January pictures

Here are quite a few pictures from our new year so far.  They're a little out of order, different sizes, and some pictures *refuse* to be centered.  But I'm not OCD or anything.

Having fun at IKEA!

I love his little smile so. much.

Cousins attempting to ride a bike together.  It didn't work, but they were cute.

Eleanor's dinosaurs.  The herbivores are eating the garden and the trees in the forest, and the carnivores are eating a turtle.  Lovely.

Too cool

Eleanor put on her Dilophosaurus costume from Halloween every day for about a week.

A picnic with Osito

They love shopping at Publix, as long as they get to ride in this cart.

Nature walk

Bedtime stories with my babies

Such a big boy!

I found him like this one day.  He knows this is where you go to read books.  :)

 Little Chef

Strawberry picking!

Playing his drums

Frosting her half birthday cake.  I told her you don't get presents or candles for your half birthday, but she really wanted a cake.  :)

Sprinkles

 

My big 3 1/2 year old!

 They are big fans of cake!

(Like our new shelves?)

And more from 2012

This goes along with my last post, but these are all pictures from my phone.  I wish it would format them correctly when I upload them, but oh well.  Also, these are not in order at all!

I don't know why Hunter insists on leaving his laptop on the floor, but Arthur knew he wasn't supposed to play with it!  Look at that face!

Amelia Island!

Checking out some Sandhill Cranes on a walk on New Year's Eve

Arthur is walking now!  He is slowly learning how to walk without keeping his hands up in the air.  This was on Christmas Day

My niece Julie got the American Girl doll named Julie for Christmas.  She already had the little tiny Julie doll. So here's Julie holding Julie holding Julie!  Notice how she tried to dress like the doll!

On our way home from a countdown to 12:00 NOON New Year's Eve party!

We actually had a cold day!

Waiting for the Nutcracker Ballet to start

Christmas Movie time!

We had a paper chain to count down to Christmas.  Only 2 days left!

Looking like a big boy

End of 2012

Here are some pictures from the last week or two of 2012.

Eleanor and I went to see the Nutcracker ballet and she loved it!

As we were walking back to the car afterwards she looked up at me and said, "Mama, that was just great."

Trying to stand up on her toes like the ballerinas.

All ready for church on Christmas Eve!

After we got home, we put out "reindeer food" that Eleanor prepared at school.  It's oats and glitter.  The smell of the oats attracts the reindeer and the glitter shines in the moonlight to help them find your home.  :)

She covered the yard!

Not a great picture, but once they were both ready for bed on Christmas Eve we went on a walk to see Christmas lights.  We did this several times throughout December and they loved it!

  

Santa came!

That's a barn for Arthur and a pirate ship for Eleanor.  I made the mat under the pirate ship - it's an ocean with an island on one side (not too exciting) and green with woods, a farm, and a lake on the other side.  I think the green side is much more interesting but it stays on the ocean side with the pirate ship for now.  I'll have to post better pictures of it sometime.

Eleanor has been wanting a Compsognathus for months and she finally got one.  I love how "Santa" set him up!

Spotting her pirate ship from the top of the stairs

Happy girl!

Arthur went straight to work with his barn

I think she actually played with the trampoline more than the pirate ship

  

The dinosaurs are eating the pirates.

It didn't take long for all of her dinosaurs to make their way to the pirate ship and climb on board.

Jump to our anniversary trip on Amelia Island!

The first morning we were there we borrowed bikes from our B&B and rode them to Fort Clinch State Park, a 9 mile ride round trip.  It was so pretty biking through the state park!  The fort itself wasn't terribly exciting since it's a Civil War Fort where nothing ever happened, but it was fun to walk around.

After lunch we took a boat tour that was definitely the highlight of our trip!  My pictures aren't very exciting, but the tour was very interesting with lots of history.

This is the house where the Pippi Longstocking movie was filmed.

Wild horses on Cumberland Island

Here's the courtyard at our B&B at night

House across the street from our B&B, supposedly the most photographed house in the Southeast.

Where we stayed

The many faces of Arthur