Check Ups & Polka Dots

Sarah met Dr. Owens today. She got an all healthy report. Her heart still sounds normal - not even a murmur (amazing for our family). Her weightloss is in the safe range and everything else is just normal. A trend in our family is funny looking belly buttons and it seems Sarah will not be spared. Hopefully that means there will be no need for vetoing bikinis in 10 years :) Now for the latest cutie patootie picture of our babe...


Easter Pictures for your enjoyment...

Big Sisters

Sarah shows off her bunny position

Polka Dot Princesses

HAPPY EASTER!!!

Ayres Baby Hair Salon

In an effort to tucker our new babe out we decided to give her a bath tonight. The girls wanted to open a baby hair salon. So off to Ayres Baby Hair Salon I took Sarah. She loved her first trip to the salon. Enjoy the pictures!

I'm Back...I Hope

Four monthes...shameful...truly shameful. I apologize and decided to try something new...our week in review...


Saturday we went to Mystic Aquarium with Daddy. The girls had a great time...beluga whales, sea lion show, birds, tadpoles, submarines, oh my!


Bella wasn't too sure about the birds



Of course, Lily didn't want it to end



Lily had a busy week. We started reviewing our letters using a very loose version of this. Lily basically knows her letters so I thought this would give her a good introduction to phonics and me some needed focus to our day. I don't think she really needs to know any of this until she's 6 maybe even 7. But the fact is a lot of kids are beyond this at her age and so I'm trying to keep it fun. Apple painting, Baking Bread, Cooking Cookies, Dinosaur tracks...you get the idea. She is currently into tracing. She wanted to know the correct way to form each letter and reached out for high 5's when she did it. TOO CUTE!! We've finally had some Summer weather this week and got out on the slippy slide quite a few times. Lily LOVES the slippy slide, if you could go down a slippy slide with style and drama - Lily has mastered that ability. The best use of $10 this year! This week we worked on thinking of others and trying to remember the Golden Rule. I pulled my current favorite parenting book out and feeling the need to revamp my parenting skills.


Bella impressed me a lot this week. She's been involved in our Letter of the Day FUN. She loved "B for Bella" and "D for Daddy." Try as I might, A and C are just not necessary parts of her life right now so they got put on the back burner. She could care less about tracing, except B's - as I'd expect. But, to my surprise, she was REALLY into finding the letters. I printed off word searches and here's a quote: "C, c, c, c, c, c, c, c okay Mommy I done." My little smarty pants. Bella has developed an unnatural love for Timmy's pink Nintendo DS. Today we visited Timmy & Nana, our usual Friday fun. After an hour or two she kept asking for the "dinosaur coloring thing". I had no idea what she was talking about. I took her to the coloring stuff..."you want this?" "NO!" "this?" "NO!" "this?" "No, Mama the dinosaur coloring thing!" Eventually we figured out she wanted the coloring game on Timmy's DS. We are going to have to create some rules for visiting Timmy and Nana and the DS. We also got to see Naomi a few times this week and Bella was very happy. Although, Thursday you wouldn't have thought it. (Again I'm sorry Julia.) Apparently we need to work on hospitality...not a gift of mine either...we might need a tutor :)


That's a small glimpse of our week, hopefully not too boring. I'll try to take more pictures this week and hope to write next Friday night...but hopefully not at 2 am...Tiffany GO TO BED!

Powerful Testimony

This woman's story is amazing.

Find the hour to watch it, it's worth the effort.

Rachel's Story

Lily's Prayer

Dear Jesus, I know they put that crown on you and it hurt so bad but you knew you had to die on the cross so I could go to heaven. When we get to heaven Bella is going to give you a big hug. Amen.

I Just Wanna Dance!

The girls got Barbie Nutcracker DVD for Valentine's Day. Tonight, Lily and Bella watched clips from the real ballet. Bella said, "Look mommy's dancing!" (That's my girl!) Lily's jaw dropped slightly. She asked questions but mainly watched in amazement. Eventually she got inspired. I decided to show her the following video.

As she watched she said, "They are not very good."



Then we filmed a "good dancer"...

(Thanks to Miriam for leaving her crown behind.)

Sweet Victory!

So shortly after my last post I saw this...

And shortly after that I saw this...

(I think they were scouting out those ugly things.)

I was so excited...at least the squirrels where using them.

But this morning...aaaa sweet victory!

This is "Handsome"

Because he won my heart by doing this...

He's so cute huh?

Some other buddies came. I don't have the knowledge or the eye to distinguish between birds but it was so exciting to see so many different kinds. The girls where really excited too. But still learning to keep quiet and still. They stuck their hands out the window in hopes a bird would land on them. One actually did! See below.

This one I'm going to name "Beauty" if she comes back. I want a better look at her.

Of course these guys had to crash the party...



Oh and we saw this bird...

And Lily "spotted" this one, who landed on her finger...

And something else that happened last night...

Looks like our poor neighbors will have to endure and yes we will be THAT family with THOSE things in our trees. (Sorry Tom.)