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Family Portriats

Who does this look like?




Chris had today off so we decided last night to get a few shots of us at our local 'one stop shopping' studio. Its not cheap.. but its close by and mostly conveanant. Also, as much as I like to play with my camera its difficult to grab a self-family portrait. We got one of us at christmas but it was SOO much work and none of us were looking at the camera! Anywho, my fav Auntie Kimmy was requesting a photo and my mother in law is always looking for a new family photo of us. My mom always says.. Im just like my aunt kim.. now I said, my mother in law is just as bad as me and kimmy! I love it! hehehe. Anywho, here are a few poses. :)
My lil' honey is so sweet, that on his day off he went to the trouble of getting dressed up and making me happy by getting these done :)

Elmo on Stage

I had forgot to post some of these photos from back oh, the end of Jan. (24th)
My grandma won some tickets for Elmo at the Savvis center and gave them to isabelle for her birthday. So chris, isabelle and I headed up see larger than life elmo :)
here are a few photos of the show. A blurry photo shows our splurge for cotton candy! (she actually didn't really like it) We had a good time, altho she had a cold and i knew she wasnt feeling good during the show. It was nice :) Thanks gma elsie!

photos from both lil' parties

Here are the photos, scroll down to read more.

isabelles 3rd birthday

we had 2 small celebrations for isabelle. she turned 3. wow how the times is going by and she is changing so much every day. today, altho I cant remember she said 2 things that were very grown up. we had a small thing at my parents the night of her birthday. We were going to go out to eat with andy, kristy and the boys but we had spent 6 hours in the city with a dental visit for both chris and myself, then 3 hours at the hospital having test ran on wesley and having him checked out by the dr. so that eve chris and i ran into the pharmacy to get wesleys meds, then a few other stores to grab some cupcakes and balloons and her fav mexican food for supper. took it all back to my parents and here are a few photos from that. bless he heart she did so well being that we were gone all day, it was boring and misserable in the hospital and i was stressing and worried about wesley (btw praise the Lord it wasnt worse) and on her special day none the less she did so well. So that eve was nice :)
The following week we had her real party when some friends and our close family could come. It was a lot of fun for isabelle, and i hope our guest too! Everyone brought a balloon and she loved it. We have played with them all week! Only the Dora balloon, from Uncle Andy, has creaped me out a time or two. Nothing like getting up in the middle of the night and feeling someone looking at you! She floats around and is is huge so she might be the first to be deflated!
Isabelle recieved some very nice presents and she has enjoyed this all this week! Everyday she has a new favorite toy or item..

another brief update

Wesley is standing a bit on his own, slowly lowers himself, as you can see in the photo and is trying to take a step. he is anywhere from 2 months to 4 months ahead of what isabelle was doing at this stage. But he is less social and requires less group attention. he does need to be loved to much tho




A photo of some of the snow we had a few weeks ago. Chris got to work from home a day or two because he cou ldn't get out!
also trying to figure out how to wrap wesley.

growing like a little turnip

these sweet little frals are getting so big! Isabelle just turned 3 last weekend. We had her fav. dinner and some cupcakes. She was very excited about being three and told everyone we came into contact with that day about it! "Three candles" She would tell them "Im getting 3 candles for my birthday!" Oh she also got some balloons- very excited!
She is doing well with her alp-pa-pits (alphabets) I ask her to find them and circle, or pick them out for me. She recgonizes most of them. She can be a real hoot. She had us cracking up at supper tonight about all that she was saying and doing with her JuJu today.

Wesley is getting over being sick. Poor guy, he was pretty sick too. He is adjusting to her breathing treatments well and not putting up such a fight over it.
He is standing alone a bit. He was standing in his bed the other eve, I handed him a toy and he let go of the bed to play with his toy. He then realized he was standing alone! He smerked! He thinks he is such a big boy.

I love hearing him squill and laugh and jump. He sure loves to jump. I guess he will be walking in no time and im ready for that. All that crawling makes for dirty knees!

He went to his well baby check the other day. Here are his stats.
Head: 50% (wahoo! I like that number)
weight: 5% (hmm.. he didn't each much last week from being so sick)
Height: 25-50% (Im going to double check that one)
I will get his actual numbers on here later. This is all I can recall for now.

hair is some more :)

we had another 'in home' photo shoot





Tee hee, we were all in great need of hair cuts. So hair is,.. I mean Here is chris after his cut.

A few photos from this morning.. on our way to church

A few more photos of my cut. Anywho..
Baby Wesley again in his little green short'alls
Chris and Isabelle put together this ginger bread kit one evening while I was out. They had a great time. Isabelle is very proud of it :)

Here are some flowers that were sent to me from a girl pal who knew I needed a little lift and encouragement :)
Wesley finally found out about the food storage containers!