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Sickness has officially hit our house. Yesterday I was feeling pretty bad–which was really rough with kids to take care of. Actually, Desmond was the hardest to take care of. He was quite crabby and didn’t seem to be feeling well. I’m feeling better than yesterday but today Desmond has been down for the count. Poor guy only had a few ounces of formula since he woke up this morning and slept on and off the entire day. It’s always sad when your baby is sick but I did enjoy all the snuggles. Hopefully this passes quickly and doesn’t take down anyone else.

Anyway, I’m sure none of these pictures are too amazing by anyone else’s standards. Mostly spontaneous portraits. But pictures I wanted to remember.

***edited to add–I just looked at this post through my phone and noticed a lot of weird coloration on photos even though they looked fine on my laptop. I have no idea what’s up with that. Sorry!

We missed the snow while Liam was in the hospital last month. But we did go outside a few days later when it was mostly melted. I made Liam sit down the whole time.

The same night that we got home from the hospital, Liam lost his first tooth! Then about 10 days later he lost the one right next to it. It’s sad to see those baby teeth leaving and the “grown-up teeth” taking their place. Also, I hate everything about losing teeth so this is going to be a miserable stage for me haha.

The boys painted Valentine’s for their BFFs to give with the cookies.

Desmond just wanted “one little drink” of coffee

One of the only pictures I got from their cookie baking day. If you can’t see it, Evangeline has flour on her face.

excuse me while I get lost in those beautiful blue eyes. I’ve taken approximately 10,000 pictures of that beautiful face because his eyes always have me melting.

and those chubby hands!!

this is a bit out of focus but it was just too sweet not to post. (also, Evangeline wears that Elsa dress about 98% of the time when we’re home)

…speaking of beautiful blue eyes…

(the only way I can ever get pictures of Kai is with a goofy face)

that face!!!

Recently I had the opportunity to team up with Nuby to try some of their new teethers that will be in store at Walmart in March. Desmond has loved trying them out and is very partial to this Beaver. Liam immediately named it “Justin Beaver” and I think that’s pretty hilarious. (also, that belly!!)

desmond chewing on nuby baby teething toy

We’re looking forward to spring and we’re officially counting down to our San Francisco vacation in April!!!

Have a good week!

February 22, 2016

Blog, boys, Family

cream art

Having a good memory can be a blessing and a curse. Liam has the best memory. Sometimes it’s so good, I think I would believe him if he said he remembered his own birth. So the day I told him “maybe someday we can make puffy paint out of shaving cream” I should have realized that he was going to remind me every day until we did it.

So finally, the other day, I mixed up some unwanted shaving cream, glue, and food coloring so we could make “cream art” (as Liam calls it.) I spent far too much time making multiple shades. If I ever decide to be brave enough to do this again, I think I would skip adding glue to the mixture and I would only make 2-3 colors. All the kids really cared about was making a mess anyway.

And as with the majority of situations, I took probably more pictures than necessary. But hey, I love these kids.

It was all fun and games until they realized the texture is awesome for finger painting

then it got a little out of hand (pun wasn’t originally intended–but now that I typed it, I think it’s hilarious)

At this point, paint was starting to get all over the chairs and table. So I declared art time over and threw them into the bath. The water was a gorgeous shade by the time they were done! And the blue only stained their skin for a few short hours.
The moral of the story is that it’ll be a long time until we do this again. But they loved it!

July 14, 2014