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Of course, Davy is super duper cute too. :-)

Last shot of a dreamy Bia

The many faces of Lia Bia

I understand I'm biased, but isn't she a dear? I asked her to make faces for me (happy, sad, silly, angry) and this was what she came up with...

Snow in Scotts Valley

Again, from last year...

Last April it snowed in Scotts Valley so I had to take some shots to document that event!

First Day of Preschool and Houseboat Trip 2011

These are shots from Lia's first day of preschool of 2011. She picked out the dress herself. :-)

Cool glow stick on the houseboat trip

Blast from the past...

Having been an absolutely horrible mommy blogger, I took an extended leave of absence... okay; so it really was just me being awful and not posting for nine or ten months or something insane like that.

But the good thing is that I now have a ton of stuff to catch up on, and just because I wasn't posting doesn't mean I wasn't taking pictures. :-)

These are from last April (yes I know... cringe). But they are too funny not to post.

 

Every morning, the kids join us in bed and we all sqoosh in and get warm and comfy. Chris seems to get the very short end of the stick...

 

I love you... Or not.

Tonight Chris and I were sitting downstairs while the kids go to sleep. We heard Lia call down something that sounded like "Daddy, I love you!" Chris smiled fondly and proudly at me from across the couch and then called back to Lia, "Lia I love you too!" A rather insistent and annoyed voice yelled back very clearly, "NO! I said, I'm going POO!"

:-)

Submarine car

I snapped this picture of the car parked next to us yesterday. As we hopped out of our car Davy looked over and saw this car and excitedly squeaked, "Look mom! It's a submarine car!"

Oh dear...

This afternoon I decided to take a nap with Davy since I seem to be getting more tired now (can't believe I'm almost twenty four weeks pregnant!)- and was happily snuggled next to his fat warm body and drifting off to delicious sleep.

Then I listened for a minute. I had set Lia up with a movie and blissfully gone off to bed. I could hear the movie still going. Yes. But I heard another thing. Did I leave a facet running? No, it couldn't have been me because while I do sometimes leave facets dripping, I never leave them running. As in, full on-water-spraying-out. Cursing the God's, I crawled out of my warm haven and trotted dutifully downstairs.

I peeked into the lower bathroom and happened upon a most peculiar sight.

Lia, naked as the day she was born, standing on a step stool, completely engrossed in the task before her. In one hand, she held one of my small (but certainly big enough for a three year old to squeeze her rotund buns into) plastic buckets that I put the kid's toys into. In the other, she held her play food ice cream cone without the ice cream part on top (so basically just a cone). And while humming to herself, she was filling the ice cream cone, and transferring the water from the cone to the bucket.

"Lia?" I somewhat blearily asked; perhaps a tad blankly too. "What exactly are you doing?"

 

Lia looked up at me and said unperturbed, "Oh, hi mom. I'm just going to take a bath."

(I did give her a delicate lecture on the hazards of water play while mom is asleep...)