More fun with two

Can you say cute?

This is the fun part about having two kids instead of just one.

I can't believe how much she wants to sit up already. Maybe it is to escape her brother.

New Hair Cut

Thanks to Rachel Shaw, I feel like a new woman!!

New Years, 2 months, and 2 years

So this is catch up and it is going to be long. So consider yourself warned.

For New Years my family always had the Baskin Robbins clown cones. Unfortunately, here in New York, no one knows what they are and they don't have them on hand, so we had to make our own this year. They don't look perfect, but Porter couldn't tell the difference. He was just happy to get ice cream. We also started a new family tradition where we have buffalo wings, fried mozzarella sticks, shrimp, and a cheese log with crackers, and of course...Martinelli's. This is Porter trying to be patient for mom to say it was ok for him to have his ice cream.

I decided as one of my New Year's resolutions that I wanted to do more fun things with Porter so he can have mommy time when Adie is sleeping that would be special for us. We made a lion mask and as you can tell Porter had a lot of fun.

Adie turned 2 months on the 15th. We can't believe how fast time has flown. She is getting so big. She is 12 lbs. 3.5 oz. and 24" long. She also has a lot of control of her head. When she has tummy time she holds herself up and looks at the toys around her or watches her brother play. She smiles all the time and has started to carry on conversations with us with her cooing. She is very soft spoken unless she is upset. She even likes to scoot around in her crib so that her head is up against the bumper. We definitely love having her in our family and Porter can't get enough of her. It is so much fun to see your children love each other.

Porter also turned 2 today. It was so much fun for me as a mom to watch him and celebrate his birthday. Of course he doesn't understand that it is his birthday but we had a little party anyway. We invited some of his little friends from nursery and he had a blast. When the first child showed up Porter was so excited he didn't know what to do with himself. I think I need to invite kids over more often. Anyway, we had a hippo party so I tried to get creative and made a hippo cake. It was a lot of fun and turned out better than I thought. The grey icing was a little gross to make just because it looks funny as your mixing it. But it was fun ust the same. And Porter ate all of his piece with ice cream and was so excited about the fire on his cake. Unfortunately I think the singing embarassed him or something because he started crying when we started singing. Go figure.

He also learned his ABC's and how to count to 10. It is so much fun because now he says them all the time. Here are some video's of him saying them. He was a little distracted so you might have to listen hard to hear what he is saying.

Christmas smiles!

Sorry this took longer than I would have liked to get up on here. But as you probably can figure, we have been a little busy with children. Anyway, we had an absolutely wonderful time this Christmas. Porter had so much fun with the presents, but was really only interested with one at a time. So our Christmas lasted pretty much all day. Which made it even more fun. Here is Porter Christmas morning when we all came downstairs. He was so excited when he saw that he got a Wii for Christmas he didn't know what to do with himself. He wanted to keep his cup but wanted to play with it, so you see his confusion with it all. But he played with it for a couple of hours before he wanted to really do anything else.

As you see from the video, his Wii is a slide. That is what he calls them because you say "Weee" when you go down them. But he gets a kick out of it and is already experimenting with the different ways that you can go down it, or up it for that matter. Eric also got a Wii. His was not a slide.

They are pajamas that say Wii on them.

Christmas eve was fun for me. We read Luke 2, about the birth of our Savior, and sang some Christmas carols. Then we got to open one present. (A tradition from my childhood) Pajamas. And this year I made them. They aren't perfect by any means, but they are fun for me.

Well, Adie had her first Christmas this year and it was so much fun for me. She, of course, didn't care much for what was going on, and she didn't wake up until about 9am to open her presents. But here are some cute pictures of her Christmas morning.



I have also finally caught her smiles on tape. Two of them actually. Eric got some earlier but they were on his phone and we don't have the stuff to transfer those pictures on to our computer. Anyway, the first was just a little smile. The second is her big smile that makes her look a little Chinese. Isn't she adorable!