Oh, it's you again...

Not fun: Packing for our family to be away for two weeks. (I'm happy to be leaving! There is just a LOT to pack. Crikey!)

Fun: Watching my munchkins play

They are starting to think the other is pretty cool.

Ella watches Aidan very closely in case he's going to do something that she thinks is funny.

I'll have ten more!

Bwahahaha!

She's at that age

Where she's cute no matter what she's doing.

This is her preferred way of sleeping ever since she learned how to roll over.

Tooth! (maybe)

Ella has a tooth on bottom that popped through. (as I mentioned yesterday)

I was trying to get a picture of it, but I'm not sure it really worked.

I can see it faintly, but I know where to look. ;o)

She cracks me up.

So does he. (Giving me "five")

I decided to post rather than clean my house, which is what I should be doing, however, the kids are refusing naps again and I feel defeated (deflated?) ha ha. So I'm sitting on my tush and pretending that I'm doing something useful. It's great fun.

Weird weather...

and other things. Lets just say that I'm glad the weather forecasts have been wrong thus far...maybe if you've been out driving you have a different story to tell, but hey, I'll take the sunny day and no snow that we have today.

We did get a storm, but the low pressure brought with it warmer temps so it first melted and rained all the snow that we DID have before it dropped some more.

It's already melted though.

Currently I'm snuggling up with Ella who is sleeping on my chest, her wild hair is tickling my cheek and it's making it rather hard to type... Jealous? (unless of course you are Jenny or Valerie and you're like "Um, heck no. I'm ready to NOT be holding a baby) ;o) Did I mention Ella popped a tooth? I believe another is on it's way too so in the meantime she thinks that I'm the best place to sleep.

Good thing she's cute...

Also, be jealous that my husband cleans my kitchen and does the dishes. (see, he's even cleaning my crockpot!)

What a guy.

For some reason I thought these pictures were cute.

Happy Hanukkah!

This post actually has nothing to do with Hanukkah, really. We actually didn't even have church today because of snow

so we just hung out at home.

Abby came to visit for awhile.

Me doing my FAVORITE job. (NOT!) I loathe unloading the dishwasher.

and then after the kitchen was clean, I made Rum Cake.

Aidan ate a snack and tried to see what was on TV at the same time.

P.S. I didn't take any of these pictures, I believe the credit goes to my better half.

Sweetness

The first few months of their life you spend time trying to get pictures of them with their eyes open...

a few months later I find myself wanting more shots of her chubby sweet face, sleeping

She wasn't really cooperating this day, it's like she knew I was taking picures so she kept moving her head.

I'll just have to keep trying.

First Haircut!

So Aidan's hair is finally getting pretty long, so I've been thinking I need to trim up his hair and I knew it was going to be a traumatic experience. Yesterday was the perfect day since Aidan is refusing naps these days.

He doesn't know what he's in for yet.

I put Ella in her crib so she was somewhere "safe", but that didn't last long since she wanted to be part of the "fun".

After the ten-ish minutes that it took, it's all over, notice the tears.

Don't you just feel sorry for him with that forlorn face?

Ella's new spot and she enjoyed the show.

Happier times after it was all done.