Our daughter has always been talkative, but lately she has become even more so.... I honestly believe from the moment the first bird chirps outside her window in the AM until we leave her in her bed at night hoping she will drift off to sleep with ease, she doesn't stop talking. Without question she inherited the talking gene from both our mothers...they love to talk! It was actually a joke that Josh and I had before our mothers met that they would both just talk neither hearing that the other was talking! Now our daughter is both our mothers combined!!!! We love you both dearly, as well as you Ella and while there is the age old saying "silence is golden"...I don't think that was ever a possibility for us! We will take the conversation and questions for years to come and love you and your chatterbox mouth :-)

Cooper was standing in front of the mirror before bed brushing his teeth just staring in the mirror at himself. I honestly think the kid didn't recognize himself. I asked him if he liked his new haircut and his response was: "I don't like my haircut!" The kid is so funny as after it was cut he was acting all hot stuff and happy the hair was off his ears as it wasn't tickling him any longer.

I recall the feeling I used to get when I received a phone call from a past employee..finding out how they've been, what they are doing now, filling them in on the current happenings of the workplace. I was just that past employee as I called AEC regarding my 401k that still sits with them. It was nice chatting with a couple of the ladies I worked so closely with for so many years. It also made me realize how much I love my current job. There isn't a job in this world that beats being a Mommy full time!

First eye exams for the kiddies!

Enjoying my coffee while making pancakes, green beans, hot dogs, peas and balloons. Guess what we are doing???

Why is it that no matter how early Josh and I try to get up to get up before the children and have a few minutes of peace, quiet and maybe a cup of coffee they wake up even earlier. Ella has been up since 6am and Coop at 7. I think quiet time times may be changing for I see two crank pots earlier than normal!

As I am with Ella doing our nightly bedtime routine, Ella tells me that she is going to Jamaica tomorrow to get done things for Cooper. One of which is a snow globe. She then tells me not to tell Cooper. I all her who she is going with and she told me she was going by herself as it isn't very far. After Jamaica she plans to go to Kohls where she is going to buy a big bed for her and Coop, one like Josh and I have. She is so gosh darn cute. As I'm leaving her room she asks me what side of the bed I sleep on and if we can trade bedrooms cause mine is bigger and had two closets! I share with her that Josh and I share a room and she had her room all to herself...she looks up at me and tells me she wants to share a room with Coop...HA!!!! Right, they can't tolerate each other most of the time and have a Get Along Shirt but let's share a room!!!! Oh the innocence of the young!