Nana's Visit

Last week Nana (Andrew’s mom) came to visit! Unfortunately, I didn’t get any pictures of her with the girls because my girls can be quite camera shy. Here are some pictures from the fun things we did with Nana and Chris/Janeil’s family while she was out here…we had a lot of fun!

Dress ups...

The girls cooking up a storm...

One of Our New Favorites...

Pretty much for the past week the first thing Carolyn will say when I see her in the morning is: “Puppet Show!?!” It keeps everyone happy and entertained so it has been a fun thing to fill our days with…Angela loves watching Carolyn and I “perform”…. Carolyn loves watching and making her own shows…and I can’t help it but laugh at the stories Carolyn comes up with!
We only have one actual puppet so our "puppet shows" are mostly stuffed animals...here is a picture of Carolyn's story of the penguin and doggy going for a walk while holding hands.

Yum!

Yesterday Carolyn and I were baking (one of my favorite things to do with her) and I had to leave her for a min. to change Angela’s diaper. When I returned to our “mixing” area, I found that Carolyn had made herself at home with the flour…Next time we'll at least be sure to wear our aprons..

Happy Valentine's Day!!

What can I say? I love dressing up my girls and taking their pictures...I think they're cute :)


Look at those beautiful blues...

I think Carolyn looks so beautiful in this one...

And her crazy-self in this one...

Sister love....

I need to do some decorating and thought it would be fun to do this for wall hangings. Happy Valentine's Day!!!!!!!!!!!

The Famous Micah

If you talk to Carolyn for a while, the name "Micah" will inevitably come up. She loves her friend, Micah!

Carolyn's Songs

(I like to write little cute things my girls do so I can always remember. You don't have to read my long entries :)

Carolyn and I dance a lot to a Josh Groban Concert DVD I have so she has seen him sing quite a bit. Of course, after watching it she assumes that when you sing you need to close your eyes tight and get your whole face into it like Josh does....she LOVES to sing and she looks too adorable while doing it. She also love to make up songs. As she plays around the house, rides in the car, etc. I hear cute little songs she comes up with. For example, on Sunday we were waiting for Andrew in the car and Carolyn made up this song:

I like my toes
I like Daddy
He's supposed to come
I love him
I love my tummy
I love me!

When she sang the "me" in "I love me" she put both arms and hands way up and closed her eyes tight....it was precious!

Child's Play

I absolutely love playing with Carolyn and Angela; I honestly have a blast playing with them everyday! Sometimes I like to just sit back and watch them play; it makes me laugh and smile so much watching my two girls interact with each other or play on their own. For instance, today I was watching Carolyn play with her little ponies. Her pink pony kept giving her purple pony kisses and this was making the purple one cry. Her blue pony kept coming to the rescue to talk to all the ponies about being nice to each other (I was laughing SO much during the little "nice lectures" the pony would give! It was so hilarious to me!). After the ponies would play, she then would put all the ponies to bed...read books and sing songs (the last song we always sing to Carolyn every night is "I love you, Carolyn;" she'd sing "I love you, Pony" ..it was so adorable).

It amazes me that Carolyn and Angela have such maternal instincts. Carolyn just loves taking care of all of her toys and treating them like babies and Angela can't get enough of playing with her dolls.