Roar!

Lucia roaring at the T-Rex, at T-Rex Cafe

A few minutes coloring, singing, and talking with Eliana & Joelle

                                     Eliana over here                                              Joelle over here

Lucia stacking jars

Happy Birthday, Eliana & Joelle!

Three years ago today, we went from this:


To this:


We are so blessed :) Thanking God today for three years with Eliana and Joelle. Happy Birthday, girls!

Here's a little stroll down memory lane:

cracker face

Had three minutes to kill while the leftover lasagna warmed up at lunch today. Pictures below the video.
(inspired by this)

Video for family reunion

We couldn't make it to Camp Martha (bi-annual family reunion on my mom's side), so we sent our greetings and update via video.

She's bipedal

Lucia's on the move.

We love the library

We have gotten so many incredible resources from our local library, Mid-Continent Public Library. One of the things we love are the learning DVD's. We've learned a lot of sign language from the Baby Signing Time videos, and now we are learning some Mandarin Chinese from Follow Jade (link to Amazon product page, but both DVD's are available at MCPL) and After School Chinese (If you follow that link, you'll get an error message on the first screen. Just click "ok", then "search". That should bring up the library catalog page for the series).

Here is Abigail counting to 10 in Chinese, and Lucia clapping when we say "Clap your hands" in Chinese.

Lucia wants to walk

Abigail is learning to read

Sound & Vibration

Styrofoam Rocket

If the video player isn't working, you can view it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-fTDTGBJZk

Tantrum x3

Sometimes the best thing to do is just grab the video camera so later I can show them how ridiculous they all were. Then sing sweetly at the top of my lungs until they give up.

Fun with Lucia

Grabbing the spoon


Climbing the wall

Lucia means Light

This little girl lives up to her name. She lights up the room and my heart every day. How can so much cuteness and joy be held in such a tiny package?

Lucia Snorting

Apparently, if you're 7 months old and have the first head cold in your little life, it's very entertaining to snort repeatedly. I suppose the feeling of a snotty nose is interesting when you've never had one before :)

Peek-a Boo, Daddy & Lucia

Lucia (6 months) figured out how to play peek-a-boo with Daddy. She even started initiating it by holding stuff over her face :)

Welcome Spring

This is what it looked like here on the first day of spring. :)  Sled hack, aka workout for Mommy

Lucia with a microphone

Somebody's sleepy...

Lucia falling asleep in her jumper