Reading time

Shayla loves to read! She will sit still and listen to anything you are willing to read to her (except for the Scriptures, but that's a whole other subject.) We have had fun reading chapter books together. Some times though, the reading gets a little long. And we find the perfect photo opportunity.

Of course I woke her up right after I got this picture. As cute as she looks, I'd rather she sleep at night than the middle of the day.

Sundays

We really try to make Sundays a special day. The girls, hopefully, are learning that we dress our very best on Sundays. We always want them to look better on Sunday than any other day, so they know it is different and special to go to church. So we decided Cambree needed to look her best too. So Dad held her and I got out the little curling iron. I think the result was so adorable!



We sure have beautiful girls!

Snow!

I am sick of snow! It has snowed, snowed and snowed. Maybe it wouldn't be that bad if we didn't have a 45 degree angle driveway, but enough already! Even after three days of 50 degree weather, we got hit with another foot last night. I'm talking the wet heavy kind. If it weren't for my awesome neighbors, who helped me shovel out my pathetic driveway, Brian would have had no place to park after his three hour drive home from work.



It seems though, as much as I hate snow Shayla loves it! She can't get enough. She cried when the weather turned warm and her snow was melting. She talks sadly of spring and summer, because there will be no snow. She goes out and plays in it as long as she can and as often as she can. So we decided if she liked it that much maybe Cambree will too. See for yourself the result.

I think it's decided. I am the only one in the family whose sick of the snow.

I want to be just like you!

Anything Shayla does, Cambree thinks is great.
So we put curlers in Shayla's hair and guess what.......

Then Shayla leaves her coloring stuff and guess who is right there to do it to.

She sure is cute! We really can't imagine not having her in our home to make us smile.

It Happened

That's right, it happened... As much as I didn't want it to... As much as I cried about it... Cambree turned, how old?

Yes, one!



We had a great celebration, even though I wasn't excited about losing my baby. Shayla showed Cambree what balloons were all about.

Then we put the presents out. Cambree discovered them and was very interested. The guests hadn't even arrived yet, so she had to wait to open them.

Daddy distracted her by showing her the decorations.

Finally, she got to open her presents. How exciting!

There was no need to worry that she didn't grasp the opening presents idea. There were plenty of helpers.

I wonder if she knows what she got for her birthday. She'll have to ask her helpers.

Time for cake! Cambree refused to make a mess.
No messy cake shots here.

Maybe she'll get messy when she eats it.

But she's just not sure about what to think of cake.

The verdicts out. She'd rather stay clean. There was no cake eating here.

What was that? You thought that cake looked great! Well, thanks! I actually made it myself. Yes it's true, Kerali, I decorated the cake! I am pretty proud of myself. I'm sure you want a closer look at what a fabulous job I did. Well, I'll not bore you. I'm really not one to brag. Oh... OK, here it is....

Why We Have Children

Who's Who?

As a second child, I swore I would never do hand-me-downs. I hated them and I knew I would not subject my children to something as humiliating as wearing her sister's clothes. All of my children would have brand new clothes just for them. No way would I give in to the pressures of reusing. "Use it up, wear it out, fix it up, whatever you do don't throw it out" has never been my motto.

However, I have this other side of me called a cheapskate. I save my Q-tips that have only been used on one side, I won't throw a toilet paper roll away until every single square of toilet paper is used, and I will not throw away a perfectly good outfit. So I am very careful to make sure that my girls never know that I actually do make them wear hand-me-downs. I would never take pictures of them in the same outfit, that would be wrong!

What's this? Oh, it's a cute picture of Shayla when she is almost 9 months old sitting in a rocking chair. How cute!

Oh look, a cute picture of Cambree sitting in a rocking chair. How sweet!

What do you mean? They're in the same outfit!

I think the only difference between this picture and Shayla's picture, is that Cambree is two weeks away from being one and the outfit fits her the same way it fit Shayla at eight and a half months. Cambree sure is a tiny little thing. In fact I saved the outfit for just that reason. I just wanted to see the difference in size between my two girls (yeah, that's it.)

They sure are cute together!