For the Grandmas...

Some of these have been posted elsewhere but here you go...pics from the last couple months. Now no more whining! I mean...gentle reminders to post more recent pics.

Danica bought this LPS toy with some of her Christmas money. She spent hours getting the stickers just right. She let me help. =) She likes "activities."

She lost a front tooth!..followed by a couple more soon after.

A rare picture of me and the girls...only because Uncle Neil was there to take a pic. Rob does not take pics. In fact, he probably hasn't seen more than a couple of these pics. haha.

I know I'm their mom and all but I just think these two are so adorable together. Danica is such a great big sis. Real helpful to me and a great friend/sister to Mira. I hope it lasts!

Danica changing a diaper for the first time by herself. Mira is always taking off in the middle of diaper changes so she doesn't help much anymore.

Notice Mira's thumb. She has long since decided she doesn't take pacifiers but she will occasionally play with one. She tried sticking it into her sister's mouth.

Danica reads and it is SO awesome. I LOVE when she reads to me. I'm a total bookworm and I'm hoping she turns out the same. She's been reading The Best Nest these last few days. I like children's books. =)

Mira liked getting into her toys by herself so we hooked the swing out of the way.

An outfit she got for Christmas from Grandma Julie. =) She just kept crawling at the camera so it was hard to get a good pic.

Daddy has long hair! I've actually liked it recently because he trimmed the sideburns. It looks way better.

So cute!

Mira helping her daddy study. She's a little too fond of anything paper to be trusted around his books.

I found this roller ball on clearance for $5. I was so excited. I had debated getting it for her for christmas but didn't since there were such mixed reviews on it. She likes it.

Helping mama type an e-mail to Mandi. I totally would call her Aunt Mandi because that's how I always refer to her(Danica started it) but I won't because that would be too presumptive. ... ...

My dad and I made cinnamon rolls from scratch and they were sooooo good!!!!!

She was so excited to be able to play in big sister's room. She's not often in there. Luckily Danica is a DEEP sleeper and I can put clothes away and pick up while she's sleeping. I could probably vacuum while she sleeps. Mira is the opposite. If we step on the creaky floor wrong she's up, flipped over and crawling off the bed.

Big Sister is "hiding" in the bathroom. Silly Big sis. Mira likes following her around.

Climber.

My milk is special. Jealous?

Danica is arranging her toys for her to mess up. It's continuous.

We saw the SUN!!!

A few days of sun was not enough to de-sog the ground though. Oh well. We still played.

She would turn away from pureed foods but loves finger foods. She now tolerates pureed fruit though. She will not take more than a bite of veggies or cereal. I don't blame her! Why eat squash when she can eat pears and apple/blueberries?!

My cute little girls. =)

One of them is more useful than the other at doing dishes.

Danica feeding her.

She keeps going under the table to play but she only has a couple inches clearance. It makes me nervous.

I think it may be a few more months before I get over the frustration of posting pics though. Blogger totally hates me. It would only let me load a couple pics at a time....and then it had them spaced really far apart.

December is such a great month...

I mean really! It can't get any better than December! Christmas, vacation from school, hot cocoa, fuzzy socks, super awesome people's birthdays... ;)

We had a super busy Christmas. Twas great. Christmas Eve we had hot cocoa with candy canes in it, watched a christmas movie(I had forgotten how much I dislike Charlie Brown), had Rob read us several Christmas books, opened a present each (Rob and Danica played with one of the gifts-a game) and then drove around seeing Christmas lights. I love doing things as a family. I'm usually just dragging the girls here or there.

So last time I posted it let me actual cut and paste the pics wherever I wanted. I was so excited that it was no longer a nightmare to fix a post!...and now it won't let me. Grrr. Here is Danica on Christmas Eve. Us girls went and had pizza at Grandma's house....well, poor Mira didn't get any pizza.
Christmas morn we were at my parent's house. We 'intended' to wake up and have our Christmas morn at home. opening presents but we kinda totally slept in and were late getting to my folks for breakfast. Neil has a sense of humor and thought it would be funny to be really thorough in providing me with what was on my Christmas list-a hand grater. I received half a dozen from him. Har, har, har.

Babes was a happy camper Christmas morn.

It is SOOO much fun having little kids on Christmas. We heard a lot of "it's just what I always wanted!" from her.

Mira wanted her presents to, in a way. Yum!

We're back to Christmas Eve now.

