Pinewood Derby–March 23, 2013

Oldies, but Cuties

These pictures are from a few days after Christmas, but I thought these two were pretty cute, so I wanted to share.  I can’t believe how much they have both grown in the last 9 months.  I remember this morning because they were both begging me to take their picture and so they cuddled up and posed for me…a very rare thing for them.

Ethan’s 1st Day of 3rd Grade

I can’t believe my baby is in 3rd grade already.  Not only that, but he’s halfway through it because I’m such a slow blogger.  He’s such a cute kid and so grown up.  I’m grateful he allowed me to take a few pictures.

Sportin’ our Hello Kitty Sunglasses

Just a few pictures of us hanging out after Grammy and Grampy left.  Tybee likes to share, so even Ethan gets to wear her pink Hello Kitty glasses.

Ethan Turns 8 Part 2: Baptism

Ethan Turns 8 Part 1: Birthday Party

Just because Ethan’s birthday was over 2 months ago and I am only now posting about it and I don’t have many pictures of the occasion does not mean it wasn’t a big event in our lives (it just means I’m a mother who can’t get it together)…I can’t believe I now have an 8 year old!

Egg Hunt

Little Miss Independent

Two weeks ago, Tybee finally realized she can walk around all by herself and pretty much get where ever she wants to without any help.  It has been so great and so scary at the same time.  She gets into everything and wants to go everywhere, but I don’t have to be right there with her all of the time.  I can finally get some things done that I need to ( a little bit, anyway).

Marksburg

We were really lucky on Monday because both James and Ethan had the day off.  Two separate holidays, but the same day.  Yay!  This rarely happens, so we decided to take advantage of it and go see a castle about an hour up the river.  It was a little chilly, but perfectly sunny and beautiful.

 

Project Week at Ethan’s School

 

This last week Ethan had a bit of a break from his normal school routine.  They mixed up the entire school and assigned kids to different projects.  Ethan was assigned to underwater animals.  Some of the other projects were pets, fire, Egyptians, horses, and many more (those are the only ones I can remember).  He had a great week…there was no homework and he got to watch Finding Nemo in German.  All week he learned about underwater animals and made his own aquarium and a water snake out of clay.  On Friday the parents were able to go and see all of the different projects and learn about what the kids learned about.  It actually worked out perfect because James had the day off for the holiday weekend and so he was able to come with us.  Yay…I didn’t have to be entirely clueless all by myself!

 

Happy Valentine’s Day!

Naptime Wake-up

The best part of the day for Ethan and James is when Tybee wakes up from her nap and they are home to enjoy it.  She always wakes up happy…well, almost always… and you know she’s awake because you begin to hear little high pitched chirping noises and sweet, happy baby talk.  As soon as you hear that, the boys race to see who gets to greet her first.  It is really cute to watch.  Here are some pictures that James took of their latest post-nap-meet-and-greet…

All I Want For Christmas…

Ok, it is so not Christmas anymore and I am so very late on this post, but…

A month ago, a few days after Christmas, Ethan lost his two front teeth.  It was quite the experience for him…

Ethan & Tybee: A Little Play-by-Play of Cuteness

 

Sweet Little Angel is 8 Months!

Two months have passed since my last post and now Tybee is already 8 months old.  So much has happened and I’m very sad that I haven’t documented it.  I’m sure in the next little while I will be sharing things from the past so bare with me.

Tybee had her 8 month birthday last Thursday and in honor of that we bought her a little gift…

Fun with Instagram

 

I discovered Instagram today on my iPod and had a little fun trying it out…

Our Fashion Guru

Surprise Pictures

As I was uploading pictures from our camera to our computer, I discovered some pretty cute ones that I either didn’t know existed or had completely forgotten about.  Just wanted to share

An Evening Stroll With Two of the Cutest Kids

James is on the swing shift this week and next week and so it is just me and the kiddos in the evenings, which can make for some pretty long evenings if we don’t have anything planned.  Tonight we decided to take a walk down to the river.  It was a bit cooler today and so these cuties were able to try out their new fleece jackets that came in the mail yesterday.

Garmisch Part 2

During the day, James and I had classes we had to attend and so we took Ethan and Tybee to child care.  Ethan had a blast at his.  They went hiking, saw a “candy castle”, rode up a ski lift, went to Munich to see some animal town, watched movies, etc.  He didn’t want to leave he had so much fun there.  Tybee, on the other hand, did not have the same joyful experience.  This was her first time being left with someone else for an extended period of time.  I’m not sure who it is was harder on, us or her, but she did not enjoy it.  However, some good did come out of it because she now goes to other people a lot easier than she did before.