My Girly Girl

Lilly loves to dress in crowns and tap-tap shoes. She is constantly putting on my dress shoes and clicking around the house. She loves to put on lip gloss and look fancy. And she is a hair clipppy queen, also. She love collecting new clips. And she is always watching herself in any reflection she sees and posing and "ballet" dancing.

My Artist

Lilly is my little artist. All on her own, she started drawing people with eyes and mouths and legs. Now she is advancing into adding hair and eyebrows and lashes and arms. she is teaching herself and that is so amazing to me. She is so proud to be an artist. She also is picking up letters quickly and also taught herself to write her name. She doesn't always get them in the right order but she always gets a big L two little L's and an i and y. I don't know how she learned it so well cause I only showed her once or twice and I spell it out loud but that's all. And she is not in pre-school, so she is doing great on her own. She love to learn and that makes me happy.

Six Month Twins

Bella & Tristan are 6 months old and life is busy and full of messes. They are eating lots of baby foods and loving most of them. But they drool alot and stick their hands in their mouths and pull on bib, so it gets everywhere! And feeding two can be a demanding job when they scream while you are feeding the other. But they are doing good and so am I. they are growing well and trying to push onto all fours. they end up scooching themselves backwards or rolling all over the room and we really need to keep an eye on them.
Bella weighs 16 lbs 1 oz = 47% and is 27 1/4 in. = 91%
Tristan weighs 19 lbs=73% and 28 3/4 in.= 97%
Our doctor says they look good and they are good babies. There are no concerns, they are just growing and learning alot.

Christmas Jammies and Winter Fun

We had a wonderful Christmas with our families. On Christmas Eve we had Clifford's family over for dinner and opened our jammies. Lilly was so happy it was finally Christmas and enjoyed all our time with family. In the morning, we opened Santa gifts and then made cinnamon rolls and bacon for breakfast. After that, we finished opening presents. Clifford's mom and dad stayed the night and so they were there to spend the morning with us. Then we spent the rest of the morning setting up new toys and putting kids down for naps. I made some pies and in the evening, we went to have dinner at my parent's house and one of my sister's and her family came and usual. we played a game with her kids and had a fun night. On our way home, we told Lilly that Christmas was over and she said it wasn't because it didn't snow. I need to find a movie where it isn't a white Christmas.
So, when it snowed, a week later, she woke up and said it was Christmas! and she wasn't convinced until she looked under the tree and saw there were no presents. But we had a couple of fun snow days and she made her first snow angel that she was so excited to do.

Pinkalicious Tea Party

For Lilly's Birthday party we did a tea party and got all her little girl friends dress-up jewelry and feather boas and tiaras and they drank from little tea cups and ate finger sandwiches and jam cookies. Lilly's favorite book is Pinkalicious, so I made cupcakes similar to the ones in the book. She absolutely loved them and so did her friends. It was a fun, cute little party. Thanks to all those who could come and celebrate with us.

Lilly 3 Years Old

Lilly is now three years old. She is so smart and cleaver and inquisitive. She has recently started to ask question after question. Non-stop. Seriously. She loves to learn and know new things. And she remembers everything that we say and do. She will say: why did you do this? And it will be something from months ago. I hope she always keeps her good memory so she can remember things I can't. She loves to do crafts and help me cook. She is such a good big sister and shares her toys and blakies. She likes to build things with blocks or can goods. She cares about everyone and is a good friend. She is my wonderful, gorgeous, clumsy, happy three year old girl who pushes my buttons and tests boundaries. And I love her soo soo much!

Bella 5 months

Bella is still so sweet. She is calm and loves to touch peoples faces. She is content to study her hands and play with her feet. Her and Tristan have been talking more with eachother and watching one another. I love my little girl!

Tristan 5 months

Tristan is my handsome boy. He absolutely loves his little chick blankie, it can cheer him up and entertain him. He loves the jumper so much and doesn't bother me for a while when he's in it. He likes to swing himself instead of jumping and he often swings himself to sleep, so cute. The past couple weeks he has been having a rough time and won't sleep well and cries more. I think it is just bad growing pains because he seems to be getting way taller. I love my little boy!

Santa 2010

We saw Santa at Walmart and all my kids did fine. Lilly didn't want to sit on his lap, but with her, you can get her to do most anything with a good bribe. So she smiled for a picture to get her candy cane. I love Santa pictures.

Oh, Christmas Tree!

I love putting up the Christmas tree and this year Lilly helped alot with the ornaments. It is a good start to the holiday, although, this year I got a late start and didn't get it up till after December started. (So not like me.)