Science Museum

The girls and I haven't been to the Science Museum in quite some time, since Skylar was about 12-18 months and decided it was time to check it out again. They had a pretty cool dinosaur exhibit we wanted to see. We also met our friends Dawn and Alex there. We haven't had a play date with them in quite some time either.

Skylar with the Triceratops

The girls roaring like the T-Rex. (Sorry Ani)

Trying on the dragonfly costume.

Skylar hatching some dinosaur eggs.

Posing with a dinosaur who's name I don't remember. Ani going to put her thumb in her mouth. Hard to get pictures without it. She was also very tired this morning.

The dinosaur pictures were taken before Dawn and Alex arrived at the museum. Then after they were there I put the camera away for some reason. Too busy gabbing maybe. So unfortunately the only picture I have of the 3 kids is on our way out on Ronald. And they're slightly blurry. :(

Both still very cute. Thank you for a fun morning friends.

Picture Picture

I realize I don't send updated pictures of the girls out to family as much as I maybe should. I'm never sure who really would like a picture or not sometimes. If you would, just holler and I'll shoot one your way. :) For those that would just like to see them here, I'll try to scan and post new ones as we go. The one of Skylar is from her 4 yr shoot (she turns 5 next week - oh my goodness!) and the one of Annelise is from this past October. She, her sister and 2 cousins had pictures taken for Grandpa and Grandma for a Christmas present. Turned out really well!! So without further ado....

Skylar 4yrs old

Annelise 2 1/2 yrs old

For anyone curious, these are the Christmas pictures with their cousins, Alexis(7) and Dylan(6).

I will be back hopefully in a few weeks to update with Skylar's birthday pictures. At the very least I'll try to get it in before we start seeing more pool pictures in the back yard. :)

Happy HalloThanksChristmas!!

Okay, I know it's been awhile (ahem) since I've blogged so I thought I would add some pictures of what we've been up to the last couple months. In my defense, we have been fairly busy. Skylar goes to preschool 3 mornings a week. (Kindergarten next fall, oh my goodness!) She's also in dance class and has been taking swimming lessons. Loves swimming! Annelise has ECFE (school) on Friday mornings and swimming lessons on Thursday. I get in the water with her. She can't take swimming by herself until 3 yrs old. Wednesday is the only day of the week we don't have anywhere we 'need' to be. So that's what we've been up to (oh and we've been remodeling the basement since Thanksgiving, but that may be another blog post).....now, on with the pictures!

I'll go waaaay back to Halloween. This year the girls were a witch and a clown. It was relatively mild night and the kids only had to wear winter coats but no mittens. Clear sky and a full moon - perfect trick-or-treating weather.

Skylar wore that same clown outfit, a few years back too. Quick flashback, in case you'd like to see what she looked like. :)
Back to Halloween 2009. This is a picture of Skylar and her classmates. They had a 'Pumpkin Day' party. All the kids were so cute in their costumes. I think there were 3 Snow Whites. The 2 little girls on either side of Skylar are her good friends Sailor (Snow White) and Ava (Cat).

Thanksgiving was fairly low-key. We stayed home, sat in our pj's and watched the Macy's Parade on TV. The girls thought it was great. Our local paper has a turkey coloring contest, so Skylar spent some time (15 minutes, smirk) coloring her turkey. Finished product.....she was so proud.

Christmas
For Christmas we get a real tree (long needles, easier to pick out of the shag).

The girls loved having all their favorite holiday toys out again. There's the whole collection of talking/dancing characters, as well as their Little People Nativity set. They also have a full set of small, plastic Rudolph and Misfit toys, but I don't have a picture of those. Skylar likes to re-create the show and have Santa deliver all the misfit toys. It's fun to watch.
Also made a fun gingerbread house. The girls thought it was great and kept sneaking treats off of it. Several times I'd find them and ask, "What are you eating?!" "Nothing." :)
Christmas morning was beautiful. We had nowhere to go and it snowed ALL day. First we opened presents, had breakfast, went outside made a snowman and went sledding. Looked a little something like this....
Since we're almost to the end here (for now) and I haven't posted any pictures of Ani yet, some New Year's Day pictures of the cutie posing in her new Christmas duds.
Hope everyone is doing well and had a wonderful Christmas!