Baby Steps

Stats from her one year check-up:

Weight- 19lb 11oz- 25%ile

Head- 17.5in- 50%ile

Height- 30in- 75%ile

On Top of Spaghetti

A neat freak's worst nightmare for a meal.

Easter 2012

Egg Monsters. According to Preston's direction with decor, they are as follows. Daddy, Preston, Callie, and Mommy. Pretty accurate portrayals??

This is one seriously cute (bald) chick!

Please do not judge my parenting skills (or lack thereof) in these videos. How many jelly beans does Preston eat throughout the egg hunts? Why was I telling him not to open the eggs? He's three. He's holding a plastic egg full of candy. He HAS to open every.single.one. I think there is a rule about that written somewhere. Duh, Mom! (And the videos are both LONG. Don't feel obligated to watch unless you are a grandparent, though there are some pretty cute moments scattered in there. These are for you, Mimi, Mima, and Papas!)

I'll end this Easter post with a little nugget from Preston today at church. As the collection plate came around, we put some money in it. Preston said, "God can put it in his piggy bank!"

And one from dinner tonight while playing I Spy. Preston said, "I spy wiff my widdle eye something that has cwanky pants all the time. CALLIE!" (She's had an ear infection and we think-hope-is working on some more teeth. CRANKY PANTS!)

From the mouths of babes...

Partay

We celebrated lots of birthdays at our house this weekend. Mine (March 3), Mima's (March 22), Callie's (March 28), and Julia's (April 1). It was chaos and mayhem at its finest, but we managed to pull it off without any major problems.  The climax was cake time when Preston was throwing a tantrum, Callie was screaming, and someone else was crying, too. No, not me, though I thought about it. I think it was Eli?

But I digress. In tradition with what we did for Preston's first birthday, I made sure we had the big banner picture, clothes line full of her monthly photos, and photo albums from her first year. Party favors were seeds to plant in a month or so.  I thought it was appropriate for our Callie ROSE to give out flowers! (Patting myself on the back.)  Here are some snapshots of the day and a video to show the madness.  

We are so blessed to have two incredible children!   

 

 

After previewing this video, I realize I made the movie out of order. I'm too lazy to fix it, so just pretend not to notice.