For your listening pleasure

Carolyn made it obvious when I was filming Blake that she is more of an in-front-of-the-camera girl. She wanted to put on a little show.

And he's off...

Blake rolled front to back a few weeks ago, but yesterday he learned to roll back to front. And he hasn't stopped since. I'll have to start making Carolyn keep her crayons picked up and all that other baby safety stuff.

Here's a link to the video. Blogger hates the videos from my camera.

Tulip Fest

We headed to the tulip festival yesterday. The weather was wonderful and the flowers were beautiful. These purple ones were my favorite.

Blake stayed right here in the stroller the whole time.

But Carolyn got to cheese for me all over the fields. She fits in this little shoe...

she's a cute tulip...

and she sure makes those tulips look nice.

Her favorite part of the day was riding the shoe train. I think this is the first time she went on something like this by herself. Well, Rachel, Emilee, and Chandler were all in different shoes, but Carolyn rode by herself. She had so much fun with it.

Look long and hard because you will probably never see this again

UPDATE: Apparently I need to clarify: I did her hair. It's adorable. She took it out in less than five minutes.

Monkey See, Monkey Do

A few months ago I posted this picture


showing that Carolyn understood the idea that I had a baby in my tummy.

At the time, someone (I think it was Mom) thought it looked like she was trying to nurse the baby. Please. If Carolyn were trying to nurse her baby doll, it would look more like this:

Blake

Easter Party

Jeremy came up with this great idea to let Carolyn have an Easter party. He thought it would be fun to host an egg hunt for her and some of her good friends. And then he asked her if she would like to do that. So, as you can imagine, for two weeks we have heard of nothing but this party. "Is my party today? How many more naps until my party? Is Arys coming to my Easter party?"

Finally, the day came and this was how Carolyn felt about it:

(This is trying to repress giddy laughter.)

We had dinner together...
...and you should hear a table of young kids telling jokes. It's hilarious!
Here are the little hunters getting ready to find some eggs!

Post-hunt enjoyment:


Here are the children trying to blow dry the dyed eggs so they could put their stickers on.

We eventually just got out a real blow dryer so we could hurry and finish. There needed to be time to watch Bolt. The kids watched the movie until the parents could come back and get them. That's right. This was a drop-off party.

Special thanks to Elyn who kept Blake happy all night. She stayed when she realized that Jeremy wasn't going to be able to make it home from work in time to help. She was a great help.


Here's Carolyn's basket at the end of the night.


Of course, this morning her basket is empty. She made quick work of it--just in time to refill it at the neighborhood hunt in a couple of hours.

Cookies with Carolyn

Courtesy of Grandma and Grandpa Horner, Carolyn had the opportunity to decorate some sugar cookies for Easter.

She invited a friend over and they went all out. I believe it was one spoon of sugar in the mouth for every two on the cookies.

I think the cookies turned out great.

Thanks, Grandma and Grandpa!

Kelly comes to town

Kelly came to visit with her brand-new fiance, Mike. We had a great time. Saturday we took them to Five Guys and had burgers.

This is Carolyn's outfit for the big outing. You can't see them very well, but she let me put barrettes in her hair. One Elmo and one Big Bird. We're making progress.



After lunch, the guys stayed home and played Wii, while Kelly and I went and did some fancy shopping at Target. Carolyn needs all new clothes for spring. The shorts all have a nice 1.5 inch inseam though. We got one pair to see how they would look. I think we are going to follow through with my threat and make her wear Blake's newborn pants for shorts. She did it all day yesterday and they fit fine.


Sadly, this might be the first picture of me with Blake since his blessing day.

Of course, what is a trip to see friends without cookies? We ate them while watching Seven Pounds with Will Smith. Weird, but interesting.
Kelly and Mike left Sunday to return to Seattle. We hope to see them again soon.

P.S.: The beautiful roses aren't mine. They're Angel's.

P.P.S.: Blake rolled over yesterday. From his tummy to his back. We are still waiting to see if it was an accident or on purpose.