March 17

Another night of chicken and stars soup. Another big mess for Natalie.


Caitlin actually picked chicken and stars soup for dinner tonight.  Amazing.


I can't get over how old she's looking these days!


Sweet sisters!


Happy St. Patrick's Day!!

March 16

Horrible lighting.  Cute kid.


She was mad that I took Caitlin's camera away from her.

March 15

Still upset about having that belt on. She wasn't thrilled about it the next day (for picture day) either.


First Speedo bathing suit.  I love it!

March 14

Playing sweetly together.  Natalie was playing baby while Caitlin covered her up and brought her pretend food.


No idea what is going on here, but they sure were having fun.

March 13

Crazy girls roughhousing at Aunt Becky and Uncle Jordan's house tonight.


Shoveling it in at dinner.  She was a big fan.

March 12

Beautiful girl at breakfast this morning.


Cereal bars are her favorite.


I was doing something in the kitchen and turned around to find this. Such a character.


And then this happened.


Caitlin had swim lessons tonight, and it was somewhat warm so Natalie and I took a walk down to the playground.


She loves going down the slide.


This might be one of my new favorite pictures of her.


She thought she was going to go down the slide on her belly.


Still trying to convince me.  For the record, I didn't let her.

March 11

"Pick me up, mama"


My girl.  Love when she'll give me sweet smile.


Feeding Caitlin some of her cheddar bunnies.

March 10

Using the leather chair as a slide, more proof that we are in desperate need of some warm weather so we can get out of this house!


Trying on her boots.  This kid loves shoes.

March 9

Out for a short walk tonight, and it was just what we needed.


Natalie had to do whatever Caitlin was doing, which included walking in the snow and touching the snow.


Little stinker.

March 8

Crazy girls!

March 7

Silly girl trying on Caitlin's Jessie boots.


My view when I woke up this morning. Caitlin came into our room completely dressed and hair all "styled" with no less than 7 barrettes/clips in her hair. You can't really tell from the picture, but most of them are in the back of her hair. She was a little disappointed to find out that it wasn't a school day and that she got dressed for no reason.

March 6

My sweet girl at naptime today with all of her "friends" watching over her from her headboard.


Ryan came home early from work with a fever (the beginnings of the flu that totally kicked his butt) today. With all the sickness in our house, I made a batch of homemade chicken noodle soup today, and it was a total hit! Natalie loved it, and my favorite part of this picture are the stars that are stuck to her chin.  Even Caitlin (the well-documented picky one) loved it.  I have even sent it to school for lunch twice, and in Caitlin's words, she "devoured" it!

March 5

This is what a snow day looks like at our house.

Trying on the other headband/bow that Stacey sent. She loves it, too!


Dress up time.


Upside down jacket and rocking horse.


I just love this face.


Caitlin just loves Natalie so much. Sometimes a little too much, but it's still really sweet.

March 4

Showing off her new bow that came in the mail from her cousin Stacey tonight.  Thank you so much for thinking of the girls!!  They were so excited.


This is her proud face. Proud of herself for figuring out how to eat her cheerios hands-free and get a reaction out of her Mama.

March 3

In honor of National Pancake Day, I took the girls to the "pancake place" (Eggspectations) for dinner tonight. Really, I was just feeling lazy and didn't want to deal with dinner alone while Ryan was working late, but National Pancake Day was an awfully convenient excuse for going.  Caitlin (aka Pinkalicious) was thrilled.


Meanwhile, Natalie tried to drink from the sugar holder many times after I repeatedly told her no. She's working pretty hard to earn her new nickname ("Naughty Natalie").

March 2

This picture is not all that interesting, but I wanted to post it so I will always remember what a slow eater she is. Dinner is usually at least an hour exercise with this kid every night.


Playing "row, row your boat" before bath time tonight.


Sweet girls after bath tonight.

March 1

"Elmo!" (one of her favorite things to say these days)


We battled over dinner tonight, baked potato soup.  One guess who won... and she liked it.


Natalie ate her baked potato soup without any fight, so she got to eat some cheddar bunnies after dinner.