Monday, March 28, 2011

Two the Tiger


Kate has a pretend friend named Two. He is a tiger who lives outside. He is nice and he sleeps.

Nose Dive

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Duke Gardens

We had the most magnificent afternoon with Shannon at Duke Gardens. Shannon played with her camera in between helping kids down stairs and I chased them around and kept them out of the water (kind of). We topped off the field trip with dinner at Foster's!
From Flowers
From Flowers
From Flowers
From Flowers

Friday, March 18, 2011

Wormy and Snakey

MWe have been busy digging around in the dirt the past few weeks. One of the highlights is finding worms. This week Kate named her worm "wormy" and Max named his worm "snakey". Kate wants to hold her worm but when it starts to wiggle she puts it down to watch it move and tries to kiss it. Max loves to carry his worm around and give it special rides in his trucks.


One day it all ended like this:
Kate: "Mommy, wormy not moving"
Me: "I think wormy is sleeping, let's put him with the flowers."
Max: "Mommy, snakey brokey (broken)"
Me: "I think snakey went nigh-nigh, let's put both parts of snakey with the flowers".

The next day
Kate: Mommy, I put wormy in flowers"
Me: "Good Kate, I am proud of you."
Kate: "Max wormy, put in flowers, I do it"
Me: "I know all the wormies are happy now."

Thursday, March 17, 2011

Happy St. Patrick's Day Gram!

To: The Cutest Irish Women We Know!

Love,




Kate's First Hair Cut

Kate, Max, and I took a trip to our favorite stylist - Ms. Nicole. Max knew just what to do but Kate was new to the program. She watched Max and I get our hair cut and said, "my turn, hair cut too." She was up in the chair like she had done it many times before!

Max was such a little ham, he talked the entire time and showed off all his favorite tricks to Kate.


Admittedly, I told Peter last night either this is going to be a complete success or a complete disaster... It was a sucess in my mind - no tears, everyone followed directions, said "Thank You", and the mission was accomplished!

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

2nd Year Photo Book

I have enjoyed doing many photo books throughout the past two years for special occasions and holidays. I just received a final copy of the Max and Kate 2nd Year photo book and it brought back so many happy memories, smiles, and tears (and I made the thing). Words can not describe how much they have both changed, how much they have impacted our lives, and how many wonderful people are in their lives.