8 month old monkey

Not the greatest video of this, but Will has a funny way of mobilizing himself by getting up on his hands and toes instead of his knees!

Videos

I'm glad I have instilled in my daughter the importance of birthdays...we made 'homemade playdough' one day, and she insisted she make a birthday cake out of it :) I thought we should eat it, but she said "not until we blow out the candles". So, we did.

Apparantly we found one fear that Will has...

Easter photo shoot

I was trying to take a picture with my phone to send the 'California aunts', but the battery won't hold charge long enough to get that accomplished. So, here's the kiddos on Easter before going to church. Happy Easter!

Trip to St. Louis, Etc.

First Day of Preschool: Jan 31, 2012 (Officially 3 years and 3 months old, and finally potty trained!)

Valentine's Day! She missed her party at school due to vomiting, and by the end of the week had Influenza A, but she loved her Cars Valentines anyway :)

Will did get a "half birthday party" on Feb 29th! Gabbie picked the colors for the cake.

In the arch

Holding G and G on the way down from the arch...a little nervous!

Found Dad for a family picture :)

Chillin' once we got home

I'm 7 months old today!

On the move!

Will mastered sitting up on his own and crawling over the past several weeks! Its fun...until he's eating my houseplants, eating newspapers, etc. I may have to consider mild 'babyproofing'. We got through this with Gabbie by using the "pack-n-play". This isn't working with Will. When he's in the "pack-n-play" then he can't keep up with Gabbie! He gets pretty upset if we try to limit his space.

Lots to update

I didn't realize it had been a couple months since I updated this! The "California aunts" as I call them both asked for updated pictures, and it was certainly time I get it done. The only problem is that my "regular computer" is at the "shop" (having it cleaned up, files backed up, etc) so that it hopefully runs better and I can finish getting books ready for taxes. So...I'm using my "work laptop" and all it has on it is basic Microsoft word, no picture viewer, so I was randomly selecting pictures to put on here without being able to see them. So, they are in a very random order! Good luck...lots has happened since my last 'post' so I'll try to include that in the captions...

Apparantly Santa Clause was not as interesting as the tree! This was Santa #2 (we had been to the Mall Santa the week previous). Santa took Gabrielle's pacifiers and left her with a pretty cool kitchen set to play with! The first few nights she was ready to call Santa and trade in the kitchen, but after that it was smooth sailing and she hasn't asked for them since! I still find one here and there, in a coat pocket and under the couch...good memories now as I toss them in the trash :-)

This was in line at the mall Santa. Too bad we were with 10 other kids, because she was being SO naughty that I just wanted to put her in the car and go home!!!

Opening her gift from Brice and I...a "Tow Mater" Christmas ornament. Every year our gift to her is an ornament that represents the 'theme' of her year...this year it was the movie "Cars". Santa brought her the kitchen as I said earlier...next year Santa should open the box prior to 10 p.m. on Christmas Eve so he would know that it did not come assembled. Then he wouldn't be up until 1:oo a.m. putting the 200 pieces together!

Our "Valentines Trees". I'm usually home on Tuesdays and try to find something Gabbie and I can do together while Will takes one of his 20 minute naps :-) A few weeks ago I ordered a couple trees to decorate for various holidays, so we found some things around the house to make a Valentine's Day tree.

A tea party with a friend. Looks like her friend gets the idea of sipping tea. Gabbie is apparantly preparing herself for some fun college parties by chugging hers...

"Cheese"! Gabbie playing with a present from her "Big Girl Party". A few weeks ago we celebrated with a "No paci's, no diapers, good toothbrushing, and helping with dishes and cleaning = big girl party". Lots of change in 1 month, and this week is her 2nd week of preschool! When I get my regular computer back I'll find the picture of her making her own "big girl" cake!

Finally a picture of Will! They really weren't taking a nap together. That would mean Gabbie would have to take a nap! Anyway, I was taking his picture and Gabbie said "Mommy, take a picture of me taking a nap with Will"! Kind of young to be posing already!

Happy Birthday Grandma! We had a surprize party for my Mom's 59th birthday. It was a fun time!

Merry Christmas! One of the tires on my van blew on the way to my Mom's house on Christmas. A couple days prior to that I had said to Brice "with stow-and-go seats, where is the spare tire at?" Well, I found out! Can't complain-it wasn't super cold out and we got the tire changed. But I did have to buy a whole new tire. Lucky we didn't lose control or anything, it made a loud sound.

Will was pretty cool about it! This is Will at almost 4 months old, on Christmas Day. I know his socks don't match, nor does it bother me like it would have in the past. I haven't found adding child number 2 to be much extra work if I take the appropriate short cuts :-) Matching socks is over rated anyway, just be happy they are clean.

I think that's it! So far 2012 is flying by! Until yesterday everyone was healthy...as of tonight I have 2 pukers and a coughing husband. Otherwise its been busy trying to finish up some projects in the house, work on taxes, and enjoy the warmest winter I can remember! I'm hoping to get the rest of my Christmas cards sent out this week :-) I rearranged our living room to accomodate starting indoor garden seeds by the end of the month! Wow!