Busy Busy

Since returning from our vacation, our lives have been absolutely busy.  These past few weeks I've even found it difficult to squeeze in a little blog time. So here's a quick recap...

We've visited Dad a couple of times in his nice, NEW office. 

Now Caitlyn always asks to eat at Daddy's work.

We've geocached at Point Defiance and found 7 caches!!!

(The picture below is a spoiler...

if you haven't found this one and plan on trying...

don't check out the pic...)

Yep... we found it and it was a difficulty 4!

I should clarify that my Husband found it cause I gave up on it :)

We celebrated Valentine's Day a tad early with my family.

It was I think our 19th year in a row eating at the exact same restaurant

and we have all the poloroid pictures to prove it.

Caitlyn has truly enjoyed these few warm days we've had.

She absolutely loves playing outside..

and has mastered her tricycle.

Ashton's enjoying life... and baths!

He can stand on his own but hasn't taken any unassisted steps.

It's tough to catch him in the standing position.

The second I take out the camera is when he dives into the crawling position and tries to grab the camera.

Here's another attempt of catching it...

 a little better.

He actually stands alone a lot and then adds in a few funny looking lunges.

We've all taken time to enjoy a few good sunsets.

Just a few more updates on the kiddos...

Caitlyn is... 95% percent potty trained. She goes about 6 days without an accident. (She still wears pull ups to sleep in.) She dresses herself now and almost gets a little upset if  you try to help. She's been undressing herself for a while.  She's all of a sudden gotten an appetite. Recently she enjoys a good bell pepper, carrots, zuccini, and tons of fruit. She loves pasta, pansit, macaroni, and tuna casserole. Her favorite meat I'd say is ham then maybe turkey. Her favorite breakfast food is toast with fruit and milk, or waffles, or cereal... breakfast is probably her favorite meal. She loves cheese and skittles (she gets one for potty and two for number twos). She loves to sing and finger paint (some of you will see this because she painted, cut, and glued all of her valentine's this year).  She is an amazing little girl with a huge heart and she continues to amaze me everyday.

Ashton also is such an amazing little guy. Recently he learned to crawl up the stairs... and he's fast. He waves hi and bye... I think he signs 'milk' and 'all done'... Sometimes his hi and milk look a like so it's hard to tell :)  He verbalizes a lot more than Caitlyn ever did at this age. He talks to everyone including our cat.  His hair is coming in and it's starting to get a slight curl which is too precious and makes his dad happy. He's never been one to want to snuggle to sleep (he's enjoyed sleeping through the night and in his own crib), but our busy schedule has allowed me a few times to hold him until he fell asleep and man-oh-man did I ever enjoy the snuggle time.  It's hard to believe that this time last year we had a preterm labor scare and that in a few months he'll be a year.

I'm not sure entirely what has slowed me down or why but there has been a few times in each of the past days that I have truly taken in each moment as I know these days don't last forever.

I've said it once and I'll say it again...

I'm truly blessed to have all that I do.