Sweet Babies

Lily has a tender heart. I've blogged about it a hundred times. Just last night she was telling me about someone making fun of her dress because it was a "hot" dress. She's been wearing long sleeved dresses because she wants to and she gets cold at school. I told her she didn't have to wear that dress and she said she wanted to, but she wouldn't make fun of the girl for what she was wearing. That's not nice, she said. I love that she's her own person and is such a sweet girl. She is also sweet to her baby brother and he LOVES her. He says Lily now and it's hilarious. He does this crazy stick his tongue out move to get the L sound sometimes, and it makes me laugh out loud. I love that they love each other.


A big hug for sissy

Don't let this fool you; I'm sure she tackled him right after this.

Jacob and Grandma. We were practicing walking in the grass.

Someone thought it was funny to jump in the pictures!

Wrestling with Aunt Sonny

My sweet baby boy

This boy is almost one. Are you kidding me? 2 more weeks. Ridiculous. Jacob is walking a little bit. He's such a fraidy cat about letting go and doing it, but he can take a few steps at a time before he sits down and crawls to where ever he's trying to go. I don't think he talks very much, but he says Mama, Da, cat, hey, bye. He can roar and bark and quack. My mom and sister say he says thank you, but I haven't heard it. He follows directions now. Josh was amazed on Saturday to learn that he will bring you something (his paci, the ball) if you ask him too. I like to distract him from getting into things by asking him where his ball is.

Jacob is a sweet baby boy. He loves his sister and her baby dolls. You'll notice the slobber on this poor little baby's head. Jacob was kissing her. Now he won't give me kisses, but he'll love up the baby doll. Whatever.

He makes the funniest faces. He was just making the baby kiss pup-dog.

Jacob and the ball. He and Lily are constantly fighting over the ball, but Lily is tricky. You might not even notice her take it from him, but she does it all the time. I think little Jacob is going to give her a run for her money though; he's got a mischevious streak, I think.

He is a very happy little man. He loves to squeal and now stick out his tongue. He has a giraffe tongue just like his sister. (He also has eczema, which is why his cheeks look so red. Any suggestions for clearing that up?) I am going to try to get Easter pictures this next week, so hopefully I'll be able to show these babies all fixed up and pretty!

8 months old

So that whole taking the same picture every month didn't really work out for us. Here is my little 8 month old man. He is a speed crawler and can walk holding on to stuff. He's been practicing sitting down without just falling. He's not so good at that. Tonight he has a bruise on each cheek, a carpet burn on his forehead, and a busted lip.
He loves Lily and loves playing with her. He has also started doing this thing where he holds his arms up over his head cause he's a big boy. If he's standing up, he can only do one arm, so he looks like a Nazi. It's super funny every time he does it.


Could his eyes be any bluer?

I think this face is funny.

Sitting up like a little man.

Melt my heart.

Christmas 2010

These are my favorite pictures from Christmas this year. It was the best Christmas I can remember. Lily loved everything she got and she was just as excited to see what you got as to open her own presents. It was awesome. Jacob liked the paper.

My babies and Sadie.

Santa Baby

Santa brought the Tangled doll she asked for.

Jacob and Grandma opening his stocking

Tradition

Lily and Grandma have a tradition of making gingerbread men together. This year was no exception. Lily is the BEST cookie decorator, especially if you like sprinkles!


Posing with her frosting!

Licking the beater. There was about 10 pounds of frosting on this thing. It made my stomach hurt just looking at it!

This one needs a little more sprinkles. Decorating cookies is serious business!

What's a little spit between friends?

The Stone Family in gingerbread

Just a few more sprinkles...

Standing Ovation

Sometime between month 7 and month 8, Jacob started pulling up. He can't quite stand up without holding onto something, but he is an expert of climbing up. He loves to use you as a ladder and then stand in your lap and look around!


Playing in the laundry basket with Sister and 20 baby dolls!

Pulling up on the coffee table. This was about 2 minutes before he pulled the bead toy on his head.

My beautiful big girl

Happy Halloween!

Jasmine

Yes, yes, I did let my 5 year old wear a face full of makeup for Halloween. It was her favorite part.

Jasmine and her baby brother, Dragon

Meet the Flintstone!

If you remember our friends have a huge Halloween party every year. Most everyone goes all out on the costumes. I like for us to have matching costumes. We've been Zeus and Aphrodite, Joe the Plumber and Sarah Palin, and now Fred and Wilma. I think it's impressive that I made our costumes out of a set of t-shirt sheets and some felt.


Fred

Wilma.

The FlintStones

Fred and Hunter S. Thompson (AKA Uncle Matt)

Pumpkin Patch

We went to Dreamfield Farms in Union Springs to pick out our pumpkins this year.


Our family on the way to the pumpkin patch. Lily got a butterfly balloon and Jacob wanted to eat it.

I love these guys. They are standing on top of a huge haybale.

Petting the animals. We got to feed these donkeys. Lily's favorite part was the baby goats.

Looking for the perfect pumpkin. We got a big one for Lily and a tiny one for Jacob.