Art with Daddy

Okay, so here's how this story goes...  It's Saturday morning and Jeff and I decide we are going to take the girls to the park for a little while.  At this point, Carly is still in her PJ's, so Jeff takes the girls outside to play while I go in to get Carly some clothes and pack a snack bag.  A little later I come out, bag and clothes in hand.  Jeff grins and says, well, we've kind of gotten involved in another project!  Here are some pics of our little artists! 

 

Always time for a little basketball.  Here is Carly sinking a shot!

Then, to make it even better, we turned the hose on them to TRY and get them cleaned up!  So much fun!!!

Oranges, Tattoos and the Itsy Bitsy Spider

Here are a couple of cute videos of the girls at dinner one evening...

...and a couple of cute pics...

Addy and Carly

I know we say this all the time, but our girls are growing up SO FAST!  Carly just turned 15 months old...how is that possible???  We have such wonderful little girls (or as Addy would say, one big girl and one little girl).  They bring such joy to our lives and are always surprising us with new and exciting accomplishments!  So, I had the camera out the other day, trying to capture our beautiful girls!  Here are some of the shots I came up with. 

Carly is in that phase where she's hard to capture because she is ALWAYS on the go.  She is a very busy girl, exploring all the time, learning as much as she can.  She loves to copy her sister and learn from her.  She is such a sweet baby and she gives the best hugs!  She is in that phase, where she is overjoyed by any new discovery or accomplishment, so she is so happy and loves to laugh (except when her teeth are bothering her).  Addy is such a happy girl, too.  She is always smiling or laughing (or at least most of the time).  She has so much energy and she loves to laugh, dance, JUMP, and play.  She is loving having a little sister that she can teach.  She is always trying to share her excitement with Carly and loves when Carly copies her.  They are quite a pair together and my favorite is when they laugh together.  It just melts my heart!!!

Happy Birthday Gi

We celebrated Gi and Megan's birthdays over delicious lasagna at Mim's house.  Part of the festivities included the girls trying on Mim's hats.  Here is a cute one of Carly. 

and here is a cute one of Addy and Gi getting ready to blow out the birthday candles.  

Here is a video of the girls on the morning of Gi's birthday.  There is so much wrong with the video.  The girls are eating cookies BEFORE breakfast.  They are eating crumbly cookies in the carpeted playroom.  AND, you will notice Carly swipes her hands together in an effort to get any excess crumbs off.  Sorry Gi and Papa!!!  There was no permanent damage to the room...I promise =).  If it helps, they are having a great time!

Monkey see, monkey do...

Carly is adding words to her vocabulary almost daily.  She is pretty interested in trying to say new words.  Here she had just learned to roar like a lion...it's too cute.  You'll notice, I am trying to get her to demonstrate her vocabulary, but all she is really interested in doing is coloring with her sister, which leads me to the other video. 

We are very much in monkey see, monkey do mode at our house right now...and it's not always Carly.  Pretty much, what one child does, the other wants to do it also.  This includes playing the piano, and not particularly my favorite, squealing! 

Here are a few cute pics of the girls...

The girls love this giraffe, thanks Aunt Donna!   They are always cuddled up with it =)

Addyson has recently been taking naps inside her princess tent.  I just put it up on the bed for her.  She LOVES it!  Here she is inside her tent. 

laptops

Among so many other things our children do, we think this is just priceless!  The girls love to pull up to their table and work on their laptops.  It is just so cute. 

Not entirely sure what Carly is doing here, but it's cute =)

 Later in the day, Jeff took the girls for a walk.  Here they are all suited up and ready to go!

Lots and lots of manatees

We made a trip to Blue springs in January hoping to see some manatees.  Thanks to a cold spell, they had come into the spring to escape the colder water and we got to see lots of them! (I find it interesting that the spring water is the warmer water, since they are a constant 72 degrees year round.  From our standpoint, we always think of the springs being super 'cold', but I guess we don't do much swimming in the winter.)

Probably more important to the girls, there was lots of room to run around!  They had a ball =).  If you will notice, Carly on has one shoe on...foolishly, we put Carly's brand new shoes on her to wear.  And, while looking at the manatees at an overlook, her shoe fell off into the water.  As you will notice in the video, Addy was very distraught about us not being able to get Carly's shoe back.

In addition to Addy's concern over the shoe, the lady next to me provided the narrative for the video.