matchy matchy green squared!

caroline & cousin karina sure do love their nana for countless reasons... one of which is the supply of matching outfits! being a mom of two boys, nana has never had the pleasure of shopping for little girls... until now! and she is making up for lost time!! :) kristie and i enjoy dressing our little girls alike, and they don't seem to mind it....yet. :) you can see some more of karina in her hat on kristie's blog.




karina tries to give caroline a little lesson in body parts...
"here's your ear..."
"aaand here's my leg..."
"and here's an arm!"

oh what fun these girls will have growing up together!
and we'll have a good time too...

(if the title of this post makes no sense to you, you've obviously not seen return to me as many times as kristie and i have.... go rent it. it's a good one.)

son, take your finger out of your nose... and the corn...and the peas...

ethan loves corn and peas. i do too...they're good for you, easy to pick up, and even when a whole bowl of them lands on the floor, they're relatively easy to clean up. i consider them great finger foods... and apparently ethan considers them great "nose foods" too!!! yes, ethan crammed peas and corn up his nose today. (sigh.) right before naptime. (sigh.) my naptime. (sigh.) we were finishing lunch (which on wednesdays is required to be completely fruits and vegetables because we eat chickfila before church), and i told ethan to get his finger out of his nose. this direction has become quite common this week, so i really chalked his behavior up to a boy wanting to stick his finger up his nose... until i saw something yellow hanging from his left nostril. the corn was easy to remove. i looked real quick and saw something green up the same nostril. peas. i couldn't get it out with just my finger, so i had to get the tweezers. it took a few minutes (yuck), but out came the pea. i thought that was it, but i decided to be safe and do a little nose exam with daddy's flashlight just in case. ok, now i could see green in BOTH nostrils-- way up in there. i called ashley at dr. tom's office, and she said to bring ethan in and she'd get them out. of course, caroline had just laid down for a nap, so i called mama d to come sit with her... before she arrived, ethan came into the kitchen and delivered a pea to me... but i wasn't sure if it came from his nose or if it was stuck in his clothes from lunch, so i figured we should still get his nose checked out... plus i figured a trip to see the doctor would show ethan that this was serious stuff and we don't stick food up our nose.

he sat up on the table like a big boy and let both dr. tom and ashley look in his nose with their nose-instrument-light-thingy (can't you tell i have my master's degree? ha). i was glad he cooperated, but unfortunately, i think he thought this was pretty cool. they didn't find any more peas up his nose, so i guess ethan blew it out himself before we left. this probably didn't really warrant a trip to the dr, but i knew our friends didn't mind us coming in... and i could rest assured that there was no green giant up ethan's nose! as we were leaving, e.j. asked if ethan got a sucker, and i told her no thank you. that's all we need is him shoving food up his nose every day in hopes for a sucker from the doctor!

so this is one for the baby books, as mama d said. i'm sure it won't be the last time he does it. i apologize for those of you who visited today hoping to see pictures and instead had to hear about peas in the nose!! :) i'll post the pictures soon.

bathtime & smiletime!

ethan likes to "help" with caroline's bathtime... really, i think he just wants the soap...




caroline loves grabbing the toys hanging from karina's gym-thing that we've borrowed.... do ya think she's teething? watch out, little monkey!



i think ethan is just as entertained with the exersaucer as caroline is... i've said this before, but whoever invented that thing really deserves a big fat prize!




still more pics to come...

sleeping cutie...

when ethan sleeps, he is likely to be found curled up in a ball with his bottom sticking up in the air. it's especially precious to me because i remember feeling and seeing it bulging out when i was pregnant with him! i captured this quiet moment during a deep-sleep-of-a-sunday-nap. when he's 10, i'm sure this picture will make me cry!

sleeping beauty...

though we were already running late for church this morning, i couldn't resist snapping a few shots of sweet caroline waking up from her morning nap...i actually had to wake her up... don't you hate doing that? her precious little bubble outfit was a gift from clip and glenna, such wonderful people... one of my many adopted moms & dads growing up! everyone has contributed to the filling of caroline's closet... little girls are so much fun to dress up! here's our sleeping beauty...





i have several fun pictures of the kids from the past week, so keep checking back. hopefully i'll have time to post them soon. may this easter week be filled with reminders of our risen Savior...

Christ is risen! He is risen indeed! Alleluia!