Oh baby

 

If you are 16 months old and you want a drink of water you should push a stool over to the fridge, get a cup and proceed to make a huge mess all while being extremely proud of your forward thinking and accomplishment...... She filled the cup all the way to the top and when it started to spill she decided that wasn't right and proceeded to dump out the entire cup on the floor before trying again..... all while I took pictures...... :) This girl is a problem solving handful!

Hailey Hailey

 

Hailey loves to dress up in anything and everything. The other day she brought me this costume - the Thing - from Fantastic 4 - and wanted me to put it on her. She was so happy about it. She even wears the mask. I threw in a picture of me for good measure. Maggie was the photographer. My eyes look so tired. I am so tired! Fingers crossed, I think I am starting to feel a little better but still exhausted.

Mags

 

Maggie loves to put on singing and dancing shows for us. She is always wanting me to take videos of her so she can watch them. I think I see a kids digital camcorder in her future :) She still wants to wear a skirt or dress everyday even with the cold weather. Oh well. I wonder what Hailey will be like as she gets older.

Graham cracker houses

 

We made graham cracker houses not long ago. The kids loved it. Hailey just wanted to eat everything - expecially the frosting but Jackson and Maggie were enjoying the building and decorating. Maggie kept saying "how beautiful, how cute" as we added pink sprinkles.

First day of sledding 2009

 

Whew! I have caught up through Nov. Bear with me :) Matt's parents came to help out while Matt was off to Florida again. We got a few inches of snow and the kids were so excited to go sledding. Hailey loved it and wanted to go again and again until she got cold. Maggie is an avid sledder. Where she is fairly cautious with a lot of things - sledding is not one of them. She goes all on her own - over and over. She is hardest one to get to leave. Jackson heads straight for the paths with the jumps and takes off. We had terraces just outside our house when I was growing up and we went sledding A LOT so it's fun to see the kids so into it. Although I would love to have the hill in our backyard.... Oh, and this time of year - I completely covet a mudroom. We have NOWHERE to take off snowstuff so there is always snow tracked through the house when we come home.

Oh Hailey.

 

 

Hailey is very insistent on feeding herself. She has been that way for months of her short life already. Most of the time she does a really good job. This was obviously not one of those times. She thought it was great though. We just have to catch her right when she's done or she starts to get creative...

Off to school

 

While the weather was still fairly nice Jackson started riding his bike to school with the pack of neighborhood kids. The 9 year old across the street said she would be in charge of him. We tried it and he did excellent. He is the youngest of the group (there are about 5 of them). He started riding withought training wheels in August so he was still pretty wobbly when school started but after a little while he was getting better and better and kept begging to ride with the other kids. He thought he was so cool riding his bike with the big kids. Our elementary school has free breakfast this year for the whole school so they head in early and eat before class. He loves it and since he has been listening well to Alli I let him keep going. Now one of the other Mom's drives all of them since it's gotten really cold. It's usually a high of 15-20 during the day.