My little Valentines!

My little baby's first valentine's day... she is so cuddly!

The girls looking "cool" on Valentines day :)

My sweetheart, Josh made these valentine pancakes for us, I love him - he is so dear!

A big Valentine's hug from Kaleigha to you!

So, we went to this parenting conference this weekend and the speaker was Paul Tripp. There was this question he said to say to your kids when they are being bossy/acting like they are in control. So, I had this conversation with Kaleigha...

Me: When you act like that you are acting like you are the mommy of mommy and if you were the mommy of mommy, then you would have no mommy...

Kaleigha: (blank stare)

Me: Who would take care of you if you had no mommy?

Kaleigha: God. God would take care of me.

How to respond to that? :)

My little Jillian

This post is obviously about my sweet little Jillian, who is now 8 months old! (Special props to my friend, Shawna who watches my girls while I am at school - she took these first 2 pictures of Jillian)

So, my little Jilly-bean has likely been affected by the mold growth in our house. She has been heavily congested and has been taken to the Ped. 3 times and an Allergist once. Now, we have to go to get an x-ray for her and get blood work taken to determine why she has been having such bad reactions. It makes me so sad to see my little baby in pain! This is what she looks like in the morning - with her little face all puffy :(

Here are some other pictures to show off her cuteness though :)

Jillian and big sister Kaleigha taking their allergy medicine in their milk. Kaleigha was "helping."

Jillian has been a pro at eating solid food, here she is in the bumbo getting ready to take care of some carrots!

Kaleigha in the snow... gotta love snow days!

Getting ready to go out in the snow for the first time this year...

She of course, loved being in the snow & didn't want to go in, even when I was done :)



Snow Angels:

Gotta love snow days! We had so much fun playing in the snow during the first snow day of the year. Plus, she learned how to make snow angels, too cute!

Looks like after today, we will have enough to go sledding too, it just keeps snowing! (We just have to sneak the time in while baby sister is sleeping)

Taking down the Christmas decorations...

... and Kaleigha says, "Is Christmas over?"
Josh says, "Yes, it's January."
Kaleigha says, "When are we going to put the January stuff up?"

Some Christmas Activities...

We got ready to go to Niederman Farm - it was SOOOO cold the night we decided to go. Blame me, not Josh :) Kaleigha & Jilly-bean were all bundled up.

This is one of the scenes at the farm - a life-size nativity. The walk tells the story of Jesus and some other important events in the Bible. It was free and totally worth our time!

My two little "santa's"

Kaleigha was in a little "cherub" choir at church and this is her sitting in the pew after she was done singing. Actually, she didn't sing at all - she and her little buddies just kept trading standing places on the stage. Finally, she held hands with one of her little girl friends, who is older and actually stands still :)

These are the gifts she and I made for her teacher gifts. Inside the bow, we also tied our Christmas Card, which was a postcard type card this year.

Big Three Year Old!

Pictures of Kaleigha and the coke bottle

I wanted to write a post as a tribute to my Kaleigha, my first born little child, as she just celebrated her 3rd birthday.
Things I love about Kaleigha:
* Her squeeky voice.
* Her cuddly-ness
* The way when she smiles, her eyes smile too
* Her kindness and protection (99% of the time) of her baby sister
* Her love of books and reading stories with us
* Fish kisses
* Her two spunky little pig tails
* Giggles
* and so much more
God has blessed us so much with the gift of her in our lives. What a wonderful present to be this little girl's mommy!

Rock-Star Kaleigha:

Happy 3rd Birthday!

New Baby Kaleigha, December of 2006!!