the more the merrier!

what a blessing friends are... we've had several visitors swing by lately to meet caroline and play with ethan. i just thought i'd share the happiness they brought our way!


jeannie & the kids stopped by one afternoon to say hey. they said they couldn't stay and that they'd stop by soon...jeannie just "had to peek at caroline real quick"..and they ended up staying all afternoon. :) it was so much fun to visit with all of them. i could sit and talk to jeannie all day (shocker to all who know us both!), and i love seeing how her children have grown.

jeannie could win a gold medal for adoring babies...

if only i could get this excited about diaper changes on a daily basis! :)

a quiet lunch with lori turned into a busy but wonderful visit with her, sheri, daniel & rachael, & their sweet kids... we really don't get together enough. with the exception of sheri, i learned that they are all fellow 24 addicts, and i sent sheri home with our copy of season 1! (are you hooked yet, sheri???) caroline got a good dose of lovin' that day, and ethan enjoyed having a friend over to play. (i had to interrupt ethan's playing to change his diaper, and the whole time i was changing him, he said, "friends? play!" i'd never heard him say "friends" before.) daniel & rachael's little girl felt right at home, i think... within 10 minutes of being at my house, she'd already made a cozy nest inside ethan's toy basket. :)

ta da!

ethan showing off the ABC book that gram made

lori, sheri, & rachael got their baby fix for the day

hope you enjoyed this visit with my friends as much as i did. :)

b&w baby...

i really can't get tired of b&w pictures of my kiddos....

hangin' out at home

just a peek into our everyday life... caroline loves the aquarium gym (thank goodness!!!), and she's really working on rolling over. ethan eats, sleeps, and breathes basketball and cars right now. i could get rid of all of our toys with the exception of his bball goal and a tin box of cars, and i don't think he'd care one bit!

i love this picture!
i think it's the first one w/ both of them happy!

ethan was trying to make caroline hold the toy...
he kept saying, "get! get!"

"well, if you're not gonna chew on it... i will!"

sweet hugs...

caroline is grabbing things now

shoot! shoot! shoot! awww
check out the video if you haven't already...

this is pretend play for ya...
pretending the toolbox is a basketball goal,
and pretending the basketball goal is a road :)

"football, football!"
(we're workin on it...)

sunday best

here's our little man ready for usher duty. :) right this way to the thumb sucking section... ha. ethan loved wearing this coat and tie to church last sunday. with his haircut, he sure did look like a little man. we went to olive garden after church, and somehow, he made it out with a whole breadstick. it was quite hilarious to see him tromping out of the restaurant waving his breadstick. tammy said it would be a perfect olive garden commercial (in which they should announce that soup & salad is NOT a lunch price on the weekends!!). by the time we made a quick stop at lowe's and then drove home, the breadstick was the equivalent of a very teethed teething biscuit!!! yuck!!!! i wanted to take more pictures before ethan's nap, and i knew my only option for a smile was to leave the breadstick in hand...so there ya go.

"ethan, take your thumb
out of your mouth for mommy, please..."

well, he technically obeyed. :)

breadstick for president

cutie patootie, as nana would say!

fuzzy wuzzy...

i really put off ethan's haircut this time around... he was lookin' pretty shaggy!! he actually sat wonderfully still while aunt kristie worked her magic. besides the occasional mouth full of hairy o's, he didn't object! i figured out that the key is to take him outside and get allllll his energy out before the haircut. :) click on the haircut picture and see JUST HOW MUCH HAIR is covering his clothes. he looks a bit like jacob tricking isaac into thinking he is esau...