Ballet Pictures

It's too late at night to write much... I'll provide more text later this weekend. But I thought you'd enjoy seeing some pics we took on picture day for Bria's ballet class. All the kids were so pretty with their hair and makeup and costumes. CJ was sooo amazed at his ballerina sister! He just wanted to hug and kiss her constantly! I love this last picture!

A typical evening after work! ;-) (video)

The resolution on these isn't great but I thought they were cute.
It's also proof for years to come that we DID spend time with them! ;-)

Our Bria and the camera! :-)

Bria took some pictures with our new camera around the house.

Here's a self portrait of Bria.

Her babydoll twins. (Savannah and CJ)

Her dinosaurs.

Her littlest petshop pets collection.

And her toes!

Here's CJ in his crib tent. (He's an excellent climber! too good!)

Daddy at the sink.

And Mommy coming out of the bathroom. (whew, that woman needs some work!)



Bria dressed herself, fixed her hair and got ready for school all by herself the other day.

So Daddy took a picture of her.

We can't forget the nails! :-)

And then at the end of the day... our sleepy Bria.

She still gives the best hugs and great cuddles!

Crazy Man CJ!

He's a crazy-man! Determined to do some damage to those pillows!

Off to run some errands with Daddy!

Who does that look like?!? And where'd you learn to smile like that?

Helping to put together the new filing cabinet. (yes my office organization project is still underway)

Hey buddy, do Mommy a favor and stop growing up so fast! Please?

Precious Moments (video)

Here's a few recent photos of the kids when they are not fighting!
I like to look at these... A LOT... and remind myself that peaceful, happy moments DO exist and will come again! hehe

Story time with Daddy. CJ is finally starting to smile at the camera!

Watching T.V. CJ just loves to do whatever his big sister is doing!

Eating a special, gingerbread cookie for dessert! It's not Christmas-time, but why not?

Bria jumping rope. Chris got a good action shot here!

And CJ about to jump rope too!

"What about me?" is CJ's most common phrase lately. Gets us every time.

Last but not least, Bria is showing CJ one of her online petshop games. It's about 37 seconds long. Such a nice 37 seconds!

And that's just about how long the nice play lasts before the battles begin again in earnest over who gets the mouse and who pushes the buttons on the keyboard and who has dibs on sitting in the chair, and who is or isn't getting a turn, etc.. etc..

Ah well, thank goodness for digital cameras! ;-)

Bria's take on a cartwheel (video)

Here's Bria doing a cartwheel with a new twist! I bet she's the only kid who has done a cartwheel over a dinosaur! ;-) (it was a soft dinosaur)

CJ follows behind trying to copy everything she does. So, I signed both her and CJ up for gymnastics class once a week this summer. He'll be in the 18mos - 3 yr old class with me while she is in a class for her age group.

I'm pretty excited about it... I hope the kids like it! ;-)

CJ the Barber (video)

CJ loves playing barber!

He puts his whole body into it! haha I don't know where he got the idea to push the lever with his tummy... but that's the way he insisted on doing it!

Maybe we'll talk Daddy into letting CJ do his hair someday ;-)