dresses, dresses and more dresses!

Amelia loves her dresses. loves them. every morning she gets up and changes out of her pajamas
and into a dress. She loves them all. her casual knit ones, her fancy holiday ones, it doesn't matter
to her. she especially loves the ones that spin with her. For christmas she has already asked
for a cinderella dress, a snow white dress and a sleeping beauty dress. Such a girley-girl, my amelia rose.

flashback

this was amelia performing the giggle-wiggle. seems like forever ago! She was a darling baby
that has grown into a darling little girl! On occasion, I miss the giggle-wiggle days! But thankfully,
they have been replaced with full on giggle days!

He is WALKING!

My little Petrologist

Anywhere and everywhere we go, Mia loves to collect rocks. She has rocks from Andrea's house in Ohio, our old church in Dupo, walks we have taken, our friend Lori's house, her nana's house, stores and shops, parks and even grant's farm! Here is a pic i snapped of her last collection. I wish i could say we had them all, but the ones that we "collected" in the SUV were accidently tossed out!

Halloween revisted

Last Halloween, my friend Nicole took our kids to the pumpkin patch together. We also enjoyed a wonderful lunch at the eckert's restraunt, they have the best bread there. and the apple butter is so good, as well as fresh! Here are some pics from the trip, it was impossible to juggle, mia, 2 month old luca and the camera. these are off my cell phone, which is why the halloween had to be revisted!

Look how little Luca was! awwww

This is what you get when you ask two 2 year olds to sit

down for a quick pic!

Entertaining Miss Amelia

One night when i left for work, amelia decided that she wanted to go out front and color with her daddy-pop. I didn't know that my husband was such a good artist! this is what i found when i came home the next day! Amelia loved it and i think her pop moved up a few notches in her book! These were taken in april, but if i was to blog these in order, no one would see them!

squirt, nemo and a rose

a truck for Lucas
little mermaid, flounder and sebastain

squirt, or is this crush?

another hiatus has ended!

summer - i can hardly believe that you are over! and that you have kept me so busy that my poor blog has dustbunnies on it! never fear - i am still here, the kids are here. we are all doing well! Not that you come to check on me :) We have had a wonderful summer! how about all of you? Here are some things that i will be updating soon!

mia's party

dr. nancy

the edwardsville children's museum

playdate's

the zoo

the morning ritual

dresses!

a haircut for luca!

drunk drivers

the children's zoo

luca's party

dr. nancy again!

the city garden

another birthday party and

a wedding!

Wow - no wonder the blog is lacking - we have been super busy! Here are a few pics to tide you over!