Evie is 1 year old; Eric is 2 and three-quaters years old!

Here are some pix of the hail storm we had last week:

This is the roof.


This is the ground.


This is the concrete patio.


This is the patio table.


Evie had a wonderful Sleeping Beauty birthday party! Thank you all for coming, for sharing in our celebration, and for all the wonderful gifts! Click HERE to see Eric's first birthday party pic.


We went to Toys R Us to pick out a toy for Evie after her one year old doctor visit where she got 2 shots! :( She now weighs 20.8 pounds and is 28.5 inches tall. This means she is in the 50th percentile, which means she is perfect -- but we already knew that!!! :) Evie picked the sleeping beauty doll as her present! She has good taste!!!! Following are more Toys R Us pix...


Now that Evie is one and over 20 pounds, she gets a big girl carseat! We are on our way to Toys R Us!


Apparently she doesn't like my choice in teddy bears, lol!


She picked out the thermos with her name on it -- I may have helped just a little bit, lol!


peek-a-boo!


I like to growl into cups, cuz it makes a fun echo-ing noise! Notice how I can stand on my tippy toes!


i ADORE this look, it is the cutest face she makes! It's the "hey, mom, i'm about to do something sorta naughty, are you gonna come chase me and tickle me? cuz i'm waiting!" look.


There's a REALLY good toy back here...


HERE IT IS!!! (a love of computers... hmm, i wonder where she gets that?)


Eric also had a blast at Toys R Us, he found the Dora luggage and wheeled it all around, lol!


love this pic!


This toy seems to be stuck in some sort of cardboard packaging, help!


Eric liked the same computer Evie liked, or was that the other way around?


Guitars are cool!


This Mickey Mouse sang and danced while encouraging the kids to exercise! It's amazing what toys do now-a-days!


Thank you Toy Story 3 for making dinosaurs popular for Eric's age group, he LOVES dinosaurs!!!


He has the triceratops version at home and thought it was so cool that there were other flashlight dinosaurs!


Just a little hesitant with the big foot monster toy and i can't blame him!


He has a horse like this at home, but the stick broke, so this was lots of fun!


First, he got them off the shelf, then he made the appropriate noise for each animal, next he hugged and kissed each one, then he put them back on the shelf in the exact spot he found them and left. :)


Then Eric found the Pocoyo toys and I didn't think we would be able to leave the store without each and every one of them!


Somehow we managed to escape relatively unscathed, lol!

Evie is 11 months and three weeks old; Eric is 2 and three quarters years old!

Evie will officially be one year old on Thursday!!!  She has started dancing, she bends her knees and then straightens them and does this 3 or 4 times in a row - super cute!!!


Cool!



Frogs and snails and puppy dog tails! (hey, were'd the snail go?)



It's an indoor picnic!



My gorgeous girl!



This is the first bath together (of many to come) Eric has been wanting Evie to play in the bath with him for a while now, so he was quite pleased to hop in the bathtub after she was already in.

Evie is 11 months and two weeks old; Eric is 2 and three quarters years old!

Eric is counting and uses his fingers to tell me numbers all the way to 10. When he gets to 3, he holds down his pinkie and ring finger with his other hand, its pretty cute, lol!

Eric has started saying, "ow" when someone on tv falls down.

Evie has discovered Eric doesn't eat much and she prefers his food over her own. Yesterday she walked over and stole his peanut butter and honey sandwich and walked away eating it. Eric didn't seem to care!!!


Happy Saint Patrick's Day!!!


Eric has decided frogs are pretty cool afterall. He observes closely and when the frog hops away, Eric calls, "HERE, rib-rib!" (short for 'ribbit') and points repeatedly where he would like the frog to return, lol!


On rainy days I try to do something extra fun, this day we did painting. Dada helped a little bit with the first painting.


New Spiderman slippers!!!


Every night, Scott and I tuck Eric into bed. Last night, Eric decided he would tuck his kitty into bed. :)  After he fell asleep I snuck in and took a pic -- just too cute!!!


