The movie star and the rock star

We walked to preschool last week and we all wore our sunglasses.

Emma looks like a movie star and so great!

She even brought her purse, a new obsession and it goes everywhere with her!

Ethan said he looks like a rock star, what do you think? Here are my stars!!

Gotta love 'em!

Little mother

Emma woke up this morning with a motherly instinct. She got her dolls and Ethan's bear, kissed them on the head and said, "shhh!" with her finger on her lips.

It was so dang cute and funny that I pulled out some of her receiving blankets, thanks Jan, and she used them to swaddle her dollies.

Here she is with her dolly-

Then, the best thing happened, her cousin Timmy came over for the day and she was all over him, but in a good way. Everytime he'd cry, she'd say, "Ooo, baby!" and go running to him.

I think she likes him!
And she found his nose!

Don't worry, Mary, she didn't poke him in the eye today, just found his nose!

Sleeping together

This is how I found Ethan and Emma last night when I checked on them before I went to bed!

Thanks Dad!

For Christmas, my dad made my kids a rocking horse. It is so fun and the kids love it! Especially Emma. She will climb up on it all by herself and rock and rock and rock...HARD! Sometimes I'm worried that she will rock so far forward that she'll flip right over the horse and land on her head. So far, we've been lucky...knock on wood!

Here is just how much she loves this horse

See what I mean about her loving it?

Thanks for all your hard work Dad.

Emma got a new shirt!

Need I say more?

ch-ch-ch-ch-changes

We've had quite a few changes in our family the last week and a half or so and here they are, in no particular order, just the order I put pictures in!

Ethan and Emma welcomed a new cousin, Timothy, into the family on Sunday.

I made new pillowcases for the kids
We got a new range!!

We took the side of Emma's crib off so she can be a big girl and get out of bed when she wakes up in the morning.

last night was the first night and she did get out a time or two, but I'm sure it was because she was pretty wound up when she went to bed and so was Ethan. They were being silly.
We got a new light fixture in our bathroom

Ahhh, much better! The old was was ghetto and now, I feel like I'm at a fancy hotel not my own bathroom.

We also go a new cupboard to put medicine and whatever else we want in.

Again, the old one was ghetto and warped and just plain yuck.

This one is much nicer and a whole lot bigger!

We finally got new curtains in our bedroom

I've been a little disoriented in the morning when my kids wake up because the curtains are so dark I think it's still the middle of the night.

We have a new addition to our flower beds, a garden gnome!

He'll look more at home after I plant flowers in May.

Today was a big day for me! This kid...

was registered for kindergarten!!

I can't believe it!

Time is flying by me and my kids are getting old and I'm LOVING it!

Blue Bear must have been tired

Emma has the BEST personality!

Yesterday she was playing with Ethan's favorite toy, Blue Bear, and she must have thought he looked tired because she put him in a makeshift bed and covered him with a makeshift blanket (a wet wipe).

It was too funny not to take a picture!