Green Thumbs

Peter and Sammie spent the weekend building and planting our Spring garden. This has been something Peter's been talking about for a while and the weather has been so perfect (in the upper 70's!) Sammie had a blast doing this project with daddy...granted anything is fun with daddy:)

Step one-
Dig out a space for the garden and wheelbarrow the keystones across the yard. Of course Sammie and Cole had to go for a few rides!

Step 2-
Put in the dirt. Mix it around and make it nice a flat...sort of!

Step 3-

Plant the seeds...Samantha's favorites...sunflowers! They also planted straberries, jalepenos, carrots, corn, peas, tomatoes and zucchini. Hopefully something will grow or it's going to be pretty anticlimactic to water the garden everyday!

Step 4-

Water the plants...with a bucket, hose, watering can or whatever you can get your little hands on!

Double Trouble Bathtub Style

This says it all....





Now that Cole is sitting up so well he gets to take fun baths with his sister in the big bathtub. He loves it. And of course big sister Sammie is there to help pour water on any and all body parts! Sorry buddy-that's your life!

Teething Essentials

Tylenol-check. Wet washcloth-check. Teeth-check!

Cole is in full-blown teething-o-rama. Everything gets chewed on, licked or eaten. Yesterday we were feeding him carrots while we were having dinner and I guess I wasn't feeding him fast enough because I looked over and he was trying to chew the tray of his highchair! Wish I had gotten that picture!


Tylenol-good for pain relief.


Tylenol-good for chewing!


Cole loves getting his face cleaned
after eating because he knows he gets
to chew on the washcloth when we're done!


Look close-
you can see his pearly whites!!!

Busy little big boy

Cole can now sit up unassisted. It's a whole new world for him now! He still topples over, but he's learning.
He also got his second tooth yesterday! He has been a very busy little guy. Every day he is a new man...we can't wait to see what tomorrow brings...

Just to prove he is not ALWAYS smiling!!!

Valenstine's Day...

That's what Sammie calls it...Valens-tine's Day! Pretty cute. We made homemade Valentine's for Daddy and Cole yesterday. She was so excited that I bought her scissors and actually did a pretty good job using them. She loves anything artsy-surprise surprise!
Happy Valenstine's Day!