Sillies

Big news: I vacuumed this morning! Not every room, but I got the stairs which count as like 16 rooms because they’re such hard work. Ok, enough of my boasting.

Nine times out of ten, my favorite pictures are the silly ones. That is probably because it’s nearly impossible to get “good” pictures of active kids, especially indoors. So nine times out of ten, all I have are silly, blurry pictures. I guess they are more realistic. My goal for Amber is to get ONE good picture of her per month. Just one. We’re barely a week into May and I’ve already taken waaay too many silly/blurry/blah pictures of her in my effort to get that golden monthly picture. It’s getting harder to get good pictures of Amber because she moves a whole lot more now than she used to. It probably doesn’t help that most of my pictures are taken with a cell phone these days too. It’s always the closest camera when I need one! Well yesterday when we got back from a pleasant morning walk, Amber had just woken up from a pleasant morning nap in the stroller and she was being extra cute and smiley. So I whipped out my ever-handy cell phone and took The Golden Monthly Picture at last!

That face!! This was the morning after her very first FULL NIGHT of sleep: 7pm-6:30am with no wakeup calls! Well, I gave her the binky around 8pm but that doesn’t count because I didn’t have to wake up to do it.

 

Here are some sillies to balance out this moment of perfection:

The Daddy-boat

One happy, one sad. This is a typical scene in our house: Rose sobbing over some minor matter while Amber happily plays in the background. Yes, Rose is wearing a button-up cardigan sweater as pants here. She may have been crying because the sweater wouldn’t stay up on her waist.

A family walk. We walked to the library on Saturday afternoon, and the kids took turns riding Rose’s bike. Those floppy bobble-head helmets are downright comical!

Swing swing swing

 

Rose looks WAY to big to fit in that Costco cart, but we squeeze her in anyways. Amber clutched Rose’s dress the whole time we were there, little sister. Rose kept removing Amber’s little fist and Amber kept grabbing her dress again.

Morning faces! In an effort to be more consistent with our family scripture and prayer every day, we moved it from evening to 6:30am this week. Let me tell you, even though Amber has been sleeping better lately, it is still not easy for me to wake up in the mornings—something about over a year of intense physical trauma and sleep deprivation. But it’s working—we’re 5 for 5 since we started morning scripture and prayer!

Rose has taken to doing her own hair a few days per week, and let me tell you, those tangles are NOT FUN to brush out. But she happily straps a headband over her bedhead and frolicks all day feeling beautiful so I can’t put a stop to it.

 

 

Walking home from school for the first time in weeks and weeks. Amber is usually sleeping all the way up to the last minute before we pick up Jay, so we haven’t been walking all that much.

Our latest feat of engineering. I love our wooden train tracks almost more than the kids do! It’s one of my favorite building toys.

 

Spontaneous Rose-hug from behind. I was conveniently holding my phone and captured her sweet hug. She came up behind me, put her arms around my neck and said “This is a hug, Mommy.”

 

Sometimes it seems like a good idea to put the pants on the baby’s head. These particular pants have bows at the ankles, so they made me think of braids when they were on her head. Or a pharaoh. Or a Vermeer painting (he may have called it “Baby in pants”). Anything to cheer up the hungry cranky teething baby!

Jay didn’t have school today so of course we had to pile into a chair and take a bunch of silly pictures!

 

 

 

These three little people make my life so good. I’m glad they remind me to be silly, because BOY do I need it, especially when things like this happen: