Teeth & Multi-tasking

This post is just a few fun updates of things the children have been doing lately. Have fun checking them out. These first two pics are of Zane and his two teeth that are on their way in. One is on the top and one is on the bottom. We had to coerce him in multiple ways to get good pics.

Along with having teeth comes brushing teeth. Here is the little Z man having a go at it himself (of course after Mommy did it for him).

Callie has a new doll these days, actually a borrowed one that goes peepee so that she can have a counterpart in learning to use the potty. Anyway, she's doing the two year old version of multitasking, both playing with toys while holding her baby doll. Below that is a really cute picture of her holding her doll and feeding it, and then the next one is a similar picture, only she's upgraded to using Zane for her doll.

Here is a video of the kids playing in the kitchen the other day.


Lastly, here is a great shot of Zane spitting rice onto our camera lens rather abruptly. Have fun.

Zane's Birthday

Last Friday, 2/26, our little guy Zane had his 1st birthday. The next day, being a Saturday, was a better time to hold his party. We decided to go all out for our little man. Anita planned a rather elaborate party with a bug theme. You'll see in the pictures and videos below an inchworm cake, 2 dirt cakes in sand pails, bugs on the table, and ladybug & bumble bee cookies. There were around 20 or so children at the party, so we had a packed house too. All in all, it was a good day, but night night time was a little crazy, as Callie & Zane were on their first ever sugar high and would not go to sleep. After employing some measures they finally went to sleep, but now we know what parents mean when they talk about these awful "sugar highs" their kids get on. Anyway, enjoy the pics. There is a caption here and there as well to explain some of them, plus there are a couple of cute pics of Callie at the bottom.











After all the madness, a couple days later, we let Zane open his birthday presents from Mom, Dad, & Callie, as well as a few from his grandparents. Above is a pic from that time and here is a video from then as well.



A few weeks ago, Jeremy told Callie about pockets, and ever since she has just been crazy about her pockets. Along with that is her obsession with manhole covers that make a noise when you jump on them. Above is a picture of her with her hands in her pockets standing on top of one of her favorite manholes in our neighborhood.

Below is a picture of Callie with her baby doll in one of our baby carriers. It's actually an adult one, but our helper helped her put it on and actually tied some of the straps for her. She really loved carrying her "baby" around in a carrier like mom and dad do for her and Zane. She is a true big sister. Also in these two pics, notice her big smiles. Just in the past couple weeks she's started to smile big when you tell her to for the picture.
Thanks for checking out this post. Hope you enjoyed it!