The Careys: February 2010

Sunday, February 28, 2010

Sibs: February 2010

Ava and Liam play so well together. I love to see how much they truly care about each other. They do fight OFTEN over the ONE toy in the house of which there aren't multiples, but they really do have fun together.

Ava is sweet to Liam. Liam is heavy-handed now, but we're teaching him gentle. So if he does something to Ava that he knows is wrong, he will go over to her and pat her lightly with his hand, as if to say he is sorry. It's too cute to watch.

Here are some pictures of their latest interactions.

Peace, love and brotherly kindness,

Shelly, Doug, Ava and Liam

Friday, February 26, 2010

Liam: February 2010 & 18 month pictures

Liam, rocking out on Ava's pink guitar :)

Just woke up.

Sleepy.

He looks so grown up to me in this picture!

Mischievous?

I just kept snapping pictures here. A few of these are some of my favorites of him, to date. These were actually taken in January, when Liam would've officially been 18 months.

He could make Kate Gosselin jealous with this 'do...

A smiley guy:

Wahoo!

Peace, love and rosy-cheeked grins,

Shelly, Doug, Ava and Liam

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Ava: February 2010

A few pictures of Ava. I thought this first one was hilarious. This is the outfit of her choice: shorts, snowboots, a snow hat and a huge t-shirt. :-) She's really been into hats lately. She likes to wear her pink Atlanta Braves hat quite a bit.

She is playing a Leapfrog game (on a keyboard) in front of the television. To watch her play this game is amazing... I can't believe she knows how to use a keyboard and a mouse at three years old! (Especially considering I was the kid in class that, if touching a computer, was somehow breaking it or hitting the wrong button, in FIFTH grade!)

The many faces of Ava:

Peace, love and personal clothing choices,

Shelly, Doug, the fashionista and Liam

Sunday, February 14, 2010

Valentine's 2010

This year for Valentine's, we decided to make our own super-huge heart-shaped cookies. I baked one cookie for each of the kids to decorate. Ava opted for lots of pink and purple sprinkles. She wanted me to put some frosting on the edge of her cookie (which was seriously so dry and hard to pipe out - I shouldn't have used it). We had great fun. The kids enjoyed licking the frosting more than anything, I think. Liam's cookie had quite a few claw marks on his, as you will see below. ;-)

The evidence is pretty obvious on his face. :-)

Ava, excited about decorating her cookie.

Liam's cookie.

Ava's cookie (with a little help from Mom). She would endlessly decorate this cookie, if I didn't wrap it up with her. We even used color-spray, too!

Peace, love and happily broken heart cookies,

Shelly, Doug, and two pastry chefs-in-training

Saturday, February 13, 2010

Alana's 3rd Birthday Party

Ava's buddy Alana Baillairge turned three on February 13. She invited us to her birthday party, to be held at an inflatable jumpy place in Roswell.

The night before her party, it snowed more than I've ever seen in Georgia. Some of the pictures of snow previously posted to the blog were taken this morning, before we drove to Alana's party. On the way there, we saw 17+ cars spun out or deserted on the side of the road, due to the weather. Fortunately the snow started melting the morning of Alana's party.

Here are some pictures of the fun festivities, and the birthday girl!

Ava and Alana - the birthday girl!

Mommy and Liam heading down the slide

A slam dunk!