Swimming

Thank you Grams for sending some pictures of Avery in the pool!!! :)
This was definitely the highlight for her each day!!
Wish we were there now.......

Spring Break

Wow.....how time flies when you're on vacation!

We had a GREAT time this week at Lake Chelan.

The weather was awesome (sunny, upper 50's-60's) so we were able to dry out a little bit!

It was fun spending time with Grams and Gramps....although they would NEVER admit it.....I think we were a bit much for them at times. Our pace of life is a bit faster than theirs.....as is our noise level a bit higher. :) Bless them for putting up with us and inviting us to spend the week at the condo with them. It was a much needed break for all of us!

Avery LOVED the swimming pool.....

And the playground.....

All three of them.... (this place was HUGE!)

Annalise liked the swings, too!

Avery also discovered her love of putt-putt golf. (Look out Tiger! :) )

Grams and Gramps gave her a run for her money with the holes-in-one, though!

Even Mark and I got to get out and do a little golfing. It was a beautiful day....the Lake Chelan Municipal Course was really nice. We had a GREAT time!!!!

We knew that we'd be coming home just in time for the Easter Bunny so Grams and Gramps also helped us color our eggs.....good times. Did you know that they make a CAMO set for dyeing eggs???? It involves oil. Gramps worked long and hard for the CAMO eggs. The rest of us thought it was too much work. We stuck with the white crayon.....Mark did his standard "EAT ME" egg. Funny man.

All in all we had a WONDERFUL week!!!!! Good company, good food, good wine, nice weather....we were all wiped out. But we were ready for the car ride home. It started out fine....

And continued to get better......

It was a great Spring Break!!!!!!!

10 Months....REALLY????

Jeez....how is it possible?!?! Annalise is REALLY 10 months old????

I guess when we really look at her and think back it DOES seem like it's possible. However...life is a whirlwind and time is just passing so quickly!

Because Annalise is changing so much I figured I ought to get SOMETHING posted for those of you who haven't seen her in a while. You'll be surprised! :) Enjoy the video of Annalise's FAVORITE thing to do! :)

Avery is all registered for Kindergarten next year. (Again....is THAT possible?!) She's SOOOO excited!!! But she's still enjoying EVERY moment of preschool. They went on a fire station field trip last week and she was really good about sharing her hat with her sister. Until Annalise crawled over it and squished it. No problem.....last year's is still in pristine shape. Oh Avery......

Crawling and Waving

So much going on for our little Annalise!!!!


She's finally lifted up that belly and started to crawl for real! She hasn't COMPLETELY abandoned the Army crawl...she still does that when she wants to get something REALLY fast! :) She's also learned that we have STAIRS!!!!!! She's loving crawling up....and will get almost to the top....the mountain is still a little steep....she gets pooped out about 3 from the top! She's pulling herself up on anything she can (see following video), even if it means sliding down and bonking her head to get back down. She's a mover for sure!!!




She's also mastering the WAVE! She'll wave at anyone. We were at dinner Friday night and she kept a table of grandparents entertained the entire meal by waving at them! They wanted to take her home with them. So cute!!

Summer Splash

Avery got to pick any color she wanted to paint her room. I was pretty sure it was going to be some shade of pink. I was wrong. We took her to Lowes and she was amazed at all of the paint swatches. It took maybe a minute for her to pick "Summer Splash". A lovely blue color. Very blue.

Mark got the room all ready to go.....Avery watching and waiting patiently to help. They started painting and Avery was REALLY into it! Didn't take long before the roller was "super heavy" and she was back downstairs with Annalise and I.

Needless to say....we got started....Mark got the flu....the project was put on hold for a couple of days....we finished....it's very blue....Avery loves it.

Valentines Day

In getting ready for Valentines Day, Avery picked her Valentines and began signing her name to them about a week ahead of time. She had 30 to do for preschool and 12 for daycare. Phew! She worked really hard and had them done in time to hand out at the parties on Thursday the 12th! :)

Thursday was a big day for the girls. Well....mostly Avery.....Annalise didn't really notice the Valentine hub-bub. :) She did enjoy eating the box her Valentines came in and ripping the paper envelope at the end of the day!

Avery enjoyed the party at daycare, then a party at preschool. Thursday night was the preschool Winter Program (the Christmas program was cancelled because of the snow). It was a busy and crazy day....Avery slept well that night!

Our Girls

It's been a while since I've posted pictures of the girls. The time just seems to go so quickly!

Annalise turned 9-months on Thursday. WOW! I can't believe how fast she's growing. She's got 4 teeth, Army crawls like there's no tomorrow, does whatever she can to make us laugh at her and watches every move her sister makes! She's got quite a sense of humor and is curious about EVERYTHING!!!!!!!

Then there's Avery....she just keeps GROWING!!!! We actually measured her again tonight on our "wall" and she's grown almost 1/4 of an inch since February 5th when we last measured her. She said she felt like she had grown.....she was right!!! It's unbelievable! She is loving preschool again this year and is super-excited we get to go register her for Kindergarten soon. She loves crafting and reading (some books on her own), singing and dancing and playing with her sister.

Quite often while Avery is "playing" with Annalise she'll stop what she's doing to tell me how much she LOVES being a big sister. And she's so good at it. She'll step in to entertain when whatever Mommy and Daddy are doing isn't keeping Annalise happy, she always wants to help feed her, and nobody can make the baby laugh and smile like her big sister does!!!! It's so cool to watch.

As quickly as time goes and as often as I feel rushed and like there aren't enough hours in a day....I can't imagine our lives any different. I sure do love our girls.....motherhood is amazing.