one-toothed-wonder

If you look very closely, you'll be able to see Violet's prize tooth. singular. one tooth. This photo was taken (march 16) shortly after it came in. Now, two weeks later, it's still her only tooth. I continue to let her off the hook when she fusses with the excuse that "she must be about to get the other tooth". so far i've been wrong. hopefully her jovial disposition (and good sleeping schedule) will return with the arrival of tooth #2.

Violet's laugh

I love the sound of this! I have a photo frame with a record button and keep trying to catch her laughing with it. She gets really distracted by the black thing i'm holding in front of her face and stops laughing. a few times, i've actually gotten a really good recording then along comes one of the boys and they try to listen to it, but accidentally (at least i think accidentally) press the record button and thus erase all my hard work! so, here it is recorded for all of posterity...away from the boys' reach!

family-fun-fishing day

Since Chris' day off is Monday, that day has become a "focus on our family" day. We recover from being expended the day before by avoiding electronics and coming up with a fun activity. This week, we ran errands (greatly helping with my workload for the rest of the week as well as doing something together) all over Jefferson City.

















Then, after naptime, we grabbed the poles and headed to a local conservation pond. It was a huge success! The weather was beautiful and the fish were hungry. Both the boys caught several fish. At one point, they both had one on the line at the same time. The sign said the pond was stocked with big mouth bass, but we didn't see any of those. Just some little pan fish, but the boys were excited just the same. Well, not at first. Jayden had already had his rookie fishing trip, so he knew alittle, but Zeke started crying as soon as Chris baited his hook and helped him cast the first time. Between sobs we figured out he was scared of catching a shark! How innocently cute! Once we explained that sharks did not live in the pond he was better.

"da-da-da-da"

she is learning so many new things so quickly! her newest feat is to pull to standing. She was pulling up on the floor a few days before she figured out how to do it in her crib. I caught her standing up instead of going to sleep while I was putting the boys to bed. so cute! except of course for the fact that she won't say "Ma-ma"!

Breakthrough

Last night Chris noticed a new addition to Violet's mouth...her first tooth has broken through! yeah!!! she's been having a tough time 'teething' so i hope this means she'll be back to her good eating/sleeping self soon.

Arrrghh! Zeke is 3!

the cake turned out fun...Zeke's been talking about 'pirate cake' for weeks. I'm glad he could recognize what it was supposed to be.


opening presents. Zeke was sooo excited about "Money!" How does he already know about that stuff?!?


setting the cake on fire...it took him several puffs to get only 3 candles out. gives him something to work on for next year!