There she goes....

Well, we officially have two mover and shakers at our house now. i can no longer put ruthie on a bed and plan on her to be there when i return. she is officially moving. Not quite from room to room, but i give her a couple of weeks. so much fun to watch them grow...but way too fast...

we look nothing alike

It is so amazing to me that a child can come out of you and look nothing like you. i don't see myself in ruthie at all. i see myself in elly m. completely. i am sure she will acquire many of my mannerisms though.

Kangaroothie

Here is the precious little thing jumping... we like to call her "kangaroothie"

a refreshing day out

Being inside of a house with a sick child can make anybody enjoy outside weather, even if it is chilly. elly m. and i had to get out of the house on new year's day, so we took a little family walk by a lake and breathed in the fresh air. it was very nice...

Jonathan's view

I love, i mean love how jonathan takes photos.. so expressive isn't he. well her is a few from our day at shelby forest from his view... from the ground up. he always has surprises up his sleeve.

A street find..

You can't love memphis for many things, but here are two things i do love memphis for. 75 degree days in december, january, and february... and street finds. people throw their trash out for other people to find their treasure. i will admit that a lot of our furniture has some from this little trick... but this has been the best yet... a little battery operated four wheeler... so fun. so fun, we even brought it inside for ruthie to ride it...

Teeth, Baby Einstein and Long week

Here is a try at getting little Ruthie's teeth... she is currently working on number 3. amazing girl. the other pictures are of the girls sitting together.. mind you for only a few minutes or seconds because elly m. hates it when ruthie touches her with her sloppy hands that have slobber all over them, but they once in a while will just be by each other. which reminds me... ruthie has been pretty sick, they thought she had RSV... some respiratory infection, but didn't... but the breathing treatments returned her to health anyways... and double ear infection, we are still working on that. just the last two days, i feel as though she has felt better or at least hasn't wanted me to hold her the ENTIRE day... wow.. you think babies need you and then they get sick.. but to finish the sister story.. Liel, jonathan's cousin, came to wait for elly m. to wake up while i took ruthie to her appt. and she asked over and over again for "siiiister" and mommy of course, but she at least asked for her. she isn't totall aloof to how great it is to have a sister.

and baby einstein, just another one of elly m.'s fixations. and i don't mind, i feel as though she has learned a lot from them and luckily isn't so fast paced that it will make her adhd... just kidding...

We miss you Mickie...

A shout out to Mickie and Manne and Heidi and Woodhouse family. South Africa feels so far away. So far away. sorry mickie about missing your phone call, we were sitting outside doing nothing and i didn't quite get there in time. i will try to be there for the next phone call. I took mickie to the airport a week ago and i am not sure how many times little elly m. has said "where's mina?" over 100... she gets a little fixated sometimes. not sure who she gets that from... not me by the way. anyhow... we were sitting outside and she points to the white chairs and says "mina sit" and "daddy sit".... we miss you mickies... love you, T and all the bunch

all day Christmas

Here are the girls and their daddy opening presents on Christmas. it was much more fun this year with little elly m. she wasn't crying at all and either was ruthie. maybe the difference was the fact that we opened presents in the morning when they woke up instead of way after her bedtime like we did last year.

and by the way... we spent the ENTIRE day in our pajama's. we went to the white's in the morning for breakfast... it waS A fun relaxing time with the fam.

sisters and cousins.

here are olivia and elly m. sitting together ignoring everyone around them. most obvious to them that they are reading some pretty important masterial... prevention and readers' digest. hilarious that children can ignore your pleas to look at the camera without thinking a thing of it.