13-Months-Old!

Wow...we are already a month into one!

She is so stinkin' cute all the time. She still will have nothing to do with walking, even though I'm pretty sure she could totally do it if she tried. She just loves crawling too much, I guess.

She loves playing games...especially peek-a-boo. And crawling into places she isn't supposed to be.

But how can you get mad at that sweet face?

I'm sure I'll say this every month, but it is hard to picture life before this Little Squish.

FTPDF: The Happy Birthday (almost) Uncle Craig! and 56-Months-Old Edition!

Happy Friday!  TGIF!

First off, it is (almost) Uncle Craig's birthday today!  Happy Birthday!

Sorry, Craig, I have done a terrible job of taking pictures
of you.  This was the only non-group one I could find and
it was taken over a year ago.

The other thing about today is that our oldest is 56-months-old.

She is still her own personal stylist and informed us yesterday that she now has a boyfriend, Henrik, from preschool.  Wait, is she 4 and a half or 14???  Now I'm confused.

She also just caught her first fall cold, even though it is still summer.  Yay!  The endless drip drip drop of snot has begun!

Ok on to the pictures from the week...

Favorite Thing #1: Play time at home after busy days at work.

Favorite Thing #2: Guess who is all registered for ballet class?  Callie starts
dance class in a couple of weeks at the same studio I danced at for 14 years.
With the same teacher- Ms. Connie.  I'm so excited.  DANCE MOM!!!

Favorite Thing #3: This girl got two whole days with Boom all to herself.

Favorite Thing #4: Playing with Avery (and
dinner with Josh and Alison)

Favorite Thing #5: Crazy Maya (and demanding Callie)

IMG 1598 from Baby Goose on Vimeo.

 

The demands of 4-year-olds never seem to end...ha.

 

Favorite Thing #6: Dinner with G-ma, G-pa and Auntie Cat

Have a great weekend!

TBT

It is Thursday!

This week's TBT pics are all from the 1-year-old photo shoots we had with Nik.  Enjoy!

Crawling (with adoring family members in the background)

Arms up!

Sweet faces

Family pics.  Sorry Kona, you weren't invited to this year's photo shoot.
 

 

Weekend Wrap-Up

Happy Sunday! We had a pretty chill weekend in which we spent most of our time catching up. Catching up from vacation. Catching up from the start of busy weeks. There was lots I laundry and lots of cleaning. And lots of wagon rides in between.

Maya also enjoyed doing some baby yoga in her crib before bedtime last night.

No one can rock footie jammies and crocs in August like our preschooler. And our baby keeps finding a friend in our kitchen.

Tonight we had some friends over for a BBQ. It poured so the guys got creative with our new grill. The girls had fun playing with Charlie and Mabel.

Have a great week!

FTPDF

Well guys, it was my first full week back to work full time.  As I kind of expected, I sucked at taking pictures this week.  We spent the majority of the evenings in survival mode- especially after being fresh off of vacation.  We got the girls fed and (sometimes) bathed and put to bed and then...I crashed.  It was a shock to my system, but it will get easier.  We survived.

The girls are good- they are so adaptable.  Callie is back at preschool and still busy as a bee all of the time.  Maya is still crawling all over (sometimes to the point of red, chapped knees and shins) but turns into a wet noodle (she makes her limbs go totally limp) if you try and make her stand or walk.  She turns into a wet noodle a lot actually- it is her way of getting out of doing anything she doesn't want to do (getting picked up, going into the car seat, etc.).  That, and the occasional screech that she learned from her big sister. Brilliant strategy.  She is also doing some awesome nonsense babbling.  It is hilarious because she looks so sure about what she is saying.

On to the pictures.

Favorite Thing #1: Hanging out downtown with Boom
(and Auntie Yoda and Auntie Mari).

Favorite Thing #2: Hanging with G-ma and G-pa.

Favorite Thing #3: Hanging with Mommy and Daddy in the evenings.

I mentioned a couple weeks ago that our friend Nik took some family pictures.  We got them back this week, so here are some of my favorites.

Favorite Thing #4: Pictures of the girls

Favorite Thing #5: Family pictures

Have a great weekend!

TBT

Happy Thursday!  I haven't even delved in to the new month of Baby Callie pictures yet (January 2011???!?!?!), so I decided to do all the throwbacks from the babies' first Gosselin family vacation.  Callie's first trip with everyone was going to Camp du Nord when she was about 8 months old.  So baby Callie is a few months younger than baby Maya in all these throwbacks, but there were still similarities between the two trips. 



Pretty trees

Awesome lakes

Family of 3 vs. Family of 4

Family of 7 vs. Family of 8

Glacier Week Wrap-Up: Part III

Ok here is my final post on Glacier.  Part one is here, and part two is here.

Now we are on to our last full day, Saturday, and our travel day on Sunday.

SATURDAY:

G-pa, Uncle Dan, Chris and I left early in the morning to do some more hiking
in Glacier National Park.  This hike was to an overlook of Hidden Lake.  We
wanted to hike down to the lake, but that part of the trail was closed due to bear
danger.

We still got to see incredible views.

Then we met G-ma, Auntie Cat and the girls back at Lake McDonald
for an afternoon of swimming and relaxing by the lake.

The water was SO cool and refreshing, I even tried
handstands and flips- water tricks I haven't done for years.
My pointed foot form still looks excellent, don't you think?

Maya was always entertaining us during meals as she pounded down the
food she liked and tossed the food that she didn't off the tray/table.

SUNDAY:

We got to take one last mountain walk before we left, and Cal had fun
collecting wild flowers.

Our travel back home went fairly smoothly.  Callie fell asleep in the car on the
way to the airport at 11:30am (sign of a great vacation!) and enjoyed a Huckleberry smoothie
once we got there (huckleberries are a big thing out there in the mountains).  Maya did
pretty well on the plane because Chris is awesome at getting her to sleep.

All in all, as you can see, it was a fabulous trip.  Thanks to G-ma, G-pa, Uncle Dan and Auntie Cat for everything!