His first haircut

Before.....

.....and after.

He looks so bald.

Crayon Princesses and a Picnik Lunch

Not too sure what the thinking is behind this......She is so silly!

We decided to have a picnik lunch in the livingroom today. They loved it :)
Alex is SUCh a cheeseball. I remember when Cara loved the camera. Not so much anymore. I hope he doesn't change!!!

She just doesn't smile nice anymore....she just likes to be silly. Oh well! She's still adorable :)

My baby girls 3 year old stats

Well, Cara is doing quite awesomely :) We had her three year old well child check this morning and the doc passed her with flying colors!!! We were still somewhat worried about her speech, but he said that she is totally fine and when she starts preschool this fall, she will catch up on anything she is slow in, no problem :) Yay!!

Here are her stats:

Weight: 35.8 lbs -- 90%

Height: 38.7 inch -- 85%

Thankfully her eating habits have picked up this last month or so. Last year, pretty much on her 2nd birthday, she stopped eating everything. She all of a sudden didn't like anything anymore. How aggravating is that!!!!! She now loves everything again, which is fabulous! Her favorite thing to eat right now is Subway. I can hardly blame her. It's delicious!!

Singing and Candy

Singing with Disney Sing It. She loves it! As you can see, Alex's mic is NOT plugged in. He loves to sing, though, too :)

They were so cute watching a movies together today. I love it on the days they get along so well!

We had some crazy fundip for dessert today. Cara LOVED it! She also got a kick out of her tongue being green too :)
Alex had some sweet tarts and a dum-dum. He was completly happy :)

I have a video of Cara singing, but it won't post for some reason. I think maybe it's too big...I am hoping to figure it out, though :)

My baby turns Three!!

These pictures are all jumbled up, but I will try to lead you through them :)

Grandpa helping Cara with some sitcker-sequins :)

Reading an awesome book with Grandma!
Pretty as a princess :) She LOVES to dress up now!!!

Unwrapping her gifts. She only needed a little bit of help. Lets just say she caught on to this fast!!

Our meager decorations, she did love them, though.

Waiting for cake eating time. It was agonizing for her!

Everyone loved the cake :)

She absolutly adored her cake. Yay!!!

She had a fun time pointing out all of the characters on the cake.

Happy Birthday Cara!!!

Blowing out her candles. I only had to help with the last one.

Her beautiful Tangled cake. It took awhile to decorate it, but I like how it turned out :)

We had such a fun birthday party. Cara had a blast and loved everything she got :) She is such a special little girl. I cannot wait to see what this next year has in store for us!!

Biscuit

Our newest family member. Isn't she adorable????

A good day

Cara is telling Alex a "secret"....I am pretty sure she told him "I love you" :)

We have had a pretty decent day today :) It was bright and beautiful outside and a georgous 61 degrees! The kids played and played together. They are so adorable!!! I love that they can play together now. It's fabulous!!

Snacktime!

They seriously love cookies! Blake brought home oatmeal creampie cookies (the best!!), and the kids totally adored them!! I love my kids :)

Just a few pics

We've had a whirlwind last couple of months! After leaving Germany, the kids and I stayed with my parents for three weeks, then we met Blake down in Florida where we stayed with his parents for about 6 weeks. We moved into our new house (it's gorgeous!!!) a few days before Thanksgiving :) We spent the first of many holiday's with our fabulous family here in Florida. Marcia's mom and sister were down as well as Erin and the girls. It was just wonderful. We then went to Missouri by way of Kentucky for Christmas. We had a wonderful time! The kids had such a fun time getting to know thier cousins!! Erin and the girls followed us back down to Florida to spend the week after Christmas with us. It was such a fun time!

The kids seem to be adjusting well to the new house. They each have thier own bedrooms, which they love :) They are both entering new stages in thier development. Cara is just starting the "Why?" stage (oh joy....) and Alex is majorly hitting the terrible two's. Cara's speech is finally developing a little more. I think the two weeks with Erin's girls helped out a bunch!! She still sounds chinese some of the time, but her sentances are getting more and more recognizable :) Alex, on the other hand, is moving along quite nicely in the speech department! It's just amazing what he will try and say! Lets see, what else. Oh! Cara has finally decided to start eating again. She just randomly stopped liking most everything when she turned two last year. She just as randomly started eating again. Everything. Even meat. I hope it lasts...Alex, on the other hand, pretty much has to be spanked at every meal. It isn't that he doesn't like food, becuase once he starts eating he doesn't really stop. He just throws a fit at literally every meal for no reason whatsoever!!! It's very aggravating. He is waaaaay more stubborn than Cara ever was as well!! I am still trying to find some type of discipline that will effect him. We spank, put on time out, spand AND put in time out, smack hands, thump the head...everything!! He pretty much isn't effected by anything. I still think he has no nerve endings....that maybe he just doesn't register pain. Example, he fell and busted his head on the coffee table last week. Maybe ten seconds of crying, then nothing more. He had a huge goose egg on his head that turned into a black eye! Oh well, we will figure something out :)

Well, I think that's enough of an update for the moment. I am off to workout and then head to bed :)

Hello again!!

After a HUGELY long sabatical, I am back in the blogging world :) This will be short and sweet, but there will be many more to come. We had a very successful move from Germany to Florida and finally have our internet set up (yay!). I am so happy to finally have a normal household again :)