Spring has Sprung

March Madness--Maddox is 1!

He was sick for his party so we had two celebrations:

PARTY # 1

*Cake? No thank you. Saltines, please.

**can you tell we were all under the weather:)

PARTY #2

Icing = Broccoli

Here are some other fun pictures and videos as we welcome spring:

Just rocking on the porch...

Tovi's trip to the zoo:

Don't know how sound quality will be but it was pretty cool to hear this momma lion roar:

Winsome Winter

Here a few fun moments from end of January and February:

On Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, we went to a memorial garden in Raleigh. Tovi likes to run around, ring the freedom bell and explore the cool fountain:

We went to visit our buddies, the Cummings, and on the road trip, we heard our children both squealing & laughing at the same time (up to this point they really have not played much together). We turned (or rather I, since Joseph was driving:)) and saw this:

melts your heart...

Emily reading to the eager pupils:)

One day we decided to head to the park to meet the Poes and much to the kiddiepoo's joy, Kristin let them ride in her wagon and eat goldfish (lots of goldfish-Tovi would have it no other way)

Early February pictures of Maddox (momma guilt for never taking enough pictures of him being the second child:))

On the weekend before Valentine's Day, we celebrated as a family at Barnes & Noble. The kids did so well and loved it. Everyone got a book to celebrate the big day!

Could not resist putting this little video on. We were working on a b-day video for uncle Kyle and Tovi discovered she was not a big fan of hand puppets... not to worry she and "Luigi" are now great friends:)

Happy Holidays

Maddox's first Christmas was fun and the best part is that he likes Tovi's toys better and she is enjoying his:)

Here are some highlights from December:

This was an unseasonably warm day...so yes I put my children in spring clothes near the Christmas tree...

Tovi being brave on her first big slide in early December...seriously it seemed big compared to her compactedness...

One of the few family pics we have (thank you Aunt Jessica):

Celebrating Jesus' birthday:

This is really for grandmamma and Ju-Ju (grandmas appreciate this stuff)-it is fun to wake up little ones on Christmas morning and Maddox just adores his sister!

Festive Fall

It was beautiful Sunday and we just had to try and capture the kiddos:

**Tovi's outfit is one of the many kind gifts from our friends the Cummings-makes her a spunky monkey:)

We attended a fall festival with our neighbors and enjoyed seeing the fun costumes. Tovi is very blessed to have such sweet buddies from across the street:

Maddox was a cow...I mean a bull for this event (when Joseph saw all the muscleman costumes, we had to claim Maddox as a bull). You can tell Maddox was super excited.

Happy Halloween! We dressed them alike to celebrate Halloween and pass out candy to the few who ventured out in the cold, cold rain:

**cousin Addison stopped by to hang out and we quite enjoyed the queen's company along with Tia Jessica, Tia Jen-Jen, Grandmamma & Grandaddy:)

Once again, super excited...they really just wanted me to get out of the way so they could watch Sesame Street. Happy Halloween!

And she's TWO:)

Our sweets is two. Fortunately, she really enjoyed her celebration. Unfortunately, I did not capture it well in photos. She was surrounded by her family and by her "ott" & "Jen-ee-fur" and I could tell she felt special.

She (without ever seeing Sesame Street) fell in love with Elmo around the time we moved and so of course I attempted to bring her joy by making a massive Elmo cake. It just kept growing b/c I was afraid there would not be enough:

Here are some highlights from her fun afternoon:

Tovi & her Grandaddy

Tovi & Addison

Tovi & Aunt Kelli

Tovi, Grandmama & Papa

Tovi, Uncle Adam & Aunt Jessica

Tovi & Momma

Little Lady

I am bummed that you can not see Ju-Ju, Aunt Jennifer, Scott or Jennifer in the pictures so if you have any cute pictures that could round out my collection, feel free to send some to our email:)

And of course I have to add a few more just-for-fun pictures of Tovi & Maddox:

Here is a picture of Maddox at 7 mo & then one of Tovi at 7 mo. It is just fun to compare:

*please note his totally awesome & totally natural mohawk

Take Two:

I got a few extra pictures and a video of the party and then of course I have two other videos that make me smile:

Tovi's birthday dance

Aunt Jen Jen in the background

Maddox celebrating his sister

Scott reading to the Tovster

Perfect gift for Tovi as she adores reading...more importantly a shot of Ju-Ju, Aunt Kelli and Maddox celebrating Tovi

Fun Flicks

Maddox and his banter

Their first attempt at playing together