Toothless!

Melody has now lost four teeth and two more are loose! She's losing them as fast as Allie's getting them. It's a lot of drama at our house when Melody has a loose tooth. She wiggles it, and plays with it until it's literally dangling from her mouth. It'll wiggle as she talks its so loose, but nothing will convince her to pull it out. I even told her at one point that if she let me pull it, or just pulled it out herself, I'd let her eat whatever she wanted for the rest of the day. Food is usually all it takes to convince her, but this time she was having none of it. Jared and I have pretty much given up and just try to ignore it until the tooth actually falls out. No matter what kind of chaos it causes we've decided we love her new toothless grin!

Allie's New Dress

Tasha's sewing skills don't cease to impress me. She made this cute little dress for Allison, as a pattern tester, and had me snap a few pictures.

Allison Loves Books

If you've seen her in any other videos she's usually very soft with books. She slowly turns the pages, examines, and rarely chews on them. :)

However, she's been known to occasionally create a book mountain in front of their bookshelf. We were able to catch her doing it on video.

Pictures, pictures, and more pictures!

 

She was modeling the skirt for me. I just adore her faces. She tries so hard to stand so still and put on this perfect smile, but once she relaxes a bit you can get such a fun variety of facial expressions!

Katie found a box of my old toys and immediately adopted as many of the carebears as I'd let her get away with. My parents managed to collect all but a couple for me when I was little, and I let Katie pull out four. She sleeps with all of them every night and changes their names daily.

Again with the faces! She is such a sweet beautiful girl!

 Allie was really mad about being stuck in her walker. Katie was trying to get her interested in the toys, but Allie was having none of it!

 Cleaning up the boogers Allie had just rubbed all over her face. Melody is such a loving, caring girl. She's going to make an amazing mother someday if I don't ruin her.

My plants! I have a tomato plant and a green pepper plant. I have this awful habit of killing everything I try to grow. Once we got moved in I was ready to dig up half the yard for the garden I so badly wanted, but I decided my track record wasn't good enough to attempt responsibility for that many plants. So we started small. The girls have been helping me care for them, and have been watching with excitement as they bloom and then the veggies start to grow. I'm looking forward to doing more plants next year and incorporating them into our homeschooling. Science is something both of the girls really get in to, so it'll be fun!

A night with Allie

Last night Allie had a hard time getting to sleep so I just let her wander around for a while hoping she'd tire herself out. First she visited with Katie who was also having a hard time falling asleep. I really wanted Katie to go to sleep, but it was just to sweet that Allie was seeking her out to play with. I figured they might tire each other out. Too bad Katie gave in first. Allie came back out to the living room once sister stopped playing.

The shoe basket is one of her favorite hang out spots. I'm not sure if it's the smell or the overall gross-ness, but something brings her back every time.

First she dumps it out, then she examines the ones that look important, then she moves on. I count my lucky stars that she rarely tries to put them in her mouth!

Watching the news with mom. She likes to yell at the TV and bang on it from time to time. We had to warranty it out after Katie broke it with her banging as a baby. I'm not sure it'll survive another baby!

Visiting with dad. She likes to stand at the tower and bang, and pull on all the cables, unplug chargers and just generally drive dad crazy :)

Stopping to say hi to mom. I just love that she'll be exploring and playing, then she'll crawl over to me and just lay her head against me for a second, then go back to what she was doing. It melts my heart every time!

Finally gave in!