Random Acts of March

Wyatt likes to hang out on the neighbors roof.   My friend Melissa spotted him on the neighbor's roof peaking in the windows.   I know why.  They have a little Jack Russell Terrier, who is no doubt going nuts inside, as my cat peaks in the windows and climbs all around the roof.   I wish I had a picture of that.  I caught him climbing down from the tip top.   Crazy cat.

One morning I came into the kitchen after doing something in another room, to find Makena had helped herself to crackers.   Only she poured out the entire box onto her plate.   Instead of getting mad, I grabbed the camera.   Picture worthy.

We re-discovered Matthews Beach Park on Lake Washington.  Its a bit out of the way, but a great park and fabulous playground on Lake Washington.   

Rare picture of smiling Dad.   Yes he smiles....but hard to capture it on the camera. 

Sister hugs.  I can't get enough of these.   They are loving sisters, but lately the hitting and hair-pulling has stepped it up a notch.   I need more moments like this and less hair-pulling.

Yet another incident when I was out of the room.    Came back to the kitchen to find Makena had gotten into our freezer, and pulled out the mini-ice cream cones from Trader Joes.  It was 10am.   She was caught with two in her hand, at the same time.   Maddy was screaming, "I want one!".   What's a mom to do.  Grab the camera, take pictures, and have a mid-morning ice cream cone snack.  

Park Day

There is nothing like that first few days of sunshine after a long grey wet winter in Seattle.    We headed out to a favorite park a few weeks ago with our friends.    I brought the kids ride-on toys and after gathering our stuff we walked on in.   

Broken Trike.   Hoping Dad or Pepe can fix this mess.

I was holding the tricycle and walking with the kids, when we hit a bump in the sidewalk.   The tricycle front tire flew up and literally flew apart.   Pieces of trike everywhere.  It has pretty dang funny.  One minute we had a trike, the next we just had parts.    Luckily Makena was not on it at the time.    Makena started crying at her broken trike and I could do nothing but laugh.

This particular park is near a lake and has a great play area. We ran into some other friends and as I was chatting away, I looked up to find this. My two-year old climbing up this steep ladder thing which she seems much too small for. What could I do? She can obviously handle it as she made it to the top. So I snapped some pics. Makena is quite the climber and doesn't have a lot of fear.

The three are quite the trio of girls.  Mostly its Molly and Maddy.  But once in awhile they let Makena in on their silliness.  

Classic kid moment. Thowing rocks in the lake.   I bet they could have done it for hours.

New Camera

Just playing with a new camera my hubby got with some Christmas money.  I really need to take a class.  I'm a bit clueless with the new fancier model.   For now, a few cute pics. 

Happy Heart Day

I got crafty this year for Valentines Day.  Maddy and I made homemade dipped Oreos.  
For those who know me, being crafty is not something that comes easily.   But after some googling I found these little morsels which seemed easy.  They were meant to be on stick, aka lollipop style.  But that part didn't work so well.   Forget the stick....pull out cute little bags, add red ribbon and were done!    Maddy added the sprinkles, of course.    Desserts aren't truly done till sprinkles are added, at least according to Maddy.  

Poor Mr. Wyatt had some Valentines decorations.  He looks thrilled, doesn't he?

Mmm...Yum!

Can you say too many hearts in one mouthful?

Meme and Cousin Barb stopped by with some Valentines Day treats for the girls.   Both girls were sick and this little surprise was fantastic for all of us.   After a few days at home with the girls, we are all going a bit nuts.   So why not add some candy to the mix?  They loved it and had big smiles to show it.

One with eyes closed and the other looking at the wall.    Such a portrait.

January Random-ness

Catching up on some January stuff.   Random photos.  The blog has felt no love over the past few months.  I am hoping we can change that. 

Its a bit like the closet scene from E.T, only its our mountain of laundry.

