Full

So apparently I tell Lorelei "I'm full," (Usually she is trying to feed me some food) and I also pat my tummy while doing so...she picked up on it and now does the pat when she is full. :) This morning I think I was asking her if she wanted anymore food and all she did was pat her tummy. Then later tonight she was trying to feed me a grape and I said "you eat that one" (don't worry I had already eaten one she fed me!) and she just patted my tummy like "Ok, Mommy, you must be full." :) So cute! Also had to leave the end on with the kisses. She is so cute with that lately and when I ask her to say "bye" apparently she thinks she needs to give a kiss. :) She even was giving a kiss to the pine cone we had to say bye to on the walk Monday. :) Gotta love the sweetness.

Beating The Winter Blahs

Ugh. As most of you know winter is not our thing...and by the time we get to February, I'm ready for a trip to the Bahamas. I keep telling myself we can last only a few more weeks and then spring should hit...I hope Mother Nature agrees.

Just a few random pictures throughout our days lately...

This one is bubbles in the house. Thankfully spring has found Target already, so we are taking advantage. Great invention, a fan to blow bubbles for you...now we just need to buy some more bubble juice because we ran out after about a day. :)

Lorelei and Dad enjoying her new toy for Valentin's Day. I think Brad wants to play with it about as much as she does...we are already tempted to cut off the microphone because she is loud enough without it. ;)










Brad and Lorelei being goofy with self portraits while coloring. I think I was getting ready for church. :) What a great Dad she has! :)


We had the TV turned off and Brad and I were working on getting supper ready. Lorelei climbed on the recliner (she climbs on EVERYTHING now), got the remote, turned on the TV and sat there watching the Olympics.

A couple fun things today...Lorelei has started getting the giggles over goofy things which is a lot of fun. Today was with her "Pretty Pink Purse" book because she points to the same two fruits for me to name what they are...of course I use my exasperated voice after a bit and she thinks its hilarious. Then I also taught her butterfly kisses...big hit with giggles as well. :)

I also keep forgetting to mention something nice a lady said at the grocery store when she heard Lorelei's name. "Lorelei. I love that name. It sounds like you're singing every time you say it." ...well I'm sure there are plenty of times I say it that it doesn't sound like singing, but it was such a nice compliment nonetheless. :)

We Are Loved

We are so loved! Thursday we celebrated Valentine's Day early when we received TWO packages! :) Guess we have some pretty amazing grandparents/parents who were thinking of us. Lorelei was shrieking with excitement when we were going to open the boxes...guess she finally realizes what a package is. :) She was clapping and so excited to see what she would get, and wow did she get some wonderful gifts! From stuffed puppies to fairy wings to clothes and a home made puppy towel! And of course an Elmo card complete with stickers made her day, as well as a dog card that makes dog sounds when she opens it!!! Can you get any better cards for this girl? :) She was thrilled with everything. We just have a few pictures but the packages were so great. Thank you, thank you thank you!!! "How Sweet It Is To Be Loved By You!"



We love you guys!

Best Buddies

We are so blessed to have many friends here! :) It has been a week full of them. :)
Monday BethAnn, Mirinda and baby Isabelle came for the afternoon. Lorelei always loves the extra attention from grown ups and did a great job with Isabelle...well other than screaming and waking her up. ;)

Tuesday I'm not sure what we did other than BAKE. Baked sugar cookies during nap, then frosted them that night until almost midnight. We love our sugar cookies and they had to be ready for the Valentine's party we had at our apt on Wednesday. We had a great turn out...7 moms with 1-2 kids per mom...so you do the math and it was a crowded place but everyone seemed to enjoy it anyway. :) The children took turns at the table working on making a Valentine craft and everyone got to eat lots of goodies. Forgot to take any pictures during the party, but when our best buddies were still there at the end, we did get this picture and video of three of them. :)

Then Thursday is our usual library time that all our children go to. After class we headed over to Sara and Lily's for some playtime and lunch. They even have a wonderful table for the kids to sit at!

I should also mention we had our first moms night out with the three of us Wednesday night...much needed and enjoyed! Thanks to the husbands for giving us a break!

Will try and get caught up this weekend...guess this week has just been busy with less time to blog. :)

Valentine's Cards

That's right, we attempted our first batch of home-made Valentine Cards! It was a relatively good experience. We did spread it out over both days this weekend as Lorelei got tired of coloring and was having fits over wanting to use the entire bottle of glitter glue. Brad was a big help as I didn't think about how much stuff I would have to glue on before giving it to Lorelei to add her own art work. She also thought it was a lot of fun to draw with marker on her hands. This was also her first time with real markers...seemed to go better than crayons so between those two she had a lot of fun. Excited to start getting into these crafts...gotta love having a girl! Now we have an idea of what to look forward to Wednesday when we have a MOMS Valentine's craft party at our place...we'll see what happens!


Lorelei is also getting very into stickers. Look closely and you will see her doll is covered in them. Other days usually Lorelei is covered but guess they had to try something new. :)

Just more info about the weekend...we got MORE snow (feeling like we live in Nebraska again!?) but thankfully it didn't really stick to the roads and is already mostly melted off.
This also meant we were able to make our photo shoot that we had to reschedule from last weekend. The goal was to get some updated professional pics of Lorelei, which we got. The main reason we tried this photographer, though, was because she was having a special photo shoot with puppies! The puppies ended up a bit older so were on the larger size, larger than Lorelei! Although she LOVED seeing them of course, none of the pics really turned out with them because she was usually squinting or ducking away from getting licked in the face. Whole new appreciation for people who do movies with dogs and kids together! :) At least it made the photo shoot a little more fun for her.

Then I was able to run some errands during nap and then, last but not least, pig out on dips while watching the Super Bowl. :)

High Low

We have yet to figure out exactly why Lorelei knows this, but I guess she knows and that's whats important. :) Maybe just the day to day talking or else we can probably thank Sesame Street because neither of us had been working on it. :)

Was trying to compile a few more little tidbits but can only think of about one...actually a story from Brad just to show how she is doing great communicating...well I should say sometimes great. Lately we have had a lot of meltdowns and fits unfortunately...guess that is also her way of communicating that she is unhappy. :) Anyway...story time...

He had gotten her up for the morning and she was sitting on the living room floor and he said, "What are you doing?" and she answered "play." Then she pointed up and said "ight" (light) to tell him she wanted him to turn the light on. :) Brad's dad will especially appreciate that since he is constantly wishing Brad would turn the lights on around the house as well. :)
Guess that's all for now folks!

First Day of February

Well its a good thing its a new month because January finished off with 488 pictures! Brad said I'm averaging over a dozen per day...yeah maybe I need therapy. ;)

Today Lorelei and Brad played on the balcony. The roads were very icy and it just seemed the ideal place to play this morning. It was much warmer out than yesterday so they both seemed to enjoy it more. I was able to get some chores done easily while they were outside for about 45 minutes again! Lorelei enjoyed playing and mostly just ate the snow. :)











"What I don't look cold enough he has to cover me up with it?"




Making a snow castle.

Warm back in the house for the rest of the day. Cheesin it to show off the Valentine outfit from Nana.