There Are a Few Schnotzy Noses Around Here

As I passed by my kitchen window sill this morning, I found this sight so comical that I had to take a quick snapshot!

Baby girl came down with a 104 fever on Tuesday last week, and ended up with an ear infection. Now Anne Elyse has "the cough," that she gets every time she gets sick, thus the inhaler, and my right sinus is so clogged today, I can feel it in my teeth. We had my nephew Jack spend the night last night, and Tyler thought it would be a good idea to wake everyone up at 4:30 a.m. He and the girls went back to sleep, but Austin and Jack did not. Oh, well, I don't think I could've gone back to sleep if I tried, my head was pounding. The good news: Drug me up, baby! Since I'm done nursing now, I can take whatever the heck I want. NyQuil with 10% alcohol is sounding pretty good tonight!

15 Months!

I missed my post date for Tori turning 15 months on February 1, but here is what she has been doing in this 15th month of her life:

She is starting to imitate what she sees us do. She likes to "help" vacuum and pick-up. She is also learning a lot of new words. Here's what she says:

Mom, Dad, hot, shoe, eye, juice, bye, Ruger, yes (amazingly I haven't really heard her say the dreaded "no" word yet), this, night-night, yuck, ow...that's all I can think of for now. I've been so pleased with this since all the other kids have had to do speech therapy so far...we shall see if the progress keeps up!

She cut 3 new teeth this month (finally some teeth on the bottom)!

Oh, and how could I forget, we've also started having major mommy monster meltdowns. She's always been a mommy's girl but would go to other people/be left with others, but now I have to sneak out of the house even if I leave her with Keith. Nursery is going to be a real joy in a couple of months.

We're officially done nursing. I am glad and sad about this at the same time.

She has developed an obsession with remotes or anything with buttons for that matter (cell phones, Tyler's IXL, the computer keyboard).

She has just about the cutest pig tails you ever did see.

She is still in love with all her baby dolls, and she is fascinated by her new baby cousin Marlowe.

Perfect Pot of Primroses

Every year around the end of January, I snag some primroses for my front porch at the first place that has them in stock (this year it was Fred Meyer). It's my own little tradition (that I adopted from my mom), and I love it, because it reminds me that Spring will soon be here. I also love looking at those perfect, lovely blooms every time I come and go. Even if my house isn't always perfect and lovely these pots are, and they give me quite the satisfaction!

Meet Marlowe

My brother Ryan and my sis-in-law Stevie had their baby girl a couple of weeks ago. We spent a fun weekend having a baby shower for her and then being able to attend her blessing on Sunday.

Family Picture

I never posted our family picture we had taken back in November, because I was giving them away as Christmas presents for the grandparents and didn't want to give away the surprise. Then I forgot to post them. So, here we are, Keith glaring and looking like he wants to kill somebody and all.

The picture was taken out in front of our house. We only got one shot of us out here, because by the time we were done taking individual shots of the kids, it started raining.