St Patrick's Day

Two years ago, here was baby Cass in his "My 1st St. Patrick's Day" outfit. It's amazing how much he has changed since then.

And here's a picture from today, with Celena in her 1st St Patrick's Day outfit. You can't see it in the picture, but she is getting her first tooth! It doesn't seem to dampen her mood though, she is still happy as can be. I think it's fun to compare the kids at about the same time in their lives (Cass was just a month younger then Celena was on St Patrick's Day when the picture above was taken) - I think you can tell they are siblings, but they each have their own look. One of them really looks like Daddy . . .

Happy Valentines Day

Here's our little sweetie on her first Valentine's Day!

How hilarious is this!!! Here she is chillin' out! :) Thanks for the adorable outfit and sunglasses Great Aunt Linda and Uncle Al!!

Frosty

We got MORE snow Friday night! We knew it wouldn't last long, so Chris hurried outside Saturday morning and made a snowman family. Unfortunately, the snow melted quickly so by the time we got outside in the afternoon to take pictures, one was headless and the others looked kind of pathetic. But, we took pictures anyway. In case you can't tell, in the picture above, from left to right is Cass, Chris (minus his head), me, and Celena. And a grumpy "real" Cass standing in front not wanting his picture taken.

We don't normally dress Cass this way, but he wanted to wear his pajamas to take his nap, and once he got up I panicked when I saw the snow melting so quickly, so we stuck him in his boots and threw on his coat and ran outside.

Cass cheered up enough to take a picture kissing the snowman version of himself. Brrr!!!!

I have been really busy with work lately and have fallen behind on posting to the blog. We have been getting quite a bit of snow recently - usually it only snows here once a year, but we've had a few bouts of snow this winter.

Here is a picture from last year - we remember Cass being kind of stunned by the snow. He just held that little snowball and stood completely still, not really understanding what is going on.


And, here he is a year later . . . he figured out what to do with those snowballs!! (And yes, it's the same coat - we bought it big last year so it still fits this year! Yay!!)

Six Month Check-up

I can't believe our little girl is 6 months old already! She's not a little baby anymore. :( I guess it's time to have another one, huh? Just joking, Chris. Anyway, she had her 6 month check-up this week. Poor little thing had to get 4 shots. I always conveniently have to go to the restroom when it's time for shots, and brave Daddy holds her still after I leave the room while she gets poked. Here's her cute little baby legs with band-aids on each poor little leg.

No worries, though, she's still happy as ever!

And she's even happier while partaking in her favorite past-time . . . chewing her feet! Anytime I take her socks off she gets those toes in her mouth immediately. Isn't it funny that chewing feet at this age is adorable, but it quickly turns to being disgusting in a few years. ha ha.

She got a clean bill of health from the doctor. And fortunately, she is slimming down (for a while there I thought we'd have a skinny boy and a little chunk for a daughter based on the rate she was growing) - here are her stats:

Weight: 15 lbs, 8 oz (25-50th percentile)
Height: 26 inches (50 - 75th percentile)
Head: 17 1/4 cm (75 - 90th percentile)

Being the Type A accountant that I am, I was frustrated that for some reason instead of telling us the EXACT percentile that she measured, they gave us ranges this time. So, I referenced my handy dandy book at home from the American Academy of Pediatrics, and it looks like she is 50th percentile for weight and 60th percentile for height if I looked at the little itty bitty chart correctly that is really hard to see (which helps me to understand why the almost-retired nurse chose to just give us ranges).

Random pics

My wonderful maternity leave is coming to an end. :( I go back to work next week. Fortunately, I work a reduced schedule and usually will work only 4 days a week from 9-5, but January and February are my busy months so I will be working 5 days a week when I start back to work. I'll try to keep the blog up, but I imagine there will be fewer posts for the next several weeks. Anyway, I haven't been doing much the last several days except enjoying as much time at home with the kids as I can. Here are some pictures I've taken this week. I'm personally not too crazy of baby pictures with black backgrounds (looks a little harsh to me for little ones) , but it is fun to experiment so that's what Celena and I did this afternoon. :)

Cass got a Thomas the Train train track for Christmas, and he LOVES it. He uses it for both his trains and his race cars. He wants to play with the track constantly, and he always wants either me or Chris to watch him, but while we watch we are NOT allowed to touch the trains or the track - he makes it clear that we are only to be spectators!!

Happy New Year

We stayed home this year for New Year's Eve. Our neighbors decided to set off fireworks around 10:00, which woke Celena up, so she got to hang out with Mommy and Daddy to bring in the New Year! Here she is hanging out with Daddy while we were playing Yahtzee.