Day 19

Tomorrow is Carter's Valentines Day party at school, and I was asked to make treats. So I looked though the web for something different to make as I can't just make any run of the mill cookies, and this is what I found, stained glass cookies, super easy and they look pretty cool. Of course my little baker had to help.

Carter helping to make the cookie dough.

Then I had him peel the candies from their wrappers, surprisingly he only ate one.

Ready for the oven

All cooked, I know I know ohhhhhhhhh ahhhhhhhhh

Single one to show the finished stained glass look

 

Look out Martha I am coming for you, here is the plate ready to be taken for school tomorrow. I made mini cookie hearts as well with the left over dough as I ran out of candies that were the right colour.

Day 18

Baby feet and hands are the best, a little sister holding on to her brothers hand even better, using mommies fingers as a chew toy annoying but she loves them lol.

Day 17

So I wasn't sure what I was going to do tonight, to be honest I wasn't sure if I was going to make it on here as it is the dreaded bath night for both kids. So I am talking with my friend Brei on the phone and I mention that I had to bath Sydney first and then Carter, her reply "you don't bath them together yet?" My answer "nope Sydney cannot sit up yet in the tub on her own"

So about 10 minutes later I have Sydney in the tub and it is getting close to bedtime for both kids, and I still needed to wash Carter's hair as he has a hair appointment to get his mop-top-hair-shop hair cut tomorrow. So I am looking at Sydney ready to get her out and trying to do the game plan in my head on what I am going to do with her while I washed Carter's hair ect. And then I thought, why don't I bath the kids together yet? it clearly is easier and well he can do with less water as she lays down on the tub, so my reasoning for not doing it was stupidity. Which brings me to my inspiration for tonight's blog, first bath of the kids together.

 "Moooom she is touching me"

Crazy clean hair, soon to be all gone.

Sydney Watching her brother in the bath in the warmth of her towel.

Day 16

Well back to the beginning of a new week. Nothing really happened today around the Phillips house, school, sleep, eat, change a bum, the as per usual. So I just took some random pictures and I love the one of Syd laying on the floor, it is my abosolute favorite picture of her so far. I also did some close ups just playing around, and then finally Carter declaring that his valentines for the class were not going to be shared because he wants them all!
I also had an interesting discovery yesterday, I don't think I am big on colour pictures, I prefer the black and whites or the sepia. So as I discover my picture style you will be my guinea pigs, and you thought you had nothing really to do with the outcome of this blog, well you thought wrong.

Day 15

So the past 24 hours have been very quiet around here, Carter went to Papa's last night so I got some one on one time with Sydney as Chris had to work as well. I loved it and I think she loved it too. Sydney discovered a new pose yesterday or trick and she is doing it all the time now, it is almost like she is saying, look how cute I am mommy and forget that I have been sick for a week and keeping you up throughout the night.

So while I was preparing everything for dinner later on and feeding her lunch I turned around and this is what I saw.

And then a little later in her Jumperoo

Day 14

So today I used my new crock pot for the first time so I thought I would make it about food today. I love food, it is my friend lol, but we are trying to eat healthier so lots of protein and veggies. My new crock pot seems to be a relative of a friends as it seems to be on steroids, it cooked a frozen small chicken in two hours. It was nice and juicy but I didn't feel like eating dinner at noon lol. So chicken with steamed sweet potato, baby red potato and carrots mashed together and a Romain salad with Asian sesame dressing. I love cooking more then baking. It was so yummy, get a napkin to wipe up the drool lol.

Time for the Chicken to go in.

Two Hours Later all done.

Plated

Day 13

So today's blog post challenge "the colour of love" to be interperated through our own eyes. I wasn't going to do the weekly challenges because I didn't think that I was creative enough for these but I thought I would try and think of something and if I felt good about it I would do them. So I racked my brain today trying to think if I could come up with what the colour of love through my eyes looks like.

My interpertation of the colour of love is my family through their blue eyes. They support and love me unconditionally no matter what mood I am in and love me no matter what. They drive me batty, but I wouldn't trade them in for the world. The love from my children is apparent when they look at me, rather being when I get Syd after she has woken up or when Carter sees that I am there to pick him up from school. The love from my husband is apparent everyday when he looks at me he provides me with strength and support that I need. This is my colour of love.

Day 12

Today was interesting, I got to pick up Carter without Syd, and it excited me because I have never done that before, Chris had the day off I did not leave her home alone so you can put down your phones to report me lol. So picked up Carter walked home, went to the store made dinner, bath and then bed. Syd is still sick so she did something unusual today, she had a nap, so I got a sleeping picture.

Yesterday she sat up for the first time and that made my heart melt, I am not a big fan of the milestones I actually cry when they come but the sitting up one I have been waiting for, and since her head isn't giant like her brothers she did it earlier then him. So Yippy for my baby sitting. It only lasts for 30 seconds but still it counts in our eyes. So here she is sitting on her own, she wouldn't look at the camera because Chris was right there to catch her just in case. I got one shot in and then she wouldn't co operate with sitting, she was too hungry.

So since Chris is home I actually made a full meal lol, not that I don't cook when he is working but I tend to cater to Carter's needs, so we decided to have Natcho's and have a party in the living room because Chris was home, and it totally worked to get Carter to eat them, so here is our dinner.

And here is Syd's.  She had peas with oatmeal for the first time and took them like a trooper.

And then I let her play because it was bath night. I love her chubby little hands, and hey she isn't really playing with her food she is discovering textures right?

