New picture frames!

Building his – I mean EVAN’S – new Legos

Playing with Christmas presents like a big kid

Trying to put clips in his hair, always

Naps

FORCED SIBLING LOVE IS THE BEST KIND

He would have slept with that wrapping paper if I let him

It is slightly less dark when the kids get off the bus

Swinging

Rainbow carwash

Finding new uses for my newborn posing beanbag

Thought process: Oh look how pretty that beam of light looks. End result: Unremarkable random photo of moldings.

Sleeping baby

Sad baby

Happy baby

The cat hates being cold in the winter

Doing important baby work

MORE NAPS – we had friends over but he was so tired he ASKED for naps

I am SO GLAD I am not in charge of the basketball clinic

Showing off their new basketball skills

Caroline can’t hang past 8 pm.

It’s a whole set for playing while moms take photos

We agreed that painting pumpkins was OK even though TECHNICALLY it wasn’t October yet

Someone was really sure he didn’t need a nap last Sunday too

ONCE AGAIN, not sleeping during assigned sleeping times

Checklist for the next house: Climbing Tree

This is why Linc still has his own room

rain OH SO YOU WERE TIRED? I’M SHOCKED.

Yesssssssssss

Real Life Babywearing: Toddler lies on the floor next to my $350 wrap

They like the rain because they love umbrellas

At least the cat like the new rug

Their relationship summarized in one photo

I’m sort of trying to sell some wraps, but I hate selling wraps so I’m not doing a great job.

That face is because he wants to be in the pool with the big kids (swim lessons)

So, I did some stuff to my hair.

Brutus crashed our playgroup

This color with his eyes = A++++

Someone seems to have left my snack smushed on the couch.

LOOK AT THAT BABY PRETENDING HE IS A BIG KID SILLY BABY

We found a Pinkberry

Sleep! That’s where I’m a protractor! (Most random kid’s meal toy ever.)

You can only tell this is the “before” because my roots are greasy. The after is the same, just cleaner.

Luckily I have a full time hair dresser at home

Taking a picture of my back is hard

Friends

Shamrock Shake aka I SURVIVED FEBRUARY GIVE ME ALL THE SHAKES

Old school Duck Tales is excellent dancing music

Still an arms up baby

MEAT I WANT MEAT

I dunno lady, the hat AND the rainbow might be too much

She needed a friend to wait for the bus with her

My Tula accessories are ridiculously cute

Can you tell by his legs I wear him a lot?

Hopefully the LAST time I wake up to this until next winter

Lap Nap

NO YOU CAN’T COME BACK IN. GO PLAY IN THE SNOW.

Caroline talked her baby friend into playing “Take pictures of me because I am so cute”

Sweaty baby head looks VERY GINGERY

Wine and a heating pad for my horrible sinus pain. Neither helped.

You can tell the weather is warming up because she moved from sleeping right next to the electric heater to the sunshine spot

Caroline wants to take off her coat (it was like, 34 degrees)

Birthday party crazy

Who can possibly feel that depressed in the shoe aisle at Target?

She’s a fish

At least it makes a good shelf for dessert?

More fish-like behavior

Fort time

Naps

I woke up and was STILL PREGNANT

The princess accompanied me to my growth ultrasound

Summer means letting them stay up until they ask to go to bed

When it is too hot to do ANYTHING, buckets of water on the porch are good enough

My hero

Maybe some day I’ll need some baby clothes

It’s was a little humid

That drink is 150% sugar.

Showing off her floating skills

That is not the baby I was hoping would appear while I was at L&D

I made a giant pasta salad that no one else in my family eats. I am a selfish pregnant lady.

My cat says: For real, are you ever going to have that kid?

I LOVE MY BEAR MOMMY!

It was a really long, really hot week and by the end she wasn’t super excited about the fireworks

Obligatory blurry firework picture to prove we made the effort to go see them.

Be quite! I am working on my puter!

Traitor cat prefers my husband and doesn’t care if that hurts my feelings.

Footie jams in summer: sighting #1

Outside swim lessons are exciting

Our collection of Wendy’s kid meal clicky things is now very impressive

Adorable sleeping hands

Beluga watching

Obsessed with Friendly’s, like all good New England children

Aunt Amy sent Caroline some costume jewelry. Caroline likes ALL of it.

He told me he was sailing to New York City

There is so. much. sand. in my car.

Dance recital finale practice is more fun for her than me

Grocery shopping is cause for fancy dress

Two of a kind

Dress rehearsal (The routine was to Deep In The Heart of Texas, which starts “The stars at night, are big and bright…”)

8:30 am, lazy baby. (Footie jams #2)

You’d think she’s never seen grapes before.

Falling asleep on the couch is one of the best parts of summer (Footie jams #3)

Baby prep day! Now we can spy on the children without missing The World Cup…

We have one extra place to set the baby down (beside the borrowed rock’n’play and the free basket)…

And I have drunk so much red raspberry tea I might actually turn pink. COME ON BEBEH!