Can I Hold the Baby?

They don't ask a lot, but when they do get to hold her they are so excited about it.




And then they lose interest quickly...


...so he hands her off.

Notice our triple round dimmer switches on the wall with the awesome black "marble" switch plate. That's right, retro! Oh, and the left one lights up orange when the front porch light is off. Thank goodness it lets us know or we might leave our guests standing out in the dark. And we took the door stop plate thing-a-ma-jig that was taped to the wall off and found a nice hole behind it. We'll have to fix that, but the dimmer switches and marble plate will definitely stay.

We Love Grandparents!

Grandma Susie came to visit! The kids totally adore her of course and were so sad to see her leave. She'll be back with Grandpa Kim next weekend though for Abby's baby blessing. Sad thing is, Jared was sick practically the entire time she was here, and right as she was leaving Madie got sick. Poor kids. And poor Grandma, she went home and got pneumonia. Super suck. Hopefully this next visit will be a lot healthier.

Madie was in a mood. Can you tell?

My Beautiful Babies

I like this one. I think I'm going to have to try this set up a few more times as Abby gets bigger.

Fresh Goodness

I learned to make trifle. I didn't have a trifle bowl at the time so it doesn't exactly look like trifle, but it sure tasted good.

Don't you love my 80's counters? It's the fake butcher block formica look. That's right, we're totally retro around here. When we replace the cabinets we're totally going to salvage it and use it again. That's right. Totally.

Nice Kids

My big kids are so good with my baby kid. They love her. And they're nice to her. I'm hoping the niceness lasts until she can run away from them.

This is Jared's look when he's posing for the camera. Funny.

And although it looks like Madie is about to take a big bite of Abby's head, it's just her dramatic wind-up for a kiss.

Color or Black and White?

So I decided the baby needed more pictures. And where did I take them? The couch, of course. I can never decide if I like color or black and white better.


Color?


Black and White?


Color?

The big ol' head on the little tiny body was getting a little heavy.

Black and White?


Color?


Black and White?


Hey, what's up?


Doesn't it totally look like she's politely trying to get someones attention?


Adorable in color.


Adorable in black and white.


If you can't decide...


...just use both.

Randomness

Trying to catch up on sleep while I can. Actually I thought I'd turn on the new Knight Rider series. I'll give you three guesses as to how I liked it.


More pics on the couch in the clown outfit I so love.


Madison loves to pose with her baby sister.

You can't tell here, but she's wearing a swim suite, a long sleeve shirt, a swim suite cover dress, a sun dress, and her butterfly dress. I guess she couldn't decide so she wore it all.

It was right at this age Abby was testing out her smile.

Happy Vanentine's Day!

...two and a half months too late. We made totally yummy sugar cookies with this awesome frosting recipe I got from my cousin Kerri. So good!

Sink Baths

This was Abby's first non-sponge bath at home. It's amazing how much skin sloughs off little new borns. Was that gross to say? If so, just pretend I didn't.

Little Monkeys

My babies are born pretty small so they have all this extra wrinkled skin. And they look like they're born with a tan so they're strangely darker than you'd expect for a little white baby. They have perfectly normal ears, but if you do this...

...they look kind of like monkeys! Cute adorable little monkeys who stay where you put them and don't swing from the chandelier.

Look how tiny she is compared to daddy's hands!