Bob got me an early Christmas presents a few weeks ago-a new camera! It is a DSLR (for those of you that know what that is), so we are hoping to be able to capture our kids' smiles, even though they never pose to give us one. These first 2 pics are ones I got of them that turned out great-never would have got them with our old camera. It's nice to be able to just hold down the shutter button and let it click away!
For those of you who knew our fish, Fred, we have bad (but kind of good) news. After over 3 years of living with us, our beta fish stopped breathing...resulting in being flushed. We explained to Addie that she would not see Fred anymore, but that we would get a new fish soon. I took the kids to the pet store a week or 2 ago and let Addie pick out a new beta to purchase and bring home. I also let her know she got to name the fish. Once she understood that he too could not be named Fred, she told me that his name was Soap. I had to confirm with her that Soap was in fact the name she had decided on, and it was. When she has been asked how she came up with that name, she just says "that's his name", as if there was not even a thought that went into it-that's his name, just like Levi is Levi and Addie is Addie. We often hear Addie say "Soap lives in water."
After a lot of time indoors, cooped up at the house, we decided to have a movie night for the first time. It was a HUGE hit with Addie. We watched "Shrek 2" and though Levi couldn't sit still (no surprise there), Addie was not bothered by his activity. She asked about a million questions while watching the movie and loved every minute of it. She did not get up from her seat once. When I brought her her very own bowl of popcorn, she was absolutely in heaven. Ever since the movie ended, she has been saying "maybe we can do that again sometime. I'll sit on the couch between Mommy and Daddy and we can watch a movie and eat some popcorn." We will definitely do it again sometime soon.
Levi likes to "take me downtown Charlie Brown" (aka, hit me repeatedly while I'm down without getting in trouble)
a smiling pic of Addie while she's looking at the camera-a rareity
Even though he rarely stops, Levi is still a snuggler, which Bob and I both love. We are working on getting that thumb out of his mouth, but when he's tired, it's hopeless
Lastly, we had some friends over yesterday to have a "bread playdate." We baked soem bread together, then gobbled it up-it was delicious! For anyone who has not yet tried Fleischmann's new Simply Homemade bread mix, it is extremely easy to make and delicious to eat. Here are the girls (and Levi) with their oven mits on!
We played for a while as the bread was cooking...
And there's the tasty bread!
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