Happy 5th Birthday Onyx!!!

Our sweet (but big - 70 pounds) Onyx has turned 5!!!!!  Thanks for making us laugh funny dog.

Rock that OCF

This past weekend I attended a workshop in El Dorado Hills called Rock that OCF (Off Camera Flash)  Ali Hohn from Minnesota puts it on.  A few months back I contacted her about coming out to Northern California and the rest is history!  It was so fun to finally learn how to use my studio lights indoors and especially outdoors!!

I need that

Siena said her first 3 word sentence today!

I was taking crayons away from her because she likes to eat them , along with markers, and she says to me "I need that!"

Too funny and yet I am scared to death for her teenage years.

Pajama Day

Today was pajama day at preschool. Cole went as Woody with Lightining McQueen slippers. Thursday is Costumes, I am sure you can guess what Cole will be dressed as.

Cole's first trip to the dentist

It was a HUGE success!! Cole was wonderful!  Siena not so much but this post is about Cole.  He was a little nervous at first but one the hygenist showed Cole mr. thirsty and his friends Cole warmed up. 

He was a little unsure of the chair laying back and he requested that it stayed up but eventually he went along with the whole thing.

Dr. Thompson gave Cole the ok

Because we don't give the kids juice (maybe a few times a year) they are low risk for cavities which is awesome because I don't want to have to think about the kids having fillings any time soon.

Random family fun

I need some free time. My life is being swallowed up by photography and it's about time I just stopped and had some fun, right??? So I took a break one night from editing so I could just goof around with the family.

Cole's new sweater

Grandma Carole was knitting a sweater for Siena and of course Cole wanted one too. So she let him pick out the style and pattern and here is the result. He loves it!

Siena's unique way of eating

Siena still isn't the best eater around. We all have decided that the best diet is the Siena diet.

 The rules:

 1. you can only eat when Siena eats
2. you can only eat what Siena eats
3. you can only eat the same amount of food she eats at the time

 We would probably drop 10 pounds in one week. At least. Here's an example of how she eats lunch if she hasn't falling asleep during the middle of it.

The toddler and the cat

I am starting to think it is a right of passage for the cat (haha) to be tormented by a toddler.  Well luckily enough for Minkie she gets two toddlers to torment her.

The culprits

I have a really good feeling this is the reason for the burning plastic yesterday....

They must have snuck that car in there when we were not looking. (don't mind the ugly green walls, that will be gone soon.....when I find the motivation and time!)

She still eats pens and crayons.

I am actually kind of bummed about this because I would love to be able to let her color. But she easts EVERYTHING. Every single little thing she can put in her mouth she does. It gets so old so fast.

The woodstove, smoke and plastic

I was so looking forward to the first fire of the season.  Just cold enough to warrent warming the house up with the wood stove.  So we got the fire going and then we noticed them smell.  The smell of burning plastic.  Then we remembered that the kids had shoved a lego piece in to a very strategic spot and when Mike tried to get it, it slipped and fell behind the wood stove.  So when the house stared to fill with smoke we were a little bit annoyed.  We opened up the windows, got a fan and tried blowing the smoke out.  Needless to say, our "warm" house was now very cold.  We figured that eventually it would burn out.

So today I decided since it was quite a bit warmer I would start a fire and leave the windows open and try to burn out the rest of the plastic.  I get down to start the fire and glance under the top of the wood stove and I notice a shadow, a shadow of a car..... No wonder the house was smoking. Hot wheels are not meant to be cooked!

Show me your muscles

Someone's been working out!

I have been dying over this costume.  Cole of course loves it and the built in muscles are a crack up!

Thank you Siena

Last night was horrible.  Siena was up practically all night.  I slept from 3:30 to 7:30am.  I require a little more sleep than 3 hours.  I can function on 6 hours but 3?  No Way!  I am so over this not sleeping crap.  This little chick needs to start sleeping or I'm building the crib again so she can cry her self to sleep and not get out of bed.


UGH!!!!!!!!!!

How can I be mad at this face???

G

Can some one let us know where the letter "g" went in Cole's vocabulary?  In a matter of hours he went from speaking pretty good English to totally dropping the letter "g" off of all words.

What are you doin'?
What are you cookin'?
Where are we goin'

Spiderman

I have been looking forward to this stage of childhood ever since my little cousin was the red power ranger for a good year of his life. Cole has really seemed to attach him self to the spiderman character and a few days ago Grandma Carole and Grandpa Glenn purchased him his first Spiderman costume (although I am going to have to purchase a back up because we are on day 3 of him wearing this costume (he even slept in it last night) and a a backup is going to be very necessary!!!! What can I say about Spiderman? Cole corrects you every time you say Cole by saying "I am Spiderman" The first day he had the costume on he was standing up a little bit higher than Siena and I overheard him saying to her "Do you remember me? I was Cole Fredy Thomas, but now I am Spiderman" Siena just gave him this blank stare but I was cracking up! He is so cute with his alter ego. Yesterday during his quite time (no naps for this guy anymore but I still need some free time to work on photography) Spiderman watched the newer spiderman cartoons on Mike's laptop on the desk next to mine. He was in Spiderman heaven.

Airplane Trail

Cole - "Look mommy! I want to show you something"

We go out side and Cole (spiderman) points to the sky

Cole - "Look at that! Wall-E made that."

Me- "Really Cole, Wall-E made it."

Cole - "Or maybe John Deer."

Bedtime progression

We are getting closer.

Sick again

Some one hasn't been feeling too well.

Play Dough!

Look mommy!  I made a taco!  It has meat and cheese and salad and more meat!  Yum!

The development of the monster.

Look mommy, I made a monster.

Now he has legs.

Now he has a penis.  "Hey who gave me a penis?"  (in your best monster voice)