Mama's so proud.

Bubba has learned how to write (and underline :)) his name!

And Big sis is reading!
Which makes me feel old.
I can not say enough good things about Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons.
The book is seriously nothing short of genius.
 If you have a little one around four-ish check it out, I promise you wont disappointed.

p.s.
If you do buy the book and get your little one reading Id love to see or hear about it.
Feel free to link up!
Happy reading and underlining. :)

I Heart Faces

I Heart Faces is having a little photo contest this week for "best face photo of 2010". My heart kept coming back to this photo of my daughter to submit. This picture was taken when we lived in Tennessee last year, and we picked and wished on what seemed to be thousands of dandelions at the park. I finally got the shot I wanted. :)

More sweet faces here.

She's in LOVE

With ballet. 
She lives and breaths ballet. 
When she puts on that tutu she transforms into a very graceful princess/ballerina that I have never seen before. Gracefully spinning and tip toeing around the house. I'm guilty of letting her wear that tutu whenever she pleases. I can count on a ton of sweet behavior if the tutu is on. So you understand where I'm coming from.

The instructor finally let all of us curious parents in to watch our girls on the 3rd lesson (we also get to watch the last lesson) and my girl didn't even look my way. Not once. It was weird. I stared her down the whole time hoping to get even just a glance from her. I got nothin. Its like she didn't even notice all of us proud, picture taking parents in the room. I guess that's a good thing though. She is very serious about these lessons. :)

A Princess Birthday

The crew eating my hubbys famous spaghetti dinner.

The loot. :)

I took this photo literally seconds before my son stuck his hand in the frosting. 

Couldn't resist that purple frosting I guess.

Singing the birthday song. 

She can barely handle this. :)

Notice purple frosting face. Little stinker.

 My personal fav.
I don't blame her.
Out wit your bad self, purple frosting face!

My big 4 year old girl. Wow. 4. Years. Old. 

Seems like just yesterday we had her 1st birthday party:

Oh to go back in time and kiss up that sweet little face of hers...

 

Fish kiss faces and pull up hats?

Yup.

You better believe it. Faces only a mother could love. :)

And they're mine, all mine. 

Crazy kids. :)

Blink up

The fireflies are here! 

And my daughter is in heaven.  She adores bugs in general but the fireflies are a big deal to her. She loves when they "blink up" at her as she says.  When it comes to catching bugs she's on her own for the most part. But in the case of catching fireflies, you could just call me a momma genius -butterfly nets aren't just for butterflies anymore. ;)

Aren't they just neat little creatures?

 Bub liked them too. So much so that he took it upon himself to rip a hole in my make-shift paper towel lid to catch a better glimpse. And at that point we just thought it was time to let them go find their 'husbands and wives',  (Little Lady's words) that is in fact the reason they "blink up" you know, to attract their little bright-bummed firefly mate.

Funny thing is-
as much as Bub liked them he just can't manage actually picking one up and holding it.

He'd rather just point, and if hes really feeling brave, maybe a poke.
Hes not as brave as his sister is. Not just yet anyway. 

Now, Little Lady on the other hand, she'll hold 'em till the cows come home.
Not that we have cows or anything, but you get my drift. :)

 Call me crazy, but I think they are pretty darn cool too.
This one was begging me to take its picture.

We are really going to miss them when we move back to the Northwest,
and they way they "blink up" at us at dusk. 

I'll take it!

Close.

Closer...

Still not what I wanted, Little Lady isn't in focus, but Ill take it. 

For goodness sakes, I'll take it!

I heart faces and flowers

This week's photo contest over at I heart faces: faces and flowers.

I know some of you have seen this picture before, but I couldn't resist adding it.  

Its one of my favorites of my sweet little lady. :)

Things she loves lately...

Ladybugs.

And these adorable little white grubs.

 Writing her name.

Drawing self portraits.

 And bird families.

Sunbathing.
And snack time.

Picking flowers.
And smelling them too.

Her princess hat.
And rhinestones.

Swinging.
With her Daddy.

Discovery Center- Round 2

My sister-in-law, Erin came for a lovely 5 day visit. We took her to one of our favorite places- The Murfreesboro Discovery Center. :)

Prepare yourself for a little picture madness....

Such a fun place.

And so hard to put the camera away..

If I did, I would miss this. And that's just not like me.

She's super serious about the grocery store.

Painting with Auntie Ewin is always fun.

They loved the mini kitchen.

The boys had fun too. ♥

 

Things I love lately...

Proud faces.

Post nap faces. And sunglasses.

Upside down girl.

Beanies and squished ears.

  

When she walks up to me like this and says- "Can you see me mom?"

 
Finding a lovely string of drool on a perfectly cute picture.
See it?

Taking fun pictures. Of sweet girls.

Toddler bellies and cute lips.

Rain boot wearin, milk drinkin, cheek showin boys.

When she does this.

 Last but not least, this guy.

He is a fantastic daddy and an absolutely wonderful husband and we love him!