Gabi's School Party

On Gabi's birthday, she brought bubbles and popsicles to school to share with her classmates at recess.


Gabi chasing a bubble


Demure? Bubbles?
If you have a caption for this one, post it in the comments!


Ernie's bubbles


Samantha, Ava, and Katie blowing bubbles


Gabi and Jesse on the tunnel


Bella eating a popsicle


Gabi wanted a blue popsicle


Olivia's popsicle


Ava always poses well


Gabi singing Happy Birthday to herself


Louise


Louise only speaks French and seems shy.
We had her over to play one day, and it was fun.


This is a new girl -- I believe her name is Arianna.


Abrielle's popsicle-tongue


Sabrina... or is it her twin, Samantha?


Ernie


Sabrina(?), Gabi, and Nathan


Nathan always wants a close-up


Veda


Kate's natural shot


Kate smiling


Ava Y. sliding down the pole


Ava M.'s turn


Now every one wants to go


Olivia riding a car

Gabi's 4th Birthday

Happy Birthday Gabi! We love you, big girl!


Gabi likes the cake Mommy baked for her...
...but she especially likes the icing!


Mommy got Gabi a new Tinkerbell dress!
Gabi was so excited about this present.


"I'm not a princess, Mommy. I'm a fairy!"


Daddy got Gabi a new game to play.
Gabi gasps, "I love Candyland!"


Bella is 18 months old today.
Our little one loves to dance!

More birthday pictures will be posted soon!

Gramma and Grampa Visit

The girls and I just returned from a weekend at my parents' house. Now I am posting pictures from their visit to Little Rock in January. I seem to be eternally one month behind in my blogging. Come Wednesday, I'll have to jump to current pictures and stories, though, because we have some pretty important events approaching in this household!


Uncle Brian, Gramma Jane, and Grampa visit the girls
Maumelle Park
We spent a chilly afternoon playing down by the river at Maumelle Park.


Gabi riding her tricycle at Maumelle Park


Grampa pushing Bella on her little car


Whee!


Watching her silly sister


Gabi didn't want to be pushed


Just sitting in the swing


Bella walking up the slide
Games at home were much warmer.


Gabi and Grampa playing her Sounds of the Seashore game


Bella coloring with Gramma Jane


Laughing with Uncle Brian


Peek-a-boo!


Reading with Gramma Jane


Gramma Jane and Grampa


Help!
Shortly after our guests left, Bella must have decided the chair legs looked like a nice tunnel and got stuck under the chair.

Since we moved to Little Rock, everywhere we go, Gabi designates a certain space to be her "new home." In our playroom, her home is the slide. (Gabi often assigns Bella a home, too -- in the playroom, Bella's home is the door.)


Gabi's "slide home"

Bubble Bath and the Bunny Rabbit

Bella sitting on Gabi's new couch


Bella's new baby doll
These pictures show the girls enjoying some of their Christmas presents. They share fairly well; Gabi loves to have Bella sit with her on the little princess couch. Gabi received bubble bath in her stocking, and Michael and I gave Bella a toy water slide for the bathtub, so they love taking baths together. The girls much prefer bathing in our master bath jacuzzi tub.






Our bathroom does have nice natural light


Gabi dressed in bubbles




Another activity around the house that the kids love is feeding the rabbit treats. In addition to rabbit treats from the pet store, we like to give Merlin fresh greens from the kitchen - like parsley or carrot tops.


Bella feeding Merlin parsley


Look!


Trying to shove parsley through the rabbit cage


Here you go, Merlin!


My bunny and my baby
Perhaps you noticed that I changed the blog header. I removed the super-cute sketch Michael made of the girls last August and added recent pictures instead.


We've had some debate about which picture of Bella I should use, though. Which do you prefer?