The Salad Days

Lori has been saying for a while that she wanted to get a picture of herself with the kids. On Easter Sunday, before we headed to Mom's for dinner, we got our chance. The kids were dressed up, and in a very cooperative mood.

On Easter Sunday, we went to my Mom's house for dinner. The ham was phenomenal. I don't know if she's just getting better and better at it every year, or if it's just the fact that Easter Sunday is the only day all year I eat any ham that wasn't sliced at the deli. Either way - kudos, Mom! On another note, doesn't Carter look adorable in her Easter dress? Normally, she dresses like a little tomboy, so it was a real treat to see her looking especially girly.

Here's another thing Carter has been doing a lot lately. She calls it her "silly eyes" - and it never fails to crack us up. She opens her eyes as far as they can physically go, and raises her eyebrows way up. Her grin stretches ear to ear - honestly, how can you not smile when you see such a face? Unfortunately, she is well aware of the power of this technique, and has starting trying to employ it when she gets in trouble.

Just a cute photo of Carter we took recently, when we went to our nearest decent playground, in Amesbury. The kids have been cooped up all winter, and were almost beside themselves with excitement when it finally warmed up enough to start going again.

I'm not ashamed to let you all know that I've taught yet one more thing that is acceptable from a toddler, but probably not from anyone else. I've taught her to make dual thumbs-up, and to say, in a deep Fonzi voice, "Ey! Sit on it!". It's hilarious when she tries to do the deep voice. She ends up pursing her lips up big, like you see in the photo.

Sorry for the lack of posts lately. Our webhost was migrating to newer servers, and our blog got all screwed up in the migration. It's taken me until just this past weekend to get all of the back-end stuff working again. Don't worry though - the camera is swollen with lots of photographic goodness, and I expect to start putting new posts up again within the next day or so.

Another picture of Carter passed out on the couch, apparently in the middle of a play session. I love how her face is just mashed into the cushions, and her legs are sticking straight out. If she wasn't two, I'd be convinced she had narcolepsy.

The last few days Sean has been into doing "tricks". As soon as I walk in the door, he says, "Hey Dad, want to see my cool tricks?" Then he runs across the kitchen and slides on his stocking feet. Sometimes he crashes into the floormat at the edge of the kitchen and falls over. He'll do this over and over - and he makes sure that I do it, too. I love it. Sometimes he even throws a flourish in there too, with his arms.

Carter is crazy for donuts. I am talking near-obsession here. Almost every weekend, she asks me if I'll go get some Dunkin Donuts. And just in the last few months we've started giving her her own glass of milk, so that she can dip her own donuts. And she inevitably gets the rim of the glass coated with chocolate frosting, and then tries to drink from the glass - which causes the chocolate ring on her face that you see in this photo.

I took the kids outside to play while it was snowing a week or so ago, and got this great picture of Carter. We were out there a long time - probably a couple of hours, if I had to guess. I took them straight outside right after breakfast - they were actually still wearing their pajamas under their snowsuits. The snow was perfect - it wasn't too cold out there, and the snow had just the right amount of moisture in it for packing. Sean had been asking to build a snowman during every snowstorm for the last month or two - but the snow had been too fluffy every time. So we had a snowball fight, and then settled in to build a snowman. But this day, every time we started getting a snowman built he would destroy it. I think there is some genetically coded into children to put them into "Godzilla Mode" every time anything is stacked on top of something else. .... MUST .... DESTROY .... !