Rapunzel

Teagan pretty much lives in dress-up clothes. Today was a Rapunzel day. She wore her Rapunzel outfit all day. Even while playing outside. She was pretty cute re-enacting outside the scene from Tangled where Rapunzel first leaves her tower and is rolling around in the grass. Complete with singing the "Finally Free" song.


Asher was really into tricycle riding today. I noticed that he was actually pushing himself around with his feet. I think he must have just learned how to do that. He is also really starting to imitate more words. This morning Teagan kept asking him to say "Hi." She was so proud of him and loved that he kept saying it. She says all the time, "He just said his first word." Today after he was repeating some alphabet letters she was saying, she was excited to tell me, "He just said his first letter!"

Bananas and Birthdays

2.4.12
Paul stayed home with the kids Saturday morning so I could get out with some of my friends for coffee. We have sort of an informal book club and it's been about a year since we last got together to discuss a book. Apparently the kids had fun eating bananas and watching Lion King.



2.5.12
We went to Duncanville today to celebrate my Dad and Marsha's birthday. The kids had a lot of fun making Valentines and they always love playing with all the musical instruments.

First words

2.2.12


Hanging out in bed reading books and watching cartoons, waiting for Mom to get ready.

2.3.12

The boy and his trucks.

Asher seems to actually be starting to say some words now, other than just mama, dada, and animal noises. Yesterday he pointed to the apples on the counter and said "a - buh", which seemed to clearly be an approximation for apple. Today he pointed to bananas and said "nana, nana" asking for a banana.


Snack time!

The other night, Teagan tried to yank a toy out of Asher's hands while he was standing on a little table, pulling him headfirst onto the tile floor. He got quite the bump on his head and we had a talk with Teagan about how dangerous that was and what a serious injury Asher got. Tonight while he was falling asleep I kept having to tell Teagan to stop kissing him because I was afraid she would wake him up. She told me, "I'm just kissing him so he'll know that I still love him after that serious injury I gave him."

Teagan's favorite things

We were watching a cartoon this morning and it was "favorite things day." I asked T what her favorite things were, and she said, "Painting, swimming, and Starbucks cake pops!" I think another favorite thing though is making cranberry sunrise lemonade. She got a kids cookbook for Christmas and we make the lemonade recipe quite often. She loves to follow the recipe and pour all the ingredients into the glass. Since it was about 75 degrees this afternoon, we decided to make lemonade and then take it outside with us while we played.


Asher decided to decorate his face with sidewalk chalk.

1 month success! 1/30 & 1/31

Hang on brother, we're going for a ride!


Playing at the park. Happy as could be, digging in the dirt and wood chips.


I've made it through one whole month taking a picture every day of the kids. Now to keep it up for 11 more!

Day 28 & 29

Picnic time!

Playing with his trains.

One of Teagan's fashion creations.


Anything for me?
Coloring with chalk.

Cupcakes and Chicken Bones

Teagan was quite upset when I wouldn't buy her cupcakes at the store today. It was one of those moments where I was trying to hold onto a loudly crying 3 year old while also trying to keep Asher from jumping out of the shopping cart head first. After we got Asher down for a nap, Teagan and I went to work making our own cupcakes. Teagan loves watching cupcake decorating videos on YouTube, so she was quite happy with her piping bag and sprinkles.


We call Asher our little puppy dog for several reasons. First, he chews on everything! He has been known to take actual bites out of the coffee table, books, wooden toys, silicone handles on silverwear, sippy cup spouts, and the list goes on! His other puppy like trait is that he loves to chew on bones. Give him a drumstick or a nice bone from rack of lamb and he is so happy! Dogs are also his favorite animal. Anytime he sees or hears a dog, he makes his own little barking sound.

Say Cheese!

Asher and Teagan are getting used to me picking up the camera every day, so they both like to join in on the action.
Teagan received Candy Land, Chutes and Ladders, and Memory for Christmas. It is becoming our daily routine to play games while Asher is napping. Of course she is dressed up in one of her "blanket dresses."

Working

Busy morning. Teagan had lots of work to do on her computer and Asher had some important phone calls to make.

Climbing!

I've been trying to take advantage of all the nice weather we have had and take the kids outside to play as much as possible. On the way home from a quick errand this morning we decided to stop at a park we don't go to very often. The kids had so much fun!