Did I Mention . . .

That I am totally in love with this sweet, adorable little girl??

Doesn't she looks cute in her fancy "big girl" jeans?

Bath Time

Hannah's first bath with the kids - she thought it was a lot of fun! Isaac didn't love all the splashing she was doing

Creative Minds

Madison and Isaac are always cracking me up with their playing. They make their animals, toys, guys, trucks, small bugs (ladybugs usually) or whatever it is they are playing with at the moment do all sorts of crazy things.

I am not sure what Isaac is up to here, looks like his furry friends are having a dinner party, maybe they are pooling their money together to see if they can afford lizard for dinner or maybe they are all watching while Isaac dissects the lizard with the aid of his handy dandy head lamp. Whatever they are up to doesn't look too good for the lizard - he is trying to run off the "table" screaming :-)

It is school time for Madison but I guess being the only one in the class can get old sometimes so she decided Rogue and Nicki could join in. They both have perfect desks and perfect chairs :-) I did notice that she made them do her least favorite subjects (phonics) and kept her favorite (math) for herself :-)

Looks like she even made Isaac a little desk and gave him the alphabet game to "study" Naturally, Hannah is interested in what is going on - it must be all the noises and bright lights from Isaac's "school book"

In addition to being creative little kiddos they are good helpers too. They are always willing to help in the kitchen (not so eager to help with cleaning for some reason) and today are helping me make some baby food for Hannah - green beans. They washed and snapped the beans for me and thought it was "SO FUN". Unfortunately, after all our work Hannah didn't love the green beans but lucky for her we made plenty so she will get used to them :-)

Tap Tap Tap

Madison has been taking tap dancing lessons and had her first performance today at the First Baptist Church. I have been trying all day to get the video to uploaded but couldn't so I put it in my web album instead. The video is actually from the dress rehearsal Sat but still gives you a good look at the performance. Click here to see her tappin' away :-) Her actual performance went really well although she was really nervous and concerned about making mistakes. I was really glad she never once tried to back out :-) She wanted to pray about it last night and then again this morning. I am so glad that at 7 she already knows Who to talk to when she is worried about something! She did a great job and even smiled a little :-) Brock had to leave today for a fun snowmobile trip to ID and then right after that a business trip to CO but he was able to see her perform and then took off. She was really glad to have him there. He will be gone for 11 days so we will all miss him!

Madison posing with her good luck flowers from grandpa and grandma! She felt very special when they arrived

Snippets of Life

Brock got these flowers for Valentine's Day - I thought they were so pretty I couldn't resist taking pictures of them!

Isaac is so funny when he puts this mask on, he actually believes we don't know who he is!! It is so cute when he pulls it off and says, "It's me!" and laughs like crazy.

The kids woke up bright and early to get started on their Valentine's cards for Brock

Reading, Reading, Reading

Hannah is always looking at books, she seems genuinely interested in them instead of just chewing on them like she was doing not too long ago. She especially likes the touch and feel booksTime to check out another pageWow, isn't that horse soft - I wonder if she will love horses as much as Madison does

Now that her reading is done time to move on to bigger and better things - she loves to open the drawers on our coffee table and throw out anything in them (see the firestarter log thing-whatever its called) She has been extra smiley lately - I guess now that she has pearly whites to show off she is going to make sure everyone gets a good look :-)

Looks like she found a lizard in the drawer also! YIKES!

Isn't this hat the cutest!! My mom made it - she also made one for Madison so I will post a picture of her in hers also. Lucky girls with knitters in the fam (lucky me that I don't have to be the knitter in the fam)

Where has our baby gone?

Hannah is growing so fast - too fast. She has changed so much in the last month it is crazy. She walks along everything and even stands without holding on for a little bit here and there. She crawls like crazy all over the house, she scoots off the bed when she wakes up, she waves hi and bye and I think I caught her dancing to the music today (I will have to see if it was a coincidence or for real before I can say she did that one) :-) She has 4 teeth and she is getting smarter each day :-) The other day she wanted to play in a tote that we keep theatre stuff in and I didn't want her to grab anything out of it so I put my foot in the tote on top of the stuff. She kept trying to lift the papers out and before long started trying to pull my leg out. It was so cute - she knew my leg was the problem in her quest to destroy (which in fact is her main agenda for each day)

Doing her squats for the day - hhmmm maybe I should do them with her instead of take pics :-)

She spent quite some time inspecting this strange thing with flapping eyes

Look at those teeth - doesn't she look so old now???

Boy do I love my daddy!

It is so cute when Brock gets home from work everyone races over to greet him, Madison usually claiming victory as the first to get a hug. Hannah has already picked up on this and makes her trek from wherever she is to the door! It is so adorable.

As you can see she is a bit slower than the others because we have already gotten our hugs and I even had time to get the camera.

Oh, almost there, almost there!

Who wouldn't go through all that effort to get a hug from the best daddy in the world??

All I Wanna Do Is Play!

We all had a fun weekend visiting with a family we met this past summer at Bluewater Bible Camp. They were in town for a hockey tournament so we got to see them quite a bit. They have 4 kids, 3 of them that are within months of our kids so it is a lot of fun for the kids. I think it is so cute how they start playing the minute they see each other. It doesn't matter how long it has been - to them it is like they were together yesterday!






Madison and Andi busy drawing.













Beware everyone, gun-slinging 3 year olds on the move! Isaac and Izyk are quite a pair, full of energy and enthusiasm.
















Isaac wanted to hug Berlin every time he was near her, a little more than she wanted and although this looks like a nice hug they were usually way to tight and nearly knocked her over. Lucky for him at this moment she hardly notices him because the strange squishy red thing has her quite enamored. He actually made it in and out without much fuss from her :-)