Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Tammy's house

Some more pictures from Tammy's house:
She's graduated from the high chair! Eating lunch at the big kid table.

Loves her hats!


When she needs a break from baby Jac, she gets up on the train table where he can't reach her.

Trying on shoes. She loves shoes.

And loves sitting in containers... baskets, big tupperware bins, laundry baskets.  We had a cat like that once.

Apron on for cooking


LoLo & Tori

More LoLo and Tori.  They like to play MindCraft and Disney Infinity.

Strawberry blonds

Tori & LoLo

She let Tammy do pigtails!

Feeding her baby


Saturday, March 28, 2015

Amelie- 21 months


At 21 months, Amelie is talking more and more.  She calls herself "Ama" and loves Mama, Dada, WoWo and KaKa (Kenny).  Kenny really likes being called KaKa. She loves her lavendar knit blanket and trails it around the house, arranges it just right on the floor and snuggles into it with her bottle.   Amelie likes to read, likes playing trains, likes dumping out bins of legos all over the floor, and then vacuuming them up with her toy vacuum (except that toy vacuums do not actually pick up the thousand tiny pieces so I get to do that). She points to messes-- whether she made them or not-- and says "Ama" disapprovingly.  We recently realized she's actually saying "Oh, Man!"-- which is what Tammy says about messes-- but it sounds like she's chiding herself every time. She loves her dolls, and loves baby Jack at daycare... so funny how little girls have a mothering instinct right from the beginning. 

Amelie is so stubborn-- even more than Logan, which I didn't think was possible.  She is not good at sharing-- especially sharing me.  If we're reading or cuddling together and Logan approaches she swats him away and yells at him.  She hates to have her hair touched-- "ow, ow!"-- I can't get a barrette or pony tail in there for anything, even though her hair is always in her eyes. She loves cookies and whenever the timer on the oven beeps, she yells cookie! cookie!... perhaps because we use our oven for nothing except making cookies. She loves walks around the neighborhood to spot deer, hikes in the backpack, and toddling around outside finding rocks to add to her collection (like Daddy). She likes bath time and brushing her teeth, hide and seek (she always hides in the same spot between the bookcases in the guest bedroom), and trying on 10 different pairs of shoes-- her favorite being the snow boots. She likes to play in our bathroom and take all the little travel sized toiletries out of the bag, and all the jewelry out of their boxes, and strew everything all over the room... but I let her because its good for at least 10 minutes of peace. She and Logan are playing together more and more-- they like to play tag around the house, go camping in the living room, and cook in their toy kitchen.  Every once in a while it lasts for more than 1 minute and I glimpse a future when they might actually entertain themselves long enough for me to to to the bathroom by myself.

Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Florida

For Spring Break, we went to visit my Mom at her new place in Vero Beach, FL. The flights getting there and back were kind of awful. On the way there we were delayed by traffic, Logan puking, and a very crowded airport and ended up running for the gate as our names were being called over the loudspeaker. On the way back, we learned our lesson and arrived at the airport very early-- only to have our flight delayed 6 hours. On the bright side, however, Florida itself was great. We spent a day at Legoland where Logan got to meet his love Lucy (from the Lego Movie), and the rest of the time at the beach and pool in Vero Beach. My mom has a beautiful condo on the golf course, and after all the golfers went home it was the world's best playground. We got to see childhood family friends and introduce the next generation, which was really nice. I think we should make this our annual Spring Break trip. Here are some pictures from our visit:

Logan meets Lucy

Running from the waves with LoLo

Ama digging in the sand

Lunch at the Beach Club.

Amelie, Russell, Logan, and Madeline

Dinner with Goofy & Donald Duck

Elizabeth, Goofy, me, and Kendall

Amelie was not so sure about Donald.  She liked him from afar, but did not want to get too close.

Saturday, March 21, 2015

Spring

The weather has finally warmed up! 
Ice cream in Evergreen.  We typically walk/bike around the lake and use the promise of ice cream to motivate our walkers/bikers to make it to the end.

Marshdale park
Marshdale Elementary. This is where Logan will go to elementary school.


Ama & LoLo.

Hide and seek in the kitchen cabinets