Sarah's 5-year Pictures

Noah's 3-year Pictures

Resemblance at Home

I'll never admit to staging this.
(Hey, look...the girls are even wearing the same dress!)

Blogiversary

So, as of earlier this week, I've had a blog for a year. As of the official anniversary on the 23rd, I had written 81 posts. That's an average of about 1 1/2 per week!

Some things I've learned:

• I say "cuteness" a lot.
• My posts are all about the pictures.
• Which is why I get into posting blitzkrieg modes.
• My template is narrower than I'd like, but I'm too lazy to change it.
• But not too lazy to spend forever trying to see if I could hack the HTML.
• I couldn't.
• I love getting comments.
• Most of my commentors are friends or fellow-bloggers.
• Despite the fact that my sisters obviously read my blog, they never comment. *sniff*
• My kids are dang cute.
• Blogging is fun.
  

Why I'm a Mom

For every "Ew!" "Yuck!" or "What IS this?" there's a "Mom, you make the best lunch!"

She moves!

Yes, Karen crawls now. She's been going strong for a couple weeks now...followed immediately by trying to pull herself up on things.

She's even become a fan of walking, holding on to hands. She's especially cute because she lifts her knee way up before placing the next foot. Sometimes it leads into more of a lunge. As we walk, I've been saying, "Step, step, step" to her. So, this week, she started talking along with me. "Bap, bap, bap." You might think it's just babbling, but she only makes that particular "bap" while walking. I started enunciating the "step" better, and she starting saying "Sssss Bap!"

Noah Fielding

Yay -- I can upload video!

Just a few random quotes

Sarah:

"I keep growing up, then I die and live forever."

"Holy cow, this ghost soap is amazing!" (I bought foaming soap with GID ghosts on the bottle)

Noah (listening to TMBG song "C is for Conifer"):

"C is not for that! It's for cookie!"

More General Cuteness

Karen had fun at Sarah's birthday party. Napkins and pizza. What else does a girl need? Oh yes...a great hair do.

Noah was being crazy running wildly through the house one day, carrying a can opener. When he fell and cracked himself in the head, we had some excitement trying to get the bleeding to stop and clean up bloody hands. He was pretty happy about having a Spider-man Band-aid though.

This is the pre-crawling. She would get down and try to move around but kept that one foot out to anchor herself so she could sit back up.

Our home teacher took the kids out in his canoe as a treat for their birthdays. They loved it and didn't even drop the oars in.

A boy just can't fall asleep without his light sabers close at hand.

What do you think? Is Sarah big enough to hold Karen? They both seem to like it.