In the last week, Kale has really been working hard on this new sound/face. He cracks me up! He mostly does it if I blow lightly in his face - he has to do it back at me and it usually comes out like a raspberry without the tongue. Gotta love it!

By the way, that's Atlas' annoying yipping in the background (yes, the big one), he wants to come inside. Haley's voice has some cameo moments in the 15 seconds also.

Arts & Crafts Time with the Roberson's

So we decided to do a little Arts & Crafts with the kids. We had some finger paints, and an end roll of newspaper (If this is something you're interested in, most local newspapers keep the little bits at the end of the newsprint roll and sell it for charity, you just have to go into the paper and ask). We started by tracing Haley on the paper, then we used a stamp pad to give her fingers and feet, and finally we stripped her down and let her go at it with the finger paints.



Then we thought we couldn't just leave it at Haley, so we traced Kale out also, but he really wouldn't be able to grasp the whole finger painting idea and Haley had such a good time with it, we thought we would just let her paint her brother - she LOVED it and he thought it was hilarious! Then we just let him roll around on the traced image of himself. Too cute.

The final steps of the project will be to cut the outline out, and add a computer printed version of their faces to the head. A fun way to create a keepsake of how the kids are at this moment in time.

Kale's Valentine's Day outfit and ready to give a big Valentine's Day hug!

Haley's Valentine's Day outfit

As promised, I finally got video of Haley. She says all kinds of things in this so make sure you have your sound turned up.

Dude Man Video

We've had some requests from folks to hear the kids and see some video. I'm still working on some of Haley, but here's Kale running in the swing in the park in Black Forest. You'll notice that he's mostly just grunting right now, and (you won't see it in the video, but) he does a lot of squealing and screeching.

Sooo happy to be living here

If I've said it once, I've said it 1,000 times - we LOVE Colorado Springs! It was a complete act of God that we ended up with an assignment that landed us out here and we couldn't be happier. I once said I could live here forever if it only had a Jack in the Box, well, they opened one about 2 weeks ago. Guess this is it! Here are some pictures we took of the beautiful sunset we had this evening and the mountains. LOVE IT!!! Feel free to come visit anytime - but no guest beds in this house, you'll be sleeping in the loft!

Pikes Peak is the big one just left of center.

Something in the air

Haley has apparently sensed my curiosity in playing with the camera, as she recently picked it up and took these pictures. We didn't know that she took them till we were looking at them on the camera and Jeff asked me what these were of.

The ceiling (you can tell because there is a smoke detector in it)

Her self portrait. Haley, age 2.

More of the ceiling, I'm a little surprised it's not the floor because she loves to "look, I look".

Someday...

Someday, when I have time (so don't hold your breath), I'm going to learn to be a good photographer, if for no other reason than to have frozen memories of my babies and also to decorate my house. For now, my camera is just a point and click Canon SX110, but it's great, reviews said it's difficult to take a bad picture, and sure enough.



Today we had a rare warm day here in Colorado Springs and decided we would take the kids to the park up in Black Forest. I've been struggling with my camera and need to sit down and see read the manual as my flash tends to really wash things out. I was excited at the time of day that we went to the park because the natural lighting was perfect and required no flash what so ever. Here are some of the great pictures we got of the kids (and Jeff).

Haley catching some air with Daddy - I never realized how high he actually threw her. Now I fully understand why they say that dads help teach kids trust.

Kale, acting bigger than he really is on his sisters bike. We promised him for his 1st birthday we would get him a bike that isn't pink and purple (no hand-me-downs on this one).

I think this is my new favorite picture of the Dude Man.

She was so excited because she threw her pine cone.

My boys. I think this is my favorite shot of the day, this one will definitely be printed and hung up.

Just hanging out on my blanket, isn't he a doll? I don't know how I don't reach out every day and pinch those cheeks!