Play-Doh

Our cute neighbor boys were over the other day and brought their play-doh along. They all had a blast playing with it and making their own shapes and figures. Rease stuck with pink the whole time and Rhen couldn't stay with one color for more than one minute - that's my girls for ya.

Rhen had me make something with the green so I made a worm - you can see it in the background. I made an extra head and she wanted me to see it. Now really close. This is how the worm turned out.

Carson was busy making a snowman.

His snowman had hands, feet and all!

And Rease made this pink flower out of a mold.

Fun times with play-doh.

Tummy Time

Liev doesn't love tummy time, but he is getting so good at holding his head up. I snapped these pics before he got too cranky. He is ready to be done here - enough tummy time.

He is such a sweet boy!

The boys

My two favorite boys. Can I just say something about my husband? He loves being a dad - and he's especially loving it now that he's not the only man in the house. Him and Liev are buds and hang out together a lot. Josh is so so good with our newborns - he does most of the middle of the night stuff so that I can get a good nights sleep. With Liev, he's been taking the middle of the night feeding which normally falls around 3:00 or 4:00. Then he puts the baby back to bed before he heads off to the gym and then straight to work. What a guy. I dont' know how he does it on so little sleep, but he does and we love him for it! Liev is sleeping through the night now though so Josh is able to get a few more hours of sleep before he starts his day. He is the best and we are all lucky to have him as our man!

This is our loaner rocking chair - our puff rocker chair ripped and we had to use this big wooden chair until the new one came. Believe me, we are ready to have our puff chair back!

So Liev is starting to smile. I tried to catch some of them on camera, but the flash kept throwing him off - these are the best I came up with.Our sweet baby boy is so cute with a smile on his face!

Park Time

The kids and I enjoyed an afternoon at the park this week. What a beautiful spring day it was and oh how happy we were to be outside!

Rease and Rhen immediately went to the swings. Rease doesn't like to be pushed too high but loves to swing. Rhen wants to just be pushed and pushed and pushed. They wore me out!

Rhen found the climbing wall and spent the rest of the afternoon there - up and down, up and down she went.

And Rease can never get enough of the slides.

We are so glad that spring has finally arrived!

More diapers

With two kids in diapers again, I can never pass up a good deal. This is by far the best deal I've ever found on diapers and wipes. These 5 boxes of diapers and 2 boxes of wipes cost me a whopping .18 cents! Thanks amazon!

Hidden Treasures

Every day after the girls' naps, I let them ride their bikes for a little while upstairs. Since we have wood floors it works out good for them to ride around and entertain themselves for a little while. This will be much more fun for all of us when the weather turns warmer and we can take it outside, but for now it works.

So the girls love to have their little toys, treats and drinks with them on their bikes - Rease has a basket on the front of her bike and Rhen's bike seat opens up to hold her treasures.

Her favorite things to store inside her bike lately are the dishwasher tablets. They are just under the sink and at a perfect level for her to grab them at will and hide them in her bike. I'll be feeding Liev (so I'm obviously tied up and she knows that) and she'll ride over to me and say "look what I have in my bike mommy." I automatically tell her to go put them back. She gives me a look, slams the bike seat shut, jumps on her bike and rides away saying, "goodbye mommy!"

She knows she's in trouble but also knows I can't do anything about it while I'm taking care of Liev.

I can't resist this look though - she's so sneaky, but cute.

"I'm all naked"

I'm not sure if all kids go through this phase, but so far both my girls have. We call it the "I'm all naked" phase. Rhen has started taking her pants and diaper off and letting me know that she's "all naked." I'm not sure how to get her past this but so far nothing I do makes a difference. I put the diaper on and a second later it's off again. Maybe it's pull-up time. We might try that.

Anyway, Rhen is also pretty obsessed with playing with water. She can barely reach the faucet now (standing on her tip-toes) so I constantly find her at the sink. When I ask her to turn the water off she says "just a second. I'm washing my hands." So I caught this moment on camera the other day, her two obsessions at once - "all naked" and playing in the water.

She also rocks in the rocking chair while "all naked."

And eats breakfast the same way.

Maybe she just likes a little air on those cheeks. Whatever it is, she sure finds many moments that she wants to be "all naked."

Tea Party

My girls love tea parties. Rhen just got a tea set for her birthday and we have at least one tea party a day.

Rease usually pours...

And rhen drinks out of the cream pot.

As you can see, it doesn't always stay in the cup - Rhen's shirt is usually soaked by the end. We've learned to stick with water in the teapot.

Rhen's legs

So these are Rhen's legs - skinny little things with knobby knees. The other thing about Rhen's legs is that they are always dotted with bruises.

Her shins and knees usually have some new bruise or bump along with old ones that haven't quite faded away. I would say Rhen is as clumsy as any other 2 year old, but what she also has that adds to the bruise count is no fear. She jumps from anything, climbs on everything and falls of whatever she is on without worrying about whether she will get hurt or not. And she usually doesn't get hurt too often, but is onto the next thing before worrying about it. Thus the bruises.

Love her and her dotted legs!

Haircuts - part 2

Rease was next on the list for haircuts. She has gone almost 4 years without having her hair cut - and that's how she wanted it. After seeing "Tangled" 6 months ago, she was convinced that her hair was going to be as long as Rapunzel's and wouldn't even let me talk about cutting her hair. As you can see, it definitely needed at least a trim. So after talking about it for a few weeks, I finally convinced her that we wouldn't "cut" her hair, we would just get a "trim." So off we went to get her hair cut.

We went to "Cookie Cutters" to have it done. It's a darling place and they were all super nice. The girl had Rease pick out a movie and a seat she wanted to sit in. Of all the seats to choose from - princess car, fire truck, etc - Rease chose to sit in the airplane and watch Cinderella.

After the "trim" they did her hair up in a cute "princess bun" and sprayed it with sparkle hairspray.

Rease loved it.

This is how it looks down - the ends look so much better (makes mom happy) and it is still long (makes Rease happy.)

Overall a good week of haircuts for us.

Haircuts - part 1

This week was haircut week in our house. It started with our buddy boy. It's funny because my girls have never had haircuts - not even a trim - and Liev, at only 6 weeks is getting his first. He was born with a good head of dark hair. All my kids lose the hair they're born with though within a couple months and are bald until the new blonde hair grows in. Liev started to lose his hair just like the girls did, but he only lost it from the top of his head. He started to look like a little old bald man...

Not super attractive. So we decided to shave it all off and let it start over. Josh got his little nose hair trimmers and away we went.

Liev was really calm during the whole thing. We were left with this little pile of hair.

And this cute little bald baby.

Josh says he looks "tough" with his new 'do. I think he looks cute!