You have no idea how amused I am by the fact that I found, not just all three on the same bunk, but Gabe sleeping ON Kyrie.
Umm.. right. So "Nov/Dec" includes Oct 31st, i.e. Halloween. She's adorable, yes? Ignore the not-so-clean floor in the background. If I owned Photoshop and knew how to use it, I might be able to fix that. I don't and I don't, so you'll just have to deal. For now.
Savi really does have a costume on. There are wings on her back, I believe. Gabe actually has TWO costumes on... his batman pajamas underneath his pirate top. Go figure.
Classic Elijah pose.
Three visible pages, two workbooks... that's right, Kyrie and Elijah are both working on their workbooks so close to each other that hers is layered on top of his. I thought it was adorable, so I took a photo instead of telling them to go do their work at the table like rational people.
This wigged-out face makes me laugh every time...
... especially since it's immediately followed by this "I can't hold still anymore, Mom" shot...
... and then by this "You're so FUNNY, Mom!" shot ...
The Cobra Hand of Death is ready to strike the book in retaliation for its evil ways. Like not turning its own pages. Or something.
Gabe isn't writing on anything. He just wanted to be in the picture.
My head may explode from the cuteness of this shot. Baby on the left is Julie's friend Evelyn.
See, I would have used this shot, but again I must bemoan my lack of Photoshop skills and Photoshop owning, to get rid of that bruise on Julie's cheek. Photoshop can do that kind of thing, right?
The Twins (Kyrie's best friends) gave her this pair of glass-less play glasses. Which may have been a bit of prep, as it were, because it has become very clear that she is in need of real glasses, pronto. And by "pronto", I mean, "whenever I get around to calling the ophthalmologist and scheduling a visit", which I resolved to do "after the holidays". So it might be a bit before a set of glasses actually makes it to her. Hopefully the real glasses will last longer than these plastic frames, which are already broken.
I put this one up on the "About Me" page - and that last one with Kyrie in the glasses, too - but they will probably be replaced whenever I get a better one. But I love his little smile here.
Have I mentioned how much Julie likes writing in things? Books, other people's notepads, books...
Ah, the funny positions she will read in.
The REALLY funny positions she will decide to read in. AHAHAHA.
Even Julie joined in with Movie Time.
I had a brain fart, apparently, or else this photo would have made it into the "Christmas video" down below.
So would this one have. She LOVES toy phones, and this one was her favorite present, as far as I can tell.
One more little treat...
I had previously ignored this little program on my Mac called "iMovie". For some unfathomable-to-me reason, I opened it up recently and tried to figure out how it worked. Without much success, I might add. I sort of vaguely picked up on the idea that you could use it to edit videos or something, but that was about it.
But then I put up all those videos of Julie in my last post and belatedly thought to myself that they would have made a good montage.
And then I was sitting here looking at a bunch of photos and videos from Christmas, most of which did not seem worth putting up on my blog. You know the kind... there's maybe 4 seconds of cuteness in a 50-second video that otherwise has background crying or something. And I thought to myself... "Hey! I'll try out this iMovie thing for making a Christmas montage." I will definitely be keeping this option in mind for future videos. Maybe instead of doing photobooks for my kids' godparents (as I was thinking of doing), I should just mail them a disk with a video montage on it.
Behold the results:
Seriously, let me know what you think of how I did the montage. I would definitely appreciate feedback on this.
Since I never got around to posting PicVids for November, I have a lot of them, so I'll be breaking them up into several posts. Here are the videos.
My brother Greg and his girlfriend Lydia have moved to Oregon, which I'm super happy about. This is him reading to the kids. Sometimes I think his sense of humor most takes after my dad.
A cute shot of Savi making Julie laugh.
One-year-olds. What can I say?
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A vacuum that's so easy a one-year-old can do it... SwivelSwifferJet should totally pay me to use this video in a commercial... after photoshopping the stains out of the carpet, of course.
There's a website somewhere called "Cute Things Falling Asleep". This would make a good submission, except she got up and ran around for another couple hours after this without ever actually falling all the way asleep.
Such cuteness. I could almost apologize that all my videos seem to be of Julie, but there you go. She's 1. It's an excessively cute time of her life.
Ooh, here's one that's not of Jules. This is a song that Savi made up about Christmas and sang to me. I was highly amused by how often she mentioned "snow", considering that we haven't had any.
A slightly blurry, but adorable, shot of the Birthday Boy
The Birthday Boy got special treatment on his birthday. I made pancakes for breakfast. He got to play video games as much as he wanted, without having to give up his turn to anyone. His siblings gave him extra attention. Since he often gets the short end of the stick, being just 2 - now 3! - he really appreciated all this. At his birthday dinner, I asked him what the highlight of his last year was. And then, to put it in terms he could understand, I started asking him what his favorite thing was - Sonic? video games? ipad? candy? cake? He finally answered something else, and after I made him repeat it about 15 times, I finally figured out that he was saying his favorite thing was "birthday". Awww!
Oh yeah, and he's not wearing pants because he's potty-training.
And then came the presents.
Naturally, presents trump the overall birthday experience.
Cause presents are AWESOME.
Even when your siblings and friends keep stealing them.
Julie's First Birthday
Julie is blessed to have godparents who have a daughter her age. They are so similar right now, Ken and I kept remarking on it. I think they even kind of fascinated each other, as much as one year olds do.
We all enjoyed the birthday brownie cake that her godmother made. And the cheese log that I made. Ken made something too1.
She's kissing the doll. Not biting the head off. I promise. I think.
This time she is eating it.
1. That's a joke. Ken spent the whole day making dinner. Which was too spicy for me and the kids, but Angela - Julie's godmother - enjoyed it.
Miscellaneous
This is from last month, when Julie first started taking getting serious about walking.
This was an interesting phenomenon that the kids got VERY excited about.
As you can see, Jules is ready to be one of the big kids, trying to imitate Savi's jumping jacks.
What can I say? Julie is very photogenic at this age.
Is there a word that means the equivalent of photogenic, for the ears? She's, umm... cute on the ears.
From July 29th to August 1st, the kids and I were up in Seattle...
Uncle Steve took us to Ivar's on Friday night. Yum!
On Saturday was the family reunion. Someone appears to have been demonstrating poses for Savi to imitate.
Sunday we visited Nana and Steve at their house.
Much fun was had by all.
Nana let the kids pick some of the flowers in her beautiful garden.
Back home again, we get a few days to hang out before heading out again.
The weekend of the 7th was Brittany's wedding! At the beach!
I'm not including pics of Brittany's wedding in this post. If I remember to, it deserves a post of its own.
Kyrie showed herself quite adept at befriending three or four random kids on the beach.
Ah, my cute husband.
Ah, my silly son.
This was the mega-engineering project that we all worked on at the beach. Much of it was already in place. But it was awesome.
Did I mention we were camping this weekend?
Father-son bonding time over Angry Birds
In case you can't tell, he is, very very softly, doing "This little piggy" on Julie's toes.
Elijah lost his first tooth!
Julie has some silly moments by herself.
Julie has some silly moments with her sister.
And with her brother.
You think she's waving at you, but she's actually giving the hand-sign saying she wants to nurse. Or, possibly, she's just discovered how to open and close her hand. It's hard to tell at this age.
Oh, and Julie totally started walking, but apparently I don't have any videos of it yet.
