You can take the girl out of Texas, but

....you can't take the Texas out of the girl!!!

Claire wore this to school today! She is and has always been very independent, but lately we are really trying to exert our independent spirit! I think it is pretty funny and her teachers just laughed when she walked in. Everything I read about this age has so many opinions and lots of advice, but there is a common thread......pick and choose your battles!!!!! So today I was not fighting the boots! We just wore them and all was well. I did pack other shoes and Miss Kerri said she wore the boots until almost 1pm......she was serious about this fashion statement!

By the way, we did not buy these....they were given to us....and I was able to steer her in a direction that at least produced a matching outfit!!! :)

Teeth....part 2

Oops...did this backwards....anyway, just a cute pic of Claire

Always picking flowers....she calls them flolers

Classic James...he always does this. He pulls your face into him and snuggles and kisses and chews on you. He does it to me all the time!!! A kiss only a mother would want....and I love it :)

Can't see it really well here, but there is a tooth and another is not far behind it!

Eating time is serious business around here!!! Look at this kid! Cereal all over the face! Both of my babies take their food pretty seriously.............love those chunky thighs that a love of food produces :) This was cereal mixed with formula. I am trying to get James to take some formula so that at some point I can wean him. It took Claire forever to take formula and looks like I have another one of those situations on my hands. I hate how trapped it makes me feel, but what ya gonna do? I am more calm about it with James than I was with her. And, I am really not ready to wean.....would just be nice to throw some formula at him when I don't have time to pump and all that mess. Hard to make time for that when you have 2 kids to keep happy.......busy times around here, but I am loving every minute of it!

Teeth!!!

I forgot to document this in the last post....Saturday, May 9.......I felt a little tooth coming through on James. It is his bottom left and I think the bottom right is soon to follow. He is a drooling machine and has been a little fussy today. It makes me a little sad to think that his smile is changing and will soon not be that little gummy...no tooth smile that I love so much!!!! So he is about 5 1/2 months and the first tooth is here!!!!

Mother's Day

The cake says it all!!! God bless Claire and James!!! We baptized the kids today and it could not have gone better! We went to church and came home and had some delicious bbq and cake!!! Such a wonderful Mother's Day!!!!! I love my babies!!!!

We could not resist a cake and not have candles!!!

Sweet boy all smiles for the big day!

Being silly and refusing to smile for a picture!!!! It is so hard to get a good picture of 2 kids especially a 2 1/2 year old!

Falling over............

It was a really wonderful day! The kids behaved and James was the last to be baptized so Dr. Are took him in his arms and we all walked out into the congregation! It was really special! What a wonderful day!

Nothing like a little....

cupcake on the porch after dinner........

Claire had a cupcake last week and asked for more. I told her that we didn't have any more and she said that it was okay because Mimmy would make her some when she came. Mimmy has been here for less than 24 hours and Claire has some purple cupcakes!!! Yum!

Our face might be stained for a couple of days :)

Mimmy and Da are here for the weekend. We are baptizing the kids on Sunday. Strick's family will get here tomorrow and we are so excited about a great weekend!!!! Fun times!

Last bite is always the best!!!!!