My little helpers?

Hey look Mom is bringing the laundry basket out again! They see me coming and make a beeline for the couch to "help" me fold the laundry. Nathan usually waits for me to empty the basket and Levi and Paige will help me empty the basket. Nathan loves to put his toys in and out of the basket. They push it around the room and have a blast. Got to love those non toy toys!

Levi is helping by grabbing my dryer ball.

And Levi is also "helping" me by throwing the nice clean and folded wash clothes onto the floor. Little stinker.

Snowpocolypse 2011

In January we got a huge snowstorm. If fact we had a couple storms back to back that just pounded us with snow. Whomever said we were going to have mild winter was seriously misinformed! We are finally just getting to go out places again. I have needed to go to Target and Costco and Wal-mart among other places. I hope to get to all those places this week! Here are some of the picks I took. I took one at night when it was snowing and the rest in the morning to show the aftermath. I swear the kids around here are going to be in School till July!

That night out our front door. Our cars are off to the right :)

 

The next morning. Alan dug us out and actually went to work. Of course he is from Erie PA so he grew up with this nonsense.

My neighbors across the street like to build a huge snowman when we get enough snow. What's sad was this guy was built before the big storm which just means we had enough snow already for them to build him!

This is our neighbor who shares a porch with us. He had yet to dig himself out.

This is my poor tree that sadly I don't think is going to survive this winter. It is actually my favorite tree we have and has been looking a little sickly because of how harsh last winter was. This photo also reminded me of a photo project I did in college called white on white. Too bad I don't have that photo handy cause I would post it too.

I have had quite enough of snow and I am so ready for Spring. I can't wait to be able to take the trio to the playground and run around outside with them. Our wagon has been lonely and wants to go for rides again!

Time

Time has gotten away from me yet again. I am currently working on getting photos together for some blog posts so please stay tuned. Here are a couple photos just to keep you satisfied until I can get my act together!

Say hello to Mr. Levi buckethead. He thinks it's hilarious to empty the toys out, put on head, and then crawl around bumping into things! I crack up every time he does it!

Peek-a-boo!

This is how everyone watches the wiggles right?

Nathan doing one of his favorite things.....reading books! They love books!

Nathan loosing his pants. The boys are in 18 month pants because their legs are so long. Their waist however is skinny and a lot of the 18 month pants just fall off!

Nathan has also become quite the pro at going up the stairs. Coming down we are working on. Currently he will sit down and scream which I guess works for him as of right now!

Paige and he BFF Minnie lovey. She almost always has minnie with her which is very cute. Her favorite part!?! The tags of course!

Former gymnast!?! Who knows. She is a silly little girl though :)

Alan took this picture and it is his current favorite. He is working on his photo skills! :) Of course it helps that he has 3 very cute kids to photograph! Not that I am bias or anything :P

Perkins anyone?

We did it! Alan and I took the trio out to dinner for the first time! We decided to go to Perkins tonight for dinner. Alan almost backed out. Who can blame him? It is a daunting task to take three 13 month olds pretty much anywhere let alone out to eat. I convinced him we would be fine. We went early. Their usual dinnertime is 5pm. We got there around 4:30pm which ended up being perfect. We were eating a little after 5pm. I brought snacks and books to keep them entertained. I forgot bibs though. Oh well no one is perfect!

I ordered an adult meal for them to share. I figured I would need 2 kids meals to feed them and 1 adult meal came with more food and was cheaper then 2 kids meals. They had breakfast for dinner. :) I love breakfast for dinner. They loved the pancakes. Their meal also came with fruit which I was happy about. They were so good. I am so proud of them. I actually overheard some of the Perkins employees talking about us off and on. They were surprised with how good our kids were. They complimented Alan when he went up to pay. Did I say how proud of my kiddos I am? Because I am very happy and proud of my trio. We may need to do that again sometime. I vote for Olive Garden! :)

Knitting

For Christmas this year I knit a lot of gifts for my family. Mostly hats and 1 scarf. The scarf took the longest and I just finished it. I loom knit and use the knifty knitters to do my knitting. I just had the round loom set which is what I used for the hats and scarf. I got the long loom set for Christmas. I can't decide what to knit first though! Decisions decisions. I need to find something though. My reward for finally finishing the scarf was to get to use my new looms! I guess I will have to go look something up. Here is some pics of the scarf. I am pretty proud of it. I added some flowers to it which are a little hard to see in the pictures because they are the same color as the scarf.

13 months old!

Really it's true! I can't believe it. Before you know it I will be post their age in years instead of months! Gah! I decided I am still going to take their picture every month. I had a lot of fun doing it their first year and I love being able to look back at them. I don't have stickers like I used to so I wrote on the pic in kodak easyshare.

Levi: He is my wild child and troublemaker. So you know your typical 1 year old boy! He is so close to walking. I know he can do it. He has let go a couple of times and taken a few steps but then I think he looses his confidence and squats to the floor. He is also my climber. He tries to get onto everything. He has yet to really get himself into too much trouble with that....knock on wood. He also likes to steal things from his siblings and throw them over the gate. In fact he loves to throw toys in general over the gate. He is Trouble! Gotta love him with that mischievous grin and giggle.

Nathan: He is progressing in leaps and bounds. He is now an expert crawler and just started pulling up to a stand. He has also started cruising a little if the right motivation is there. He has become quite the chatterbox. He doesn't really do more than babble but he does it very loudly! He loves to read books and beat things on other things. Currently he likes to take toys and bang them on the sliding glass door. We are working on that one. The one thing he does that melts my heart is he will come up to you and lay his head on you. He will then get up and go about his merry little way. I love the occasional love.

Paige: What to say about Paige. She is a very chatty little girl. She will sit and "read" books to herself. I love it because she has such inflection in her voice. She loves to be held and give kisses. She dances whenever music comes on. It is pretty funny to watch her just break out into dance.....especially at church! She loves her lovey and her stuffed animals. She carries them around with her. She is also close to walking. We are just waiting for someone to just take off!

I love watching them play and learn. Levi has started to put together legos while Paige talks on their pretend phone. Nathan plays peek a boo with himself in the mirror. They are so much fun!

The Wiggles obsession grows........

Point blank my kids love the wiggles. They can be in super crank mode and I put the wiggles on and all goes silent. It is purely magical. They get all excited and start dancing. Over the summer (before they were truly obsessed) I found the Wiggles beanies and a Captain Feathersword beanie for $3.00! They got them in their stockings for Christmas and loved them. It took a lot for me to hold on to them for so long but in the end it was worth it. Since they liked them so much I felt the need to complete the collection. So off to ebay I went. I found Dorothy the dinosaur, Wags the dog, and Henry the octopus for $.99 cents each! Score! They came to about $5.00 total, each. So for about $20.00 I got them The Wiggles bunch. Even better is that they play with them every day. Love it! So I am a nerd and I took pics of our new friends! :P Also Alan is funny and will actually make them act out stuff from the dvd's. The kids love it and it is pretty funny. "Poor Jeff has fallen asleep again!"

As I was taking the picture, laying on the floor, Levi decided it would be fun to climb on my back and play. He loves to pull my hair. I am not a fan. :P

He then decided to try and stand. He is definitely all boy!

I usually hate pictures of me but this last one of me and Levi I like very much!