Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday to Lino!

Naps happen

So, sometimes naps just happen when you least expect them to. Like when you are playing with your trains on the couch. And Mama is just so happy that you actually are napping, that instead of moving you to your bed, she just takes a picture to document a real nap.

The curls

Can you understand why I can't bear to cut these off just yet???

And people get surprised that Nate's hair is long, I don't understand it since this is Lino a few years back:

When he finally cut his hair, he sent a 25 inch ponytail to Locks of Love. It is funny, because now he uses the clippers about every 3 weeks or so!

Sewing today!

It feels like it has been a while since I sewed anything. I am going to see how much I can get done today. I cut a skirt pattern (for me!) and the fabric yesterday. I also cut some etsy stuff yesterday.

I would also like to cut the pattern and fabric for a dress for Maggie and Casssie and a jon jon for Nate.

We shall see!

Performance art at Grand Central Station

This is very cool!

http://www.maniacworld.com/frozen-in-grand-central-station.html

Update to the collages

Funny. You know you just laughed...

Poll!

So what is your favorite Easter Candy? You can pick more than one!

I will admit, I am a huge fan of Marshmallow peeps. Especially when the pack has been opened and they start to get a bit stale!

PeepResearch funny, in a disturbing kind of way....not cool, to torture the peeps!

So the Easter Bunny will be hiding eggs and leaving baskets this year. I think it will only be a chocolate bunny, and maybe a small toy or book. The kids don't really like the sugar based candies, and we still have Hershey's Kisses from Valentine's Day left. (shocking, right?)

Success!

We took the kids to get pictures taken yesterday, and it went better than I had expected! I knew that Maggie and Cassie would do fine, and that their pictures would turn out nice. I wasn't too hopeful that we could get Nate to do his 2 year picture (we had tried once with no luck).

When we got to the studio, Nate looked a bit unsure when he saw the photographer with her camera. We told him that it was just the girls getting their pictures, not him. After a bit, he warmed up enough that he wasn't on my lap and started to play with a bucket of blocks.

So, Lino told Nate that he had to move with his blocks (over to where the girls were) because the girls were going to take pics where he had been playing. The photographer was super, and pretended to take pics of the girls while Nate was playing. Then, she started taking his picture.

It worked!!! A couple of times he looked a bit suspicious, but we actually got quite a few nice ones of him alone, and he was even okay to having the girls take their picture with him, so we have an updated one of all 3!!! (of course, he has an M&M in his hand for it, but hey, bribery is okay sometimes!)

I am just so pleased! It took us a long time to pick out the pictures. The girl was very patient with us while we narrowed down our choices: one of just Maggie, just Cassie, just Nate, one of Maggie and Cassie, and the one of all 3! (and there are still 3 more that I would love to go back and get) I am so excited, though, that Nate fell for our trick!!

I didn't fuss with Nate's hair too much, because I didn't want him to get really mad. It is really long in front, and I am going to attempt to cut his bangs soon. Lino is okay with keeping it longer in the back, his curls are just so sweet, but it gets in his eyes, and that isn't good (even though he has no problem wearing the girls' clippies! )

So, yay for good picture day!!

Happy Birthday to Maggie and Cassie!

A retrospective. We haven't done a birthday portrait yet, the last picture is from Nate's party. My baby girls aren't little babies any more! Next week we register them for kindergarten.