Back in the swing of things...

I wanted to post some things that have happened, completely unrelated to the holidays. As sad as it is that they're over, it's nice to be back to normal in a lot of ways.

First of all, we've been enjoying massive amounts of snow here lately and during one break in the storms I got to take the girls outside to play in it. It was Natalie's first real experience with snow and she loved it! You wouldn't think so from the picture but she really did. I'm sure she'll like it more when she learns how to walk. She even made her first snow angel with some help from Mommy.

Elizabeth's new favorite snow activity is having snowball fights (depicted in the picture below). A close second would be having me count to three and then push her over onto the snow so she can make a snow angel.

They also enjoyed snuggling up under a blanket on the couch afterwards


Elizabeth found my old karate belt the other day and tried to wrap it around herself. Of course we had to make her pose. Here she is saying "Hi-ya!"

Joe's going to hate this next picture because she looks too grown-up. Elizabeth got some dress-up shoes from her cousin Joelle and tried them on today. Unfortunately, she fell down right after this picture was taken. I guess she has her mom's coordination. :)

There have been some new milestones that I wanted to record as well. Elizabeth is completely potty-trained and has been doing great! She even stays dry during her naps and sometimes at night. After a rough start, potty-training actually went pretty smoothly. What a blessing!

Natalie is walking along everything she can hold on to and even stands by herself for very brief periods of time. She also has started to say all sorts of cute new words. She now says "ucky" (yucky), "dog-ga" (dog), "wow", and the old standard that can never be said too much, "uh-oh". It's so fun to see how fast she is learning but it is also sad because my little baby is turning into a toddler!