My Babies

Katherine and Evan,

Oh how I love you- do you know how much I love you??
It is wonderful to me to see how you are both growing so much.

Katherine your ability to communicate and your love of your friends is so sweet. You always ask me who you are going to see today and at night you remember to lift them up to Jesus. Going to the Library is the highlight of your week and you ask if you can play on the "compooter". You have no clue what you are doing on the "compooter" but you love that it is your height and has your shows on it. You are telling everyone what your "birfday" is and that you will be "free". You twirl and sing about everything all day and you are constantly loving your brother to death!! Just wait till he gets older and you will have wished you were a little softer.

Evan, my son, you are into everything! Well, let me rephrase that, you are on everything. I can't get you to stop climbing and it scares me to death sometimes. Crawling under and into things is another favorite and I have found you inside the kitchen cabinets. I only knew you were there because I followed the trail of pots and pans that used to be in the cabinet. You bonk your head and have booboo's all over your shins and I don't understand why you keep going back for more. Your little brain is expanding and every day it seems you are comprehending more of what mommy and Katherine say to you. We can ask you questions now and you just shake your head yes in response. I love you, oh, so much and I love how you lay your sweet little head down on Daddy's and Mommy's shoulders when you are telling us you love us-your kisses are a close second if not for all the slobber.

I praise the Lord daily for the blessing you are to me. What did I do and how did I love before you came into my life. I pray you will see Jesus in Daddy and I and that you love Him all the days of your life.

Love and hugs and kisses and snuggles and any way else I can smother you with love,
Mommy

Dying eggs

We dyed our eggs today with a friend from church. She wore her egg shirt and got dye all over her hands. Evan was playing in the toy drawer as we colored the eggs. He can always play by himself so well.

Easter egg hunt

I took Katherine to the city of Lilburn egg hunt Saturday. A ton of people were there and I wasn't sure if she was going to come away with any eggs. We stood in our spot and looked out over the field. She spotted a red one and told me that was the one she wanted. Well...that ended up being the only one she got. Thank God she got the red one. After, we walked around, got a donut and ate her one red candy egg.

Daddy times

I have been taking time to capture moments with Larry and the kids. He is so good to them! He plays silly, reads, and even lets Katherine help him in the yard. I am so blessed to have been given such a wonderful man.

We also love our new van! The kids stuff has a lot more room now-hehe

Preparing for Dinner

Tonight-

I was getting the bread to put in the oven and Katherine walks into the kitchen

KK- Can I have some bread?

Me-No, Baby we have to eat the Chicken Divan first

KK-(eyes wide with excitement) We are going to eat chicken in the van?! Yeah

I just laughed.

Cute words

Katherine is talking all the time but every once in awhile she says something and it is so cute.

OiMoi- Oatmeal
Tuggle- Snuggle
Pider- Spider
Baa Baa Black Sheep any fat wool- Three bags full

DADDY wanted to add this one-"I'm drinky"-Thirsty

Evan is climbing on everything and we found him recently on top of his highchair climbing onto the dinner table. Good times-HA

Beautiful Spring Day

My babies were all dressed up with nowhere to go today. I couldn't resist putting them in some of their new clothes on this beautiful day. The weather was 70's with a slight breeze and even thogh the pollen count was high we went our for a little while. The kids seem to be doing much better with Claritin in their system. We went to the park yesterday for a picnic lunch and had a great time just being a family. It is getting easier now that Katherine can do so much on her own. But the independence definitely has its challenges. She is confident in what she wants and is clear about what she doesn't. We are working on it and I have cut back from a lot of my activities to be able to focus in on the two of them for a season. We were on our way to the park tonight and she said. I will make friends at the park mommy, I will say excuse me, do you want to play with me? and they will say Yes we want to play with you. That will be fun mommy."

Evan has been communicating a lot lately and his favorite thing is to point and say "dat". He always gets a big smile when Daddy gets home from work and crawls toward him as fast as he can. He eats a ton! I pay for it when diaper time comes but it is wonderful not buying/making baby food anymore. He used to love swinging on the swings but now that he is more mobile he signs "all done" to me and put his hands up to be picked up so that he can go and play on the jungle gym and slide. AMazing! Cars are a highlight of his life and he says"rroomm, rroom"
Thanks to our friends Britt and Becca he is working on the fire engine sound now as well they gave him a whole rescue pack of cars.

Dogs, B-days and Getaways

We have celebrated our anniversary, Evan's first birthday and Evan saying Dog in the last few weeks. What a great time we have had. Larry and I went away to Chattanooga for the weekend and had a wonderful time just relaxing, walking and eating!!

Evan had a terrible experience at the park with a dog and we have been trying very hard to help him with his love of dogs. Our next door neighbors have two and Larry has been working with Evan so that he is not afraid. Here he is finally petting them and saying "dog".

We also celebrated Evan's first birthday and loved watching him put icing all over his face. Classic!

We will have a walker soon!!

Evan is standing on his own in the middle of the room. He has also taken one step. Yes it really was a step and when he went to take another one, he fell. Katherine is acting like she is just learning how to walk to get some attention. I told her he is watching her walk around and that he wants to do it too. So now she walk back and forth in front of him and say "Come on Evan, you can walk come on buddy , you can do it!" SOOOO Cute.

Katherine's New Sweater

Aunt Kathy sent Katherine this sweater in the mail and we love it!!

Eating and bathtime

Katherine went to a Princess b-day party and had a great time dressing up. SHe now has quite a few dress up clothes and loves to wear them grocery shopping.





As the kids are growing I love to take pictures of just everyday occurences. Evan is eating Avocado.

A whole month!!

All of you out there who look at our blogs and hope to see new pics I am sorry. We have been extremely busy through the holidays. I will be posting lots of pics soon and updating you on our family. For now we are doing well healthy (finally) and ready to get back into a good routine now that the crazy holiday season is over. Hope you all are well and enjoying the new year. We believe many great things are coming this year. We are watching and praying to see the Lord's hands move greatly in our lives.

Christmas time is here!!

Reading with Katherine

Katherine loves to go to the Library and get books. She has been sitting with us and reading since she was a baby. She actually used to eat the books but she is much better now. I have taken quite a few pictures of different people who have read to her over the last couple of months.

Peek-a-Boo

Evan is playing Peek-a-boo alot lately and here he is playing peek-a-boo with the shower curtain.




He also got his first pair of shoes, isn't he getting so big?