Pictures Part III

The third and final installment in the massive picture update.  These ones aren't in chronological order, since they came from a variety of sources, including my phone, which is also why the quality on some of them is not so hot.  Enjoy!

Sophie staring at herself in the mirror.  She LOVES her reflection!

Sophie's one-month birthday.  We celebrated with some chocolate cake and strawberries!

Ethan's preschool Thanksgiving feast

At the park in JANUARY, enjoying 70 degree weather.  We LOVE southern winters!

Proof of Pregnancy.  This is pretty much it for prego pictures.

Ethan at his Pre-K Valentines Day Dance.  He was easily the best looking little guy there.  (And he knew it.  His teacher said, "Ethan, you look adorable!" and he responded with, "No, I look HANDSOME!)

Ethan's post-dance cookie party

Kisses for his "perfect" baby sister.

Tiny fingers.  Huge hand.  (Sophie being held by cousin Brendan, who, they tell us, used to also be small once upon a time...)

"Don't mess with me, punk...  I'll see you in the ring!"  Our little boxer :)

She DOES smile when awake, but she won't let us photograph it. (something about losing the smile's soul).  But I did manage to catch this one while she was having a pleasant dream.

Part II
Apparently, There's a Limit...
It would appear that my blog  will only take so many pictures at a time.  So here's the next set of pictures

 Christmas Continued...

gotta love the enthusiasm

Baking Cookies in our beautiful new kitchen

Mittens the Cat in her Ballerina outfit...

Mittens the Cat post-haircut.  It's just easier this way for everybody. (Even the cat seems to prefer it)

Shawn and Sarah on their way to the Daddy-Daughter Valentines Dance

Snow can be beautiful... especially if it melts by noon :) (this is the view from our back deck)

Baby Sophie's first weigh-in.  Thus begins her aversion to the scale.

Our little family

St Patrick's Day-- We had some leprechaun visitors who brought lucky charms, green attire, and a pot of gold!

All three kids in their St Patty's attire.  Even Sophie got in on the fun!

Wow... Are WE ever behind!!!!

You all know our life has been crazy.  And when life gets crazy, I procrastinate a lot of things.  And when I procrastinate things, the work involved increases.  And when the work increases, I start to feel overwhelmed.  And when I feel overwhelmed, I procrastinate even more.  And so, our blog has not been updated for MONTHS, in spite of all kinds of fabulous, wonderful and fun events in our family.  But the idea of trying to catch up and create individual posts for each of these events makes my sleep deprived brain want to explode.  So I propose a compromise:  I'll post ton of pictures in one big mega-post, add some descriptions, and call it good.  Then, with a clean slate, I can try to be better next time :) Deal?  Deal.

We'll start with some pictures of our trip to the corn maze/pumpkin patch/hayride/farm.  We had so much fun, I think it's going to become an annual tradition!

Ethan's not sure how he feels about being lost in a giant maze

They even had a mini-maze out of hay bales for the kids

Sarah and Ethan with Cousins Morgan and Xander

What's more fun than a sandbox?  A Cornbox!  (plus, it's SO much easier to get off clothes, out of hair, etc)

Next, we'll move to Halloween

Ethan wasn't just a firefighter, he was a firefighter who'd seen ACTION!  This tiny detail won him a prize at the ward party!

Ethan loves to build machines.  Must be related to a few engineers. ;)

Ethan's Birthday

Ethan's Birthday Suit.  (No, not THAT birthday suit!)

This expression was Ethan's actual reaction (not a pose) upon discovering that this box did, in fact, contain a Toy Story Scooter.  Priceless.

Ethan's Preschool Christmas Concert.  As far as we could tell, he refused to sing a single word while on stage, but he STILL sings these songs every night when he's supposed to be sleeping.

Christmas

This year, we opted for matching Christmas jammies.  The kids loved it.

I think my kids have been taking smiling-for-pictures lessons from one of their uncles... ;)

Ethan got drums from Santa.  They live in the basement.