Valentine's Day

We had a great Valentine's day! Isabelle and mommy worked on potty training at home the day before, while Olivia spent the day with Grandma Lynn and Grandpa Bob. She made Valentine cookies for all of us while she was there. Our friend James came over to play with us in the evening.

Birth family

Isabelle's birth mom and birth grandma came for a visit last weekend, and we all went out to Chucky Cheese's. It's always fun to see them!

New bed

Olivia got a big girl bed for her birthday! She really loves it. Actually, so does mommy. It's really comfortable.

Self-portrait

The girls did self-portraits a couple weeks ago. Olivia didn't want her picture taken with hers, but Isabelle was ready to pose!

Food fun

We have discovered a new way to make food really fun! We now add food coloring to a number of dishes in the house, and Olivia gobbles up food that she previously would turn her nose at. Here are shots of the girls having green mac-n-cheese.

Pictures

We got the girls' yearly pictures back yesterday, and we couldn't be happier. We took them on the same day, thanks to Kari coming with us. We think they turned out wonderful! Now comes the task of sending them all out.

Sesame Street

Mommy and Isabelle went to Sesame Street Live today. It was Isabelle's birthday present. Isabelle danced through most of it. She wasn't big enough to keep the stadium seat down with her legs, so when she wanted to sit alone, she sat mostly scrunched up. It was a great time!

before and after part 1

Last week Kari (Olivia's PCA) and I took the girls for their yearly pictures. They were so adorable! Their clothes matched, their hair was combed, and their faces were clean. Then we came home, and I decided to take these "after" pictures. - We still think they're adorable, though! :)

More birthday

Here's Olivia sporting one of her birthday presents - a purple apron.

Birthday candles

This was the first birthday that Olivia was able to blow out her candles all by herself! She was so proud!

Birthday

Today was Olivia's 4th birthday! Happy birthday Olivia! (I can't believe we have a 4-year-old!)

Dressing up

You can never have too many dress-up clothes!

Mp3 fun

The other day, the girls both tried out daddy's MP3 player he got for Christmas.

Belly button?

No, that's not Isabelle's belly button you see. It's a hole in her tummy. We took out her feeding tube today! It's been over a year since we used it for feeding her, and 3 months since we've used it for medicines. Her GI says it should completely close up in 6 weeks, but we've been fortunate to not have any stomach juices oozing out at all today! :) Hooray Isabelle!

More birthday pictures

Birthday

Isabelle and Aunty Stef celebrated their birthday together yesterday with us. :)

More Christmas

New Year's weekend we went to visit Grandma and Grandpa Bogie and celebrate Christmas. The girls had a great time!

Queen Mandy

We had fun playing dress-up this morning. Olivia saw no reason why Mandy should be left out, just because she's a dog.

Sleeping Beauty

The girls had a blast on Christmas. Isabelle had so much fun that fell asleep on the way home and refused to wake up. She slept like this for 45 minutes, and then it took a lot of work to wake her.

Christmas day

Here are the girls opening presents at Grandma Lynn and Grandpa Bob's house on Christmas.