play time

i love my kiddies. sometimes i think i don't say that enough. it's easy for me to get together with friends and complain about the hard/bad/frustrating things my kids do. i keep telling myself to stop doing that, but i get back in the situation and there i am complaining again. but i really do love my kids. they make us laugh and smile every single day. sure there are some really difficult things we are trying to overcome (hopefully sooner than later) but i don't want to get so wrapped up in those negative things that i forget there are still good things going on as well.

our smiley little guy that is getting better about sleeping at night. yea! he has been so different from katelyn in the sleep department. this is something i did not expect since katelyn was so easy.


i think i'm always a month behind when it comes to things tanner is doing. he started grabbing his feet around 4 months and hasn't let go since. this has made for some tricky diaper changes.


my kids have been so different. katelyn was sitting up by five months but not rolling over (and she never did). tanner wants to roll over oh so badly but doesn't seem that interested in sitting up.


we've been doing a little preschool with katelyn this year with some of her church friends. she loves it. i think we're always making a mad dash to get out the door in time, but she gets to learn and play for two hours while i get to run errands with a sleeping baby. i do not object to that.

all ready for preschool and decked out completely in pink. i think we're brainwashing her.


has anyone else gone through way too many toothbrushes with their two year old? katelyn keeps dropping her toothbrushes in gross places, chewing them beyond use or even losing them. i finally decided to buy two so i have a replacement on hand.


oh katelyn with her brother. she loves this kid to no end. she is constantly trying to make him laugh and smile at her and loves to smother him to death. i can't wait until he is a little bigger so he can play along. sibling relationships are fun to watch as they develop.

as of late

i think we've been indoors too much. i'm basing this off of katelyn's behavior lately. we are need of some warm weather so we can get out. winter go away now. we're done with you. i'm really starting to root for a residency in arizona or texas. as my mom says, you just have to suffer through two months of really hot weather, then the rest of the year is great. sounds good to me.

we just had ourselves a nice little snowstorm that brought in 9.2" of snow. nothing in comparison to the east coast, but still a lot of snow. tanner liked checking out the snow falling.


tanner grabs at everything now. if it is within arms reach, he wants it. my phone, papers, anything i'm eating...seriously everything.



katelyn loves to color. and apparantly she really loves to color with markers. i gave her some paper hearts to decorate for the g-parents for valentines day. she worked on these four hearts for one hour. she colored every square inch of each heart then colored every square inch all over again. she put a lot of work into those valentines.



sadly katelyn has been spending a lot of time in time-out. i think i'm kind of a mean mom for taking this picture. she was really mad at me when i pointed the camera at her.



katelyn has slowly started taking some of her naps away. she naps about every three days. i still stick her in her room for quiet time though. one day i went to check on her in her room just to find it empty. i went downstairs and found her huddled over her stuff asleep in the swing. not sure how that can be more comfortable than her bed.

dinner with daddy

test weeks are a little busy around here. so we decided to join tyler on campus for dinner one night. it turned out to be a crazy night. katelyn spilled her red drink all over the table and our food, tanner pooped in his diaper and sent it all the way up his back, i brought leftovers (enough said), katelyn ran away from tyler when he tried to clean her up...

but you would never guess all of that from the pictures.