JA's 2nd Birthday

We had JA's 2nd birthday part early as we didn't want to have it on Valentines Day. It was a laid back small party. Here is our birthday girl playing with the dollhouse the girls got for Christmas. She loves the babies in it.

Birthday girl fingerpainting. She would only let one hand get paint on it and wanted it washed off as soon as she was done.

Here she is with Nana thinking about blowing the candles out. Eventually she had big brother help her out.

Here is a better shot of the cake. I didn't want to go too elaborate and she didn't care what I did. She loves her bunny that she sleeps with so much, I thought I would copy it. I think it turned out pretty well.

Catch Up

I thought I should add a few more pictures from Christmas. Since JA's birthday celebration is this weekend and I will be hopefully adding pictures then.
Here are some random Christmas pictures: Nana with JA holding her new blanket for her baby.

Grandma and IA

Sledding at the park. JA loved it and didn't want to quit or take turns.

I still cannot believe how much snow we got. You don't see this around here ever! It looks like a Pennsylvania kind of winter.



Finally, our gingerbread house. This year, all AA and I had to do was put the house together, the kids did all the decorating and loved it! I think they did a great job.

Stay tuned for birthday pictures.

Christmas time

So it has been a busy few weeks. Here we are getting our Christmas tree. It was a beautiful day, not rainy at all which was great. The kids got a little frustrated that it took us a while to pick the tree we wanted but we finally found the perfect one.

Guess who forgot there was a tree on top of the car before driving into the garage? (He's not so pleased I took a picture so I imagine he doesn't like me posting it, but I thought it was funny).

Here we are decorating it.

Weatherwise, this week has been crazy for us here in the Portland area. We don't often get snow. This is from Sunday's snow. It wasn't the best snow but it was the first snow of the season. It snowed, then rained, then snowed and everything froze over. Needless to say no school Monday or Tuesday.

Then here comes Wednesday with more snow. It snowed all day today. Enough to make a snowman. The kids' first one.

We are supposed to get more snow in the morning and then another storm on Sunday. CA is getting a 3 week winter break instead of 2 b/c of all of this. He doesn't seem to be minding missing school but I'm afraid we are all going a little stir crazy.

Lice

So we had our first scare with lice. Someone from daycare had it, the eggs not the live critters. I thought I saw one on IA's head and mine as well (it just happened to be the week she slept in our bed b/c she was sick) but now am not so sure. But to be safe we did the whole treatment and washed everything in the house. It was a long day. I finally ended up cutting IA's hair b/c I just couldn't run through it again with the lice comb and have her cry. She handled it well and it turned out pretty cute. It actually looks better, her hair was looking a little unkempt.
Here is CA with mayonnaise and saran wrap on his head:

It took awhile for her to let me put stuff in her hair, but once I did she was a trooper.

And JA looked so darn cute in the shower cap. She didn't touch it the entire time it was on and she had it on for 2 hours. Then when daddy combed through her hair, she sat so good and just kept saying "ow daddy, ow daddy" but continued sitting still for him.

Here is a shot of IA's new hair. Not the best picture but you get the idea.

Hopefully we won't have to go through that ever again!

Crazy Day

It is spirit week at school and the first day was crazy day. CA won the prize for the best costume.

Can you guess who dressed him that morning?!

He was soooo excited that he won! And I think he kept on the stuff all day at school which is surprising...well, maybe not the hat that might have been distracting to the other kids.

Birthday Girl

Happy Birthday GB!

Halloween

I signed up to take treats to CA's Harvest party because I wanted to make sure he could eat something at it. So this is what I came up with. Waffle cookies with a spiderweb piped onto them (AA did that thankfully) and a spider on top made of chocolate and liquorice. I would have happily purchased spiders, but the only gummy bugs I could find, son coudn't eat and since I was shopping the day before halloween (nothing like procrastinating), they were sold out of all the plastic spiders. I think they turned out pretty good and son was excited.

I did not get great pictures from Halloween night. The kids were super fussy and we waited until neighbors were actually home to go trick or treating. Here is CA in his pterydactyl costume. I should have gotten a side shot to see the head better.

This is the only picture I could get of IA. She was not cooperating but basically she wore her Christmas dress which she thinks is a princess dress and a tiara.

Here is JA and actually that isn't exactly what she looked like. I was able to get a brown leotard like thing on her and then the butterfly wings and tutu. There was a skirt that went with the wings but she wanted the purple one. She wore the butterfly wings the whole time which surprised me and didn't really get into the trick or treating until someone handed out a full sized candy bar. Then a light bulb went on and she was first in line at the door and starting grabbing the candy for herself.

We ended up having a lot of fun, the kids have lots of candy they won't eat and it didn't even rain on us nor did we have to wear coats because it was somewhat warm