Sometimes we have a few laundry issues in this house.   Well, lets be honest.  We could use a laundry intervention.  It gets to epic proportions and we have "folding nights" where laundry is piled all over our family room floor.   I know this sounds crazy.   It is crazy.   We both hate folding laundry.   But the positive side of this?   The girls have the best time playing in it, being covered up by it and the squeals of delight are enough for us to continue this madness.   Sometimes being a bit crazy gets the biggest giggles from your kids.

My hubby is a saint.  He has spent weekend after weekend taking the girls to various outings and giving mom some much needed time away from the gremlins.    Children's Museum, Aquariums, Parks (weather cooperating), you name it...he will take them. Two thumbs up for my fantastic husband who allows mom to find her sanity for a few hours each weekend.
 

  

Monorail Ride

We have a few bird feeders in the yard.   One is a suet feeder, which the birds love.   And the squirrels go crazy over.   They devour a square of it within days.   I have seen all sorts of acrobatics performed in the name of food.  But one day I walked in and saw this.....hanging there, like its no big deal....munching away.     And how can you chase away a squirrel eating some yummy seeds on a snowy day?    

Snow!

We ended up with about 4 inches of snow over the past few days, enough to get everybody excited and make a few funny looking snowmen, poor guys got knocked over after the photo.

Our neighbor Oliva brought out the fixing for snow cones, a huge hit.

 Igloo in our neighbors yard

Maddy's picture of the inside of the igloo, LOL

X-mas picture movie

Just how many pictures does it take for a x-mas picture?  For us this year it was 60 :)

Christmas 2012

Christmas Eve at Meme & Pepe's and what do you know? Those little magic elves dropped by to leave a gift for the girls on the back door. Smart elves, they are. The girls were so excited to see the presents and their new Christmas PJs.  

 Pepe reading the note from Santa's Elves.  Time to hurry to bed, for Santa is on his way!

 Meme reading one last Christmas Eve story

Santa was a generous man this year!

 The before picture....

 They are up!  Let the chaos begin

 Rudoph Chapstick!  Does it get any better than this?

 Dad got a donut maker from the girls.  Who is more excited?  The girls,of course.

 Makena checking out the castle Santa brought.

A Rapunzel Doll from Meme and Pepe!

 Family Picture.  Poor Wyatt, he looks so thrilled.

Maddy's Holiday Show

Maddy's preschool put on a Christmas Show for friends and family.  It was one of the cutest things I'd seen, with many songs, dancing and a the Story of Christmas.   Madelyn even said her lines, which was pretty impressive.  

All the kids singing Rudolph

Maddy saying her lines.

 Picture with Aunt Nancy and Meme

She love having her picture taken.

 Snacks and Treats after the show.   Little Sis loved this part the most.

Holiday Fun

I will admit its March 7th and I'm doing some very overdue blog posts.  I keep this blog more as a scrapbook for the girls, but lately I've been a bit slow about keeping it updates.  

The Holidays were quite fun this year.  Its nice to have the girls just a bit older,which makes things a bit easier in some ways.   We took both girls to the Garden D' Lights in Bellevue.   Its perfect since its close by and a short tour.  Just enough for the girls to love and not get those little hands too chilly.

Madelyn protesting pictures.  Family pics continue to be a big challenge.

Maddy and I made a favorite recipe of mine, Cream Cheese Fold Over cookies.    I remember making these a few times with my mom and and loved them as a kid.   My mom didn't really love baking, so getting her in the kitchen to do cookies was special.   I loved these cookies as their really like pie crust dough with cream cheese and then jam in the middle.   Yummy.    As you can see Maddy loved baking with me and the mess tells of our success.

The end result was delicious.   These cookies always taste better if you let them cool and refrigerate them overnight.   They didn't look as perfect as I hoped, but end tasted pretty delicious. 

And it wouldn't be the Holidays if we didn't decorate some sugar cookies with our friends.  Molly and Tate were in on our fun. 

I had an appointment with Makena and had to drop Maddy off at a local childcare one day.  What luck when we walked in and found out it was Gingerbread House day!    This is her masterpiece.  What a fantastic idea and even better than it was done somewhere else instead of home!!  :)