Besides impersonating Homer Simpson perpetual 5 o' clock shadow...
He has words: Dada (guess who loves that?), more, and "uh-oh" This last one is his FAVORite. And boy, he knows how to use it. He's in his high chair and deliberately drops food over the side--uh oh. He's in his crib not wanting to nap and throws his paci out of the crib and all you hear is a succession of soft uh-ohs over the monitor :)
He climbs EVERYthing nowadays...stairs, dishwashers...
He hugs stuffed animals to his cheek with a big smile each time, I know, it's adorable, but I have yet to catch it on the camera.
He blows kisses and makes kissy noises when you ask for a kiss. He puts his hand or a toy up to his ear to pretend it's a phone when Addie's pretending to talk on a phone. He cleans his tray when I give him a paper towel. He tries to brush our hair with a hairbrush. He loves hats. He loves when we wear them--cracks him up. And he loves wearing them himself (except, of course, when it is meant for the actual purpose of keeping his head and ears warm in the cold weather).
He is SO into "cooking" in the play kitchen--he seriously can spend 20 minutes opening and closing cabinets and placing the food inside various doors.
And on to the big sister! Addie has started another round of ballet! She is with the same teacher and is the oldest and most experienced in the class, so of course, she is quite the star. Here she is patiently waiting for the class to start.
Addie has grown almost an entire inch since her birthday!! It was only 2.5 months ago! So that means she thinks she's 13, not 3...
Addie's actually never herself these days...she's either baby Addie still in my belly (my pajama shirts are quite stretched out with this game), Cinderella (and then whomever is playing with her gets to be rest of the cast--"now you're the stepmother, now you're the fairy godmother, now you're the prince..."), "Katie" (we don't even know where she got that name), or--in this case--Fancy Nancy.
I love this picture--just wish it didn't have my arm (in stretched out pj shirt noted above)
We've had a bit of snow lately. This was just a little bit of snow in this picture but it was the perfect stickiness for Addie's first snowman! Or as she called it, snow girl. All of her dolls and stuffed animals and imaginary friends are girls, so why wouldn't her snowman (er...girl) be one as well?
We got some more snow later that night and sadly lost our power :( Addie insisted we make snow ice cream (Cole LOVED it) and it was roughly 54 degrees F in the house when we ate it...brrr! Thankfully we were able to escape to Gaga's house for the night.
Speaking of Gaga's house...we got to spend some time there with Uncle Robby and Aunt Kati who were "in town" from Sydney Australia recently. Well, they came stateside to meet their new granddaughter, Bella and we were lucky enough to get them to visit us on the East Coast.
Cole was explaining something very meaningful to his great uncle.
I snuck in a kiss ;)
Cole snuck in an uncle snuggle
and Addie (ahem...Snow White) snuck in a few stories from aunt Kati :)
So I'll admit-- it's been a looooong winter--we don't get out as much as I want to and we are going a bit stir-crazy, especially when the electricity was out for 48 hours, but we're all still filled with love and happiness in the household....there's still February to plod through, but for now...we're all friends :)
