Monday, January 11, 2010

Exhausted kids

We had a quiet but tiring weekend. Avery's getting some teeth, and Carter's not sleeping well at all...so we had some big long naps. Here's Avery on Sunday morning working on her chest pass. Push those thumbs down!
My mom is always ordering books online for them. She must have liked this dinosaur one because she bought two. The boys read their books while they ate donuts and watched Ice Age.
We went swimming again Saturday morning. They all just love it, so we go as often as we can. Afterwards, Carter told me he was so hungry. Since they were so good, we made a trip to McDonalds.
There's the Landoman's big blue eyes in the locker room after swimming. He's pretty damn cute. I love the big lock of hair on his forehead too.
Here's my babies hanging out in chairs playing peek-a-boo while we were getting their clothes ready. They had a good time as you can see!
My girl has the best time at the Y. We were there for about an hour and a half, and she just smiled the whole time. She mostly hung out with her pal Jordan (we were glad she got to go this time).
The fountains were on when we got there, and the boys were so happy. Sometimes they don't turn them on until 1, but they were on right at noon. Landon has always enjoyed kicking them.
Carter likes to run through the middle of them, like a gauntlet! He makes sure he touches every one.
I love this face! He went down the slide first thing when we got there. It was fun as usual!
While everyone is getting ready, the boys love to hide in lockers. They are goofballs. I'm glad they love swimming. Erica and I always loved it.
On Friday night, the policemen had a little party at the McQueen club. I guess it was their late Christmas party for whoever could come. It was fun to meet them. They are pretty funny guys. Here's Kyle and one of his favorites, Kevin. Kevin was his first training officer. It was an ugly sweater party too. I think Kevin was the only one who dressed up - Kyle borrowed it for a picture!
Here's my girl talking on the phone. Is there a baby who doesn't like the phone? She always holds them up and says "hi". It's very cute!
My kids got a really cool little barn tent from Callie for Christmas. They love it. I catch Avery crawling through the tunnels all the time. They were hiding in there with Abbey, and I surprised them. They look very surprised!
Avery really likes her little phone that Luke and Josh sent her. She loves to point to the nose and the eyeballs. She's getting pretty good at finding bodyparts. She really enjoys getting a hold on someone else's nose.
The boys took a bath together at Mom and Dad's the other night. Avery had just woken up, and she was a jealous girl. She wanted to get in!
The foam smiley faces were quite lovely on them. I had to do a little cropping here. No frontal nudity allowed!
That is a sleepy, rosy cheeked girl right there. She was so tired the other night. She slept almost 12 hours! Getting teeth is a tough job. I love these bunny pjs from Grandma and Grandpa Barsness. She kept pointing to her toes the next morning.
Terr, Abb, and Jord found the kids some little fuzzy Disney books that they brought over. Carter loves them. They are some of the older movies that he likes: Peter Pan, Aristocats, and 101 Dalmations...classics.
Avery loves when Landon has a peanut butter and jelly for dinner. He's been eating just the jelly side. My little Hoover is right there to clean up the rest for him!

Monday, January 4, 2010

My Girl is 1! Biggest post ever!

My little girl is 1! I can't believe it's been a year. Here she is after cake-eating with her brother. He was giving her a birthday kiss. He had a fun time also!
This was so funny. Landon was telling Austin that Santa was coming. Austin in his funny, raspy voice said, "Santa already commed!". They are hilarious!
Reese came to the party, and she was quite funny (and not shy). Here she is dancing with Abbey!
Here's a big bunch of cake eating pictures. I can't help it. She was so funny. Here she is quenching her thirst after all that sugar.
This one is my favorite. It's like she knows she'll never get away with this mess again!
This was the first bite. She was picking all the sprinkles off the top very delicately.
As you can see, the daintiness didn't last long. She was a crazy girl. She kept rubbing cake on her head because it made people laugh harder!
These are kind of out of order, but you get the gist of it. She enjoyed her cake immensely!
Here she is checking out her little girl cars that Nicole and the boys got her. They are so cute. She drove them around last night and tried to say vroom!
There's my silly little Lando peeking out of the train. Erica got this cute picture of him. He was in a great mood. He even rode some of the rides!
They are best friends! I promise that Erica and I don't dress them alike on purpose. Erica walked in, saw Carter, and said "Oh my God, Landon is wearing the same shirt". That's okay. The boys thought it was pretty funny.
Her cake turned out quite lovely. She has a Nemo book and Nemo bath toy she likes, so that's what we picked.
She was actually quite good opening her presents. She sat with me and checked everything out. Connor kept her entertained too. He kept telling me that babies are so funny. He's such a good kid.
Landon and Carter had a great time playing air hockey. I think they ended up tying. They did a pretty good job though!
There's my beautiful girl and Abbey on the carousel. I was a little worried since Ave didn't nap before the party, but she managed to have a great time.
There's Jordan and Avers. Avery just lights up when she sees those girls and Terr. They are her buddies.
Connor and Austin were being Mario and Luigi when they got there. Luckily little Italians like pizza!
Avery enjoys her big girl food. At her 1 year appointment she was tall (29 inches, 50 to 75%ile) and skinny (17.10 lbs, 5 to 10%ile). I guess she runs it all off!
This is one of her birthday presents from Grandma and Grandpa Barsness, who had a nice visit with us this weekend. She absolutely loves her little Princess ride-on toy! She and Carter fight over it.
She wore these cute purple panda jammas all day on her birthday. What could be better than lounging around in pjs, eating scrambled eggs, and being sung to by Carter?
I love how well they are starting to get along. Carter kept telling Avery to get on my bed with him so they could watch Mickey Mouse Clubhouse together. It lasted about two minutes before the jumping commenced!
I had to get a picture of this cute outfit Aunt Diane got her for Christmas. It was a lovely little reminder for my New Year's baby!
Here's Carterman having a piece of my birthday cake. 29 - wow. I love when he puts a million candles in one piece.
My friend Dana was in town from Kalispell with her family, so Ritter came over too. We've been friends for over ten years, and it's so fun to see our kids play together. We've got Ritter and her blondes (Mason and Madisyn), Me and my brunettes (Carter and Avery), and Dana and her redheads (Jada and Madelyn). Wow!
Madelyn is so cute! She was hilarious too. She played with everyone and everything. Here she is peeking at me from under Ritter's legs.
Here's Carter and his lady friends having some pizza at his picnic table. They were all so silly.
There's the little babies. They got along quite well. They played with balloons and sat on the inflatable chair together. I'm pretty sure Mason tried to kiss her too!
The night before Kels left we had tacos and game night at my house. It was quite fun. We miss her already...especially my Carterman. He's hollered upstairs for her a couple times to come play ninja turtles. It was so nice to have her here.
Avery loves books. I catch her reading them by herself all the time. She's so smart.
Carter has been loving all his toys he got for Christmas. He plays with everything. He's playing with his Mickey Mouse cars from Mom and Dad here.
Avers was passed out on Auntie Kelsie here. She's been a tired girl lately. She's got some big teeth coming in.
Last but not least, Landon got the funniest little shave kit from our cousin Kathi's family. Abbey, Avery, and Kelsie decided to try on some of the mustaches! Well, my huge post is done. Hope everyone had a great New Years. I know we did!

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