45 weeks and 2 days old

aka almost 10 1/2 months old! Yikes. Gotta get party planning!

Tried a new location for pictures today. Worked a bit better. But my flapper just won't sit still. Rowan was a good entertainer today which is why she isn't in the pictures today!

ugh, it's no use...

...trying to take pictures of mobile children!

I couldn't even get Eddie to look at the camera, and when he was looking, he was on the move. Oh well.

And Rowan wasn't much help either.

But Rowan decided she would cooperate for 5 seconds. And I got a cute one!

weekend home

We had a pretty uneventful weekend here. Very laid back. Ed had to work Saturday morning, and Amanda came up to visit. So the kids, Amanda and I did a little errand running. And then when the kids napped, Amanda and I ran to the outlet mall. We weren't successful for ourselves, but I managed to buy stuff for the kids and Ed. Something is wrong with that picture. Story of my life. I was in the market for snow pants for the kids for next year. And I was successful!

On Monday, Ed and I started the Atkins diet, so we enlisted Amanda to help Rowan eat up the ice cream in the house. The diet was Ed's idea, and I am tagging along. So far so good. I only cheated on the 2nd day with two bites of a brownie. Threw those away the next day! Will update with diet progress after our 2 week induction is done!

It is quite common for Rowan to ask us or others to do something with her, and she loses interest within a few minutes and leaves to do something else. Thus Amanda coloring by herself above. Was Rowan's idea, but not even 5 minutes later she was off playing something else! Oh well.

Busted! Eddie is already roped into playing with girl toys! Barbie in the tub! Although he was only interested in biting her head! He made it more boy!

In addition to Amanda getting me out for some shopping, she delivered our new stroller! And some more hand me down clothing for Eddie (from the Schuetts). So exciting! Amanda was my personal shopper a few weeks ago and hit up USA baby's closing sale and got me a front/back double stroller by Graco. And Eddie's closet is now full of clothing that fits (18 months already, although a lot is a bit big still, but at least not too small)

1st time in snow

for Lil Eddie! He didn't think it was too bad. Although he would have liked it better if he could have gotten around. And the face wash his sister accidentally gave him didn't go over so well either. She was holding on a little too tight when they tipped out of the sled and Eddie got a face wash! Rowan would have liked to stay outside forever, but Eddie isn't quite ready for that.

Rowan was showing Eddie how to eat snow too! Silly girl!

The two of them together. Fun times!

messy boy

Somebody loves to eat! Wish he could teach his sister how to sit and eat! Another tooth came through this week too! Makes 7 teeth now!

pulling up...

Caught the little boy pulling himself up on a bin of toys! He is starting to get a bit more daring, but still not ready to use his knees to their full potential. Eddie still has a mad army crawl working. And it gets the job done. He can get from crawling to sitting if he wants to now, and pulls himself up on his own at times. He is growing up way too fast!

the Kipper...

This session we had to switch to Tuesday nights in order to get into a night class. So Rowan now swims from 545-615pm. She has moved on to the Kipper class. She is the youngest one in the class. The others are all 4 already. She did pretty well. There was just one thing that was new for her.