Happy New Year! Happy Birthday Nana! Happy Baby Shelby!

Happy Birthday Nana! We hope you had a great birthday! We love you!
Chris set of fireworks at Jimmy and Natalie's house. June, Corbin and Claire really liked them. Corbin wasn't that thrilled about them at first, but now he askes if we have anymore.
This picture just makes me laugh out loud. If you look really carefully you will see why. The kids are playing dress up. Corbin and Claire have on earrings, princess shoes and accessories! Corbin put his earrings on at the top of his ears. She will play transformers and blocks with him, and he will play princess with her... whatever makes them happy!
Junie loving the fireworks! She was not scared one bit!
Corbin and his new cousin Shelby! He thought she was a doll at first, and basically grabbed her head. He then realized she was "real", and he wanted to hold her.
Corbin and Claire watching the fireworks.
Grammy and Claire loving on baby Shelby. Claire called her Caroline a lot that night. I think both my kids are going to be a little confused when Caroline comes.
Chris set off some fireworks later at home. The kids wanted to watch from the window.
Corby holding a sparkler!
The kiddos helping Nana blow out candles!

My niece is here!

My niece Shelby was born last night! She is BEAUTIFUL and healthy! We kept June while Natalie went to the hospital yesterday. My kids LOVED having Junie here. They did not leave her alone. She was trying to eat lunch, and the kids wanted to "see" her so they got chairs and ate off her plate with her. I made June mac and cheese, Claire decided she wanted some too, so they shared. The might have shared the same spoon, I will never tell. I at one point had three sippy cups out, one for each kid... they all shared... cousinly love. The kids had a really fun time, they all ended up in the bath together too, didn't get a pic of that....
I am so happy that my niece Shelby is here. I am so glad that Natalie had such a great delivery! Holding Shelbs today got me all excited about baby Caroline... I am not going to say I am not a little nervous about three kiddos, but I am really excited and ready! Two weeks from tomorrow and we will be a family of 5! I am really excited to see how Corbin and Claire react to Caroline, time will tell!
Junie LOVED the fish. She might just be getting her own for her birthday!!!!

Christmas 2009

We had a super wonderful Christmas 2009! We spent a lot of time with the family, and really enjoyed watching the kids. We went to the Barrows house Christmas Eve for a nice dinner! Christmas Morning we spent at home watching the kids open presents, and enjoy what Santa brought. Christmas afternoon we went to my mom and dad's house for a really nice time! Everything about Christmas Eve and day was just great! The picture above is of Claire with her new life size Ballerina my mom got her. She loves her very much!
Here is Claire waiting for mom to open her doll! Claire doesn't have clothes on because she wanted to change 5 trillion times into a different dress. All Claire wants to ever wear is a dress. Sounds fun until you live it. The catch is she only wants certain dresses, mostly sleeveless summer ones , and she will NOT wear socks or hose or leggings with them. Today she is sporting a dress that is WAY too small and looks more like a shirt. It is sleeveless and the heater is on... some battles are not worth fighting!

Here is Corbin and Uncle Joseph. Corbin enjoyed playing with all the guys. Since there are only girl cousins for him, he hangs out with Chris, Jimmy and Joseph. They make up all sorts of ridiculous competitive games that they play.
Claire opening her mr. potato head
Here is Pa and my sweet nice June. I didn't get any pictures of Sophie b/c she fell asleep when the present opening began.
Mom and her special boy!
The kids right when we got to mom's house. They were looking around scoping out the presents!
Our house Christmas morning! The kids would tear open presents, look at it for 2 seconds then move on to the next one. It was a bit chaotic!
Corbin got a lot of Transformers which he LOVES!
Here is Claire looking in awe at her new princess movie. She LOVES princess!
opening presents!

The kids made cookies with Nana Christmas Eve. They left them out for Santa. Corbin thought this was really cool!
Ready for Santa!
This is Claire Christmas Eve with her new princess jammies that Poof got her. She loves them! She danced all around like a princess!
Corbin and Claire opeing presents at Nana and Paw Paw's house
Claire being a silly baby!
Corbin and Claire with Nana and Paw Paw! This is them making cookis. The kids really liked this. They made a huge mess with the sprinkles!
Anyone who knows Chris well, knows his favorite food is queso. I think Claire takes after her daddy. She stood with a spoon and the entire bowl of queso and went to town. I am not kidding when I say she ate it by the spoonful. She is a double dipping queen!
Making cookies!
Nana and her grandbabies! In less than three weeks there will be three!

Happy Birthday Paw Paw!

We wanted to send a special birthday message to Paw Paw!Happy birthday PawPaw! We love you and we hope you have a wonderful birthday! Thank you for being such a fun and special PawPaw!!!!

Christmas is almost here!

If this doesn't look like trouble then I am not sure what does! This morning it was raining, and so we were stuck inside... The kids played well together. I asked them to smile for me, and this is what I got. Arms crossed and attitude!
This made me laugh pretty hard. All morning the kids were playing with the baby dolls. They were pretending to give them medicine and feed them. I guess the babies were being bad because the kids decided they needed to go in the time out corner.
This is the present the kids opened that they were not supposed to. This present has been under the tree, and still is. Claire decided she wanted to open it, so she did. it is still half wrapped waiting for Christmas. The kids go in there and play with it, hopefully when she totally unwraps it on Christmas morning she will still like it.
Corbin was pulling Claire and her babies all around in his pull toy.
One of Corbin's friends got him this Transformers outfit for Christmas. HE LOVES IT! This was the best present ever for Corby. He is so in love with transformers. All we watch and talk about are robots in disguise. He got this Monday. He has worn it every day since. He has worn it to Target, to the doctors office and anywhere else we have gone this week. It really is precious, and he really thinks he is a Transformer when he is wearing it.
This past weekend we went to Clays. The kids love it so much there. It was a very nice day! June and Sophie came too which made it a super fun cousins day!
My sweet family!
Precious boy!
Our friend Pepi came over to visit. Usually the kids are shy around people they haven't seen in a while, but that was not this case with Pepi. Corbin called him Pepper, Pepi, Pepperoni and Fluffy! The kids really enjoyed his visit!

Corbin's Christmas Day at school and more

Today Corbin's school had a little Christmas play and visit from Santa. Corbin is only in school Tues/Wed and Thurs, but Chris took him up to school today to be a part of the play! He was an elf, and the cutest elf ever I might add. Chris videotaped the whole thing for me since I couldn't leave school today. Corbin and his class sang songs, sat with Santa and had lunch. I was very glad Corbin got to go since he has been practicing his songs so hard.
I am guessing he is telling Santa that he wants Transformers.. That is what he has been telling Santa every time we see him or write to him...
This is just something that happens daily to me, and is funny. Everyday when we get home from school they want snacks. This day they wanted fruit snacks. Corbin Batman and Claire Princess. As you can see Claire steals all of Corbin's.. Basically I am a referee from the time I get home until Chris gets home to take over...
On this day after school Claire wanted Pancakes, Cheese and crackers and grated cheese. She is the best eater ever. Corbin on the other hand has a few favorites and that is it! Not sure if you can tell but Claireb is getting over a black eye. Last weekend we were at Chick fil A playland and she slipped and hit her eye on a step. She instantly got a bruise and over the week it has crept under her eye. Luckily it is almost gone...
This I love. Both my precious babies. On this particular day they napped togeether in Claire's bed. Often they say they want to sleep in the same room, but they end up playign and we have to kick them out into their own beds. They love each other very much, and play well most of the time. As you can barely see in this picture Corbin still has his dog dog that he loves so much and uses as a pillow and Claireb still has ber silky!