Lately...

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Kate and Max have been playing really well together.  It's so funny to see them interact with each other.  She loves him so much.

Max is crawling all over the place!  In the last week he's gone from my super snuggly baby, to my super busy baby.  He'll always on the move exploring the house and finding anything to eat off of the floor.

He is also getting weaned.  It's been 9 months, and I'm done with it this time around.  Yesterday I only nursed him at bedtime, and that's what I'll do for the next little while until he's completely done.  Giving him bottles and baby food during the day has opened my eyes to just how much this little guy eats!  No wonder I was starving all the time!  He's also been much happier with it too.  I think I just wasn't producing enough milk to keep up with his appetite.  It's better for both of us at this point.  Plus he'd only been favoring one side for a couple months now, and I'm so over being lopsided.  Haha, sorry to the male readers of my blog, if there are any.

And this next picture just makes me laugh. Kate fell asleep on the couch the other day, and Max had decided he was done waiting for her to wake up.  He grabbed a pencil off of the floor, pulled himself up to the couch, and started stabbing her hand with it! She did not wake up.



I also love that she's sleeping in her towel.  This dumb hooded towel is her favorite thing to play with!  It's a riding cloak, it's hair, it's a "getting married".  She was actually in tears yesterday when she saw that I was about to fold it up and put it away. I love Kate and her imagination.  Yesterday I was a dragon, a princess, a pirate, a monster, Mother Gothel, and Mr. Smee. 

Everyday is an adventure at our house!

A few stories...

I posted a lot of these pictures and stories to facebook already, but I feel like they need to go on my blog as well.

The other night, I told Kate it was time for bed and she started crying uncontrollalbly. When I asked her what was wrong she replied through sobs, "I just wanna dance!" So Dustin and Kate danced before she went to bed.

Me:  Kate, why is the laundry all over the floor??!?
Kate:  It's just my hair.  I was just wonderin' and wonderin'.

She's gotten in trouble for this multiple times.  I can't believe she's strong enough to lift up the couch like this!  It's her "tower".  Obviously.

And my favorite.  This happens every single day.  Max will wake up from his nap, Kate will hear him, declare "Max awake!" and run up to his room to get him.  She will climb in his crib and play with him.  After a little while, I will come in to get them and Kate will say, "Lets all go play in my room!"  and we do.  It's a simple thing, but something I always want to remember.

Crawling!

Max has crawled a little bit here and there, but today he did it a lot!  I kept catching him at it so many times today!  He still prefers his army crawl, but it'll only be a few days before he only uses this mode of transportation.

Easter Sunday

We had a rough night Saturday night, so I actually had to wake up my family on Easter Sunday.  They slept in until 9:00!  So we rounded up all the grandkids, and started our Easter with seeing what the Easter Bunny brought!

The anticipation...

 Kate was so excited that she got the "long long long hair" she had been asking for!

 Max was very excited for his yogurt bites!

We had a delicious breakfast and then all got dressed up for church!  We had a little photo shoot (of course!).

The girls were nice and smiley,

 Maddock was not :)

I guess I'm just letting the pictures do the talking for this weekend, because I'm having writers block.  haha.  It was fabulous!  We love our families!

Easter Saturday

We went up to the White Mountains for Easter this year.  We had lots of fun, as we always do, and had a very jam packed weekend!    On Saturday morning we drove out to Greer.  We collected pine cones, went fishing, had a picnic, an egg hunt, and even caught a glimpse of the Easter Bunny!

That afternoon we headed over to Snowflake to see Grandpa and Grandma Watson!  We dyed eggs...

And then hunted them!

(and I had fun taking pictures of dandelions)

We had a lot of fun!  More pictures to come!

Why I do what I do

The Watson Family 2011 | Make Your Own Book

THIS is the reason I blog so much.  It all ultimately goes into a beautiful book at the end of each year to be preserved forever.  Last years book includes over 500 pictures (and that isn't counting photo collages, which I do a lot of) and 192 pages of our daily lives.  (The Disneyland trip alone is 30 pages.)  I've had it completed in the software for a few months but finally ordered it today!  It will be here in a couple weeks.  I can't wait!

Personal Space

Kate doesn't know what that is.