My little sous chef graduated from mixing and stepped it up to pizza-making this evening. We had a Blast...and it was Yummy! I tried to document the process, but mostly I just got the "cheeese!" face when Brady knew I had the camera.
Painting olive oil on the crust- cheeese! Spreading the sauce- cheeese! For real, CHEEESE! As many chefs do, he had to sample the ingredients- cheeese! Great job- cheeese! Yummy- cheeese!
My little buddy Brady and I have not had alone time since just before his sister was born. This afternoon for the first time, we left Daddy home with Sylvie and had our own time together. So where did we go? Uh, Harris Teeter of course! Brady's actually been asking me, "We go grocery store? I get a little cart!"
As I said, Brady was playing today. Just thought I'd mention that again in case you thought ski goggles and a level were formal accessories. LOL! This picture was taken during an intermission of the attempted family photo shoot. I was inside nursing Sylvie and Brett took these. When I saw them, they literally made me LOL. The kid is hilarious.
This afternoon we attended Devan's annaprasan and celebrated his transition to solid foods. Congratulations Devan! Since it was during Brady's nap time, he stayed home and played with his grandparents. We All had a fun time! We attempted to take some pictures before we left because we were all dressed up. Sylvie looked so stinkin' cute in a dress And shoes that I could not take enough pictures of her. Since Brady was playing instead of attending the party, he dressed in his pseudo-formal wear. haha!
We went to see the Easter Bunny today. Before we left, I took a few pictures of my bunnies.
It was a good thing we did take pictures beforehand. Brady was not having any part of visiting with the EB. (I sort of didn't blame him. The bunny was different this year. I prefer the nice big fat white bunny over the skinny brown one. Oh well!) So Sylvie got a solo shot and she's just as cute as her brother was at this age:
This is my most favorite piece of jewelry- and I do not ever take it off. It's my mommy necklace. So many friends have complimented it. My kids love it too. Well, Sylvie grasps anything she can get her little hands on. Brady loves to play with it and slide the pendants around...but he also beams when I tell him that the one pendant is for him and the other is for Sylvie.
Their names are stamped on the front and their birth dates are stamped on the back. It also has their birth stones below the text. It worked out well that Brady's blue topaz (December) birth stone and Sylvie's garnet (January) sort of look blue and pink. I love this necklace so much because I love them so much!
Sylvie and I had lunch with Alexandra and Megan today. Alexandra was born just four days after Sylvie. Both of the little girls slept the entire time that Megan and I visited and caught up with each other. In fact, I woke Sylvie up to take these pictures by sitting her on the couch until her little eyes opened...and that's why our usually sweet girl has frownie sad face. :(
They may only be four days apart, but they are currently about 2 lbs apart too. lol! Sylvie's tipping the scales @ 13 lbs to Alexandra's 11.
At 2 months old, they're still working on their head control...and when they sort of slid in to each other and butted heads we could only laugh at the cuteness!
Brady calls Winnie the Pooh "shampoo." He says, "It's ShamPooh!" when he sees him. :p
Today Brady put the fan on me and said, "Air on you! I put air on you!" Then turned them on Brett's ties that were hanging in the closet. He watched the ties blowing and said, "They wagging. The ties wagging." So cute!
Brady says, "Upside down" and "Upside up" Clever, and very cute dude.
While reading The Little Mermaid book (which is the current favorite that he asks to read every night), Brett asked him what Ursula was. She's a sea witch and those words are used a couple times in the book. Brady thinks and answers, "She's a sandwich."
Flounder is another character in The Little Mermaid. It's taken Brady some time to learn his name b/c he insists that the guy is a goldfish. Brett repeatedly tells him that he is some kind of fish but his name is Flounder. The other day Brett was changing the HVAC filters. He told Brady they were called filters and wouldn't give Brady one until he said what it was. Brady thought about it and began forming the "Fff" sound while still thinking and said, "Flounder!"
You can't tell in the picture, but it is raining pretty hard. At first Brady and I stood on the porch watching the rain pour (as Sylvie slept in her car seat listening to the rain). Then he said, "Come down Mommy!" and stepped off the porch. We both had our rain boots and coats on. Brady stuck his hand out and said he wanted to drink the rain. I laughed and drank in the toddler fun as he drank the rain.
While I was taking Sylvie's picture, I heard prolonged toddler silence followed by stomping and giggling. Someone was quite pleased with his ability to put his rain boots on all by himself and the fact that no one was scolding his running-around-the-house-with-shoes-on mischief!
We headed to Grandma and Papa's house and took full advantage of their awesome backyard.
I was pushing Sylvie's stroller out on the back deck and saw this neat scene. I zoomed the camera lens in an attempt to capture the moment among the three generations.
