Look what Kallyn can do!!!

Mommy started a baby afghan and Kallyn insisted on learning how to do it, too. I think I learned how to crochet when I was 6 or 7 and I struggled to get it at first. I didn't want to take the time to teach her thinking that she'd get frusterated and mad at me becuase it's too hard, but she really surprized me! I showed her once how to hold the yarn in her fingers and pull the hook through the loops and she hit the ground running. 9 feet of chain stitches later and she thinks she's ready to make a blanket like mommy, but she's fine waiting till I can show her how. So now our special project is "knitting" (she can't figure out how to say crochet) together in the evenings before bedtime.

Bed Head Bug

This is what we wake up with EVERY morning!!! Grins and tangles!

Happy Birthday Mommy!

For mommy's birthday we celebrated with Pizza and Pasta at Uno's (you've got to try the Pizza Skins!) and joined the winter festivities at White Park where they had skate rentals, a bonfire, and sled races! Who knew winter could be so much fun! We rented skates for the girls and they actually did very well. Kallyn only fell a hundred times, but she'd very quickly jump back up and try again, falling just 5 seconds later. But she insisted that she could do it herself and was quite sad when we left. Allison did better on the ice without skates, but she trooped it out and could actually balance extremely well on the blades of the skates.



Kallyn-a picture of what was probably her 67th fall!
The girls reminded me of fluffy marshmallows on ice! We had them super bundled up so they didn't get cold.

The camera was acting up again and some of the pictures we took didn't take right (just a black square) but Eric was indeed there and he had just as much fun sliding on the ice with the girls.

It's coming... I promise!

We are home from a fabulous and very much needed Christmas Vacation to the southwest. However, Eric and I have been hit pretty hard with a terrible cold that has made life hard to get back to. And while he's been trying to adjust to his new schedule this semester I have been trying to get back to a regular routine at home. So, the blog has had to be put on hold while we get life back in order and hopefully this cold will go away without touching the girls. So I will be posting our holiday adventures soon!

Tinkerbell Surprizes

Grammy sent these adorable tinkerbell t-shirts. Tinks wings light up when they move! Eric brought them to the airport for a surprize when he picked us up. Kallyn took one glance at it and thought it was just a regular shirt and started whining about not wanting clothes for a surprize (It was after midnight and we had been flying all day long, I don't blame her for feeling a little dissapointed at first). But Bug-a-loo unfolded her shirt and was so estatic that it was Tinkerbell !!! Kallyn, upon seeing Allison's reaction, joined her with squeals of delight!!!! They are so cute matching! I love that they love to dress "Twinsies"!

First time sledding this winter, but definately not the last!

Kallyn LOVES sledding! She carries her own tube up the hill and floats down to the bottom with a big grin on her face. Here she is halfway up the short hill in front of Eric and Allison (in the blue coat, red pants with Allison's pink outfit)

Kallyn at the bottom of the hill.


Sweet Allison doesn't like it as much. She doesn't like the crowds or the cold, but if Eric's around she'll go with a smile.

Old School Memories

These fisher price toys hold many cherished memories of our imaginations busy at work as kids. I was so excited to see that my girls had just as much fun in the long hours they played with them. Kallyn spent a lot of time setting them up to play with then it was bedtime and they had to be put away. She was so sad that no one would play with her. But she was back at it the next morning!!! And sweet Allison and her sorting toys into lines! She collected a few of the cars and got them lined up. Maybe they were going to have a race!
Some of these sets were inherited from my Dad's childhood. Seriously!!! They do not make toys like they used to. If these toys can last from my dad's generation (and I think they were actually used with his older siblings first-he was 1 in 12 kids) to his Grandkids why can't todays toys last from one birthday to the next? Where are we going with all this "New Technology"?