A Portrait Of A Baby

Little Caitlyn is growing and changing daily.  Her 4 top teeth are inching down and I am sure they will pop through any day.  I wanted to get a few close ups of her with her two little chompers before the rest arrive.

Miss Maddie

Maddie is half way through Kindergarten!  I can not believe it.  In a lot of ways she seems so grown up but she still has her moments of throwing out of control tantrums and that is when I remember that she is only 5.  I miss her around the house during the day.  She is my little helper girl.  She always follows me around and wants to do what I am doing!

Her birthday is in March and she wants a Hello Kitty party.  I try to stay away from the character birthdays but I love Hello Kitty so I am on board!  I welcome all ideas and tips on where to find Hello Kitty anything!!

This photo was taken the same day as the one of Caleb...more practice with the manual function on my camera.  I am really really pleased with this one, I didn't edit it at all and it is just perfect, in my opinion although I am a bit biased cause I really really love the little subject:)

My Boy

Today I pulled out an old CD of mine and introduced Caleb to Puff the Magic Dragon.  He loved the song and had lots of questions:

"so did the dragon kill the boy?  he sounds sad."

"oh mom, so he went in his cave cause he was sad?"

"who made this song mom, it's a good one for me!"

What a sweet little boy.  I am enjoying engaging in these little conversations with him during the day when the girls are not around!

P.S  I took this photo of Caleb today and I am soo happy with it.  I feel like it captures him perfectly, I'm happy I got him in a cute "handsome shirt", and the right stuff is in focus!  Woo Hoo!

Standing Baby, Standing!

Little Caiter Gaiter has a new trick...she loves to stand up!  Just look how proud she is of herself in this lil photo!  What a fun girl we have.  I can not believe how quickly she is growing up right before our eyes!

New Foods

Snow Day

It dumped snow all day today!  Everything is white and so beautiful.  I took Caleb and Cait outside this morning to enjoy the snow a bit.  Cait was not impressed but Caleb loves it.  He was enjoying taking the snow off the trees and eating it.  I told him about the importance of not eating yellow snow and he responded "ya okay, what about brown snow, what do you think that could be?" ha ha.  such a boy!!!

Teeth

Our family is going through tooth issues. Cait is working on getting 4 teeth in at once all along the top of her mouth. Meanwhile Maddie is losing teeth at a rapid rate. Mailee seems to have tapered off but I am sure her molars will begin to be an issue soon. Mikayla has been losing molars like it's going out of style. Molars are a lot of work to get out...eeps, creeps me right out. I am not a fan of tooth issues of any kind! As if all this is not enough, Mikayla smiled yesterday and I noticed that up in her gums there are MORE teeth! They are rapidly approaching their destination and the "babies" have not yet come out. Soon they'll be vying for those positions and oooh, eeew, I remember what that looked like in MY mouth 20 years ago! YIKES!

To top it all off, we have a VERY lazy and forgetful and rather "change poor" tooth fairy in our home. She never seems to be able to find the quarters or get them under the pillow in time. Sometimes she leaves the tooth on the bathroom counter and it gets found. Oops. Can you blame me? Remember, I said I do not enjoy all this tooth business to begin with!

Thanks for listening, I just needed a safe place to voice my tooth troubles :)

And now what you all came her for in the first place....... pictures!

This is my little Caiters in her most comfy position, with her sucky fingers in and holding a lock of my hair. AWE, too cute!

Happy New Year!

Caiters is 8 Months!

Snot Sauce

Here is my sweet boy trying out his new "inline skates". Cool stuff!

In the car the other day Caleb shared this little nugget of information...

(in a sharply louder-than-normal-people-talk voice): "MOM! If I snuff my nose really hard I get a bunch of snot sauce in my mouth!"

How does a mommy of 4 girls and one boy respond to such a comment? My white flag went up, I had nothing. Nothing. I pronounced this concept "gross" and he smiled at me contently.

What a guy.

Merry Christmas!

This Week In Banmanland

I am having too much fun with my Mom to sit at the computer for too long but here is a little run-down of the happenings around here:)


At the chior performance with Mikayla

Maddie and all her friends from her kindergarten class just before their performance at the Christmas concert at school. (can you find my girl?)

Caleb enjoying the show!

Grandma Bev enjoying the girls at Maddie's Christmas party in kindy. (do you like Cait's baby legs as much as I do??)

My little precious dolly exploring Christmas!

My big girl :)

Mailee's curls for her Christmas show at school.