Tolmachoff Farms

Every year since we've had kids we have gone to Tolmachoff Farms.

2008

2009

2010

We love it. This time Jason's work schedule made it hard for him to come so it was just my mom and me with the kids.

Here are the fun pictures of our day at the farm.

4 Months!!

Can you believe this little girl is 4 months old already?

Well, she is. She turned 4 months a few days ago and we took her to the doctor today.

Here's what she's up to:

She can roll around (and scoot a tiny bit- but it's FAR from crawling still)

After rolling-No I did not lay her down away from her blanket, burp rag and toys.

I had layed her on her back so this was just more than a 360 spin.

Speaking of toys, she loves to play.

It is SO cute to see her chubby hand reaching out to grab stuff and especially putting stuff into her mouth.

Terra 'talks' all of the time. She makes the cutest noises and will do back and forth 'conversations' with me.
She also yells. She gets into some kind of mood and just yells (loudly, but happily) for a couple of minutes.

Even though she is an expert smiler, she doesn't laugh yet.

When we play and tickle her she does this sort of yelling/squealing noise- which I think is her version of laughing.

Anyway her stats from the Doctor today are:

25" Tall: Almost 90th%
15lbs 4oz: around the 80th%
Head circumference: 95th %
Just like every appointment I've ever been to with any of my babies- my kids' heads are just big.

And now that she is 4 months, the Doctor says I can start feeding her food

I think she's ready

A few more pictures from the past month- because I just can't get enough of those chubby cheeks.



This was at the aquarium near our house- she was mesmerized by the fish



I love, love, love this little girl.

Happy 4 months Terra!

Parker Pictures

Now it's Parker's turn for a post full of pictures

This was like one day after I cut his hair, and I cut it shorter than normal- I don't really like it, but he's cute anyway

 These next few might look similar- he kept saying something like "Take a picture of my funny/silly face, this is how I make a silly face"

Looks like a silly face to me!

Is he handsome or what?

And here are two pictures of both of my big kids making funny faces

Can you tell I'm a bit obsessed with my kids?

I can't help it- I'm crazy about them!

Can't Choose Just One

A little photo shoot one day while we were eating a picnic lunch at the zoo.

Aria is so fun... I couldn't really narrow down the picture choices- so get ready for lots of pictures of a skinny little blue-eyed, blonde haired girl.

What Aria does when you say 'smile':

Classic Aria face:

Aria does this at least daily, lately. Especially while eating meals

Here, the picnic was over, she was watching a turtle

Then playing on the playground

Baby Pictures

Who doesn't love a few baby pictures?



Stuff Parker Says

Parker went through a 'why?' stage a little while ago, and he's begun asking "why?" again. But now if i don't give a satisfactory answer he'll sigh and say "No, Mommy- Why for real?" To try to get me to give a better or more in depth answer.

I was making lunch one day and Parker asked why we have to eat so much. (see what I mean about asking why) and I explained how food has things that our body uses, etc and that's how we grow bigger, yadda, yadda, yadda. Then he laughs at me and says "No, eating food doesn't make you bigger... Birthdays make you bigger"

Parker has a bad habit.
He picks his nose.
I tell him to use a tissue and he refuses. One time I told him to stop and he said "I'm just going to go where you can't see me" (Because then I can't tell him to stop)
Aria also has a bad habit.
She sucks her thumb.
When we tell her to stop Parker proudly says "I don't suck my thumb," usually followed by an admission "but I do pick my nose"
The good news is... he also said "When I'm big and I'm 4, I'll stop picking my nose"

Parker will often begin a thought with "Let me tell you something about..." and then he says what he's going to talk about. For example, "Let me tell you something about trains" and then he explains something about trains and how fast they go.

When Parker thinks something is really big he says it is "Big as the sky"

Right now, Parker really likes to label any body of water as deep or shallow, and then calls it a pool.
Puddles in the grass? "That's like a really shallow pool"
The neighbors pool? "That pool is like a big deep pool"
The lake by the library is tricky "First it's shallow but when you go out it's like a really deep pool"
This is only a fraction of the awesome things that Parker says. He makes me laugh all of the time. I love him!

Airport

I drove my dad to the airport a little while ago. By the time we got there, Terra was fussy and hungry.

So after I dropped him off, I drove into the parking lot and pulled up to the roof. It was empty so I parked sideways across a few spots and let the kids out to watch planes while I fed Terra.



Is it weird that I think they're cute, even when you can only see their backs?