Playdough

The kids are really into playdough lately. Just thought I would share a cute interaction. I gave Mary some playdough and went into the other room. I then heard Ian yell in disbelief: "Megan, I gave Noah some playdough and he ate it!"

My response was, "Well, what did you think he would do with it?" And Ian said, "Build something."

Haha. I think I responded with something like, "So you thought you'd turn back around and see the taj mahal??" I thought it was cute that Ian really though Noah would just put something together! Since then we've worked with Noah on NOT eating the play dough and he now likes to smoosh it into the containers we take it out of. I still don't turn my back on him though:)

14 months

I'm a little behind seeing as how Noah is 15 months now. But here are some 14 month pictures of him that will go in his book:


And here is a picture of how I found him when I went to get him from his nap the other day.

He's been randomly getting his feet caught in the crib, but it's usually between the wall and the crib. He is funny.

mommy take a picture!

I was in the kitchen the other day making lunch and I heard Mary yelling, "Mommy come take a picture of us!!" No need to think twice. I grabbed the camera and this is what I found:
This is usually how it goes. Mary is smothering him with love and he takes it. Although today he walked up to her and held his arms out for a hug:)

More wedding fun

This wedding actually happened last month, but I just got pictures from the photographer. Although I had my camera in the bag I only took one picture. It's a good thing the photographer was a friend of mine! Here is my sweet princess wearing her borrowed dress and hair clip I made for her. Have I mentioned I'm cheap??

Mary and the handsome little ring bearer (who happens to be one of her BFF's)


Yes, I put lip gloss on my daughter. She saw me putting some on and asked for it. I can't say no to those big beautiful blue eyes:)
Here she is with the wonderful bride who loves her so much

Wedding

Ian's sister got married a couple weekends ago. It was a really fun weekend! Mostly because grandma and grandpa watched the kids so it was very relaxing. Plus, we got hooked up with a free hotel room at the Westin downtown! For any of you people watchers out there, that is the place to go. Our window faced fountain square so we got to witness the protest and all the festivities of the night. Here are a couple pictures from the wedding...
Noah getting tickled by grandpa Hank:

Oh, guess who found the smallest little gap in the wall and tried to squeeze into it???

Yeah, he still does that. Here are some fun family pics

New wall decal

I finished up this thing for Ian's office a few weeks ago. We got the decal at a very reasonable price from this shop on etsy. Very happy with how it turned out:

This picture is exemplifying Mary's personality lately. She's been super fun:)

Spoon

Noah's getting a little better...just a little

He's thinking 'mom it's too early for flash'

I have cute kids

I know at least grandmas and grandpas will agree!

dancing

So apparently I got bored with writing those fruits posts. I guess my whole point in them is that I want parenting to be a topic of discussion. It's easy to just see it as too hot a topic and when we disagree or do things differently we just don't talk about parenting at all. That is sad to me. I love it when people ask me why I do things the way I do. I love asking others why and how they do certain things. Do I get frustrated and offended sometimes? Of course. But I think it's most important to have grace and love with each other and to help each other when we can. I think our kids benefit when we learn from the skills and differences of others.

Moving on...Mary has been big on dancing lately after breakfast. She always says very excitedly, "DANCE WITH ME MOMMY!" Who could say no to that?? We danced:) Then I got Noah out of his chair and Mary said, "Mommy I think he wants to dance too!" I don't know if him running out of the room to find a toy sent her that message or what...but that's what she thought. So they danced: