Growing up way too fast

Levi turns 3 this next month and Olivia has already turned 1.

Miss Olivia is in to everything. Her most fascinated locations in the house are the toilets and garbage cans. Some of her activities are, cruising the furniture, crawling at extreme speeds, and playing patty cake while standing unassisted. It is so cute to see/hear her crawl. She slaps her right hand harder on the ground as she crawls. Her other way of getting around is being dragged by her brother.
Levi is becoming such a big brother. Besides dragging around Olivia he gets her to laugh so hard she gags. He also roughs her up a bit. Last night he was telling me how he pushed Olivia over and she fell and got an owie and that dad put him in time out. Then he tells me that he shouldn't have gone to time out cuz he had an owie too. He loves driving G-pa Chard's red truck in the field and talks about it every night before going to bed.

Spending time with family

Jamie + Mom and Dads+ Lots of snow= Snowmobiling. And sure was it a ton of fun.

Jamie came down to visit for her birthday. My sister TeArie , B-in-L Josh and nephew Daxton came down to visit as well. The kids were a riot and the chatting was great. The kids made Valentine cookies for their dads, at least the other dads got their cookies. Levi couldn't part with this one.

I know I know!!!

Swimming Lessons

As you can see Levi progressed from anticipation, complete panic, leading to unsure, and finally full excitement. Levi loves to swim. After each lesson the instructors had to remove Levi from the water because he would not come out willingly. We have signed him up for swimming lessons again in May, I only hope that they are just as successful.

A new Camera = Tons of pictures!

What is that you ask? Olivia was helping me make dinner Sunday when I looked over and saw that she had the whole potato in her mouth.
The kids and I playing "peek a boo"

One of my really good friends in the NICU gave Levi a firefighting outfit. Doesn't he look so cute.

Olivia of course had to try it on as well. I couldn't resist. After all she just might be a firefighter like her mom!

Olivia loves rides on Levi's new trike
I caught Levi sneaking his Lolly pop to Olivia.

Levi and Olivia eating each others food.


How stink n' cute
Our cute Olivia has been sick since Turkey day! When will this end! That is all BOOGER and still she smiles.

Shane told me the other day that the day after we celebrated Christmas Levi came running out of his room and wanted round 2 of santa. How cute.

What Olivia is up to.

-Olivia has figured out that our food is a heck of a lot better than baby food.

- She is a very picky eater

-She is really close to crawling. She actually crawls but goes backwards which gets her really frustrated so she army crawls to get where she wants.

-She is 20lbs at 9months!

-She has been sick since Turkey day. And currently has 2 ear infections.

-Loves her baths

-Wears 12-18mo. clothes

-She loves wrestling with Levi

-She flips out when you walk by her and don't pick her up

What Levi has been up to:

-Talking more and more.

-Potty training is still ongoing.

-loves to lock himself in the bathroom

-Goes to time out when told (most of the time)

-Loves playing with is cousin AUSTIN. Any mention of Austin's name and Levi flips out. They have so much fun together

-enjoys feeding grandpa chards horses their cereal and grass

-Can't go to sleep with out his ambulance and fire truck.

-He has had 2 colds so far.

-Keeps me running and running!!!!!!

Halloween Picts

Liz, thank you so much for taking these pictures

My Camera DIED!!!

Just as I was going to take pictures of the kids in their costumes my camera fell off the couch (and on to CARPET!) and broke. I was thankful for Liz who was so awesome to snap a few shots. I will post them when I get them. SSSSOOOOO.... I have no clue when I will be replacing my camera so it might be a while before any pictures are posted.

CRAZY!!!

Ok.... Everything has been so hecktic around here. Full time is crazy but I love it. It makes things really busy at home between the kids, studying and the house it has been really hard to just sit and take a breath for a few minutes. Shane does such a great job with keeping up with the kids and house that I don't need to worry about anything.

So lately we have been trying to potty train Levi. It is going rather well. On Sunday Levi asked me if he could pee in the water..... Light bulb went on in my head. "aaaahhhh hhhhaaaa!" this is my cue, so off we went. After a few times Levi said just before finishing this was our conversation

Levi: " Shake it mom Shake it...."

Me: "what do you mean shake it" (as I glance over seeing him trying to shake while on the potty)

Levi: "Shake it, I need to Shake it.

Me: "no honey you need to wipe it. Wiping is better"

I hand him a square of TP, he wipes and flushes. Now only if I could get Shane to teach Levi the same :)

Still no luck in getting Olivia to eat any thing other then milk. I guess you just keep trying. With halloween just around the corner I am excited to take many pictures of my cute little ones. So stay tuned for more....