I love these photos! I think it shows just how far removed they are from babyhood. Those baby days that seemed to last forever are gone. Now I have cheesy grins and kids playing in toy boxes needing little help from me.

Ethan amazes us almost everyday with the way he thinks. He’s been talking for so long that his talking really is the thing that characterizes him to me. He explains movie plots in painstaking detail, tells me about how we get milk from cows (the entire process from farm to fridge), says, “You’re wrong” sometimes when I tell him he has a consequence, and, the other day, announced that he likes the taste of caffeine because it tastes like “yummyness” about 5 minutes after declaring himself a genius. He also loves snuggling.

Audrey is all about dressing up. She likes to pick out her clothes, will randomly pick up clothing items off the floor and put them on over what she is wearing, likes to wear her snow boots in the house, and she loves hats(see above photo). She really likes to play with dolls and playdoh. She declares her love over and over: “I love you mama”, “I love you papa”. If Ethan is getting in trouble, she thinks that’s a good time to tell me she loves me! She thinks she needs a diaper change every time she passes gas. She announces that people are naked if they don’t have the amount of clothes covering them (if Daddy is just wearing pajama pants, someone is wearing shorts,….)