Reading with Maw-Maw

Charlotte loves her Maw Maw and books! What a great combo!!

Peanut Paintshop!

In case you haven't clicked on the Peanut Paintshop link, here are two adorable reasons to do so! One of my college roomies and a dear lifelong friend (and probably the counterpart grandmother to some of my future grandchildren) painted these for their rooms. Needless to say, we love them!! Thanks a million, Rogue!

These Aren't Posed AT ALL! ;)

Liam gave us such a great smile, we thought hey...let's get Charlotte to take a matching one...except we were giving her too much direction and our "photo shoot" got confusing for a two year old. She did great :)

Sexy Santa

Liam, don't be mad. When you have kids, you'll take these pictures too. Or maybe your wife will, but still.

Sweet Smiles

Park!

There is a great park close to my parent's house that Charlotte loves (and Liam will too, when he can play. For now he just models his cossack hat in the stroller). She loves swinging, sliding, running, and playing with Nana!

Randomness

Sweet Sleepies

Liam was putting out the vibe in between diaper/outfit changes...and since we took pics of Charlotte in our king-size, we had to do a repeat performance with the boy. Ladies under 1 year old, I'll be taking girlfriend applications when you all learn how to write.


Liam "borrowed" my dad's toboggan cap at the park. Mom and I called him our little Russian all afternoon!




Sweet Girl passed out with her shoes on one day..what a cutie!!

Post-Bath Fun :)

She loves lotion and thinks anything that vaguely resembles it is also called lotion. she booked it from the hallway tub to our bathroom to retrive this "Lotion, Mama!!!"

Halloween..revisited!

Our family of Ladybugs! Josh's youngest cousin and Charlotte were both ladybugs and we didn't know it until we met up at Jared and Lindsay's Halloween night!









This was the night she figured out what candy is and pitched a fit every time we went up to a new house and she had to take one sucker out of her hand in order to receive another piece! lol. Funny girl, you'll have it down pat next year :D

Phone Pictures!!

Small Group Kiddos (and a few more are on the way/not pictured!)

Family Picture!

Our first "official" family picture!!

*of course, Charlotte picked this morning to be the one where she would be extremely contemplative and refuse to smile. Hence the expression on her face...trust me when I say this was the best one of the lot.

**also, this is a ghetto "picture of a picture"..so please excuse the blurriness :p

***also, I just realized it looks like Josh is good gaming me. I asked him about this and he said he actually became aware of this during the photo shoot and moved his hand, but then the 15 minutes where we were actually choosing the picture were so crazy that neither of us thought to look for that..we were just looking at faces and stuff and didn't notice. Hahaha!

Snow!!

This is one last hurrah of 2009..a decent snow! We were on our way home from getting the annual Christmas picture made when it started, and now we have over 2 inches of snow!! This is the first real snow that Charlotte has been able to enjoy, and she had a blast :D

Cheese!!!!!!!!

That is what we told Charlotte to say while she sat in front of the tree. Needless to say, we have a good picture of what her teeth looked like at 2 years old. My goodness! We created a caption for this picture: "heeechh" (make a vampire cat hissing sound). Gotta love her. :D

Santa!

Maybe the most angry santa ever, but still. He is screaming so hard he made himself come up out of a seated position. Too funny. When he wasn't screaming, it was precious!! Thanks Aunt Lindsay for this adorable outfit! He'll be wearing it Christmas night if it still fits. :)

Matchy-Matchy!!

I have been excited about this since January, when I found out I was preggers....Matching Outfits!! This picture was taken at the end of a 45 minute nap day...(read:fussy toddler), so it turned out surprisingly decent.

Future Mama

Charlotte loves her baby dolls, and loves to mimick me...this usually involves getting the mini boppy pillow from her old tummy time mat and one of Liam's bottles, or getting one of my currently unused purses (diaper bag is it most days :)) and strolling her baby doll stroller while talking on an old dead cell phone.

This picture is how I found her one day upon returning from changing Liam's diaper.

Big Sister and Little Brother...for now!

So, I think Charlotte is about to have a growth spurt. She went up 3 sizes in shoes over the summer, and I just noticed in this picture that her face looks thinner or longer or just more little-girl-ish..I don't know. I'll keep ya posted on her growth spurt..

And although Liam will always be her younger brother, I think the days of him being her "little" brother are numbered (with a low number haha)..he is soo big and strong! He's my big teddy bear baby and he's just adorable. He's started smiling over the past week or so, and on Saturday morning, he laughed for the first time. Okay, so it was At My Face, but still. :) He does a much bigger smile, but you know how getting kids to do the thing you want on camera goes. (add in the delay on the camera and it's lucky I got a smile shot at all)..

Our two cutie pies!!

Hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving!

Awww...

Yep, I get to hang out with them all day, every day.

What, jealous? (SNL reference)

I stinkin' love these kids!!!!

Sibling Stuff

Playing together during tummy time!

Charlotte is good about trying to give Liam his pacifier..I wonder why??? Oh yes, she's sick of him screaming! ha ha.. They are sweet together. We give Charlotte "rides" on our back, and the other day she tried to take one on Liam's back while he was doing tummy time. Don't worry, this only involved her saying "ride, ride" and standing over him spread eagle..I didn't let her actually touch him. We had a very meaningful conversation about how Liam is smaller than her. I'm sure she fully followed along and will never try it again..HA!