Our Favs

Here's what we like!

Love to laugh

Love to accessorize

Love Thomas

Love the Please Touch Museum

{Perhaps we like time out too much? This one spends a bit of time there, that one, not so much...Ket will put himself in timeout if he deems it necessary}

Love pockets (and fill them with the most interesting things!)

Love baby Ryme

(Makett climbs right on in, regardless of if she's finally just fallen asleep, he's always certain she needs a big hug or big kiss)

Love helping make cookies (who doesn't love this part, right?)

Love making train tracks

Love watching out the window

Really love watching Daddy come home!

Love riding bikes...even share the same one!

Love playing on our train table

Love it when Daddy is home!

Love drinking carrot juice and watching Dora or Barney

Love playing trains with Daddy

Love being held by Daddy

Love sleeping

(or should I say, Mommy loves it when Ryme is sleeping...and Mommy would love it if Ryme slept a little more!!)

The Little Lady

We love this girl!

Still trying to figure out sleep...but generally doing well!

Doesn't love Tanny's sunglasses as much as he does

The morning of her blessing I was lamenting that I didn't have a headband. My brother Chaz, 21, said he'd make her one, and wa-laa! Twenty minutes later she had this cute headband and flower! He also made her booties, pictures of those later.

My first headband lesson as a new mom to a girl---You have to take the headband off when she goes to sleep or she may wake up like this:

Things I'm going to miss...

With a little over a year left in Philly, I'm really appreciating everything I'm going to miss here...

SPRING! I LOVE Philly's spring. It's breathtaking...blossoms everywhere. And Azaleas! Oh the Azaleas! I can't begin to describe their vibrant colors, bursting everywhere. These pictures don't begin to do them justice. If you haven't seen an azalea bush google them, you'll be in love!

Love seeing these blossoms out of my window...

See the blossoms all over the road? Not gonna lie, Philly has lots of garbage in the streets, so springtime blossoms are a welcome change!

Know what else I'm going to miss? The train. The train tracks are at the bottom of our street, and if I was a train commuter, I'd miss the quick walk to the train. Since I'm the mom of two year old boys, I'm going to miss walking to the end of our street after naps and sitting on the steps of the tavern to eat snacks and watch the evening commuter trains go by.

I love the old houses...I'm tired of living in one, but I love looking at the houses in my neighborhood, wondering who lived in them a century ago, thinking how different life was when this neighborhood was built, with all the residents working in the mills along the river.

**Notice the beautiful Azalea bushes in the picture? :)

Old churches!! In just my little neighborhood there are six. I love seeing them all-- some in old stone buildings, many with cool architecture, others in dilapidated old row homes. Whenever I'm somewhere with an aerial view of the city I love seeing all the church spires dotting the landscape.

Notice all the wires? I love seeing squirrels running along them, and the boys love the shoes that hang from them. Keep forgetting to take pictures of those...but something else that we love.

I could go on about more things that I'll miss in Philly, but I'll save some for another day. It can be rather sad to think about!

Don't even get me started on all the people I'm going to miss...

I was so glad Ryme wanted to be Brandon's study partner so I could get something done with 2 arms!

Don't remember what he did, but for some reason Makett decided Daddy needed to go in time out

Every night we clean up and go to bed in beds...and every night the toys and books magically appear and Maketty takes his pillow to sleep on the floor next to Tanzen

Tanzen is all about his blanket and piggy...I love how he cuddles with them while he sleeps.

Easter

It was fun dying eggs for the first time with the boys...they loved it! Brandon used his artistic talents to help Tanny create a pig egg (Tanny loves pigs) and to help Ketty create a Thomas egg (It would be an understatement to say Makett loves Thomas).

...Try to ignore the carrot juice on Ket's shirt...

Tanzen was so excited for the Easter Bunny. Somehow Tanny thought the Easter Bunny was going to come inside and play with him. He spent thirty minutes Friday afternoon looking out the window for the Easter Bunny's car, and got out a matching game to play with the Easter Bunny. He was very disappointed when we explained that the Easter Bunny was going to come while he was asleep.

The Easter Bunny left a note...

As soon as Makett found an egg he opened it and dumped the contents in his bucket, throwing the empty eggs on the floor.

Tanzen carefully collected eggs, and saved the candy as long as possible.

Our awesome friends, Matt & Liz, joined us for an Easter dinner.
Liz made this gorgeous bunny cake, which the boys LOVED. Makett couldn't keep his fingers out of it!