Fairy Princess

Maia got a fairy princess costume from Grandma for Christmas. Here's our little fairy princess, up and around after her 103.3 fever broke this morning!

Christmas Decorating

The kids are both as excited as they can be about all the Christmas decorations. Maia attempted to help but ended up decorating herself. Both of them are also obsessed with Santa hats. Joshua has even taken to wearing one to bed! Here are my silly Christmas babes.

Snow Days

Here is Joshua, my favorite and definitely most creative superhero. Superman wore his undies on the outside, why not on my son's head? Little Maia was having a wonderful time playing in Daddy's office, and here's our little princess enjoying her first snow.

Spiked!

Joshua gets wiggly while I'm cutting his hair, so today I added an incentive. Gel for little boys that hold still! Here is my little man experimenting with spikes. I've also added Maia attempting to put on a pair of training pants, and then Maia doing her "Who? Sweet little me?!" look after I caught her getting into big brother's drawers. Oh yes, she can get into all drawers now. Joy!

Camping

The kids and I went camping last weekend with some other mommies from ECM. The kids had so much fun! Here are my little woodland babies playing in Joshua's "fort" and tending the fire and eating all of Kay's grapes.

But...He's just a baby!

Last week we went out to buy Joshua new school shoes. The saleswoman was very nice and sized Joshua's feet and then informed me that I was in the wrong section. Joshua no longer shops in the baby/toddler section. We have to shop for him in the kid section. But, he's my baby! I was just pregnant with him a minute ago! And now,today, my little man went off to preschool. He's as pleased as can be about his new shoes too. They have flames that light up on the toes!

She knows what she wants

Today I gave Maia a bath and then dressed her in a hand-me-down pair of brother's white cotton jammies with little toys printed on them. Maia stood up, pulled a pair or red satin Chinese jammies off the shelf and insisted on wearing them instead. She just kept signing and waving them around. All right little Peep. You know what you want. My little girl has style. As soon as I put them on her she hopped up and went to play. I guess she's just not a plain cotton print kinda girl. Here's my little Peep in her new jammies. The next photo is what I found when I came back to fold the laundry. Darn! It looks like I left something orange in with the whites.

Mighty Thor

We hit the ren faire last weekend. The kids had a wonderful time. I forgot the camera, but at least we got a couple pictures on the way out. Maia was a princess, but her highness was napping when we were taking photos. Here is Lady Mommy with mighty Thor and his hammer. For the actual faire he decided to switch to his "sledge hammer" which is red, green, yellow and makes silly noises when bonked on things.

Horse Thief Lake

The kids are LOVING boating. Peep kept saying "Down!" and trying to climb over the side. They've both been trying to paddle the boat, and after the boating we all had a nice swim.

Joshua and Maia

Here are the last of the most recent photos. Maia has her beloved cow in a couple of them. I like the one where she's sitting on big brother. I couldn't believe how good they were for the photos. They were both so excited!

More photos

Here are the photos of the kids with Mommy. I love the JC Penney coupons for photos! I can't beliee how big my babies are!

Mommy's dress

This dress was one of mine when I was tiny. It's also one of only a few of my baby clothes to make it to this generation. I thought it might be fun to start a family tradition of taking a photo in the same dress. Maia is a little older than I was, I believe. I've also added a picture of me in the dress, and a similar one of my mother. Oh, and as you can see Maia has about 100,000 times more hair than her Mommy did! She's my sweet little mad scientist muppet!

Mmmmm...Smoothies!

Well, Summer is finally here. What better way to celebrate than with some all natural smoothies. I wasn't sure what Maia would think of them, but apparently I should have made more. They were definitely a big hit.

Froggies out of the bath

Here are my little froggies. Gene was saying that Joshua is too big for the baby towels, so here's my little froggy sporting his new after-bath attire. I love the bath. It's the one place they're both entertained and playing happily together till they turn into little prunes.

Happy Cinco de Maia!

We decided to celebrate cinco de "Maia" this year. It's the holiday that commemorates bringing home our baby Maia/ a good excuse to eat Mexican food. Gene and I made enchiladas. Here's Maia celebrating her 2nd Cinco de Maia. Joshua had a blast playing with the bubble wand grandpa and grandma gave him. Here's our little monkey enjoying his new toy.

Firefighters

Joshua today caught Maia on his prized fire truck. Instead of fussing over it he decided to help her go for a ride. Here are my little fire fighters cruising the house.

Mr. and Mrs. Duck are back!

Hooray for spring! Every year Mr. and Mrs Duck start to come by our house. Joshua had lots of fun feeding them, and feeding baby sister. Maia had a great time with the ducks too. I remember being very pregnant with Joshua and waddling out to feed Mrs. Duck who was obviously about to have some eggs of her own.