I met the Wilson Twins

I finally met my nieces! They are so beautiful and sweet and such a blessing to their parents. I love how unique they both are and how much personality they already have. Elise is definitely more laid back and works hard to do what she's supposed to whereas Ava would love nothing more than to do what she's supposed to but she just can't make it work out like that all the time. They are both precious and so cute and cuddly.

Ava, hanging out, wondering probably who's going to hold her next.

Elise, when she's asleep, boy, she's asleep!

Ava on the left and Elise on the right. I believe Ave is telling Elise "if you would just learn to keep your paci in your mouth everything would be just fine".

This is Autum's "you better not mess with me today" face.

My cuz and me

So a very rare event happened..... Sharon and I were both visiting our sisters in Illinois at the same time and we all got to get together including the kids AND these are the only pictures I have to show for it. looks pathetic, but when grown ups are outnumbered 2 to 1 and the oldest child is 3 it starts to make sense :)

Artwork

Refrigerator art,.... much easier clean up than wall art.... let's hope it never comes to that!

I had just finished Autumn's bath when Alexander came to me to say "hey mom, want to see my alien?" then ta da, he showed me his masterpiece. I would have taken a picture of him next to it giving me a thumbs up, but i thought that might send the wrong message. :) Instead i scolded him and sent him off to the bathtub so i coud take a picture without him knowing.

Cool Hair

Before......

After!

Valentine's Day Pictures

Mardi Gras

Autumn had a great time catching beads.

I just love those chunky legs. If they were only as cute on me :)

Alexander learns to ride his bike.

Aunt Kim and Uncle Charlie gave Alexander this bike over the summer and when he first got in his legs really weren't quite long enough to pedal all the way around. Since then we had convinced him to get on it maybe twice but to no avail. The other day one of the older boys that lives in the circle that Alexander loves to hang out with was riding his new bike so I convinced him to get his "big boy" bike out onto the circle and after a few seconds I let go and that was all it took. He thought he was something else.

Just Cute

Autumn loves nothing more than to go into Alexander's room and play with his toys.
Alexander is getting better about letting her :)

She also likes shutting doors.....

see you later

bye bye.

no grown ups allowed.

Christmas

Of course, we made cookies for Santa

When we were all done things were waaaayyy messier than this.

Autumn enjoying playing with a cup Christmas morning rather than the gifts Santa brought her. Go figure!

This was hig "big" gift. He and dad had fun putting it together and later Alexander had fun tearing it apart.

Autumn's First Birthday

Oh, the anticipation!

For two days we had the cake in the house and Alexander kept asking if he could have some and he is still at this point patiently waiting his turn...... or making plans to steal the cake :)

Yes Autumn, you've been busted.

Very kind of you to offer us some icing off your fingers.

She quickly got the hang of the "grap and stuff" technique.

"oops, did i make a mess?"

Mimi and Grandpa came to visit us for our Christmas before Christmas, so we celebrated Autumn's birthday while they were here.