Happy Memorial Day!

Busy, fun, Memorial Weekend for us. Just a few pictures for now. Profiles, Silliness and Summer Flowers. More soon!

The girls at play

Sean spent last week in Naples eating yummy pizza and drinking awesome wine and I guess working a little too. We missed him a bunch but we managed to have some fun anyway. The weather has been gorgeous lately, although summer heat and humidity are around this week.

Ellie is walking like a champ and will probably be running marathons soon :) She is Trouble! (in the nicest possible way, of course). I can no longer always blame Mia for writing on walls, and unwinding all of the toilet paper. And Ellie does things that Mia never even considered. I wish I had appreciated how relatively easy Mia was at this age... Ellie throws toys in the toilet, eats cat food, dirt, and sand like they are delicacies, and has examined the contents of her diaper. She will be so happy that I wrote about this one day :)

Mia is almost done with her second year of pre-school! She's taking swim lessons at the YMCA and is having a lot of fun. We are looking forward to a busy summer with plenty of playing and visits with family and friends. McB family beach trip is less than a month away!!

Little Bo Peep

Mia has been talking about her latest school program for weeks. All of the kids acted out a part from a nursery rhyme. Just when I thought these programs can't get any cuter! Here is a clip of our sweet Little Bo Peep :)

Just some pictures

Love these faces! Happy Mother's Day :)

Mia's Room

Mia's bed is constantly covered with every single doll and stuffed animal that we own. And sometimes she has all of her books up there too. I have no idea how she finds this comfortable, but she insists on sleeping with them all. Sometimes if she is being particularly difficult, or stalling longer than normal, we threaten to remove some of her "babies". This always works, although I'm not sure it is good parenting... I am always struggling with the best ways to deal with our terrific 3 year old (by far a harder age than 2). I check out all the books on discipline at the library and read all the magazine articles. But I still feel like I don't know what I'm doing.

Anyway, here is a glimpse of Mia's bed. Can you find her? :)

Meanwhile, Ellie climbed into Mia's toybox and couldn't get out. Stop taking pictures and help me mommy!

Easter 2011

We had a lovely Easter complete with egg hunts, Easter brunch, flowers, family and.... sick Ellie :) She always gets sick on holidays. Double ear infection and pink eye, blah...  She was a trooper though and even started walking for real over the weekend!

 Egg hunt at the library. Mia wanted nothing to do with Easter Bunny but did a great job elbowing other kids out of the way to get her eggs :)

 Concentrating on dyeing the eggs! She did great this year:)

 Uncle Ben and Grandma helped too.

 Ellie Bunny

 Egg hunt with neighbors.

 The cutest couple and soon to be parents :)

 She had a great time and got completely filthy.

 I always take pictures of flowers...

Easter cupcakes with buddies :)

She did it!

Easter weekend was wonderful! Lots of photos coming soon. But first...

Is there anything sweeter than a 1-year old taking their first steps? This just gets me everytime! She's so cute. Go Ellie :)

Right now

I am very excited to have Easter here with my mom and brother and his wonderful fiance and my soon to be niece! In preparation for their arrival, I thought I'd at least straighten up a little. I was out of the kitchen for about 3 minutes but when I came back there was this...

Maybe I should just leave it to help prepare Ben and Morgan for parenthood :)

Anyway, looking forward to a pretty weekend with egg hunts and family time. Happy Easter to all!
xoxo

Spring stuff

It is absolutely gorgeous here in the spring! The flowering trees are amazing and the bulbs are breathtaking. And soon the azaleas will be in full bloom, yay! How can anyone not enjoy spring :) (Allergies, aside...)

We've been out and about a bit this weekend and I continue to try and take photos of the girls. We visited a lovely little Japanese garden and then the Naval museum yesterday, and meandered through the Botanical Gardens today.


Oh, and we had a date night last night! Just me and Sean! It was so great to enjoy dinner without crayons, sippy cups and high chairs! We found a sweet babysitter who asked Mia when she was leaving if she'd like her to bring some stickers for next time. Mia responded "that sounds good, but what I'd really like are chocolate chip cookies!" ha!


Lots of pictures below. I didn't edit any because I'm just overwhelmed with Photoshop and can't find the time to devote to learning it just yet. But they are still pretty cute :)

 We saw 3 Norfolk mermaids on our walk yesterday.

 That's our climber :) No walking yet, but she can scale a rope ladder!

 My backyard (I wish!! None of my tulips came up this year, ugh! What did I do wrong??)

 Attempts to get cute photo... no luck as usual :)

Amazing tree!!