Monday, May 31, 2010

Happy Anniversary!

It's the one year anniversary of my blog! The first posts were Memorial Day Weekend 2009. I am so excited to have made it a whole year keeping up on posting family pictures and stories. Here are the first pictures of D and M that I posted last year. Look how much they have grown! D is such a big girl now and M looks like such a big boy compared to his baby-like features last year.





Here is how we celebrated Memorial Day Weekend this year.

M loves his sunglasses.



We left for the cabin Friday morning and did a lot of swimming there--especially D. She begged to go out there as soon as she woke up each morning, even Monday when it was so cool out that she wanted her winter jacket to wear outside. M went in the first day, then wasn't so much into the whole swimming thing. He loved watching D go down the slide though.

This is M's new way to smile for the camera.



Going down the slide.





Being silly under the slide.



D did the slide every which way possible.



A new day, a new suit. Once she found the Dora suit, she never turned back.





Our friends Ron and Jennifer came up for part of the weekend and their son's favorite toy, a MagnaDoodle, accidentally got left behind. It turned out to be D and M's favorite toy, too, and they enjoyed the pictures Daddy made for them.



The neighbors at the cabin invited us over for a pot luck on Sunday. I wasn't sure what to expect--I thought it was going to be just the family we met back in November and one other cabin owner, but it was with all of the cabin owners on Whitetail Drive. It was great to meet everyone and get to know our neighbors. D and M went crazy when they saw the patriotic cupcakes come out.



D and M also learned to play the bean bag toss game.





We went to the beach at Crooked Lake in Siren on Monday for a picnic and to give D a little larger area to splash around in than our pint-sized pool. She loved it!





M preferred the playground area.



Daddy joined D on in the water.



M made a beeline when he saw the bouncy riding toys. He loves those things and had to try them all out.











M finally decided to try out the water, too.


The kids loved the lion water fountain.



We went for one last walk before heading home. It was shortlived, though, as the mosquitos were terrible. That didn't stop them from all biting M, who had huge welts all over his legs and arms. Poor guy!



Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Playing Inside

Reading books while mom cooks dinner.



Mmm.....yogurt.



D and the letter U.



M doing his puzzle.

Saturday, May 15, 2010

It's a Bonanza

Cute little girl. This is how I found D when I went to wake her up from her nap. She had neatly spread out the blanket on top of her bedspread and then fallen asleep on top of all her covers.



M doing the fish puzzle.



D with her letter S's.



D wanted to illustrate a scene from Winnie-The-Pooh (D and I are reading the book together--the A.A. Milne "original" version). This is a picture of Pooh getting his head stuck in rabbit's hole when he went over to visit him.



We took the kids to the Teddy Bear Park in Stillwater on Mother's Day (so did everyone else! It was packed, even though it looks pretty empty in these pictures). Unfortunately, these are essentially the only two pictures I took before my camera battery died.



This is the face M makes when I ask him to smile now.



I sold some of our baby stuff at a sale called the Baby Bonanza this weekend. This is everything I brought, before packing it into the car. It doesn't look like much in the picture, but I had 22 boxes of clothes (that's right, 22 boxes!).



The car was packed to the gills. I don't think I could have brought one more thing.





I'm happy to say the sale was a huge success (a bonanza, if you will) and I sold a ton of clothes and almost all of the other toys/miscellaneous items that I brought. I was left with only 14 sort of full boxes instead of 22 overflowing ones! Yeah! It was great to make some space in our house, but also bittersweet ending that chapter in our lives (babies, that is) and "letting go" of outfits I loved and have fond memories of thd kids wearing.

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

New Do's

M posing with a smile.



D and the letter R.



Peek



A



Boo



My friend Nikki cut the kids' hair today. They both sat still and listened extremely well. They look great and are ready for warmer weather with their new do's. Here is D before...



...and after. Pretty girl!



M looking so handsome.