Family Snapshots

Simon sharing grapes with Pops.

At church that day Simon shared his snack with his friend James.  He gave James an almond.  James put it back in Simon's snack-cup and said, "Actually I don't like almonds...I prefer cashews!"  Too cute!  I think James is maybe 6 or 7 years old

Dr.Who!  

(I just realized that would be an inexpensive costume to pull together for a party!)

Matt and our pediatrician bonded at Evie's well-baby exam.  

Simon was watching Dr.Who on Matt's ipod.  Dr.Who (The old ones, especially) has a rather targeted audience of fans and apparently our pediatrician is belongs to the fan club.  (not literally, I don't know if there is a club.)

Evie laughing at Benjamin's antics!

Funny story:  Matt installed a new door in our room last week.  Simon's bedroom door doesn't close properly.  This week, Simon came to me and said, "Mamma, I want another door.  At the man's store.  Let's call daddy and tell him."  So, we did.  Matt got a good laugh, and agrees with Simon that they should go to Home Depot and get him a new door.

Girls night out for Michelle's birthday!

It was fun to include my daughter in the gathering!

Sleepyhead Simon!

We woke him up one morning for our fun breakfast of homemade cinnamon rolls.

He didn't know what to think-where was the usual promise of oatmeal?

Simon:  What's rolls?

walks into kitchen

Simon:  Oh, they're like cookies.

Don't you LOVE his bed hair?

HAPPY EARLY ST.PATRICK'S DAY

I just noticed that not only is Evie wearing her bib, but Matt's t-shirt says, "O'hurley" and has a shamrock (that you can't see in the pix)

Friends we wish we could see more!

Carrie's face is decorated for ... Leap Day!

nananananananana BATMAN!

sidenote:  Simon has taken to pronouncing Georgia, "Joja"  Wow, could you get more southern?  I that "Jawjuh" was bad, but "JOJA."

Simon:  See that?  China, India, Laos.  It's like a world, I think.

(the design that his sippy cup (shaken) made on his bed resembled a world map)

Homemade Cinnamon Rolls, a joint project by Matt and I.

Have to admit, they are prettier than they were yummy.

Not going to try those again.  IKEA's rolls are too yummy to bother.

I took this picture to show the dichotomy of our menu the day that we had cinnamon rolls for breakfast!

Well, I made an important discovery last week.  

Target sells grapefruit spoons!  

I had been trying to get to Bed,  Bath, and Beyond or another similar place, but, hey, I can walk to Target so I will keep patronizing the store, hoping that they never relocate.

The other day Matt was working outside on some project.  

Simon was outside with him and then came in...

Mom:  Do you want anything?

Simon:  I NEED my saw.  I NEED my tools.  I'm WORKING.

Mom:  Say cheese (trying to take a picture and giving him his toy saw)

Simon:  Mom, don't touch my saw; it's danger.

A nighttime snow shot.

Simon and I were looking at pictures of the family "snowman" that was built.

Simon informed me that it was not a snowman, but a snowfriend.  

These were similar to comments that he made to my mom's teacher coworkers (who are ready to sign him up for gifted classes, by the way!)

Mom commented that he is very politically correct.

I love how little 12.5 lb Evie is a whole human being and only 12.5 lbs!

Amazing.

Evie had her 4 month well-baby exam last week.  She weighs 12.5 pounds and is 25 1/2 inches long.  Her height is almost in the 90% and her weight is in the 25 %.

She didn't cry AT ALL with her shots!

I was impressed.

Simon gave Evie ALL of these toys to play with!

These succession of pictures show a little bonding gone awry.

Happy siblings.

Hmmm...Evie looks interested in Simon's water.

Still happy.

Evie drools or spits up or sneezes on Simon...end of bonding time.

This bib was given to me last March by dear friend Cheryl :)

I was in the throes of morning sickness,

 and she wanted to remind me of the "pot of gold" at the end of the rainbow. 

 So, for a few weeks, the bib was my focal point of hope!  

(I put it on our refrigerator!)

We took Simon took Simon to see the VeggieTales movie last week at the $ theatre!

Matt fell asleep, and I was tempted but considered the fact that one parent should be awake, you know, in case of kidnapping!

Funny story:  Matt is super into MY cast-iron skillets that I received for Christmas.  He has an article cut-out from Cook's Illustrated about how to care for cast iron and tediously follows the correct procedure EVERYTIME they are used.  

The other day I asked Matt to show me how to clean the skillet.  

He said, "Here, let me do it."  Um, okay.

Our friend Chrissy commented that some men have their lawns...Matt has the cast-iron skillets.  True.  But Matt also has the lawn.  I remember his meticulous nature concerning weeds last season.  I have a distinct memory of him literally jumping out of the car when we arrived home to RUN to the front yard and pluck out a weed that he'd seen when we drove past our yard!