Friday, June 26, 2009

summertime fun





Her new favorite swing position.



Wait, how'd I get here?





Pooped out on the way home

Saturday, June 13, 2009

baby pool - Aaron's point of view



Um mom...now I'm not being ungrateful but ummm, WHY did you put me in little mermaid swimmers? We have spiderman ones too right? RIGHT???



Seriously though. Does the pink make my butt look big?



I've got grass in my awesome hair? Point it out please.




You're right. The best water is right out of the hose.

Friday, June 5, 2009

The three faces of Aaron



Ecstatic!


Clueless!



Exhausted!

Thursday, June 4, 2009

New Best Friend

Stella's new best friend is her potty. Right now we're just hanging out with the potty. She drags it from room to room but for now it 'lives' in the kitchen. We spend a lot of time in the kitchen.



Taking a seat. She's holding a cup of juice with her other new favorite - Thomas the Tank Engine. AND she has a dinosaur in each hand. She's all about multi-tasking.



I am so in love with her and her giant 'someone put me down for a nap before my hair dried' bouffant. She's a keeper.

Sunday, May 31, 2009

Potty time!

It has been a LONG couple of days but if I start whining about that I may never stop. Instead I can tell you about the ramp up to potty training...for Stella at least. We have the potty - I just haven't tried to show her what to do with it yet. Mostly because once I start I know I have to keep going and frankly, right now I have no more extra energy to give.

She will tell us when she has to poop (and sometimes after she just pooped) and we've been praising her for dropping (dropping...ha ha) that bit of information but that's about it. Tonight after I gave the babes their baths, I let the water out and took Aaron out of the tub to dry off and dress. Stella was still in the now empty tub. She started saying poop, I ignored her and you guessed it, she pooped in the tub. BUT I know she's a genius because she:

1) Waited till I let the water out

2) Waited till her brother was out

3) Didn't try to play with it. Instead she kept saying, "dirty, dirty, ewww, ewww" and trying to climb out of the tub.

I'd just shown her a (really stupid) potty video and I guess she took it to heart...without actually USING the potty.

It's the little victories right? And yes I've done you all a favor by not having taken a picture of all this. Instead you can have this pic.



It's what all the genius kids are wearing these days.

Saturday, May 30, 2009

puddle jumpers



Taking turns.




Airplane!!





Goodbye...

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Drinking club



Sometimes the club meets in Aaron's crib. I guess mom's are only invited to take pictures.