New blog address

Here's our new blog address - http://superheroesandsweetness.blogspot.com/

In case you care for the reasoning, here's why we've created a new site:

I grew up in a very fair house - as in fairness was highly regarded.  We both normally had the same number of presents under the Christmas tree.  We had one dog, and for her life she alternated between mine and my brother's room every night.  And when we turned 18, my brother and I both were generously gifted our own 1 year old white Toyota Camry with similar mileage on them!  My friends thought it was crazy that we had almost identical cars, just two years apart, but it certainly left no room to say they were playing favorites with one of us.

Which is why my dad gave me two weeks to settle into parenthood of two children before petitioning to get Maya's name included on the blog.  They can both be superheroes and both be sweet, but at the moment, Collin often chooses Robin or Spider-man as his alter ego, and Maya is just pure sweetness.  Hope you'll follow along our blog that is mostly kid pictures of the day-to-day in our home.

Happy Birthday Grammy

Wishing a very happy birthday to my wonderful mom and my kids' incredible Grammy!

Brother and sister in matching purple AND two sets of eyes staring at the camera! 

I joined in the purple theme (the one photo Collin wasn't attacking a bad guy with the stick)

Carried away with love for our Grammy!

Three years and three weeks

Collin's class had a party last week to celebrate the end of the school year and the three-year-olds were told to come dressed in their finest.  We rolled into school just before 11am - I still can't handle mornings - with Collin in the tie he wore to Alex and Coady's wedding.  Maya was sporting a cute onesie with matching bow from Cas' co-workers, so before we headed to school, we tried for a second round of sibling shots. 

 

Here's Collin at almost 3 1/2, Maya at three weeks -

The awkward "put your arm around your sister" pose -

Giving her a kiss and trying to get one back from her -

A smile from Collin and Maya looking in the direction of the camera without wailing - it was the best I could get - 

Maya with the fist-under-the-chin pose -

Collin's high one day from school was taking a nap in the tent - so when he got to school he wanted to pose in their loft-turned-tent in his classroom -

This has been such a fun year for Collin.  I'm so thankful for his sweet school and class - some of the kids have been with him since he was 8 months old.  I'm amazed by what he can do - he came home with a book of shapes he cut out when it never would have occurred to me to practice with kid scissors.  I love hearing about his day - whether he's playing duck-duck-goose or pretending to be lions or gazelles or rams with Aiden and Audrey.  His teachers are so sweet and they encourage his imaginative play and great story-telling.  I'm so thankful for my part-time schedule that gives him a great mix of playing with others and learning at school and time home with me and now Maya on my days off!

Splish, splash Maya's taking a bath

I have to admit with child #2, I mostly took first bath pictures out of obligation.  Maya's neutral so far to the bath, but I'm pretty sure she prefers the soaking bubble baths to the pre-umbilical cord sponge baths.  Lounging in her infant tub in the sink -  

We think our kids look incredibly similar!  Here's Collin with his "look of concern" in the tub, though in this picture he was 2 months old -

And little sister, with a similar "what are you guys doing to me" expression -

Collin has Cas' olive skin tone more than Maya does - so maybe that means this child will at least somewhat resemble me when she gets older!

Relaxing -

When her infant tub isn't in the sink, we have let her take baths with Collin - he in the tub, she in her infant tub.  It normally starts well and then gets hectic when Maya's clean and ready to get out but Collin's still enjoying splashing around.  Luckily both times I've tried it, Cas has come home just as I need to wash and get Collin out to lend a needed second hand.