we're ready for our pictures mom

ava's had fever all day. we've been lying around today. trying to get a self portrait and the girls come in ready to pose. naked, messy hair, and dirty faced.

27 weeks 2 days

today. self timer. cropped.

easter time.

lily asked last week if they were going to get in their panties and color easter eggs again...of course i said. here's the big mess of egg coloring fun!

looking down

25 weeks. my current view down.

two and a half

Yes, we're celebrating another half birthday. My little ava is two and a half today. Growing up and becoming her own independent self.

As I type she is avoiding her nap. She usual has many excuses at bed time to leave her room. Today was poop in her pull up, potty in her pull up, showing me she changed into jammies and a few other visits to mom. Finally I locked the door. Now she's sleeping.

She's a sweet little girl who wakes up on the wrong side of the bed most days. Yes she's grouchy in the morning and wants to cuddle mommy when she awakes. You better not be lying in her spot or your might get an earful.

After she sweetens up breakfast is in high demand. Ava loves oatmeal, a variety of cereal and waffles. She has become quite independent and enjoys (demands) dressing herself. No panties yet. She insists (totally freaks out) on having the pull up with Ariel on it. We bought Ariel panties and she loves them but does not want to sit on the potty. She knows when she has to go and changes her own pull up but screams if you take her to the toilet. So much for potty training.

My "boylish" little girl has turned into a little princess recently. She adores playing dress up and barbie's with her sister. It's so funny to watch her copy everything she does. She registered for preschool today. She is excited to go to her own school next year. She knows her abc's, can count to almost 20, and loves to sing songs on the radio and her favorite kid cd's.

We went to the firefighter chili cook off yesterday. Here are a few shots of the girls having a good time.

So serious getting her face painted.

Showing off her beautiful cheek that she never wants to wash again.

Lily was impressed with the bagpipes.

bump

it's growing. almost 4 weeks later at about 23 weeks. only 4 months from yesterday. i grew quite a bit the past month and so did the boy. he's giving me a bit more movement this week. up until this week he just gave me gentile nudges.

my valentine

my little lily gave me about five handmade valentines last week. she is so sweet and thoughtful. she is quite creative, loves to draw, cut, color and write. lily is extremely interested in writing and loves to spell on her own. she just sounds the word out and writes the letters she hears.

my favorite valentine...our family... including baby brother in my tummy. and written in blue...macs...a name she likes. notice scotts biceps :)

valentine

late...but cute...

thumb sucker

isn't he cute.....

baby bump

half way there...only 20 weeks to go. stay tuned...we will be sharing some baby news on monday....

half birthday.

yesterday was my girls half birthday. can you believe she's 4.5 years old? six months from now lily will be 5 and off to kindergarten. time sure does fly.

packing it up

yes it's that time of year again, when the holiday decorations go back in their boxes and suddenly the walls look bare. this year i wasn't feeling well so not too much clean up. before the tree came down i snapped a few images of some of the ornaments on our tree that are special to me.



the girls on christmas morning...by far their favorite gift

and this was after an initial clean up... i'm not ashamed :) i think they had a pretty good christmas

christmas eve at grandma sandy's... lily got a make up kit...auntie miranda didn't have a girl so poor cole gets to play dress up

i've got a secret...

if you didn't guess before...there's a baby in my belly!

we got a peek at the little one last week. it measured 12 weeks 4 days, about 6 days earlier than expected. and guess what....

it's a...




baby!!!

it's a little bit early to say for sure but but ultrasound tech had her money on a....

december post

mid december and no post...well here's making up for that...

lily had her preschool christmas program yesterday. front and center, her and her best friend kylee were the loudest of the bunch. of course not shy at all she belted out every word to each song...





here's lily and her new boyfriend raymond after the program...she thinks he's handsome...

monday we headed up north to surprise the girls, yep they took a ride on the polar express! lily thought it was the best surprise ever and ava was thrilled to be on a train. i was just happy i didn't puke on the train! it was a great experience.

oh, did i mention it snowed our entire trip. the kids loved it! on the way home tuesday we stopped for a little fun!

the annual costume party

it's getting a little spooookie around here

Cure

I have wanted to participate in the Race for the Cure for the past several years but this year I'll finally be in town. As you may know my mom was diagnosed and treated for breast cancer this past year. So what a better time to give my support. October 14th I will be racing for her. If you wish to donate for the cure you can here:

https://www.active.com/donate/phoenix2007/MJensen42

Thanks for your support!

late again

but look who's two....



can you believe my baby is two!!! well 2 and 10 days now, oops! ava is such a sweet little girl with a mild disposition... don't get me wrong, she definitely knows when to stick up for herself and has mastered the tantrum but over all she is just a sweet little doll.

here she in on her birthday with her three favorite things, baby, gankie, and nemo jammies.

and one more with her best friend.

playing catch up

i'm finding it difficult to keep up with everything. this is thing one i tend to neglect (as well as returning your emails). business is good, i'm keeping busy. i'm taking most of september off to prepare for the holiday season and catch up around the house. i'm starting a class on tuesday, and am excited about that. lily began her last year of preschool two weeks ago. can you believe kindergarten is only one year away! she had her 4th birthday, now ava thinks she's 4 too.