Tuesday, August 31, 2010

18 months

Blair is now 18 months old! I can't believe how big she is and how much she is learning. I think this is my favorite age. They are just so darn cute.


Sometimes daddy brings home donuts after work. Blair loves this. She was enjoying a donut in this pic.
Don't ask me what she is doing cause I don't know! She does it all the time though.
LOVE it!
She loves her babies. She carries them around everywhere. She rocks them, pats them, gives them hugs and kisses! She is already practicing to be a great mommy!

Some things I want to remember about Blair at this age.
1. She has crazy climbing skills. She climbs everything. She pulls my drawers out and tries to climb them. She climbs book shelves and anything in the house she can pull herself up on. She even climbed to the top of the climbing wall at the park. Good thing she hasn't climbed out of her crib yet :)
2. She loves shoes! She is always putting them on and is so excited when she gets new ones.
3. She is fearless. She does everything Lukas does. She jumps off of everything. Their new favorite trick is to climb on the end table and jump off of the arm of the couch onto the the couch. They do saumersaults off of it and do it backwards. They love it.
4. She loves the rocking horse. She is always on it and gets mad if Lukas gets on it or wants a turn.
5. She will eat pretty much anything.
6. She is saying more and more words each and every day.
7. We have a shapes puzzle and she can do it by herself.
8. She loves to dance and sing. She sings the church hymns and any other song she likes. Of course it isn't actual words just a lot of la la la's.
9. She loves her big brother and if he isn't home she wonders the house looking for him. He starts preschool on Thursday, she is going to be sad.
10. Elmo is her FAVORITE! Sesamee Street is pretty much the only thing she will watch.
11. She is a ball full of energy and we sure love her.

18 months means nursery time. I hops he loves it because she has been a huge handful at church. I think she will like it because she stands outside the door and knocks on it like she wants to go in there all the time!

Sunday, August 29, 2010

Zoo

Yesterday we went to the zoo! We had so much fun. We almost vetoed it at the last minute because we weren't sure if we wanted to chance being rained on. We are so glad we went. It was beautiful weather. We didn't get rained on and it wasn't too hot. Both the kids were so good and had a blast.

Daddy and the kiddies looking at the elephant. The baby elephant was SO cute.


Riding the carousel. I think this might have been my kids favorite part.

Love this picture!
Blair riding the train.
Daddy and Lukas riding the train.
Playing on the alligator in the zoo play ground.

Sunday, August 22, 2010

When you have a big brother.

You get to dress up in his awesome Halloween costumes. What little girl doesn't want to be batman and the devil!


You can not tell me this picture doesn't put an instant smile on your face? I laughed out loud when I saw it. HILARIOUS!! Blair now says batman. Only because Lukas worked so hard with her to say it. He kept telling Blair she needed to say Bat man like her cousin Gracie. At first she just stared at him. He worked with her all day and by the end of the day she was saying it.

She is to much of an angel to be a devil. Lukas is so excited to be batman this year. He is always wanting to try his costume on.

Saturday, August 14, 2010

Grand kids and party

Today my parents had a party at their house. Lots of people were invited and it was a blast. We had yummy food, great company and a band. Blair loved the band and was dancing around like crazy. She would even clap her hands to the beat. When a song ended she would clap and yell YAY! Both Lukas and Blair had fun playing with cousins they don't see very often. We were glad we could get together and have a good time. Before the party started we took pictures of the grand kids all together. We didn't have much time to get a professional photographer so I took them. With that said I am NOT a professional photographer and these pics in no way reflect that I am. We did get some cute ones that I would like to say are frame worthy. My mom got all the grand kids matching shirts and they looked super cute.


Brooklyn,Ben, Lukas, Jayden, Blair and Jordan.
Blair and Lukas's smile in this one is so cute.

I know that the seating chart of this pose isn't very good but it is still a cute pic of all of them.







They had a piniata and Lukas and Blair each got a chance to hit it. We got lots and lots of candy to bring home.

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Diva

Ladies and Gentleman introducing: Miss Diva Blair.

Seriously that is what I think of when I see these picture. She is so funny. She LOVES this rocking horse. She is a little to daring for it if you ask me but I try not to worry about it and go with the flow. Even when she stands on top of it and I have to insist she sits her fanny down! She had to wear the sun glasses the other day. It cracked me up. Just a diaper and sunglasses on riding into the sun set.

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Smores

On Sunday night we went over to my parents and had a fire and roasted marshmellows and made smores. My kids had so much fun. They ate lots and lots of chocolate and lots and lots of marshmellows.

Blair loves this little chair at grandma and grandpas. However, the other day she fell off of it onto the concrete and got super bad road rash on her nose. It was so sad.
Getting ready to roast some marshmellows.



Even Blair roasted marshmellows. She had fun even if no one wanted to eat the ones she roasted. She kept sticking them in the ashes. YUMMY!

Sunday, August 1, 2010

Water fight

Yesterday we went outside to FINALLY (yes we had a ton of weeds in our flower bed) weed our flower beds in the back yard. After a while we got tired of it and it turned into a water fight. Who can blame us? Water fights, or weeding? Of course WATER FIGHT! I will be honest I didn't participate I just watched. Lukas, Dan and Blair had a blast though. In the end I was the only one dry.

He LOVES to play in the hose.
I LOVE this picture. They truly have special bond. Lukas loves his daddy so much.

No wonder he loves his daddy so much. Who else would let him squirt them in the face with a hose?

After a bit Blair got sick of being in the fight and just concentrated on squirting water in this pop bottle with the spray bottle. It kept her occupied for quite a while.