Archive for the 'Asher' Category



26
Feb
10

just sit back and relax cousin

We love when we get to babysit our nephew, Caden!  He is so sweet and smiley and his cousins love to play with him!  Asher, though…well, I’m not sure what he was trying to do to poor Caden!  We’ll just say he was giving him a head ‘massage’.  😉

“Do you ever get that feeling that something scary is right behind you?”
Just sit back and relax cuz.  I do this all the time!
Not sure if this is what I call ‘relaxing’!
 
Uncle James, drop the camera and rescue me!!!!!!
You can’t fault Asher, who wouldn’t love this face?!?
24
Feb
10

snow day

Finally, Austin got some snow! Granted, in Manor we didn’t have a whole lot compared to other parts of central Texas, but still…snow fell from the sky and my kids got to see it and ‘play in it’! They were all so excited today. The girls were both at school so I didn’t get pictures of them when the snow was actually falling, but Asher got lucky!

From February 2010
the mini blizzard
From February 2010
From February 2010
From February 2010
As soon as Rilyn came home from school she wanted

to make a snowman.  Well, she got as far to make a

snow head.  Most of the snow had already melted!

From February 2010
Snow melting off our slide in the backyard like an acordian!
22
Feb
10

what are you looking at?

20
Feb
10

just another saturday morning

This morning was just another Saturday morning. You know, the kind where the night before James and I made cereal bags for the girls and laid them on their respective places on the couch so when they woke up way too early for a Saturday morning, they could plop right on the couch and zone out watching cartoons while munching on cereal. But our girls? Don’t get me wrong, they do love cartoons, but sometimes they just want to draw. So, it was not unusual for us to wake up at 8:30 this Saturday morning to find this note affixed to our door:

 

The written note says: Please do not come in here because my mommy is sleeping (with a stop sign drawn below the words).  Rilyn knows how much I LOVE sleeping in! The drawing is of me and James and he is asking, “May I have this dance?” And I am replying, “Yes, you may!” (Apparently, I’m into wearing hoop skirts!) And the drawing wouldn’t be complete without a chandelier above us! Rilyn cracks me up! I have no idea why she drew us about to dance. 🙂
So after I get out of bed, (and let James still sleep in which is very unusual because he usually lets me sleep in!), I get Asher out of his crib because he still doesn’t know how to climb out and, well, after I bought him a ‘black out’ curtain last week, poor guy doesn’t know when it’s morning time now, so he just lays quietly in his bed until I get him! After breakfast, I caught Rilyn and Asher watching cartoons together like this. So sweet.

After everyone was dressed, Asher decided it was time to push the baby doll stroller lawn mower outside and do some man work.  😉  Because, you know, our dead grass needed a trimming!

19
Feb
10

eew!

What I love about this stage of ‘toddlerhood’ is how they learn new phrases/words everyday!  Asher’s “here you go” was so last week.  This week?  Well this week, we’ve been ‘blessed’ with another new phrase from our dear son.  Now to be fair, he loves this song about a “wiggly, jiggly, giggly worm” from Staci Gray, (who incidentally will be at his birthday party in April!)  You will hear the song at the beginning of the video and in the song, there are parts where kids yell, “Eew!”  He L.O.V.E.S this song!  So pair that with him just being a boy, and you get this:


And if you noticed, there is no telling when he will shout out, “Eew poo-poo!” He will say it when he is getting his diaper changed and he will say it when Rilyn comes home from school off the bus! 😉

16
Feb
10

tea party and tongues

On Valentines Day, we had a Valentine tea party at Grandma and Grandpa’s house complete with pink heart cupcakes and red punch ‘tea’. James said he felt like ‘he was turning into a girl’ by attending this pink and red heart filled event. He sure loves his girls!!

tea time!
Apparently, Ella needs to work on her table etiquette.  Chewing with her food

half out of her mouth is not very lady like!  (Showing how different these sisters are,

Rilyn is next to her ‘dabbing’ her mouth with her napkin that was on her lap!)

Asher was napping during the tea party and so he got his Valentine cupcake treat when he woke up. I think he liked it!

mmmmm…what’s this?!?
yum!
Just need to get this frosting on top of my lip…
oh and some on the bottom…
can’t forget the frosting on the side!
15
Feb
10

celebrating love

Our Valentine’s Day was full of love, pink heart cupcakes, presents, and of course, cute clothes!

Grandma’s house on Valentines Day=

Grandma’s house on Christmas

marshmellow pop!
Rilyn gets a Strawberry Shortcake coloring book!
Rilyn can hardly contain herself…AND a Strawberry

Shortcake movie!!!!

More on the pink cupcakes later…

14
Feb
10

Happy Valentines Day!

12
Feb
10

ee-oh-ee-oh-ee-oh

Recently Asher has been using inflexion when trying to get meaning across to us.  His newest ‘phrase’ is “Here you go!”  But….it sounds a bit different.  Check it out!

29
Jan
10

a bug, bubbles, and bears

Lately…

Asher got dressed up as a lady man bug by his aunt.

notice the high heels in the background, this boy is

surrounded by girlyness!!!

We’ve been playing with bubbles!

one of the gorgeous weather days this month
bubbles and dancing with the family!

And this morning, I started decorating for Valentines Day with bears! (I do know that these bears are hideously ugly and cheesy, but I get them out every year, because these bears were all given to me by my students on V-day during my 3 years of teaching. They remind me of the sweet moments of teaching and how teacher gifts can be so bad.  So please moms, give your kid’s teachers something they will really love-gift cards!)

Bonus:  The bear and roses on the ‘platform’ lights up and plays music!