Aren't y'all jealous of our amazing tree?! This was Danica's tree last year that she had in her bedroom and got to decorate with her ornaments. I felt so guilty last year for killing a tree that we enjoyed this one as our family tree this year. It would have been better if a third of the lights weren't out. When I was putting it away for next year I removed the lights so we could put whatever strand we want...it took me probably an hour! It was a nightmare. I kept having an inner debate on whether I should just toss it and get a new one. Cheapness won.

The girls...Mira kept trying to twist around Danica and get the tree/nativity/anything she could reach so we had to give her something to placate her.

It's so hard to get Rob to not pull faces. Poor Danica had to sit through several pics before I could get a semi-decent one.

Puppy pals Bingo. =)

Storytime.

Back to Christmas. We went over to Dan and Julie's for lunch.

I should have taken a close-up of this tray that Julie made for Danica. It is so pretty!

They framed Rob's diploma for him.

Finally back at our house in the evening. After a couple pics we decided we were all pictured out so I gave up. =)

Danica opening her gift from Mandi. It was so sweet of her to think of kiddo. She's a po' missionary =)

Nana Mykie made the girls both matching pajamas and dresses. Amazing! I get frustrated just trying to make elastic waist band skirts!

Hope everyone enjoyed their Christmas! Thanks to everyone who made ours special!

Tids and Tads

Hmm, I debated on just posting pictures but let's see if I can come up with some word vomit to act as filler. Things have been pretty good lately. Nothing too exciting going on. Danica and I have enjoyed getting ready for Christmas. I'd call Rob a scrooge but he's kinda neutral. We have been sick one after another for weeks. It's gonna be a long winter. Babes had what seemed the tiniest of colds but she has been sounding awful for the last few days. Her voice is so off, I keep expecting her to lose it. I thought she sounded a little better today but she's been fussing non-stop for the last few hours so maybe not. Danica has just a couple more days of school and then is out for break. I'm real excited for it. She keeps talking about "when it snows" though. We should probably take a trip to the mountains one day. I'm not sure how we'd manage that with Babes though? Hmm, Mira started pushing herself up on her hands and knees just these last couple days. She scoots backwards a lot too now. Yesterday she scooted backwards under the table and whined til I pulled her out. haha. I learned she can sit up on her own for a little bit too. She lasted long enough for me to run get the camera but I noticed that picture didn't load. Does anyone else have the worst time loading pics? I even load them one at a time and it takes me several times for some of the pics. Grrr! Okay, on to pics...

Luckily babes still likes listening to stories enough to get through them. She is always trying to get my books though. She must think they are simply the greatest toys ever since momma is always playing with them. =)

Uncle Neil stops by looking for rootbeer floats but we make him play with the baby too. ;) Babes likes him. They're birthday pals so of course she will. Which by the way, they celebrated their half birthday just yesterday.

I sent Danica into my room to make sure Mira didn't roll off the bed and within a minute tops I hear her laughing. Mira doesn't stay still for long.
Another example of this... Danica and I were in the kitchen and heard a commotion... Apparently she's a fan of Barbie movies?? We'll get along just fine.
Babes has a slightly purple mouth here from the gentian violet.
She was fascinated with this door. She was just swinging it back and forth, totally oblivious to all the stuff in there.
She managed to take her arm out of her shirt? Purple again. She just LOVES playing in her exersaucer. I snuck it out of my parents attic hoping my mom wouldn't mind. She bought it when Danica was a baby and I'm not sure if it's hers or mine ;) There are a few little balls that go in the track her hand is on. They are her favorite part. She is constantly knocking them off the tray. Luckily she has a great big sister who crawls under the table and retrieves them for her.
So Rob would often make fun of how messy my feeding her is...asking if she was actually getting any in her mouth. Well he finally fed her the carrots one night.
HAHA. (she waved her arms a lot) Momma had to clean this up. (sigh)
Grandma Cindy has a tradition of getting Danica an ornament every year. Here are this year's. Babes was properly excited about the wrapping. She is going to be one happy baby come Christmas morn.
Apparently she is not too concerned if there is actually milk. Rob said she fell asleep trying to eat his shirt. =)
We totally scored on this Little People Nativity set. My parents mentioned that they wanted the new one that comes with more stuff and backdrops so I started hinting early that I would LOVE to inherit their discarded one...Jackpot!
Uncle John and Aunt Kari came by to visit today. John will be leaving for Cali for a couple weeks for work but Kari will be sticking around because she has fam in town. Danica didn't get to see them because she was in school while they came but she has already asked if Aunt Kari can come visit several times. "Is she coming today? Can she come tomorrow? Is she coming tomorrow? When's Aunt Kari visiting?..." She better visit STAT or I will be driven insane. haha.
They did however leave her with a pony that she adores.