Pins and Needles

29 March 2011

25 March 2011, Day 16

Our last shopping trip with Ben in an infant seat. It is far too cumbersome to go shopping with! From now on he'll be in a mei tai carrier!

24 March 2011

A picture in honor of my homebrewing husband! It's his first day back after a 4 day business trip. I was home alone with 2 sick kids, not fun for me at all. But we are so grateful to have Daddy home!!

23 March 2011, Day 14

My beautiful kids!

Kaylee doesn't really take a pacifier, but if Ben's doing it, it must be cool!

Grandpa Ben with his pants pulled up to his armpits and a plaid shirt. I think my grandpa actually owns this outfit!

22 March 2011, Day 13

After repeatedly smacking Kaylee's head on the roof of the car, I broke down and bought her a new car seat. It was either that or a minivan. I'm quite the stickler for car seat safety so we went top of the line, again. Here's Kaylee in her brand new Britax Frontier 85. And I am happy to report that it sits low enough that I'm not smacking her head when I put her in and she can easily climb in herself, when we're not in a rush!

This is by far my absolute favorite picture I have taken of Benjamin since he was born:

I just love his smile!! And those cheeks look like they're gonna pop!!

21 March 2011, Day 12

Finally I've captured the elusive smile:

And today we had to use some extreme bribery (blue iced cookies) to keep the peace at the grocery store:

20 March 2011, Day 11

We're going through a major stuffed animal phase right now. This is her elephant knit by my friend Joanne. It has a matching mouse, but that is far too tempting for Trapper so we keep it in Kaylee's room!

19 March 2011

Stella and Delilah underwent some minor surgeries today.

Delilah had many more injuries since she is often left at home to be abused by Trapper whereas Stella goes everywhere Kaylee goes.

I must admit, I would make an excellent surgeon! I am getting a bit worried about how many more injuries Stella will be able to sustain. That will be one sad, sad day and I believe there will be many months of crying over her when she does finally go to the big doll house in the sky.

18 March 2011

A day filled with utter chaos! First we met up with some good friends at the zoo. We finally got to try out our awesome double stroller (we've gone on a couple walks, but this was it's big public debut!)

Kaylee refused to get out of the stroller most of the day, she gets very overwhelmed when there is a lot going on. But this was one of the rare out-of-stroller moments when we were in the aquarium.

Benjamin spent most of the trip like this, which was just fine by me:

Then after the hour drive home and no nap, we had gymnastics.

17 March 2011

Happy St. Patrick's Day from my little munchkins!!

Today we went to the library where Kaylee loves to play on their touchscreen computers. Here she's following what Ernie does.

Then we went to the park for the first time this year. Kaylee had a great time on the slides, until some other kids came around and she got real shy. (And yes, her boots are on the wrong feet, but she put them on herself and that's the way she wanted them!)

And Ben was having a bit of a difficult time figuring out just what wind is. He kept trying to catch his breath when he got a big blast of wind in his face. But he got held tight by Mama, so he wasn't fussy at all.