MOM, I found my JUICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Pretty pink flowers


Here is a much better pic of the new chompers! This girls says she doesn't care about the front teeth, she wants some molars for chewing!!!


Someone insists she is not ready for bed, but something tells me otherwise... Her jammies are so cute with hearts and elephants.


On March 5, Scott ran the Bidwell Classic half marathon! That's 13.1 miles (about 2 hours) of non-stop running!!!!! I couldn't be there to take a pic, so I have to make do with the pic from the people at supersports.

Evie is 11 months and one week old; Eric is 2 and three quarters years old!

Eric has started calling Dinosaurs "roar roars" but it sounds more like "rahrah" when he says it.


Kim's kiddos outgrew their riding gear, so Eric got some really cool hand-me-downs this week! Thanks Kim!


His lips are making "brrrooooom brrroooom" noises!


I just couldn't get enuf pix of him in his new riding gear (that looks just like Dada's riding gear) on his toy motorcycle! What a cutie!!!


Eric and Bailey playing in the backyard.


Eric has recently decided bath time is a must and not just once a day, in the last 24 hours he has had 4 baths. I don't know why, but he takes my hand, leads me into the bathroom and points at the tub and starts taking his clothes off. Of course I oblige - how can you not when a kid WANTS to take a bath? LOL!


Here is a horrible picture of the new teeth. They are the first molars and she has them on the top (both sides) and the bottom right (her right). It's impossible to get a good pix of molars!!!


Evie got on the scooter today at school in the outside play area and scooted! We have been practicing at home as you can see.


Blue Jean Baby! This little shirt came with matching jeans that say "Baby Girl" and had the prettiest embroidery on them!


Her little cherry outfit was so cute and Dada brought home lemons from someone at work and Evie was fascinated by them, lol, what a perfect photo opp for Mama!

Evie is 11 months old; Eric is 2 and a half years old!

Eric has decided to start calling Mook "meow meow" but it sounds more like "nay nay" when he says it, lol!

Evie is walking better and better everyday! She is even turning corners without falling down now! And today while I was feeding her I noticed she is making some molar-type teeth!!!



Evie and I went outside for a sweet spring photoshoot.


We had to show off the blooming narcissus flowers.


It was a pretend tea party with flowers.


And in the end, the flowers sort of become potpourri, lol.


While helping daddy get the garden ready...


Eric remembered how much fun it is to play outside in the backyard!


I help him make the letter "E" with water on the patio cement.


I'm so glad he remembered! And he is too!

I got him a couple of those punching bag balloons and he really likes them! he does real well punching it as you can see. Then near the end of the video when he stops, I ask him to smile at the camera and he does, lol! What a ham! Click the image to watch the video.

Evie is 10 months and four weeks old; Eric is 2 and a half years old!

Eric is now calling Bailey "ruff ruff" but it sounds more like "woo woo." Evie walked 21 steps without falling down on Feb 25!


Now that the weather is getting nicer again, we are trying to take Eric to the park more often, he loves it!


Eric never used to like swinging, but recently it has become lots of fun!


Evie also likes to swing!


Swings are one of Momma's favorites too!


Eric goes down the biggest slide all by himself!


There he goes! Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!


I helped Evie go down the little red slide.


Dada helps her go down the big slide!


I was shocked to watch Eric climb up this ladder thing like it was no big deal!


How cute are these Minnie Mouse overalls?!?!


Little Miss will never be left out of anything, if you stop paying attention to her even for a second she knows just how to get your attention, "Mommmaaaa, I pulled all your books down, now I'm heading over to poke Dada's guitar..."


My girl LOVES cheese! I was shocked while watching an episode of Martha when Martha asked her panel of discussion folks what food they couldn't live without and not one of them said cheese!!!


She's about to be naughty, lol!

Click to watch this video of Evie walking and then crashing into me.

Click to watch this video of Evie walking while using her pink car to balance.