A Lesson in Drawing

 

The wrong way to draw.

The Right way to draw.

Cuteness overload

What a lovely girl in a lovely dress. We thought we’d dress her up for Memorial Day today.

Quilt time

Leah and I spent some time playing on her quilt this morning. I just finished the binding on it last night while Josh was playing at a gig and I was watching the first disc of Friends: Season 1.

 

This picture above reminds me of when my neighbor lady, who is older but had strawberry red hair before it was grey, said that Leah will “be just like me having to draw on her eyebrows”. 

I’m trying not to imagine it. I’d like to think of my little eyebrow-less little girl as she is now…all smiley and giggley and sweet.

My kids are going to grow up in a different world

How amazing!

Leah Rolled Over!

One minute she was like this...


and the next minute she was like this...



That was yesterday, we got video of it today.

Raleigh at the playground

New Carpet…Finally!

 

I can’t believe it has taken us this long to cover up our splinter-ridden floors with comfy soft and warm carpet. The carpet installers came on Friday afternoon and were in and out in less than an hour and a half. Nice.

Here is a before picture, where we moved almost everything out of the living room.

Here’s a picture of Raleigh reaching for the yellow goop toy thingy that he just flung at the mirror. He was patiently waiting for the goop to fall down. In his defense, we taught him to hold the goop near his nose and go “Ah…Ah…Ah…choooo!” and then fling the goop at the wall. I know, we’re horrible parents. I’ll try to catch it on video as it is quite funny. :)

 

Here is a picture of our newly installed carpet. Notice the beautiful baby girl lounging in the middle of it? Boy is it convenient now to just be able to lay her onto the carpet with a blanket under her instead of finding the bouncy chair that Raleigh tipped over and moved all around the house.

And here’s a picture of where our tile and carpet meet up. I’m pretty happy with how well our tile matched our carpet.

My Babies

Some cute pics…nuff said.

New Toys

Leah is starting to really enjoy toys now. She has this little toy that has crinkle fabric in it and little plastic rings for her hand to gram and she just reaches out for it whenever she see it.

Above: Raleigh playing with Diesel 10 on Leah’s swing tray, while Leah plays with her crinkly toy.

Below: Leah received this floor mat toy from her Great Aunt Soni and Great Grandma Sarah the weekend of her baptism. She loves looking at herself in the mirror.

   Above: We hung her crinkly toy from her floor play mat and she’s grabbing onto the plastic rings.

Below: Pay mat pictures. Looking down on Leah and then Leah attempting to kick the cow stuffed animal.

Above: Raleigh playing with his new toy phone, which I purchased from a coworker during her pre-sale garage sale.

Below: Raleigh playing the Keyboard that his Grandpa Steve gave him. It was the Church’s old keyboard.

Above: The way cool train track configuration made by me with the help of some new pieces, purchased from my previously mentioned coworker’s pre-sale garage sale.

My Mother’s Day: Outside

For Mother’s day, Josh was playing music in church all day, but Raleigh, Leah, my MIL Deb, and I stayed home.  I got some quality time outside with Raleigh. 

Above: Raleigh picking up a leaf in his favorite tree. Earlier this spring, he hugged the tree and said, “I CAN climb it!”.

Below: Leaf in hand.

Above: Raleigh and his ball.

Below: Raleigh and a big branch.

Above: Raleigh on his Radio Flyer tricycle.

Below: Same bike, same kid.  :)