Daddy all dolled up

Oh dad, you're so fun..letting me put pretty clips in your hair and sparkly lips on you. Gilbert just looks on..he knows it's coming soon for him.

no, no mom, dogs don't eat spaghetti

First of all, here's a photo of evelyne's cool guitar "tatoo." Now to the real reason for this post:

Evelyne's favorite movie, as of last week, is Lady and the Tramp. Every morning she gets up and wants to watch it right away. Of course, we don't watch it right away, first we have to brush teeth and "get ready for the day" before we can go downstairst to watch any TV (it's really a ploy so I can get myself ready in the mornings.) I'm amazed at the things kids pick up on movies etc. She has repeatedly asked me why the dogs eat spaghetti because "dogs don't eat spaghetti, right mom?" First of all, we don't have a dog so I don't know how she knows that dogs don't really eat spaghetti, I never told her that, but she insists that the movie is wrong and I've come up with a typical lame parental explaination of..."well, dogs in movies can eat spaghetti just for pretend." Sounds perfectly logical... I get the all to familiar "how come?" "well, movies honey sometimes are just for pretend?" "but mama honey (she's started calling me honey at times...so funny) why do they pretend to eat spaghetti?" "well, because it's more fun than pretending to eat apples..."well, why" "because apples are too crunchy and then they couldn't hear themselves talking" "why are apples too crunchy...I like apples and apple juice comes from apples, can I have some juice?" "no, not right now".....see this is how my days go, so random and so funny yet from time to time i think i'd rather sit on hot coals than have to answer to some of these never-ending questions...

the real winter blast and frosty

So today we actually had snow, of course they weren't expecting it. Evelyne and dad had a lot of fun making a snowman in our front yard, which she named frosty. (i know there are photos of her w/out gloves, that was time outside just for the photo op) In all we had around 3 inches or so, and it's still snowing but not expected to last. Evelyne and Nathan went sledding at the park this morning, there were a lot of kids out but it was very cold. Gilbert and I stayed inside. It was a fun day and we made oatmeal cookies and built a huge fire to stay warm! Check out the sledding video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dx0MLUDn_zs

mom, that little boy is taking all of our snow!!!

"Winter Blast 2007" came and went without much of a blast...a bit of snow here and there and icy patches about town. Of course, the media over-anticipated and the schools over-reacted with school closures. Funny thing is Evelyne really wanted to go skiing with dad in the snow and I kept having to explain there's not enough to ski on. She loved looking at it outside though and was very upset to find a little boy using snow from our yard to throw at his friends. "mom! that little boy is taking all of our snow!!!"

Gilbert is now 2 1/2 months and is really starting to express his personality. Still fairly mild mannered, he definitely knows if mom or dad aren't holding him. He's almost holding his head up all the time and can sit for a while with some help. He loves sitting on laps rather than lying down. He also really loves watching big sister and coos at her like crazy.

A time with cousins

We rang in the New Year on our trip to Eagle Crest with nathan's family. evelyne and gilbert had fun, respectively, playing with and looking at their cousins. highlights included playing with play doh, coloring, and taking a HUGE bath. as I was with gilbert, and who can really relax with a newborn, those were my highlights, too...think I prefer coloring.