Valentine's Day

Danielle's sister Shannon and her kids give Valentine's every year to their cousins. Here are Jade and Tavis enjoying their heart shaped suckers. This is the first time Jade has had candy and I think she's hooked.

Jade Crawling

Tavis's perch

Tavis absolutely loves being in the kitchen when anything is getting done. When Danielle is baking she perches him right next to the bowl and he adds in all the ingredients. When the dishwasher is getting loaded the dishes have to be given to him so he can put them in the dishwasher. In this picture I am dehydrating some apples and he insisted on putting each of the pieces into the dehydrator. It is so fun having a mini-me!

BROTHERLY LOVE

You know that eerie feeling when it suddenly get quiet in your house? Well there's a reason why and this picture explains why.

FRIENDS FOREVER

Janessa's family came over this last weekend. Tavis had so much fun with Hailey. Those too have always loved each other and they always will. It's really cute to see them giggle and play together.

Danielle took up indoor soccer this year. A friend talked her into joining her team and after three games now she loves it. Last week she came home super excited because she scored the first goal of her life. I don't know if it has taken the place of volleyball in her heart but it is pretty close. Tonight was the first game I could go to because typically she plays late at night. She was awesome. As you can see she was battling over the ball with this gal and if I took a shot a second later you would see Danielle driving toward the goal. I am proud to have a feisty lady in our home.

FREEDOM

Jade has finally grown enough to have here little toes hit the ground in her walker. She gets those toes going and she has discovered the freedom that only a walker gives. She loves being in control and exploring the kitchen and entryway- she can't quite get the walker to move on the carpet so for now her domain is the kitchen and the entryway!

Potty Training

21 days into the New Year and Tavis is not liking potty training so far. He sits on the toilet and repeats "diaper...diaper...diaper" Hopefully in another 3 weeks he will be jumping on the toilet excited to do his thing!

Tavis's favorite place to eat!

We have made it a tradition to stop here on the way home from Utah. As you can kind of see from the video Tavis is starting to say more and more words. It is fun to see him learning so much!

Tavis on Christmas morning

This is Tavis Christmas morning rolling in his 2008 fire engine red, red ryder scooter that Santa left for him. As you can see, he is also sporting his first pair of Thomas the Train underwear. Danielle got the underwear to get him excited about one of her new year's resolutions for 2008- to get Tavis potty trained!