my handiwork

the pink cake pops from last night and a few more photos from the backlog on my phone.

a beautiful month for some birthdays

i'm making pink cake pops tonight for a certain little girl's third birthday coming up. she has requested a pink fete! we went shopping yesterday for her pink birthday dress. she is going to be a shopping force to be reckoned with! she definitely knows what she likes and what she doesn't.
we've already had one fun birthday night this month. all it took to satisfy that birthday boy was a plateful of meatloaf, mashed potatoes, gravy, and carrot cake. marianne insisted on the candles, lighting them, taste-testing the frosting by the finger-full (much the same as she likes to eat butter straight from the dish), singing happy birthday, and calling daddy the "birthday boy"! and now into the rosy affair in our near future with a houseful of tots to help us celebrate. plus, there's still more than a handful of other family birthdays (immediate and extended families) left to go this month.

we've had some beautiful, warm afternoons for playing outside this past week...i hope it continues. we broke out the tonka and henry had his first ride in the tree swing. i had you keep marianne from pushing very hard...she wants him to have all the same fun that she does.

on the farm in gap

shopping for a pink birthday dress today and marianne put on this hat and told me she was a farmer.

tummy time

a few good laughs

yesterday afternoon we were just hanging out on momma's bed reading books, giving henry kisses and giggling. marianne and i were pretty sure that henry even gave us a little laugh.
marianne has been choosing her own outfits lately. i about died when i saw she had chosen all stripes--pink, on yellow, on blue--but it actually looked pretty cute. i think maybe she has an eye for fashion. ha

my funny valentine

marianne, henry and i had a valentines day lunch date yesterday with her friend, max, and his mom and brother. it was a special treat for all of us. marianne and max had heart-shaped pbjs and chocolate covered marshmallows that max's mom made. his mom also made a DELICIOUS veggie lasagna!!! a far cry from my usual turkey sammy lunch. it was chock full of butternut squash, zucchini, carrots and mushrooms—YUM YUM YUM! marianne and her valentine had a blast playing in his bounce castle...truly a treat, especially for me when she zonked out last night!

here are my valentines: a preview of the photos we had taken just before henry was a month old. more to come of these!!!

momma's valentines. plus daddy, of course, who is not pictured here :)

a few snaps

A few snapshots from the last few days.

Marianne riding the buckin Bronc at the grocery. It only costs a penny for a 2 minute ride and it makes her so happy that I let her ride almost every time she asks.

Henry between outfit changes. He's a tank...I just love his cheeks and that growing pot belly.

And one of my little mother of two: changing dolly's poopy diaper while baby elephant is snuggled in her wrap.


P.S. after I posted the video of Marianne reading to Henry in my last entry, I realized that she happened to be reading him the very first book I bought for her (Little Hoot by Amy Krouse). Just thought that was a "happy accident" given the context of the blog post.