Recent Pictures

Here are a few miscellaneous pictures from the last couple of weeks...

For Valentine's Day, we gave the girls new plates, cups, a reading book and a sticker coloring book. Mia loves Elmo and Mickey Mouse, so these were for her. I thought the incredibly adorable monster cup was appropriate too.

Lily enjoys the Ladybug Girl series, so we gave her that book. She loves all things Tangled (the story of Rapunzel if you're not into Disney movies these days), so that was her sticker book. Oh, she loved her new cup too which has a straw wrapped around the outside; she thought that was pretty cool.
My parents gave Lily a rocking horse she named Dusty for Christmas when she was 2. We kept it out for a long time because she loved it so, but then we moved it downstairs when Mia started walking. She kept trying to climb on and would fall down, so we decided to take the temptation away. Ryan had the fantastic idea to bring Dusty back up a few days ago. It has been a huge hit all over again! Mia absolutely loves Dusty. This morning, Ryan went in to pick her up and Mia immediately started squirming to get down. When he put her down, she ran into the living room to climb on!
Mia "sharing" her water with Dusty.

She also made Dusty breakfast while I made Mia's breakfast. Here she is feeding him an egg from the girls' toy kitchen.

We had loaned our baby swing to our friends, the Powells, when baby Brody was born. They gave it back to us last week, and I just thought to take it out of the car this morning. Both girls have enjoyed using it for their babies. Lily especially is having fun. She loves playing "mommy" to her babies. For about an hour today, she rocked them in the swing, turned on the music, etc. At one point she said "Mommy, I have a new baby. I just took her out of my tummy. Look how much she likes the swing." She couldn't believe it when I told her she used to be small enough to get in the swing; I had to show her a picture to prove it. I love her sweet "motherly" nature that is coming out while she plays with this!