After a brief hiatus, we're back on line. It's been a busy past few weeks - we closed on our house, moved, AND I finally took the time to back up the computer so I could delete pictures to make room for more so I could blog again! :)
Celena started walking recently. It's interesting how she and Cass had very different approaches to learning to walk - Cass basically just stood up one day from a crawling position and walked across the room, falling after he took about 10 steps.
Celena eased into it over a period of time, insisting that we hold her hands and walk with her for HOURS each day (I'm not
exaggerating), until one day she decided she had it down and just did it on her own, rarely falling. She became mobile a few days before we moved, so it made the unpacking very interesting.
Here is my caravan of helpers while I'm trying to unpack.
Notice that in the picture above,
Celena is carrying one of my flip flops. She is obsessed with shoes. She will drag me to her closet and point at her shoes until I get them down and put them on her, and she will carry our shoes to us with the hope that we will put them on.
She is a very active little thing, and gets into everything. She is happy that we have windows that are low enough for her to see out of.
Cass actually was somewhat helpful with unpacking. I asked him to take the hangers out of the box and hang them in his closet, and he really did it!
He wasn't quite as good as unpacking his shoes - I asked him to take his shoes out of the box and line them up in his closet. I was envisioning lining each pair up, toes facing the front. His little mind envisions everything as a "
choo-
choo", so I should have known that the way he thinks to line up shoes would be in a straight line. He was so proud, he easily posed for the camera to showcase his work.
While unpacking, Cass found
Celena's babies. He disappeared with them for a while, and I found him lining them up on the couch. He said he was putting them to bed. He brought over a book to read to them before they went to sleep, then went down the line and gave each one a kiss. How sweet! Of course, I loved it. Daddy is not quite as impressed.
After 3 months of apartment living, it is so nice to be in a house and have a yard to play in again! We've been spending lots of time outdoors enjoying the nice weather. We have a retaining wall in our backyard that had settled a bit and needed to be braced, so part of our driveway has been torn out and filled with dirt and sand. Cass loves his new "sandbox". He's going to be disappointed when the concrete gets poured!
Our big boy has graduated from his tricycle to his bicycle with training wheels! And oops . . . when I took the picture I didn't realize that Celena was in the background flashing the neighbors! :)
She is a very active little thing, and gets into everything. She is happy that we have windows that are low enough for her to see out of.
Cass actually was somewhat helpful with unpacking. I asked him to take the hangers out of the box and hang them in his closet, and he really did it!
He wasn't quite as good as unpacking his shoes - I asked him to take his shoes out of the box and line them up in his closet. I was envisioning lining each pair up, toes facing the front. His little mind envisions everything as a "choo-choo", so I should have known that the way he thinks to line up shoes would be in a straight line. He was so proud, he easily posed for the camera to showcase his work.
While unpacking, Cass found Celena's babies. He disappeared with them for a while, and I found him lining them up on the couch. He said he was putting them to bed. He brought over a book to read to them before they went to sleep, then went down the line and gave each one a kiss. How sweet! Of course, I loved it. Daddy is not quite as impressed. 
Yes, I know. He's 3. He really should have had his first ice cream cone before now. The kid has the palette of a middle-aged adult . . . he loves tofu, asparagus, and fancy cheese, so I've held off ruining it with a sugar addiction. But it is time for him to live a little. He was ecstatic.
It's been a while since I have posted. Over the last couple months, we've been busy exploring Winston-Salem and looking for a place to live. So our pictures aren't that exciting, but here's a bit of what we've been up to . . .
Cass tends to traumatize our dogs a bit, but they are fairly tolerant. One day Cass decided they should wear bibs. Here's Norm sporting his new look.
Cass also tries to traumatize his little sister. He loves his bath letters that stick on the wall when they get wet. He was experimenting to see if they would also stick on Celena. (Notice the "boo boo" on his forehead in the picture below - he "jumped" off the side of the couch one day).
Celena is such a good sport. She didn't mind at all that Cass was sticking the letters all over her body. :)
Lately Cass has taken an interest in Celena's dolls. Of course Chris is not crazy about this, but I think it's sweet. The other day I caught him strapping one of her dolls in the high chair. When he noticed I was taking a picture of him doing this not-so-manly activity, he must have decided to try to compensate by taking on a risque "Michael Jackson" pose - ha!!