Portraits by Nat..........

Have I told you lately that I have the most talented sister in law ever. Not only is she the most amazing artist I have ever seen, she is an awesome photographer too! She has painted the most awesome pictures of my children. They are seriously so very special to me. Nat had a play date at her house for Born in 2008 babies. Here are the pictures she took of Claire. Since Corbs was born on 2006 he didn't get to come.. No worried though... Corby and Daddy had an extra special boy day!
If you are interested in Natalie painting for you check out her website www.portraitsbynat.com.. Like I said, she is amazing!



I love these pictures of my baby so much!
*** Update on Corbin! Still no PACI!!!!!!! Tonight COrbin and Chris went on a daddy and Corby adventure to the movies. It was his first movie at the theater. Chris said Corbin was scared at first, but after a bunch of video games and junior mints he was great. They went to see the animated movie Aliens and Monsters...

Playdate and swimming with the cousins!

Today was a super fun Saturday! First, I would like to say that Corbin has been 100% Paci free for 24 hours!!!! WOOO HOOO BIG BOY CORBIN!
Today Natalie hosted the Born in 2008 Play date! Claire and I went and had a great time. Nat took pics of all the babies in her awesome studio! They turned out sooo cute! Then tonight we had a cousins swimming party at Grammy and Pa's house!! I love getting all the cousins together. The kids are all so lucky to have each other to play with! Here are some pics from today!
Sophie and Claire swimming and playing. The best thing about having the pool at mom's house is that we filled it with warm water from her outside sink. It was like they were swimming in bath water which was great since the weather was kind of gross today!
Corbin and Claire playing in the float that Aunt Natty brought...
Pa brought out Popsicles for all the babies... They loved them. Notice how Claire is dunking hers under water...
June and Claire
Here is one of the pics Aunt Natty took of Claire... Yes, those are real ducks! One of the playgrop mom's brought live chicks and ducks for the pics. SOOOO CUTE
Here is a cute pic of My little niece Junie! She was not so sure about swimming, but after a little while she loved it!
Corbin, Claire and Sophie! Sophie LOVED swimming! It was so precious!!!
My Big boy!
My baby girl! Claireclimbed in and out of the pool a million and five times. I bet her legs are going to be sore tomorrow from all of that climbing!

Batman is a MEANIE!!!

Tonight we told Corbin that Batman was came and got all of his paci's and took them to new babies. He was mad for about 20 minutes, but a trip to Target did the trick. A few toys later and he is happy for now! I am really hoping we stick to our guns and are done with the paci. His teeth really need a break from it. His mouth has formed to it. I told him that Batman didn't need his Dog Dog, so he was happy about that. The paci and Dog Dog went hand in hand though. He has done well so far and I am proud of my big boy.
Today after we got home from school the kids ate suckers and played in the backyard. They love being outside. Claire went through 3 suckers because Chippy kept taking them from her. She FREAKED out all three times. I got mad and yelled at Chippy, then Corbin got mad and yelled at me for yelling at Chippy. Sounds like fun huh?
Here is Corbin riding his bike! He kist really learned how to do this! He thinks he is super cool, we do too!
Here is Claire coming to let me know Chip has taken another sucker. Poor baby!
Big brother to the rescue! Corbin had to pry all the suckers out of Chippy's mouth!

A fun weekend!

This weekend the kids went to a birthday party, and had a great time! It was moved from Saturday to Sunday because of the rain. Sunday turned out to be BEAUTIFUL! The kids all ran around and enjoyed the weather. Corbin and Claire did their first pinata. It was the coolest pinata ever. Rather than hitting it with a stick you pulled strings. Corbin actually picked the string that opened the bottom and let all the candy fall out. He thought it was pretty cool!
Here is Claireb pulling her string!
Claire looked precious in this little dress that is now COVERED in yellow icing. I am going to have to use a whole bottle of Shout on this one...
My sweet boy! Notice he is always playing guns. ALWAYS!!! he can make anything into a gun, seriously anything! He loved playing guns with all the boys at the party!
Recently Claire has really been loving paci's. I really thought there was no chance of her being a paci kid b/c the first year of her life she couldn't have cared less about them. I was excited about it because Corbin is still obsessed with his. It is my luck that my baby girl would start liking paci's at 15 months old.... Whatever makes the baby happy is fine... Tonight Chris was cooking dinner and diva baby wanted him to hold her the WHOLE time... She also wanted him to have a paci just like her! If all it takes is stickign a paci in your maouth to make princess happy, you do it!
I love these babies!!!! They seriously make me laugh all day!

It's almost FRIDAY!!!!!!!

Today Corbin and Claire ate Popsicles in their jammies! What could be better? Corbin's melted and he decided to PLAY in his mess. Then he got a little race car and drove that through his mess. Why not? Claire thought it was pretty cool!
yummy... race car, cement, foot popsicle...
And all of that fun landed them in the tub! After that we all went to the park! I am sooooooo ready for summer. The last few night we have been on wagon rides to the park with the kids and dogs. The kids LOVE the park! I cannot wait for summer so that I can do that everyday!!!!!!!!
Me and my pretty girl! Nat took this pic, I LOVE Claire's teeth and her pretty smile!

I love this picture of Jimmy, Nat and little Junebug. If you ask Corbin who his sister is he says CLAIRE and if you ask him who his cousins are he says SOphadoph and Junie.... I love all these babies VERY much! I need to give a shout out to my sister Celine. She FINALLY jumped on board with Nat and I and made a blog to show off sweet soph!

Easter Sunday

Easter Sunday was really nice! We had all the family over to celebrate. Corby slept a lot of Easter Sunday so unfortunately I don't have good pics of him from Easter so I added this cute pic from his birthday.
Here is Claire with Nana and PawPaw on Easter
Here are my beautiful nieces with Claire in their pretty dresses. Sophie is looking pretty in yellow and June in pink! Look at these pretty girls!!!
Claire and her daddy...
pretty girl!

Happy Birthday CORBIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Three years Old!!! I cannot believe my baby boy is three!!! Our little man is the best. He is a very happy, loving little boy and we are SOOOOOOOOO In love with him. I wanted this day to be extra special for him. We had his party last weekend, but today for his special day I wanted him to be able to do it all his way! The day started out ROUGH. Claire decided to PUKE all over the bed last night. It was so fun washing sheets and getting all the little pieces of green beans off of everything. She also got sick this morning one more time. Clorox fixed the house all up. A little gatorade and a good nap and she was back to herself. Corby and I went to the mall to play this morning. Then he opened his tackle box and fishing pole which he LOVES. Then we headed over to Grammy's house to dye Easter Eggs. It was a lot of fun. We dyed eggs, had a confetti egg fight and played with play doh. All in all Corby had a great day!!! I know tomorrow will be fun as well, we have all the fam coming over for Easter.
Corby and Grammy
Claire dying the Easter eggs..
Corbin and Claire doing the eggs. Mom tried to cover them up with aprons...
My big 3 year old boy showin goff his new fishing pole!
Claire loves Corbin's guns.. She walks around saying POW POW
I AM THREE!!!
Corbin wanted bagels this morning. Corbin and Chris went to get them. When they got back we out some candles in his and SANG HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!
FLexible CLaire
Making PINK CUPCAKES!!! My big boy wanted pink ones!