Happy Valentine's Day!

Happy Valentine's Day from all of us.

so much better

Bell walks into the bathroom (my attempt to get 2 minutes alone was unsuccessful)

"Can I help you?" I ask.

"I love you, mommy, sooooo much!" she exclaims.

"awe thanks, i love you too"

She turns around to leave and runs into the doorway, giggles and continues out the door.

-that 5 sec. made my day much, much better.-

the bowl and the park

We've taken a picture of Bean in this bowl since the first time she was in Florida. She was 6mo. old then and it was really cute how she fit so sweetly in the bowl. This "tradition" is getting a little ridiculous....

Bean - in the bowl

Bell wanted a turn too

 We visited the park at which we took so many pictures last year. I wish we could've taken another family picture this year.... i wish we could take another family picture anywhere anytime. But the girls loved it this year even more than last year. They could climb up on these springy things all by themselves.

Bell

Bean

 And Grampy and Grammy assisted them in their most favorite activity in the whole world!

Grampy and Bell

Grammy and Bean

 I took a bunch of pictures of each girl in this really cool tree. Here is one of each of them:

Bell

Bean

 Playground black and whites:

Bean

Bell

Bebo Norman The Hammer Holds

Rocking Out in Florida

Rockin out on our first day in florida!

bean

bean

bell

bell

The lady who owns the condo that my parents rent left out some of her grand-daughters toys for the girls to play with. This guitar was a favorite right away. Rock and Roll!

flying

I started the long process of editing photos from our trip. (over 600) Don't worry i've probably got it down to somewhere around 450 and i'm not done yet.
Here are a couple of pics of the girls on the plane on the way down. The airline safety people would be proud. The girls sat down, immediately buckled their seat belts and reached for the safety guide conveniently located in the seat pocket in front of them.

Bell

Bean

 

tired heart

At lunch today I told the girls to finish up because it was almost time for nap. I asked if they were tired. Bean put her hand on her heart (we were at the dr. earlier that morning and it was pointed out to her) and said, "um, mommy, my heart is tired".
It was so sweet....even with an ear infection she's a sweat-pea. I know the feeling of having a "tired" heart. I just never thought about it like that before.

I'm working on downloading and editing pictures. I'll be posting some great ones of our wonderful vacation soon.

under a shady tree

another quick one
(please pretend you cannot see the disaster that is my house in this video)

This DVD is put out by "The Laurie Berkner Band". A big recommendation from us to others. :)

table chats #8

Both girls singing the alphabet song:

table chats #7

Bean singing Away in a Manger