Walking ruthie

Here she is!!!

Here is the little poof walking around. i guess while you are in the crawling stage, you sometimes think that the walking stage will never happen, but it does eventually.

childhood

As jonathan was doing this building a fort with the couch cushions, he felt like maybe he would like to go back to childhood to be able to do things like this. i mean he can do them, but he doesn't really fit inside this size fort anymore. well as you can see the girls went crazy in this thing. they laughed with each other so hard! it was so fun to watch. of course it was already 8 o'clock at this time and winding ruthie down only took an hour after they stopped playing, but i mean who needs to bring up the negatives? the girls are interacting more and more now and enjoying each other. of course they have their petty arguments, you know.. ruthie's foot touches elly m. and she has a huge fit about it, but that is bound to happen when you spend every waking moment together.

More of the same thing

I know that these are more of the same thing, but i can't help it. we use the word cutened around our house a lot, and i was just cutened by their expressions. they were so real and so full of joy. it was so fun to watch them play in the couch.

more couch fun

side note.. not really

just an incredibly happy proud mom wanting to write that her little baby is now walking. she took 20 steps in a row today, but i mean who is counting. so exciting. she is so excited.. she is having a hard time sleeping at night. ruthie is such a go getter..... i love it. i will post a video as soon as i take one of our little go getter/ walker!!! i mean wowswers, she is tooting her own horn.

new/old friends..

of course kimberly is an old friend of mine, but a new found friend to elly m. she adored these two people. i guess i know now who to give her to if something ever happened to us. she acted as though they were her parents the whole time we were at the zoo. it is so great to meet kimberly's husband terry. he is such a special guy. we love him already...

a crush..

here is a pic. of elly m.'s new crush... she adored with goo goo eyes and all, kimberly's husband!!! he is such a precious person. the whole fam. loved him and wishes the two of them lived closer.

a couple of my mom.

here is my mom and her little elly m. the moment meme gets her elly m. is memefied. it is amazing just how much i don't exist!!!! great though at the same time that she can love someone else so much.

our little swede

here is ruthie our little swedish baby following a potato around the dining room floor. there are also a couple pictures of the sisters, which i don't seem to get to often these days. they aren't sitting all that often.