Shelly's Birthday!

Wow Shelly is 7! 

 

Brooke wanted to help Shelly with her sign picture, but as you can see she did much better taking a picture alone.  The kids were super excited to give Shelly presents....well until Shelly started jumping up on them all excited.  As you can see from Tyler's face, this made him a little nervous.  Even though she looks pretty crazy in the pictures, she isn't actually...O'wait she is crazy, but she is very friendly.  Also, just when we though the kids were spoiled by Miss T., look what she made for Shelly!

 

Funny Little People

So these little people do have a tendency to make me laugh.  As I was putting away laundry this evening, the kids decided it would be fun to take all the "ugly" maternity clothes out of the bin, and then put them back.  At one point Brooke thought it would be fun to start trying them on, and of course Tyler wanted to be just like his big sister! 

I wonder if any of them will make it out of the bin to be worn this pregnancy....also I wonder why all maternity clothes are so unattractive! :)

Christmas Pictures

I know these pictures look completely posed, and aren't a cool as the freelance photographers, but its hard to beat the $20 price! (Well..ok we actually ordered 2 poses, and paid $40).  This is the first time Portrait Innovations posted their picture on line as well, so we got to get some low resolution pictures of the other ones we liked as well.

Fortunately, the kids were both in good moods.  Brooke was super excited to wear a pretty dress, and Tyler thought it was funny to run every time they put him in the chair.  One of the advantages of Portrait Innovations is we always get the support of two people helping with the pictures. One photographer, and one to make the kids laugh & smile.  This year the helper was very funny with her bubble popping skills!

Check out Tyler's stylish little shoes!  Great mom-to-mom find!  Also, a special thanks to the Fry's for both of Brooke's super cute outfits.

Looks like both the kids are going to get mommy's green eyes! Woo hoo!

41 Months...and another Ear Infection

Brooke is quite the trooper.  Behind all the giggles & smiles, it appears she had her I believe 6th double ear infection for the year.  It was also reported that her lungs sounded bad again, so she is back on her breathing treatments every 3-4 hrs.  Based on the fact she is so anti-medicine, and I just didn't have the strength to battle with her for the next 10 days, I had the doctor do a shot of the antibiotic this time.  Unfortunately, it was very painful, and she was sore all evening, however now we are done and she already looks and sounds like she if feeling much, much better!

 

We have an appointment the second week in January at Children's Hospital to see an ENT doctor, as it might be time to look into getting tubes put in those little ears.

 

Here are her happy sign pictures from the morning.  I think she was especially happy since I agreed she could wear a dress for the day!

 

We went to Sam's that evening to do a little shopping, and found Santa was visiting the store that evening.  Brooke went back in forth many times with her decision on wanting to see him, but finally decided she really wanted to say hi.  Instead of sitting on his lap, she wanted to stand next to him and hold his hand.  (Extra bonus in letting her wear a dress!)  There prices were crazy.  The first packages started around $2.58, but since we really only wanted the one picture....it was a whopping $0.40 for a 5x7 picture.  Now I would like to see another store beat that price!  We did have to wait about an hour for the picture to print, but I think it was worth the wait.  (Love how it looks like she has a gold bow in her hair too!)