Elise 3 years old

To our sweet little girl, 

You made us parents for the first time and gave us the greatest gift.  It has been amazing to watch you grow in size, spirit, and spunk.  You are so sweet and caring and truly have a heart of gold with so much empathy it amazes me that at 3 you care and know so much.  You counter that with equal amounts of rascal and trouble to balance you out and there are definitely days the scales may tip more to rascal.  You are too smart, beyond your three years, and know exactly how to work your magic.  You are such a happy little girl that is filled with an amazing vocabulary and these days such curiosity that  "why?" ends each sentence.  You absolutely love your little brother and are such a good sister to him, teaching hip to repeat words after you, showing him how to carefully step over curbs and bumps in the road, and constantly saying "Finny" or "buddy" be careful.  You are still will only eat macaroni and cheese, other pasta, cheese, yogurt, bread with cream cheese, corn and peas. You like to crawl into bed with mommy and daddy at midnight almost every night though time after time we carry you back into your own room, to find you to return to ours in a few short hours and only to wake up at 6:30, yell out "it's light outside time to get up"!   You are scared of kitty cats and foxes and think they are in your room and are constantly making forts with doors to hide from them.  You are one silly little monkey!

Weight: 29lbs 9oz (39th% - yay we went up)

Height: 37" (50th %)

BMI: 15.19 (33rd%)

Happy 3 years love!

Little brother love too.

a birthday celebration

We had a special family birthday celebration for Miss Elise who turned three last week.   Eli was spoiled with presents and love from her grandparents.   The most memorable moment though happened while grandma Connie, mom, and I were keeping Elise and Finn distracted in her room while dad, Evan, Lucie and Quinn carried the play house from the garage to our back yard.  This play house has been under construction in our garage by my dad and Evan for the past few weekends as it has taken 10 hours for 2 people to assemble.  My dad was so excited to see the expression on Elise's face when she saw it.  So anyhow, as we were distracting the kids in Eli's room, which faces the back yard, Elise happens to look out of her window at the exact moment they are carrying the house to its new location.  She yells out in the most memorable way "Ohhhhhh a house,  I LOVE it!"  She has never use the expression "I love it" before, and though it is hard to describe in words, her reaction to seeing the house was absolutely priceless.  What a special birthday for our big girl.

 Two love bugs, Finn and Owen

Elise's buddy, Finnegan F. 

Happy Valentine's Day

Lovely flowers from my sweetie and an evening making Valentine cards  for with the kiddos:)  Elise did sign with a big E and place stickers on each of hers.

 These two are peas and carrots already, in size that is.  

Owen almost 5 months and Finn 16 months: 

Finn vs. Owen

  Torso size - tie

Leg and arm length - Finn

Weight - Owen

Brown hair like auntie Petra - Owen

Blond hair like auntie Lucie - Finn       

Adorably cute - tie

                

Fire & Ice

Fun date to Fire & Ice at Pybus for pizza and gelato!  

House project, phase one almost complete

The past several weekends, following the wall demo, carpet patching, tile work and ceiling drywall patching have been spent painting the ceilings and most of the remainder our house.  For now, everything but replacing the baseboards is complete and we are glad to have our weekends back!  We love the sunshine streaming through and the open feel.   Until early Spring, when we tackle the irrigation and landscaping, we are going to refrain from Home Depot:)

Our two sillies

There has been lots of action and silliness in our home but poorly documented, thank goodness for the phone camera and Instagram.  Our two peanuts are as silly as can be and love to play together.  

The undies on the head was all Finn's idea:)

Everyone loves chips!

During the Australian Open, Elise suddenly disappeared to her room and returned wearing this, nothing but a tulle purple skirt and a shirt.  She yells out "I'm the same" and points to the screen where Azarenka is playing in a purple skirt and nude bloomers, Elise continues "I'm naked like her"!

Finney is getting so many new teeth and is a trooper as 4 are coming through at once.

This weeks breakfast choice - corn, just corn!

First Snow, finally!

End of January, and finally the first snowfall.  Even a few glimpses of sunshine!

Everyone was excited to see the snow this morning and go outside to play, but one changed his mind quickly after stepping outside.  After spending at least 15 minutes getting all bundled up, we spend maybe 10 minutes outside before the tears were too much:)