How we spend our days.

Life has been busy busy lately! (No surprise with these two...) We've had lots of things going on and reached a lot of milestones lately. Here are some snapshots:

Happy Easter!! (From Jack. Caroline says Bah Humbug.)

This little girl had just finished a huge dinner of her own...
I put her down from her high chair and she immediately crawled over
and eyed Jack's pizza (which he wasn't done with!) ...

...and proceeded to chow down. Nothing is safe from this vacuum cleaner!

Kissy face, smooch smooch!

Making out with herself. 

Breakfast with Daddy at Apple! She loved it.

I love that she has to have her own visitor nametag now :)

Over Christmas, I burned myself with some boiling hot butternut squash soup and
(I swear) a faulty blender. This is the scar I still have. I think it may be permanent...

Her favorite thing? Standing up in the bathtub. One day, she will learn her lesson...
with a black eye and a busted lip, just like Jack at this age.

Jack found an old pair of my glasses laying around, so he's been wearing them on and off.
(Luckily the prescription is nothing - they were more for show.) He loves looking
JUST LIKE HIS DADDY.

Eat dirt? YES PLEASE, YUMMMMMMY!

We spent some quality mommy-daughter time going bike
riding last week! I loved hearing nothing but giggles coming
from the backseat :)

While hiking, she got brave and stood with no hands! She's getting much steadier
on her feet now. She still has jelly legs when you hold her hands and try to help her walk,
but she's getting the hang of it slowly! Her newest thing is crawling up stairs. Only UP - not down.
Sigh. In some ways I can't wait for her to be mobile...in others, I know my life is going to get harder!

She did this one day (standing up in her swaddle.) The next,
she took it off and threw it out of her crib all by herself. I decided that was it,
and we went cold turkey. Now she sleeps like this:

Swaddle-less!

And like this! I can't take enough pictures. She's so funny!

Justin giving Jack math lessons. He's used these sorts of props to help him get addition,
subtraction, and even basic multiplication. It's really amazing. Justin is a great teacher.

After 11 months, she decided she'd deign to hold her own bottle. ONCE.

This is random, but I saw these at Target and thought, WHOA CREEPY. Agree??

Jack loves (LOVES) to run in the big field at Apple after we eat.

Playing in the playplace at the mall. She loves it now because she can crawl
over and through things.

After seeing the Easter bunny, I bought them these ears. Jack hasn't taken his off.
But for some reason, in this picture, he was more excited about checking the price
on this prom dress than posing. Weirdo!

And finally, every day I give Jack little "tasks" to do while we play outside in the
afternoons. This was from a few days ago. He has to do things like find me "five yellow flowers"
or "six brown rocks." He loves it...and I admit, it makes me feel really special :)