and i am super bundled up


the trail


Den wanted to take the kids to the "big hill" for sledding, but when the got there, too much snow had melted. They were such good sports and settled for this mini one that was mostly just wet.


the three e's, they are all 5 now


we also celebrated my beautiful SIL's bday, which is really on Wed.


and they of course there is always some snuggling going on

Snow Day Outing

J had a snow day and E's preschool was cancelled. I had a Chiro appt, so I loaded them up and headed out into the white mess, which was actually quite pretty. After the Chiro, we headed to B&N, so the kids could use up the rest of their gift cards there (to be honest from a couple Christmas' ago, thank you grandma linda! they had used part before, we like to spread out the fun!) It also happened to be story time while we were there, an added bonus indeed.

I promise that E is more into this than it appears.

V listened in as well.

E spent all of her $ on one item.

J went the "mo fo yo" $ route.

I couldn't resist getting V this ABC book.

I heart the illustrations mucho. (no matter what I did, this would not rotate for me)

J also recently lost 2 teeth.

wii are having fun now

Good one, I know.

J finished earning his half of the wii in Dec, but we dragged our feet and just made the trip to Costco on Saturday.


Right before the purchase.



E is actually quite the bowler. She throws a pretty straight ball.


We are already seeing how we need to regulate it but so far it has provided family fun for all, as well as lessons on patience, and good sportsmanship ;)




Had to share this adorableness. E likes to fix Daddy dinner every now and then. I'm usually not invited.


She LOVES it.

V's

slide shows

It's truth project night and I have a million other things I should be doing.....those of you who know me well or mom who can relate to me on this can snicker all you want. But I wanted to figure out how to put the slide shows I've made for the kids bdays on here and I did! except the quality is not very good, so obviously I'm not doing something right. I have also just realized that I can only upload one video per post. E's is first, many of the pics are scanned since they were from our pre digital days. I also have changed them a bit, tings like removing the slide which has their full name and birth date for privacy purposes. (which reminds me, when you comment please only use their first initial, thanks).

Part-ay

So like most parents I hope not to gyp the 3rd child, but I have. E asks me while we were making the cake if we were going to have party hats. oops.... I did do this for the other two's first birthdays, I thought about it for this one and then simply forgot. Sorry V. BUT we did have a yummy turkey dinner on the fine china! But unlike the other two, no fancy shaped cake. Although J and E said it looked like a big donut. D's parents came over for dinner and then it was presents and cake. We ended the evening watching a slide show that I put on DVD of his first year. If I could figure out how to put it on here, I would, but it is on the long side.

First bite of cake (or any dessert for that matter...well at the farm show a week ago I let him have a few bites of ice cream, but that's it!)

He actually stopped and smiled for this picture.

After a bit he really was enjoying being in the spotlight and started to share how he felt about it all.

Saturday (before his first birthday as D was happy to point out) we tried to get him to walk and he took a few steps between us. The camera is positioned between my knees because he wouldn't come to me when I had only one hand stretched out.

1 Year

I can't believe it's been a year already. Birthday pics to come.


11 days


3 months


6months


9months


1 year