Kathryn"s frosting face 12-06-09

I thought this deserved it's own post. Kathryn is our little comedian in the family. She does things just to make people laugh. She drew pictures the other day and got upset because people weren't laughing, It is very important to her to make us happy. She is very caring , cuddly when she wants to be and very creative. I always tell David that she reminds me of myself. I also find myself calling her Maria sometimes because she reminds me of my youngest sister. Kathryn is a hoot to be around and she keep yah going to. Also it is very hard to parent her because she is also very smart. I try to do my best but she likes to find loopholes in things and to call me on things when she thinks I'm being unfare. I think she'll make a great lawyer or doctor someday. We'll see !

Erin's 1st birthday

Erin Nicole

1 Year old

12-07-09

( mommy speaking ) I can't believe a year has gone by already. Our youngest is 1 already. Where does the time go? I am lucky to be at home with her an watch her do her thing. The rolling over, the crawling, the standing up and eventually the walking. I caught Erin yesterday trying to stand up by herslef. She got up on her hands and kness and then into a bear crawling position and then lifted her hands up off of the floor and then she fell on her bottom. But it was so cute to watch.

How Kathryn and Erin interact. Kathryn teases Erin and takes things away from her and Erin growls or cries depending on time of day ( tired time). They also hug each other and play with each other but it is when Kathryn chooses too. I know there is a difference in years but I think once Erin starts walking Kathryn will be more interested in her. I told Kathryn abought Erin's birthday coming up and she asks me : "Then can she walk?" It's moments like these that keep you gowing when the big one won't stop bothering the little one and making her cry.

Erin had an eventful birthday party. She loved all of her gifts and had lots of fun. She especially loved the cake.

This is the after picture. Look below for the before pitures. I just had to show this first so you can guess how it happened.

Erin: " I want this piece right here. You don't mind if I just take it now do you?"

Erin is wondering what's happening. She'll know soon enough. Look at next photo.

Erin shocked ! "Wow ! Are those for me!"

Bog sister Kathryn giving Erin a hand unwrapping presents. She loves her big sister.

Erin and Mommy

"What is this stuff?" She played with the ribbon for a few minutes before we could unwrap the gift. I wonder why we buy them gifts sometimes when they are always more amused with the boxed, bows, ribbon and wrapping paer. We should just wrap them in brown paper and that's all.

Erin was saying "OOOOOOO" "OOOOOO" and pointing and hitting the box. How cute !

Another "OOOOOOO" moment

We wanted to say thank you to uncle Dale for the Target gift card. We got Erin a play purse and a lady bug ball spinnner. She loves them both. Thank you Uncle Dale !

I thought I would add in some of Erin's cuite little faces. Hope you like them. They always make us smile !

Erin watching siter and the ball popper. Kathryn get overly excited about it and Erin wonders what going on.

Erin trying to eat ball

Erin playing with ball popper

Erin eating Kathryn's donut

Thanksgiving 2009

Thanksgiving was plentiful this year. We had very full bellies when we were done. Erin loved it too. It was her first Thankgiving this year. She didn't know what to think of it but she loved the food. We all took a nice nap after eating.

Christmas photos 11-19-09

Okay so I decided to work on our Christmas card early. I took pictures of the girls. Like 40 of them just to get a few good ones. Here are some funny ones that didn't make the cut. I added some captions for entertainment purposes. Enjoy!

" Look at my stinky foot mama !" says Kathryn
"I don't want to be the princess anymore!" says Erin ( well she would have if she could speak) taking the tiara from her head and crying

Kathryn:"Time to practice my singing."

Erin: "Oh, not again."

Kathryn: "Now for the finale!"
Erin: " Now I can leave."

Erin come here! Stop wiggling ! Erin is laughing so hard at Kathryn not being able to hold her. Kathryn found it funny too. They were both laughing then.

These are the photos I did use on our Christmas card

I used this picture in the middle spot. It had three spots for photos

I used Kathryn's face from this photo for a close up on the right side

I used Erin's face from this photo for a close up on the left side.

Well folks that explain it all. It was quite challenging. I am glad that I attempted it now because if they didn't turn out okay then I would have had to do them over when Erin wasn't crying or get them professionally done. So I am happy with the outcome. Otherwise, we might have had a silly holiday card this year. Hope you all enjoyed the photos.

Letters here I come. 10-31-09

Kathryn practiced her letters on her big write on, wipe off board. We had to get pictures. All of it was written by Kathryn with no help at all.

Halloween 10-30-09

Kathryn tackling Erin. She said it was because she wouldn't sit still.

Shirt says " I'm so cute it's scarey"

Mommy's and Kathryn's & Kathryn and papa's pumpkins

Halloween was fun ! Kathryn was very excited and when she woke up she wanted to go trick or treating already. We carved our pumpkins the day before. Kathryn is wearing her kitty shirt that says" wickedly cute". Kathryn kept telling me to get Erin's costume on all day long. Finally the time came to get ready and I couldn't get Kathryn to sit still long enough to get her costume on. First. we had to search for the costume. Kathryn likes to wear it as dress up clothes. We took Erin out with us but we ended up returning home because Erin's fingers were very cold and red. Her little nose was red too. We left her with nana and papa. Kathryn wanted to eat a few pieces of candy before we headed back out. Then we were ready. Kathryn talked to almost every house we went to. She told everyoen that she was a white kitty last year and now she is a black one. She told one persona boutt he scareyu monster that jumped out at her last year. She told one guy that she loved him. And she told a few people to have a happy scarey halloween night. Oh and a few people to just have a happy halloween. She loves to talk and I think she would have done that and stayed out longer if it wasn't so cold and if she wasn't so interested in eating her candy right away. When we got home I had to try and get her costume off and chase her to get her to bed. Like I said, it was a fun night and very very interesting too.

Always thinking 10-29-09

Princesses 10-28-09

Monkey See Monkey Do

Mommy and her girls

Smile !