Day 11

So virtually two days of no sleep(Syd is sick grrr), maybe an hour here and there leaves me coming up dry for idea's for my blog. So thankfully Carter provided me with something for you all to see or I would have had to leave you high and dry.

Yesterday being groundhog day Carter and his classmates made a little groundhog day craft and brought it home today, he was very proud of this craft and wouldn't keep it out of my face all night, so in order for the craft to last till the morning and not have me smash it from being shoved in my face every 5 minutes (remember no sleep here I am a very cranky woman lol) I asked if I take a picture will you leave me alone with that thing, he said sure. So without anymore babble from me here is Carter's craft. No Syd pics today because she is Snotty Mcsnotterson.

Day 10

Ohhhhhhhhhhh look at me go 10 days, I can do this no problem. Ok so today I got some really great pictures of the kids and their friends outside, but I didn't have the memory card in my camera, I know smart me moment. So anyways it is 9:30 when I realize this and I am thinking what am I going to do, along with a little profanity while I was thinking out loud I thought, hmmm ok I got it, I will share something that is not of my kids, but of one of my happy places.

 

Yep, after the kids go to bed I turn on my laptop now that I have it back and relax. As you can see this is the page that I had up, and my convo's at the bottom lol. This is my mommy group www.wundermums.com, so I usually have it up in one of the windows so I can bounce back and forth between this and other sites. So there I shared something, this is one of my happy places lol.

Day 9

So today Carter got the treasure today at school, why?? because he got in all of his outerwear all by himself, it took him 20 minutes but he did it. So Yeah for Carter, but BOOOO for me having to wait out in the cold for 20 minutes so he could do it himself. So this is Carter showing off his Treasure Box reward. I am still not into this Treasure Box thing but what are you going to do. Check out my beak mom.

Sydney has to ride in style to get her brother from school, and well pushing the stroller through snow and slush not so much fun, and as much as I love wearing her in this weather it requires a lot of layers on my part. So I was told about this amazing sled for babies 0-24 months of age, and this thing is awesome, she stays warm and dry and she likes it so much she sleeps in it. So here is Syd in her Pelican Sled. LOVE IT!

Day 8

Well today was a better day, laptop came back fixed and ready to go YIPPY, mom brought over dinner YIPPY, and I didn't have to go out anywhere so I could stay nice and warm all day, yes another YIPPY. So since I have my laptop back I can finally play with my photo's.

Carter decided today that he wanted to have a puppet show with the babies puppets that used to be his, so here is the Dolphin eating the seal, I guess that the big boy puppet shows are about animals eating animals.

 

Sydney was cute this evening she was trying to kiss her glow worm baby, and I loved the colour of glow off her face, so I tried to capture it and well it didn't work so well, so while playing around I think I got the same look as what I was seeing when I was looking at her.

Day 7

No pictures today, I know I am saddened just as much as you all. Really busy day and well I have grumpy children, very grumpy children. Tonight is girls night which is so needed after the shitastic week that we have had here in the Phillips household. My brain is still hurting from last night and some of my readers will know what I am talking about as others will not, but that is fine you aren't missing too much as if I had to explain then your brain would hurt too and it would just cause a situation.

Ok so I get home last night and Chris took a picture of Syd so it counted as a day 7 picture, so I will post it today lol. Since I went out last night I had to defrost some milk and she needed to take the bottle, and she seems to only want to take if from daddy, which is fine with me.

Day 6

So we had playdate with some of Carter's school friends and they had a good time. Two of them even seem to have found love.

Syd had a rough day, her dad put stuff on her head, and she was sporting a bad hair day.

Day 5

So Carter would not let me take his picture today, but I got one of him in the bath. So here is Thursday night bath time for Carter. He let me wash is hair tonight without pitching a fit which is a huge accomplishment and a big step foward for him.

I took a bunch of pictures of Sydney today, why?? because I can, so they are just randoms.

Yeah I figured out how to play with my glow worm. Love her face here.

My view of Sydney while I am getting Carter from school, she looks so impressed.

I am not sure if you can tell how messy she was after eating her dinner, it is her bath night so I let her play with the bowl, she is a match made in heaven for a little messy boy we know.

All Clean in the tub.

Ok I know this is not a child, it is the awesome yummy dinner I made. I came up with it all on my own too lol. Chicken stuffed with homemade Bruschetta and light Mozzarella cheese, and then your plain boring salad.

Day 4

So my original thought of the day was to join the bandwagon even further and take pictures of my kids sleeping and post them as I seemed to have missed the memo yesterday that three of my friends were doing it, BUT taking a picture of Sydney sleeping at the moment is like cheating death in a way with being able to do it without her waking up. So no bandwagon for me today, just the as per usual following my own drum beat.

I love imagination, and I love even more that Carter has such an avid one when it comes to certain toys. Today I caught him playing Animals of the Wild on the couch with a couple of his animal toys, I am not sure if you can see it but the Koala bit it today so unless I being the mommy can perform emergency plastic animal surgery to put the limbs back on
we will be having a private funeral for the Koala after Carter goes to bed. This means in grown up terms I will wait till he is in bed and then throw it out without him seeing. After a week he will forget about it lol.

To say that today was a cold one is an understatement. Sydney was well bundled today to go get her brother and all I could think of when I saw her was the little boy from the movie The Christmas Story saying "I can't put my arms down". Of course in reality she totally could but the thought came when I looked at her so I decided to document it with a picture. When we got home she decided that she wanted to practice for her teenage years and while sitting on the couch with me she grabbed the telephone and proceeded to press numbers.