Random shots from Thanksgiving

John is shopping on ebay for "gifts for other people". Try to find something for less than 200$, John! Niisha from Parents as Teachers assists as Lincoln creates a glove Turkey with googly eyes and feathers.


Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

More faces of Lincoln

John and I were looking at old pictures last night. Lincoln has always had so many facial expressions! Even before he could talk his face said everything that needed to be said. His repertoire of expressions has only gotten bigger...


This boy does not WANT to sit in the cart, he wants to get down and promises to walk sedately beside us as we shop. Yeah right...

Lunch with Mommy

One day last week John had the weekday off from work. He and the kids picked me up at lunch time and we went for Pizza! Fun!
We brought some matchbox cars to try and prolong Lincoln's patience...
...but the pizza took a long time to come!
Isn't it fun going out to eat with children?
Time for everyone to get all bundled up and take mommy back to work!

October Happenings

The kids enjoyed the Halloween presentation that the Fairbanks Princess puts on every year. Shiloh-the-ladybuy toddled around entertaining herself While her Turtle-man brother literally ran laps. This is the only picture of him I got. He followed the big kids around asking them questions and trying to keep up. At one point I heard him say, "I don't care, I don't love you" to 2 boys he had never met before. Cruel words from Leonardo...
The next celebration in our busy month was Caleb's 5th birthday. Shiloh eats some snacks in her party dress while waiting for Mommy and Lincoln to get ready. Caleb's was a snowmachining party. Papa helped Lincoln get his helmet on so he could have a turn. Caleb's party was a tremendous success.


The next day was Shiloh's first birthday. Here she is removing all the pieces of Lincoln's train set from the box where I just placed them after picking them up off the floor.

The theme for her party was under the sea. Lincoln helped me make cupcakes and cookies and we all spent a ridiculous amount of time decorating them...

They were so cute. The fish-cakes had Nerds for eyes and pieces of candy seaweed and jelly bean rocks. The blue frosting was blueberry flavored. It was actually quite disgusting to eat.. but cute...
Downstairs in the garage we had a sand pile and a wading pool. We hung blue tarps up (to hid our messy garage!) and hung fish decorations from the ceiling
the water and sand were a hit with the under-2 crowd...
By the end of the night the wading pool had become the sand box!

I can't believe my little girl is one already. Happy Birthday Shiloh!