Why the Camera Battery is ALWAYS Dead

Madison's toes

Madison's picture of her blood - according to her.

Putting light behind your hand does funny things!

This is a face we get frequently with Madison. It's her I don't love what you're doing but I'm not upset about it either, in fact you might be crazy.

Skating across the kitchen floor is a favorite of all the children.

"no giles a lawd. no giles a lawd."

Translation: No girls allowed. No girls allowed.

I'm fairly certain that Drew was behind the camera on most of these pictures since he was nowhere to be found in any pictures. The pictures of the "no girls allowed" sign also indicates that this would be a Drew picture spree. It is not uncommon to load the pictures onto the computer and find hundreds of pictures similar to these. Not all are as good as these, some are just black - but sometimes we get some cute ones from the kids' point of view.

Music Baby

Waiting impatiently for daddy to give her the earphones.

Jocelyn loves to do anything that anyone else is doing. The more grown-up it seems, the more she wants to do it. She loves to listen to dad's music through the ear-phones and then shake her booty. If you try and take away her fun she will throw a royal tantrum! She is most certainly a music baby - she loves the piano, songs on TV and the computer and she loves to shake it when there is music around.

Cremed

I made red velvet cupcakes - which were delicious - and then frosted them with a purple frosting. While Alexis was eating her cupcake she was talking about how fun it would be for her birthday if somebody pied her in the face. I don't know why she was thinking about it, but she kept going on and on about it. She wanted to know if it would be easy to do or if you'd know it was coming. Even if she knew it was coming she said she'd try not to duck it. I went and sat next to her while she was talking. When she was really into her one sided conversation I took her cupcake and smashed it in her face. She was so shocked! Then she was really excited that she'd been creamed. See that smile? It's not fake!

Beautiful January Day

This winter has been so beautiful!

What constitutes a beautiful winter?

Hardly any snow. Temperatures warm enough for my iris' to start popping up in December! Snow melting within 1 - 3 days after the storm!

Too bad all winters up here can't be this wonderful!

Computer Love and Static

The three older kids love to play Nickjr.com. Jocelyn wants to be just like her older siblings and she insists on playing computer games too. Luckily there are some good infant games for her to play. The only down side is that she loves to push the windows button and then she can't play her game anymore.

(This is Jocelyn's angry face, I wish it was wasn't blurry!)

This is Jocelyn's blanket, she loves her blanket. She loves when John puts the blanket over her head and then flings it up, the resulting static hair is amazing!

Happy New Year

Because John and I are such party poopers the kids were banging pots and pans at ten instead of twelve. They don't know the difference yet, and hopefully they won't know it for a couple more years!!

John and I were in bed mostly sleeping, the neighbors fireworks and pot banging woke us up, at midnight. It was one of the better New Years that we've had! 

Brown eyed Jocelyn

18 months! Crazy but true!

She is a spit-fire. 

She loves to cuddle.

She is a good sleeper.

She is a silly little woman.

She is doing well with potty training.

She still refuses to talk, but she knows some signs including:

more, soft, thank you, cookie, drink, all done, eat, yes and no. 

(Basically the signs that have to do with food if you notice.)

She loves to rub my belly and try to say baby, 

which comes out with a b sound and then changes after that each time. 

She also thinks that anything attached to mom that is rounded is a baby 

and she will try to pet that too - even in public.

She loves baby dolls and anything else that she can treat as a baby.

She loves to eat - have a mentioned that one already?

She loves chocolate chips.

She wakes up early and then cuddles/terrorizes you in bed.

She LOVES her daddy. He is the preferred parent, unless he isn't giving her what she wants.

She loves to tickle people and to be tickled.

She loves to color on the chalkboard, erase, color, erase, color - etc. 

Sometimes our walls and furniture get graced by her coloring as well.

She is just finishing cutting four teeth which = a cranky baby which = a cranky household.

She loves to help clean-up. Sometimes it's actually helpful!

She loves to sit and walk on the table.

She loves to watch Little Einsteins and will pat and clap with them.

We love our little lady and can't wait to see all the new things she has in store for us.

18 month stats:

19.4 lbs. 1%. 

She's getting closer to 20!

31.5 inches tall 44%

18.1 inches (head) 34%