Life Lately

Once Christmas season is over we are ready to move on directly to Spring. Elle has already asked if we can decorate for Easter. :)

Here is how we are spending our time this winter. 

Elle got Go Fish for Christmas and had so much fun staying up late one night playing round after round with Eric and I. 

Then showing me all the cool kicks and moves she can do. :) 

A couple days after Christmas when our house finally got healthy we took the kids to see Moana. This picture is terrible but I had to document Ollie's first time at the theatre. He LOVED it!

We have been listening to the Moana soundtrack in the car nonstop. 

The Russell's :)

  

Jumping in muddy puddles before heading into Target. 

Once inside Target I bought 3 new Christmas trees...for a combined total of $12!

Mary bought 4!

Our house is going to be oh so festive next Christmas!

Eric thinks I've lost my mind.

One of Ollie's favorite Christmas gifts, he LOVES his new Toy Story "guys".

He is starting to say new words everyday...he can now say "Buzz" and "Woody"

Since we missed the Hylton Christmas we celebrated with Grandma Chris one day. 

This boy loves to brush his teeth.  Any time we are in the bathroom he goes to his toothbrush drawer and gets it out and starts brushing. 

Some Saturday morning coloring. 

Elle is drinking her milk out of my "I Love Lucy"coffee mug. Like mother like daughter!

One night we ordered pizza and rented Finding Dory.  I was all about watching the movie...

and the kids were all about climbing on Eric, asking for horsey rides and to be swung in the air.

I ADORE the age Ollie is at right now. He is talking more, gives tons of hugs and kisses, pretends to sneeze ("ahh ahh choooo") and instead of calling donuts don dons he calls them non nons.

He will grab my hand, lead my to the pantry and say, "non non"

We had Elle's parent/teacher conference and girlfriend is doing so great in school!! We are working on her letter and number recognition so hopefully by the end of the school year we will have have a good handful that she recognizes. 

Ollie makes this face sometimes and it always reminds me of the movie Clifford.

Taking her doll Ashlynn for a walk around the neighborhood.  Elle loved doing this so much!

This was our first go at Lego building and even though the 2 direction pamphlets made it seem daunting we had a lot of fun!

Hot cocoa for night 2 of Lego building!

These two love playing in the dining room.  They knock all the chairs down and play under the table.  They call it their cave. 

Popcorn party!

So Ollie is obsessed with the book "Little Penguin Has the Hiccups"one night at dinner I got the hiccups and he kept saying "1...2...3...ROAR" to try to cure me of my hiccups...which is exactly what they do in the book.

Jumping on my bed and wrestling each other before bed is one of their favorite things.  And I'm always the crazy lady telling them to stop because I'm scared one of them will fall off the bed and break their arm. 

But how cute is this picture I snapped in the middle of the craziness.  These two love each other SOOO much!