It's All About the Kids: March 2007

Wednesday, March 14, 2007

A Fun Visit from the Westinghouse Family

Corry, Steph, Autumn and Shelby came out for a visit last weekend and we all had so much fun...

Shelby (8mos) and TJ (7mos) playing before the big sisters woke up Sunday morning. The calm before the storm you could call it :-) I think life is a little more peaceful for Shelby and TJ when the big girls aren't around. It was good to see that Autumn can be just as mean to her baby sister as Alli can be to her baby brother. Overall they are great big sisters, but every now and then something posesses them to push the babies for no apparent reason. Just establishing some dominance I guess. I have a feeling their time is coming- these babies are gonna start fighting back before too long. Steph and I are getting our referee uniforms ready :-)

Autumn and Alli checking out the prairie dog window at the zoo on Saturday. How cute!!

Dwaine and Corry went fishing Sunday morning and brought home a variety of different fish. (unfortunately for Corry, Dwaine did all the catching- sorry Corry, hope you had fun anyway!)

Alli checking out all the fish (she picked out that outfit by the way- I would have never dressed her in that). She was terrified of the huge ugly catfish when it first emerged from the livewell, but daddy eventually got her to warm up to it enough to touch it for a pic. Autumn, on the other hand, would have nothing to do with any of the fish even though she kept requesting to go outside to see the big fish :-)

Alli and Autumn riding high on their dads' shoulders to see the bear taking a bath.

Shelby and TJ did manage to get out of the strollers a few times. It wasn't always fun getting everyone back in the strollers, though.

OH NO!! Here comes a big scary fish. While Autumn stayed calm, Alli was certain he could get her and panicked a little right after this pic was taken.

By the way, yes, that is a princess tiara that Alli is wearing on the back of her head. It stayed pirched there all day. The things you can get away with when you are 2!

For some other cute pics of the weekend, visit Steph's blog at http://stephandcorrysbabygirl.blogspot.com/

Can't wait to see you all again. Thanks so much for coming out!

Friday, March 09, 2007

Unplanned Portrait Sitting

The kids and I were shopping at Babies-r-us the other day and I took the bait for a "free 8x10" offer in their portrait studio. I've been wanting to get their pics taken for a while but never seem to get around to it, so I figured I would take advantage of this oppurtunity just to see if they would behave and give me at least one good free pic (ignoring the fact that TJ had spit-up stains on his shirt).
Well, there were at least 2 pics that I just had to have, so of course I had to buy one in addition to my free sheet. But, I passed on some other really cute pics of Alli-she is quite the little poser when it comes to having her picture taken (but not at home for mommy). Anyway, here they are...

Not too bad for a spur of the moment portrait sitting. You can't even see those spit-up stains!

Gosh, that boy is handsome :-)

I know- I'm his mommy and I have to say that, but he really is.

That went so well, I feel another sitting coming in the near future. Maybe, this time it will be planned and I will actually buy enough pics to send out (gotta have a coupon for that- I never pay full price, you know)