in the am, sending daddy off to work. Line up for your kiss....

Charli-Bean.

That's all folks.

One of her favorite snack.......carrots and hummus

Katrina Bakery.

Liv and i baked brownies and cookies today while Charlotte was sleeping. Liv's job was to sprinkle the walnuts on the brownies and she did it with much attention to detail. She also kept sneaking her finger in the mixer everytime I turned around. But she was innocent enough to tell on herself each time.....

Clean bill of teeth.

Today Liv had her 6 month dental cleaning. We were a little fearful due to her past visit of 7 cavities (due to night nursing until she was two). I can not rave enough about Dentist Mckee. He and his staff are amazing. From the moment Liv walked in she felt like a princess. She had a personalized spit bib on, princess sunglasses, marshmallow flavored toothpaste.... Her teeth were perfect and she was so patient during the cleaning. Moments like this make a mommy proud.....



(as you can tell, liv dresses herself now)

Happy Lifeday to you.

Today is not a birthday in our house (well happy birthday uncle John), but is a life day. One year ago today, the miracle of Charlotte was made. Happy Life day, sweetie, I love you!

Thanks, but No Thanks.

Okay so Liv has a new nickname for me that I don't really like....... "Big Mama". Thanks to the years of child pysch courses that I know it is a compliment. The theory is the larger the child views you, the more important you are in his/her life. But it isn't helping my post-baby body image..... ;)

She is even cute when she cries.

Liv(in) the spotlight.

Lovin' on you.

Mommy lovin' up on baby number 1 and number 2 while number 3 naps. (And the numbers are in reference to birth order because they all are tied for number one in my book.)

Mommy Time- 14weeks.

pink -eye.....;(

Although Liv doesn't seemed bothered by it, her right eye is PINK. We are so sad to cancel our weekend plansto have dinner with the family, soccer, and lexi's birthday.... Looks like we will either be housebound until her eye clears up or Liv will be stroller bound so she doesn't give it to anyone else.

The zoo.

Lucy and Will both have yearly memberships to the zoo and they invited us to go today. At first Liv used the stroller as her safe base and was rather scared of the animals. She didn't think the fences were high enough to keep the zebras and bears from jumping over them and getting her. But like true Livi style, after about a half of an hour she is running around like a wild child. We went to the children's petting/feeding zoo. She was in the gates with the goats, sheep, horses, pigs, etc. there was nothing between them...... the kids can pet,feed, and brush the animals. She ran around like a nut and played with the animals. We got to the petting zoo early and we were the only ones in there (yay). Once the crowd came, we moved over to the huge tractor to play on (while the three moms took a pit stop to feed the babies). We ate lunch at a picnic table and then went on the PZ Express train ride.(She ACTUALLY couldn't wait to get on it). That is a huge shocker considering after three trips to please touch museums, she still won't go on the carousel) Once the crowd started piling in, we left. (Man I keep forgetting it is teacher's convention week and the schools are off.......we keep going to attraction sites with lots of kids...better luck next week when the big kids go back to school)

Being Goofy.

On our 11th hour of being home without daddy, we tend to get a little loopy...... (daddy has been working hard these days...you go boy!)

PTM with Cousins

Despite that fact that many local schools were off today (we didn't know that when planning), Liv, Sydney, Ava, and Charlotte had a blast at the please touch museum. It was way busier then usual and the girls had to share their experience with many kids who don't know how to share and who have parents who don't watch them (do I sound bitter?) ;)

They really had fun and there were tears as we were leaving because they wanted to stay and keep playing....

youngest voter.

Yesterday, the girls and i walked to the local church to vote. After I signed in, I brought the two girls into the blue curtain to vote. I made my selections, and then I let Liv push the VOTE button. (the big green vote button was eye level to Liv) She really felt a part of the process.
Then we walked to Starbucks and got our free coffee.......

takes everything LITERALLY.

Wish I had a picture but I will tell the story anyway....

The other day Liv came walking down the stairs saying she had a boogie. (I know it is gross, but it was on her finger...) Ry said, "okay, go upstairs in the bathroom and wipe it off with some toilet paper." Liv went into the bathroom and followed his orders. About 2 hours later after the girls were tucked in bed and ry was getting out of the shower, he looked down. And what did he see........... The fresh roll of toilet paper on the wall with a huge boogie wiped on it.

I guess Ry would have been more specific and said wipe in on the toilet paper, then tear it off, and throw it out. ;)

more baptism....

Baptism.

I have to say Ryan and I had an amazing time today being with both sides of our family to celebrate Charlotte's baptism. She was so good and didn't cry. After the service, we had brunch at a nice and quaint restaurant. We were able to sit in a nice little greenhouse room overlooking a duck pond. The girls had a blast feeding the ducks and eating all of the sweet treats. We couldn't have asked for a better time.

Soccer- week 3.

The next video is Liv doing jumping jacks (they teach them by having them make a star then pencil, star then pencil, star then pencil)

Liv had a great day at soccer today. She was into it for the full hour and ran around like wild. She has learned so much in just three weeks. Her favorite part is giving Coach jack a high five at the end of class. After class, we went to lunch with Paddy, Holly, and their families. Liv had a blast...