He has risen!

He has risen indeed!  What joy we have this day, as we celebrate the Empty Tomb and our risen Lord and Savior!  

My little 2 year old

You love to drive your truck around the house, Andrew!  And run over mommy's toes, too :)  It has even survived being thrown down the deck stairs.  You love to hear the noises it makes and i am sure you feel like a real construction man when you ride it!

Sweet boy, you are so wonderful at giving Natty hugs and kisses.  And when you call her "nonnie!" it just melts my heart.  She loves to watch you...i know she will look up to you so much as she grows.  I hope you keep sharing your toys with her like you do at this point.   She is such a blessed little girl to have you as an older brother!  I can't wait to see what adventures you two will go on together!

Here you are, in your Elmo jammies, watching an Elmo clip.  Or should I say "melmo".   He and Thomas the Train seem to be your best friends right now!  You can't get enough of them. 

And I can't forget to document the day where you decided to help yourself to the pie which happened to be innocently sitting on the counter.  While mom was blowing drying her hair, you so intelligently pushed the stool over to the counter, hopped on up, and began shoveling handfuls of pie into your sweet mouth.  When I came out of the bedroom to see what you were up to, you gave me a great big grin, and quickly stuffed another handful of pie into your mouth.  Because you knew!  You just knew that it probably wasn't something that was okay to do...but boy was it sure fun.  And yummy!  And mommy was coming over to stop the gobbling of pie.  You sure are my cookie monster, little buddy :)  love you.

Andrew and His Tool Bench

 Caught Andrew in action the other day as he as busy workin' away at his new tool bench.  Notice the hammer in the overalls...too cute!  He wants to be like his daddy so bad! 

This is the "mom, i don't have time to smile for a picture!  I am a busy man here!"  We have to watch out when you have the hammer in your hand, son.  You like to whack the bench so hard I fear it might break!  You have already broken the little plastic nails that came with the set.  I guess those were for whimps :)  

3 months!

 Tried to get Miss Natty to smile in this photo session but she was not having it...the expression in the photo below will tell you exactly what she thinks of the camera this day!

 Love how Andrew is sneaking into the background...he so wanted to get into the pics with Natalie!  Well, rather he wanted me to take pics of just him...no one else!

Finally we have a smile!  Joe helped me on this one, as it is very hard to extract a smile whilst behind a camera lens.  Can't believe how fast these kiddos are growing up!  But we sure are loving this adventure.  Natalie as begun to grasp at toys and amuses herself daily in her bouncy seat, watching the world pass by all around.

Betty Bunny

 So one day Andrew picks up this new pink bunny (from my parents to Natalie) and begins to "feed" her, push her in the swing, and then I suggested he read to her!  He was so cute while caring for this new child :)   Although Betty bunny found herself at the mercy of a 2 year old at times!  Natalie also received a book entitled Betty Bunny Loves Chocolate Cake.  The silly pre-school aged bunny puts chocolate cake in her pocket to save until later (when it is essentially chocolate goo).  Andrew thinks this is the funniest thing!  So that is why we call this bunny Betty.  He giggles whenever I talk about chocolate cake.

lately...

 All dressed up for church...and being a ham while taking pictures!

 Andrew loves his baby sister!  She loves to just watch him (not that she can do much else at this point!)

 Andrew was "reading" to Natalie the other day...caught a pic of the sweetness!