the pawwwk...or the park?

We couldn't help but go outside today..as you can see the temps. were high enough to go without coats and sandals on... yipee... looking forward to warmer days... so much looking forward to it. i think it just makes everyone so much happier. also aren't my husband and children very cute. i can't get over how cute they are some times... good thing i am the wife and mother huh???

baby aaron came over

Bella's litte aaron got to come over last thursday and hang out with us. it was fun to have him. elly m. seemed to sort of enjoy him more than her sister.. maybe because he is much more laid back than ruthie. he is such a joy to have around. we could have him anytime. also who doesn't love to lick the beaters.. as you can see little elly m. does and the hat.. well..... aunt bella gave elly m. that and anything aunt bella does is admired by little miss elly m. so the hat stays on a lot of the time...

Elly M.'s hold you...

I am sure that every child goes through a phase in life where they for one want to be held all the time and two say it... all the time. i will find elly m. playing in her room saying the words: "hold you" to herself and she often says them to me as i am holding her. i am wondering if she wants to crawl back into the womb... another funny thing she has been doing lately.. well two things. almost every morning when i go in to get her out of her bed... i am carrying ruthie.. and she will motion with a pat of her hand in her bed and say "sister sit" so i put ruthie in her bed with her, but elly m. doesn't usually stay long... it is her ploy to get me to "hold me"... one more thing that has been hilarious.. that i need to get on film... i always tell her to "come" and motion with my hands... so now i will randomly see her talking to the cat and motioning with her hands while saying "come dat... come" thinking that the cat should listen to her... it is also funny when she does the same thing to me... i can't help but laugh as i see me coming out in her expression... so silly sometimes.

jonathan's humor

Isn't this hilarious? my mom sent me some pictures so that i could show the world how much elly m. looks like me, this picture isn't the main one that shows how much she looks like me.... but jonathan has an ongoing joke with my mom that i looked like a groundhog when i was little... so when i put the pics. on iphoto today... to much funniness... this is what i found.

Our little bruiser...

Well.... i can't believe we have made it this far in elly m.'s life without a big fall, but she fell today.... down our cement steps. I think it hurt her pretty bad. She cried for a quite a few minutes... the world kind of stopped for me.. i was kind of scared as she laid there on the bottom step. but a few minutes into it, i evaluated the damage done and realized it wasn't that bad..maybe more scary. and i said.. "do you wanna go see bella and olivia?" she immediately quit crying and wanted to go bye-bye. her and olivia have such a relationship. i guess it is how cousins behave at this age. i think olivia is preparing little elly m. for ruthie soon. olivia right now is the one that can make her laugh the most and probably the one thaat can make her the most angry. I do believe ruthie and olivia will do this for elly m. her whole life. so precious to watch children grown in relationships with each other.

some more cute pics.....

just some random cute pics.

I can say that i think these two are the cutest little people in the world... because they are my little people and they are my world.

Cozy

It is hilarious at our house sometimes...jonathan and elly m. have begun something new together.....get under a pillow or blanket and say cozy.... it was really funny when dan came over and elly m. wanted to cozy with him. it was cute. here is a video of jonathan and elly m. for you to enjoy...

$1 hat

might be the best purchase of the year. elly m. loves to wear it around the house. Elly m. turned 18 months yesterday. she weighs in at 24 lbs. and 34 inches long. she has lost weight since 12 months....but ruthie has almost caught up at 21 lbs. a little competition i guess. elly m. didn't even cry when she was poked 3 times....she must have her mother's pain tolerance.

French Breakfast.

and you might wonder to yourself... do french people eat french toast for breakfast??? and the answer is a big fat NO. Laurent or pronounced by jonathan "LOOOOW ant" with a scratchy sound in your throat in the middle somewhere... tells me that all children eat french baugettes smothered in butter and jam dipped in a bowl of hot cocoa almost every morning for breakfast... and as you become an adult... you just change what is in the bowl from cocoa to coffee. so i enjoyed a real french breakfast the second morning they were here. you have to love true cultural events. anyhow. my friend sharla and her french husband came to visit and it was a lot of fun!!! they taught jonathan and i how to play canasta,,,,such a fun game.