Monday, February 20, 2012

For the Grandparents

Just catching up on some pictures and showing family how fast these kids are growing.  Tristan will be turning 3 next weekend, and Betsy girl will be 10 months old in a week!  It's nuts how fast they are growing.  T man's vocabulary has multiplied times 20!  We have full conversations with him and he talks very clear.  He surprises us daily with new words and we are confused by how he knows these words.  Betsy's personality is coming out more and more.  She rocks out to music, cracks up at her brother, and has learned silly facial expressions. 
Lately, we've just been busy with life.  Nothing really new.  We actually haven't even been to the beach in a month or so.  Between Tristan's weekly activities; swim class, Wee Play and Learn class, etc...,  Betsy's neediness and wanting to be held every second, my church calling and sewing for Arkotec, cooking 3 different types of meals 3 times a day for the fam (infant/toddler/adult), cleaning up after two messy kids, Christian working full time AND running a small business, we manage to stay pretty busy.  I love my little family and enjoy being with them and taking care of them.  It's a lot of hard work, but it's so worth it.  

Pictures with our favorite little girl:     

More dress up time! Spiderman (again) saving the princess:
"Look mom, I saved the princess!"


Ava's ice cream party at the park:

Oh!  And I guess I should mention that Tristan is 100% potty trained!  He's been off the diaper for a month now.  He's only had 2 accidents at night and only one poop accident total!  I don't even put a towel down for him at night anymore.  He's pretty awesome.  Poo poo time on the toilet is his all time favorite thing to do.  "Mom, can you please get me my magazine and leave?".  

Our roly poly.  She loves rolling around:

The new face!:
We have a huge HUGE supply of video footage of these kids that we need to upload to the blog.  We have so much footage, I'm worried we might crash our computer.  Get excited! :)

9 comments:

Courtney said...

...and for the aunties! I'm in love. They are both SO adorable. I want to kiss Betsy's cheeks all day long. LOVE them.

Bill Hastings said...

So glad I've been able to visit recently. It's so fun to see the kids growing and changing. T's vocabulary really is amazing. Also, love the spiderman poised on the crib.

Chelcie said...

Love Betsy's new face! She is seriously soooo adorable!! Tristan is such a fun little boy, he cracks me up. Best kids ever!

jenn (+ will) said...

such cute photos! my goodness they keep you busy!!!

Whitney said...

Such beautiful pictures! Congrats to TKan on the potty training. That's so great. I love that he needs a mag and privacy for potty time. And how great is Betsy's swirly hair in the front?

Anna said...

Congrats on the potty training. What magazine is he reading? Hilarious.
And Betsy..words can't describe the cuteness.

Alisa said...

Love the new face!

Artsy Aut said...

Im not the gradparent but I loved the pictures anyway! Its been way to long since we have seen you! Lets get us all to the beach ASAP! We found a new hang out beach and it has lots of good sticks! Bonus!

Whitney said...

By the way, do we know that the blonde boy in the park picture with TKan = Rob?