Clara playing

Some pictures of Clara goofing off at home - playing with her purses and smiling for the camera.

Clara loves crayons

Clara loves to take the crayons out of the crayon box (that yellow thing on its side) and scatter them all around

Ice Skating

In February, I took the boys ice skating. We all had a great time. Talk about a workout!

Clara - TTYL

Clara jamming on the ipod & working on her texting skills :)

Goofy kids :)

January 2009

Me & Mom at the 3M 1/2 Marathon

Ok - so this is mostly for the kids but I had to include this one...

January

Well, my New Year's resolution to keep the blog more up-to-date has (obviously) not helped!


Now that I've finally downloaded pictures from the first part of the year (yes, the year) here is what we've been up to.


James' Bday - January 7th

Cheese! (and ham)

Crackers

A conversation between me, Aidan and Brandon


Me: Brandon, you crack me up.

Aidan: Am I a cracker up, too?

Another Aidan-ism

When flipping a quarter Aidan asks, heads or birds?

Look at an "old" quarter (not a state quarter) and you'll get it :)

Clara's 1st Haircut

Clara got her 1^st haircut on February 14^th

She handled it pretty well, a little crying at first but not much. She just got her bangs trimmed up so they wouldn’t be in her eyes anymore.

As I promised James:

No curls were injured in the taking of this haircut

Aidan-ism

Hand Sans-ma-tizer = hand sanitizer

Aidan isms

Lemo-lade = Lemonade

"Freshes" peanut butter cups = "Reese's" Peanut Butter Cups

Aidan-isms

Aidan is always coming up with "custom" words... these are a couple of the latest. I'm going to try to remember to post them here as they come up.

Chucky-Charms = Name for the cereal he found at Wal-greens which are essentially Chocolate-Lucky Charms.

Freakin' Stein = Aidan's pronunciation of Frankenstein.

Day at the track

Devlin at the track... the next day he won 1st and 2nd in the two classes he raced in.

New Year's Day @ Dad & Jenny's

We spent the first day of 2009 playing in the backyard at Dad & Jenny's house. What a gorgeous day!

Clara loves cake!

Dec 23rd

Here are some pictures from Christmas at our house with Dad & Jenny

Clara's first (and only) mini-dress

Dec 25th at our house

Xmas at Mom's

Some pictures from christmas at Mom's house

Misc Dec Pictures

Mack getting lots of attention on sleep-over night

Clara loves her new hats & gloves!

James & Devlin - trying out the new camera!

Devlin & Clara -- See devlin... you can smile for pictures!

Christmas @ Aunt Frankie's

Not Santa's biggest fan

We visited Santa and well, at least the boys were happy. Aidan was very excited about telling Santa everything that was on his list. Clara wasn't quite as thrilled about the whole thing. She was fine with Santa and kept pointing to him, but was not at all interested in sitting with him.

At least mom got this gorgoues picture of her Pre-Santa though :)

Rocking around the christmas tree

We finally got around to decorating our tree tonight! The kids had it decorated in record time... they are getting to be pros.

Clara was a little under the weather, but still managed to hang a few ornaments on the tree. She liked the M&M ones best... is anybody surprised?

Saturday with the grandparents

The kids spent Saturday night w/ Dad & Jenny. They made adorable snowmen and these great christmas hats.

Clara had a blast dancing with a singing polar bear.

Apparently she cracked up everytime the bear started singing.