The Honey Dip Lately:

REALLY loves her Carrot:
the Rock'n'roar Dinosaur:
Cruising around the house:
Yelling at us if we don't share our food and drinks RIGHT when she wants them.
And drinking from a straw:

Cason Lately:

I made Paige some dolls a couple years ago, but it's harder to think of things to make for boys, so Cason's never really gotten much. He's still VERY into robots, so I finally made him one.
He was more work than I expected, but the look on Cason's face when I presented it to him made it well worth it.
And then within 24 hours the robot was caught in the crossfires of a potty training accident, and without thinking I threw him in the wash. Well, he's made of wool felt, sooooooo he came out all weird and puffy with scrawny twisted legs.

Paige Lately:

Tied her first bow:
Painted a "herd" of unicorns:
Went on a breakfast date with mama, to Denny's before church:
Made a "list" on her own leg in the car, when I thought she was drawing on paper. She didn't want to forget to get a toy for Aivree's birthday party.
Did a chalk drawing entitled "Robot Love":
You'll notice the blue hearts floating above both robots' heads, and the blue flower the boy robot just gave to the girl.

And finally, she lost her first pet. :( Swimmy died about a week ago. Not bad though, he lasted well over a year. She cried for a minute, but was perfectly happy to replace him with her new fish, "Kalia":
AND today, she had her first soccer practice! SOOOO cute. I'll do a post about it as soon as we get the pictures up.

Monkey John

No new pictures yet. BUT..Jess recently got Donkey Kong Country on our Wii, and instead of Donkey Kong, Cason calls it "Monkey John". Haha.

Cat Love

Paige told us she's going to own a pet store some day. She's going to call it "Cat Love".

Our Drive Home

After losing my game tonight we went to the KFC drive thru because we were all starving. Neely was crying pretty hard for a while. But then I put her favorite song on, and Paolo still has what it takes to soothe our honey to sleep. So cute.

Then when we pulled onto our street Paige said "Daddy would you give me a little favor?" He asked what it was and she said sweetly "Carry my drink in the house for me?" He said yes of course and then told her she was cute. Then he looked at me and more quietly said "She is cute. She's a freakin' gemstone." I love him for the times he says things like that. Like the first time we went shopping with Neely with us, she was teeny and sleeping in her carseat in our shopping cart. He was pushing her and looking at her little face and then he told me "You make immaculate babies." Haha. He's the best.

TWO Bathrooms!!!!

Our master bathroom is tiny, and had a pretty gross old shower, so it's pretty much been an indoor storage shed since we moved in.

Jess tore out the shower forever ago, the linoleum floor, and the vanity.
But now, thanks to lots of help from my in-laws, and lots of work from my boys...
...we have our own bathroom! Actually Jess still has to grout the shower, and we have to finish a few other little things, but I'm so excited we don't all have to share one bathroom!