Collage of Activity

A Child Might Live Here

When you come across a potty training penguin...

You can't find your ball of string...


Sheep play hid-n-seek...

Well that's fairly clear evidence...

Strawberry Shortcake on a plate in the fridge?



Yep kids live here!

Butterfly update

New Pictures... a month late!

Sorry that I have not been posting pictures for a long time. I just uploaded pictures from our camera and realized that I have not posted anything from Christmas! So here is a little picture collage of the past month.

Our Advent Calendar, count down to Christmas, was this wagon filled with all our Winter and Christmas books. We wrapped them up and each day the kids got to unwrap one and then count how many were left, and that's how many days left until Christmas. Owen kept dumping out the books and then getting in the wagon.


Matching train hats from grandparents. Marin got hers last year and Owen got his this year.

Learning to open gifts this year.

Heading out to Christmas Eve service.

Owen learns his greatest trick upon Aunt Lizzy mailing us cookies. After he ate one and then realized they were left on the counter we would find him scooting his high chair out of the dining room and into the kitchen to sneak cookies. I think he ate every single cookie she sent us!


The Christmas outfit I made Marin. Although she didn't want to wear it on Christmas day... I still try not to grit my teeth about that one.


Then we head to the beach for a few days. Todd and Marin love visiting college campuses...

especially really old beautiful ones.


Even if its cold you can never resist getting your toes in the sand and gathering a few shells.


Owen likes to chase the Seagulls, and gets mad if they don't come back.


Sweet boy! We just love him in overalls with his red shoes. I never thought little red shoes would make me so giddy.



Siblings eating at our favorite breakfast nook. Bring on the cinnamon rolls!

Christmas Time

You know you live in a warm state when your neighbor brings you FIVE chrysalis' to "babysit" while he is gone. Yep he brought them over yesterday, 3 were still caterpillars, and two were bright green chrysalis'. Then we left it unwatched for about 20 minutes and came back and two more had changed into those little green cocoons. Then this evening the fifth decided it was time to go into his little shimmery green house. I will try to capture some pictures of them.

At least Marin and Owen have some snow in their room!

Mornings

Owen likes to eat cereal for breakfast.

The Green Jammies

Some days its just nice to stay in your P.J.'s. Owen likes to stay in his until after preschool drop off some days.

Some Christmas Things

Hey what's under that tree?

Going for a carriage ride to see downtown decorated

Bundle up its chilly...

Preparing the manger for the arrival of Jesus! Each day we add a little straw when we do our advent readings.

Waiting for Daddy to come home, and wishing his vacation started sooner.

Fun Things

I have been sewing again. I made a few things for the kids this weekend...
Owen's monster shirt and Marin some corduroy pants.

And a penguin with a Christmas hat on...

And a rainbow, and they are both tired of me taking pictures

Our little monster giving us his cranky monster face!

Halloween and other events

Marin has read through Pippi Longstockings twice now (well we read it to her, first with me and second with Todd) and has been set on being her for Halloween. She mainly wanted to be her because she's naughty, and gets away with all sorts of things.

Owen was just a chocolate face

Although the day after Halloween he wore his Christmas jammies with fairy wings. So maybe that was his costume? He never can decide, but he does love accessories (wait until you see his monster hat! He of course loves it)

We made a trip to the coast last weekend, it was cold and windy, and they both had runny noses, but we were on a mission to see some old friends.

And you all know I just can never get enough pictures of the kids on boardwalks on their way to the sand.

And this is the monster hat. He loves it, and so do we.