Showing off

I had to snap a few photos of Eleda's outfit.  Some of you may be aware of my little shopping obsession... I make no apologies for it when my kids look this cute :)  I actually got Eleda's outfit for a steal on sale!

 Ashton is always very proud of himself after working very hard on sock removal. 

Monkeys

Here are the results of me trying to get a halfway decent photo of both my kids.

The second-last one is my favourite and cracks me up every time I look at it.

If you're happy and you know it...

Surprise!

We recently attended the surprise 50th birthday party of my best friend Bonnie's mom Pat.  It was a great party and a great surprise!  I haven't requested permission to post photos of most of the people at the party, so you're stuck with photos of my kiddos again lol.  I'm going to break them up into a couple posts because I seem to have several groupings of photos.

This is what happens when you try to crawl downhill:

 

 

 

Eleda Ballerina

Eleda is finally a ballerina!  Her Grandma and Grandpa decided that they wanted to give Eleda dance lessons for her birthday (rather, they wanted to fund someone a little more qualified than they are to provide said lessons), and I couldn't think of a better idea.  On the recommendation of a friend, we found a lovely little dance school with very small class sizes (there are just 3 little cuties in Leda's class) and she started today. 

I apologize that the photo quality isn't the best today... the dance school is on the third floor of a big, old building, and that means hiking up 3 big flights of stairs with my 20 LB weight (AKA Ashton) and by the time we had a potty break and I got her shoes on I was sweating fairly profusely and just grabbed what shots I could.

And here is the best part... the post-dance lollipop!

Toopy is too big

Today some characters from TV came to do a free show at the mall.  I took Eleda to see Barney when she was about Ashton's age and it was crazy but fun.  I haven't been feeling like the greatest mom lately, so I decided it would be nice to brave the chaos to take the kids to see Toopy and Binoo live.  I told Eleda about it and she was really excited.

We got ready to leave the house just as the skies opened up, and ALL the rain came down.  We went for it, but were literally soaked through just getting to the car from the house.  It was still pouring when we got to the mall, so we got re-soaked on our way in.  By the time we had "checked" the stroller, the room where the show was being held was pretty much full... we were able to scooch a corner at the back, and when Toopy and Binoo came out, I held Eleda up so she could see.  She had the funniest, sort of quizzical look on her face, and she told me she didn't like them.  I was so hot that it was a HUGE relief that she wanted to leave! 

She asked if she could ride the Fozzy car and the merry-go-round... it was the least I could do!!!

First food

These photos date back to July 7th, but were taken on my dad's camera and it took us that long to get them off of there and into my hands!  Anyways, after cereal, Ashton's first real food was green beans, and he loved them!  He really hasn't looked back... he loves everything and eats quite a bit... I fear for our future grocery bills.