The Winters' World

Friday, February 27, 2015

Playgrounds and the zoo!

Give these kids the outdoors, and we're set! All three, when it was a bit warmer, headed to the park across from our house one morning...

It's a bird, it's a plane, it's...who knows!

What's this mischievous boy up to? :-)

Just us gals (and our graphic tees :-)

Three Winterses in a row!

I mean, I can't even caption how cute this is!

Jameston picked me a flower on the way home...heart melt. He can be sweet, when he wants to be!

One of my favorite pics of Elise and me, taken by my oldest!

My cousin and her son stayed with us in the fall, and we went to story-time and the playground in downtown at the Intraurban Museum several Friday mornings!

The three stooges, haha!

This boy has the best smile!

And side-stare...ha!

Kids at play:

We recently went to the zoo one Monday morning, since the weather was PERFECT and since it is half-price admission until the end of this mont. We used to have a membership, but it is quite the ordeal to trek there often enough with all three kiddos.

We took the train! Blake, buddy Liam, and Jameston

E's first train ride!

Mommies and their babies!

We met up with one other friend and her two girls...and ended running into two more friends from church and their kids. I tell you what, such a perfect weather day to go!

Elise loves being outside and along for the ride!

Giraffes, elephants and zebras...oh, and my monkies and me :-)

Boys loved the penguins!

Monkey business

Then Elise, thankfully, decided to nap mid-morning. She can nap anywhere!

We got to see the crocs this trip, for our first time! The boys loved seeing them sunbathing

Watching the giraffes

Backwards binoculars for the Blakester are just fine with him

Checking da map

Too cute! Mapping out our route

Hit up the carousel on our way out!

And E worked up an appetite

From our last trip to the playground:

My heart in one picture!

All three just a-swingin'

Monkey see, monkey do

Love my gal

Wish this picture had sound. So loud!

Cruising back to the house!

Until next time!

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Friday, February 6, 2015

Elise at Eleven months!

We did a Valentine's outfit for our month-by-month photo shoot this month :-)

So hard to get a still shot...look at that hair coming in. Looking forward to pony/pigtails and putting bows in with clips one day!

For time's sake, here is what E has been up to at 11 months:

She's a busy body, always on the go! She is all over the place crawling, her knees and tops of her feet (if without shoes/socks) are permanently red and dry it seems. She is also waving, and dancing these days...so outgoing and fun! And she's a pointer, even though I tell her it is rude to point :-)

This gal is crazy when reading books, because she loves closing, patting and throwing them :-)

Her newest words this month are "hobo and bubba," and she is trying oh-so-hard to say "night night." E grinds her teeth a lot, particularly when she has a new tooth coming in. This has helped me start the weaning process!

This gal cant get enough of bathtime! I happen to capture this before she tried climbing up over the side :-) But this and the above pic capture her classic nose scrunch, which she will copy and go back and forth with us forever. Love.it.

When it comes to food, she eats EVERYTHING, even cabbage :-) But she loves crackers, applesauce, avocados and sweet potatoes the most. We started to introduce cow's milk in the later half of the month...at first, she didn't know what to think of the temperature (going cold turkey like we did with Blake). We sign the most when it comes to eating...milk, all done, and more.

She is sleeping GREAT these days, despite a few nights of waking up from her ears hurting her. She seems to be dropping down to one nap a day, already. Selfishly, I am glad because it can overlap with the boys. For awhile there, she would wake up from her morning nap right as the boys were going down for theirs :-) She has been extra snuggly due to ear/teeth aches...

At 11 months, E loves closing doors and books, playing patty cake and clapping to music, standing with help, chunking stuff over her shoulder (especially in her highchair), pulling up on ledge at the bottom of the stairs, doing push ups in a tripod stance and planking. And she, like her brothers, LOVES being outside (thank goodness!)

Loves turning off lights and having us brush her hair and teeth! Hates having shirt/onesie and diaper changed! The struggle is REAL! And so is the battle of keeping shoes/socks on her...