Mobile Moments February 2011

Before we get too far into March I thought I would post my Mobile Moment pictures for the month of February. Here is proof that even though February is a short month, you can still have a lot of fun.

Nicholas is starting to enjoy sitting in his Bumbo chair more. Devin says it hurts his manly pride because it is pink. But I think he'll get over it.

Anna loves to help me make bread. One day after we finished making bread, she decided that she wasn't quite done yet. She pulled out my little loaf pans and make more bread in her oven.

Sometimes when I look at Nicholas the only word that comes to mind is "jolly." He is one happy boy.

Devin's parents brought us one of Devin's old toys. They are these cool stacking ring things. Anna loves to play with them. She especially loves to put them on her fingers. She loves making "funny fingers."

My kids were never big hat wearers as babies. Perhaps it is because they had so much hair that I didn't want to cover it up. Needless to say, I have a box of baby hats. Anna discovered this box and we had a little hat party.

Devin's mom made the kids beautiful blankets for Christmas. These blankets come out every day for tummy time and indoor picnics.

Anna loves to perform. I wish I could have taken a video of her sining and rocking out with her flashlight.

I love IKEA's kid's plates. They are just the right size and they have helped Anna learn her colors. (Yes, I am a nerdy teacher at heart.) Lately we have discovered another reason to love the IKEA kid's plates, cups, and bowls. They are great for stacking and building.

We are big fans of Amazon.com at our house. We love it when the UPS man brings us Amazon boxes. So it would make sense that a little bit of heaven is sitting in an Amazon box reading a book. Thank you UPS man for hours of fun!

We are lucky enough to have a basketball court on the side of our house. Truth be told when we bought the house we decided that we would rip it out and put our garden in it's spot. We've had a slight change of heart because we had no idea that it was the neighborhood hang out spot. Anna LOVES playing with the kids there. It is a great spot to ride bikes, do sidewalk chalk, and many more things. I told the boys the other day that if they would like to come over at 5pm every day and entertain Anna by playing basket ball so I could make dinner that would be great. As you can see, she is GLUED!!! She loves watching "my guys."

What is better than licking one set of beaters while making cookies???? Licking TWO sets at the same time.

I love to cuddle with my kids!

Sometimes it is hard to wait for mom to be done with whatever she is doing. One day Anna was having a hard time waiting, so she just curled up in a ball in the chair and fell asleep. Don't worry, I moved her after I took the picture so she could breathe.

We have been potty training Anna. She loves getting a "giant chocolate chip" when she goes potty.

I knew it was time to cut Nicholas's hair when clips went in so easily. Yes, I think I offended him by putting in the clip.

This is how Nicholas plays with the blocks.

It is ALWAYS reading time at our house. We have plenty of books and blankets ready at all times.

Anna loves to be a giant orange worm, or burrito.

Anna knows what she likes. And one thing she really likes is chocolate chips. If you ask her what she wants for dessert she will usually answer, "chocolate chips!"

Anna is a train girl. She loves Thomas the Tank Engine and she loves playing with her legos and making trains. A day does not go by without hearing, "choo! choo!" at some point during the day.

Sisterly love. She was sharing her monkey with Nicholas. The crazy thing was that he was laughing and loving every minute. It is hard for a two-year old to understand that she can't smash her monkey into her brother's face when it only makes him laugh and giggle.

Anna loves puzzles. I wish we had more. She is getting pretty fast at all the puzzles we have at our house.

Broom hockey is one of Anna's favorite things to do. She enjoys trying to hit her little soccer ball around the house. The picture shows clearly why I don't encourage her to do this.

One day when I was sweeping the floor Anna made a bridge. It was even better when Mom started taking the chairs away and the bridge was breaking.

Learning how to work is really important. We have started to give Anna jobs. One of Anna's favorite jobs is to dust. She also likes to use her tool bench to reach up to dust the windowsills.

Devin and Anna are good about helping to restock my pantry. I will give them a list and then they will go down to our food storage room and get what we need. Anna likes to use her shopping cart so she can carry more.

I wish I could convince Anna that squishing Nicholas is not how we hug him.

It is starting to act like Spring around here. YEAH!!! Which means you need your sunglasses. Anna looks pretty cool riding in the car with her sunglasses on.

Story time at grandma's house is one of Anna's favorite things do do with her cousins.

Like most kids, Nicholas is one happy kid when he wakes up from his nap.

One day as I was making dinner Anna asked for a piece of bread. She then got her measuring cup, broke the bread up into small pieces and then while handing me the cup asked, "Do you want the sacrament mommy?" Too cute!

We have lots of snacks at our house. Usually snacks are not very exciting things, like corn flakes. But Anna found out that if you lick the corn flakes they will stick to your nose. Not so boring anymore.

I posted nice pictures of Nicholas's hair cut. But here is the picture of the hair I chopped off. I sent this picture to Devin to let him know that I finally bit the bullet and chopped the kid's hair off. Don't worry. I gathered up all the hair I cut off and put it in a little ziplock bag.

As you can see, it has been a busy fun month!