Christmas 2010

Tis the season for cookies, naps and decorating the tree. Cassie is crazy for decorating the tree, I went out and bought some chocolate decorations which Cassie put on the tree and a couple in her mouth. Mr. Marcus is back to his teething tricks - now we have another one coming on the bottom. 2 in, and 3 coming. All he wants for christmas must be his teeth.

Today we went to Nolan's house for a little party, and the kids had a blast. The mommies also enjoyed a little time visiting and chatting about - what else, our kids!!!

I am very excitied to see Cassie open gifts in the morning, she talks about Santa all the time, and today when I was taking Marcus out of the car, and walked into her, said I was not good and Santa would know!! I'll try and be better ....

Mommy it is a beautiful day - the sun is in my eyes

Movember Mike, who knew?

Marcus sitting and chewing, some of our favorite things

Mmmmmmm, toes

Eighties side pony, what a cutie

Cassie has some wild hair - you would think we never brushed it!

Marcus in the Jolly jumper - Cassie has to be told a lot to stop helping him jump........

The things kids say are great. I was on my way to Shannon's house for a playdate and like usual I was running behind, cursing the fact the windshield washer fluid is still not working, and the slow guy in front of us, and Cassie says out of no where "it's a beautiful day" sure enough I looked around and realized it was ward, sunny and snowy on the ground. One of my favorite views. I could see the mountains and was headed to a playdate I enjoy as much as the kids, since Shannon and I get to chat and spend time now they are back from the states.

Smell the roses I thought, this onlys lasts a short time!!

Well we played and ate and played again, and then headed home to visit with Grant, a good friend.

Marcus was so cute last night, I was getting giggles without having to tickle him. He was laughing cause I was laughing, so very contagious it is. I thought I would add some other photos from the last couple of weeks.

Winter 2010

Cassie and Marcus holding hands

Danika on the slide

Playdate with Danika and Dawson today

Today Cassie and Marcus played with Dawson and Danika - we painted, colored, did stickers, played outside and ate and ate. Gotta love warm winter days with the little ones.

Marcus is getting very good at sitting and now has 2 teeth on the bottom. Fingers crossed the next ones come in with a little less fuss.

It is amazing to see how big Cassie is getting, the amount she knows and learns is crazy. She now knows here full name, she talks in adult talk, full sentences and a fabulous vocabulary. She is jumping on one foot, which was quite a hard learning curve. Cass can peddle her bike and jump right off the couch. I cannot even list all the things, but I am going to try so I can look back and remember all the miles stones that are happening.

The one thing we are doing really well is potty training, she goes in the potty pretty often and remembers. We are going "no diapers" at home and so far so good.

More to come, but I am trying to stay on top of blogging.

Christmas is coming - and so are Marcus's teeth!

Well - like usual I am falling behind in blogging. Apparently one of the things to get misplaced when you have 2 small monkeys is spare time, or even uninterupted minutes where I can sit here and fill in our days news.

Things that have been going on are: Marcus got his first tooth this week on Monday and the other bottom one is so close. The top 2 are also close, I can see them right under the skin. Needless to say we have been up lots and using Baby abasol like it is going out of style.

Cassie had a chrsitmas cookie decorating party this week, and had all her friends over to visit and decorate sugar cookies. What fun they had, Cassie enjoyed eating icing right off the knife and putting sprinkles on. She did a wonderful job of her chrsitmas trees and ginger men and the candy canes. I think we will make some more cookies in the next couple weeks and decorate for the chrsitmas dinners we have coming up.

Marcus is now starting to sit up and doing a wonderful job at balence - speaking of that Cassie now can do a little dance on the Bumbo chair, by standing on the sides and wiggling. Very impressive for an almost 3 year old.

More later, I now have 2 mini humans yelling at me!