fancy and fun

The kids keep us on our toes all daylong. With Ethan cruising the house non-stop we have had to gate the steps and lock the cabinets. Audrey now disappears into the bathroom to touch-up her make-up! I have no idea what will come next, but this is the best adventure life could offer us!

Our happy guy jamming to his tunes on his own "MP3" player!

Mom and E self portrait!

"Hmm...I think they forgot to put my paints on!" Check out those legs!!

Audrey after applying her own eye shadow and lipstick, she was SO proud!

Getting around

Ethan is now walking 90% of the time, its faster than crawling and oh so much fun! He has yet to master running but I know that in no time it will come. He really began this new skill the night before his birthday. There's no stopping him now!

cell phones and pigtails

As I always say the kids are just growing like crazy. If I could keep up with all their daily antics I would love too! They say and do some of the funniest things that make most days just fly by. Ethan is like an old man in a little guy's body. He loves cell phones, remotes and COFFEE!!! He is learning new words daily and really can understand so many things. Its amazing to me to watch him in action. However, even though he knows and understands the word "no", he chooses to ignore it when he wants to climb the stairs. Hmmmm! And Miss Audrey amazes us daily with her vocabulary and her helpfulness to Ethan. She just adores him! She loves role play, I love to sit back and watch her with her dolls, her stories are so elaborate! She has also become quite the artist and loves to draw and paint.

Ethan making an important call on his new cell phone. Thanks Aunt Cindy!

Audrey and one of her many masterpieces!

Audrey and Len's snowman!

Two crazy kids!

Cake!!

Ethan had a blast at his birthday party! His favorite part: EATING!! He absolutely loves Chick-fil-A nuggets and fries and loved his cake. Our big guy is one! This past year has flown by, we are so proud of our sweet boy!

And we're off!

Ethan has been practicing his walking skills and cruising along walls and furniture for the past few months. But with his birthday only 2 days away he has really stepped up his game!

Baking

Since we got our new kitchen range I have been going crazy with cooking. I absolutely love to cook and create in the kitchen, everything from breakfast casseroles, homemade pizza, chicken pot pie and a variety of sweets. There are several cooking blogs that I also follow,and I found these cute little cupcake pops that were just too irresistible to pass up. Below is the outcome! These have a vanilla cake center with dark chocolate and vanilla candy coating. Audrey, Len and Ethan all gave the "mmmmmm" approval!

Playtime!

Our kids absolutely love the playroom. They could spend hours just playing and being silly. They even play together at this point some. Until Ethan takes a toy from Audrey or Audrey bangs Ethan in the head with the hula-hoop on accident. But there are enough distractions that they can play for hours. It was one of the best investments we made!

Ethan loves to crawl in and out of the ball pit. He especially finds it funny when Audrey dumps all the balls out and they bounce on the ball pit (pool) and scatter the balls everywhere.

And where one goes the other is usually close behind.

Ethan is not particular about toys just yet. He finds interest in everything, he just loves to explore! Here he is playing with a fairy and the castle.

Ethan has yet to climb onto the Zebra and bounce around but he loves to pull its ears and dance to the music.

Audrey has been practicing her hula-hooping skills everyday. She is getting much better.

Now if we can just get her to shake her hips a tad more and keep Ethan away from the hula-hooper!

Here she is making the hula-hoop her picture frame!

Destruction of the train tracks is a fun sport. But more and more each day E attempts to make the trains go on the tracks.

Ethan is very fond of the phone and when it rings he picks it up and hands it to the closest person, he even puts it up to his ear sometimes. Its really cute!