baby wyatt...

I don't know who's luckier...Burke and Brittany for having such a beautiful baby or Wyatt for having such amazing parents!!!

hello from Allie! :)

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Allie said hello for the first time on Sunday...she has a toy telephone and puts it up to her ear and says Hello! Later she gave me the phone and I held it up to her ear and said, Hello, this is Allie. She pushed the phone up to my head and said, Mama! Too funny!

I would love to have a video of her talking to the phone but usually when I record her she is more interested in the camera. This video was pure luck!!

oh my goodness....

Look how much Sydney has grown up since August...first day of school vs. last day of school. I just noticed she is wearing the same shorts, ha! (The flowers are for her teacher)



Allie looks a little different too... ;)

that's a LOT of candles ;)

Kevin turned another year younger today...after dinner we got the blowtorch out to light all the candles on his cake, ha! Sydney asked if the smoke detector was going to start beeping...she was serious ;) (For the record, it didn't, but there's always next year...)

Happy Birthday Daddy!

silly girl!

Allie has learned this goofy new grin gets her lots of laughs! And it seems she only does it while she's in the highchair...any other time we try to get her to do it, she looks at us like we're crazy or something! I love her gummy little grins!

Can you see her tiny little tooth on the bottom?

a productive week....

Well Allie is just a busy gal lately...her first tooth is finally coming in on the bottom! Sydney got her teeth about the same age...Carter on the other hand had about 2 teeth at a time coming in starting around 3 months :p It doesn't seem to bother her either which is even better!!

Then on Tuesday she took 3 steps all by herself! I took her out of the exersaucer and stood her up and she balanced and walked toward me! Sydney and Carter saw it too and were so proud of her! They cheered and clapped and Sydney said "Pretty Girl, you can walk!!!" (Sydney always calls her Pretty Girl)

Then tonight after Allie ate dinner Kevin asked her if she wanted some milk. She looked at him and made the sign for milk! We have been doing that for a week or so now...I started with that one because it's easy, just squeeze your hand several times. That is the neatest thing...hopefully she'll pick up on some new ones soon!!

Too tired for pictures tonight!

tap tap tap....

is this thing still on?? Anyone there??

It's been awhile.

I was in a total February photo funk. I hope March gets better. It's gotta get better. I have had no desire to pick up a camera. I did take pictures...it's not totally undocumented but I can't seem to get into it.

So here's some photo's for the sake of February....

Sydney:

She finished up her basketball season...she had the best time! She was so proud of this "tall" trophy!!


100th day of school!


Daddy/Daughter date night at Chick-fil-a. Wanted a better picture but it was dark and raining outside.


Carter:

We started a chore system for Sydney and Carter to earn some money during the week. Easy things like getting up, brushing teeth, homework, learning their Awana verse and then a couple chores per day and cleaning up at night. Sydney earned $2.50 and Carter got $1.80 the first week. They were totally excited!
He likes to vacuum and help fold towels :)


Computing :)


Allie:

Mamaw made Allie a quilt...she loves it!


Nutri-grain bars beware...Allie will show you no mercy.


Allie at Chick-fil-a...sitting in the high chair for the first time. Such a proper lady with her feet crossed.

peep...

snow day, minus the snow...

School was closed today...guess the roads were bad because we had about .0001" of "snow" on the ground here!

We took a walk around the yard and the field this afternoon. It was in the 40's and felt pretty good. We found lots of deer tracks...Carter was following them around. He carried his gun too, in case we saw a deer or a bear. Always good to have a man around the house with you!





Carter decided to join us ;)

Snow day ???

Well this was an interesting day. It was supposed to rain this morning and then turn over to snow by this afternoon! They were calling for about 3-5" to fall by tonight. So we took Sydney to school, came home and Allie was soon ready for her nap.

Carter and I pulled out some blocks and made a road for his cars and trucks.


Then we had some fun with the webcam...


what a pretty flower!! He didn't like this one at all...ha ha!


Laughing at him!


School ended up closing 2 hours early! Not long after Sydney got home it started snowing reeeally hard and fast! They were so excited!


But then it kinda sputtered out and rained/snowed the rest of the afternoon. We barely got a dusting...what a rip off!!! I was hoping for a decent snow. I give up...bring on spring!