My little Valentine's

Ashton is 8 weeks old now. His personality is really starting to show now. He smiles a lot and loves to watch his sister play. He is still a wonderful baby who is pretty laid back. He is only waking up once at night and sleeps until 6. We feel so lucky.

Cate is doing very well too. She is a wonderful big sister and loves playing with her brother. We have started to potty train her, which isn't too fun. Hopefully she will get it soon. It will be nice to only have one kid in diapers.

Then and Now

I was watching Cate play at Gymboree today and was thinking about her one year ago. It is amazing how much she has changed in one year. Here are two pictures of her at Gymboree one year ago and two pictures of her at Gymboree now. She looks so grown up now!!




Today Cate, Ashton and I went to our friends house for a Valentine's party. It was a lot of fun. All of the girls sat around the table and did some Valentine's crafts and then they handed out Valentines to each other. All of the girls are between the ages of 2 and 3. There were two other boys there and they are 5 weeks old and 6 weeks old. While all of the girls were playing the boys were in the kitchen sleeping in their car seats. I tried to get a picture but I couldn't get them all in the shot and I was afraid to move them because I didn't want to wake them up. We had a great time at the party. Here is a picture of the girls doing their crafts.

Singing

Here are some videos of Cate singing. It is her new favorite thing to do now. It is amazing how many songs she knows now.

ABC's

Jack and Jill

Yankee Doodle

Here is a picture of Ashton. He is 7 weeks old now and continues to be a joy.

Playing Store

Cate loves to play "store". She lines up all of her food, then rings it all up with the cash register, and then she puts it in a bag.

She also loves to hide behind our curtains and jump out and say "boo"

I just like this picture of her

Of course I had to include a picture of Ashton. Here he is sleeping in his carseat..

All smiles

Ashton is starting to smile a lot. It is so fun when they start smiling at you.


Here is a picture of Cate in her new shirt from Grammy.

6 Weeks Old

Ashton is now 6 weeks old. He is starting to smile more and more. Cate continues to be a great big sister. She is so nice to him. She loves to show him stuff and tries to teach him things. Yesterday Ashton had his first bottle. We decided that it was time to introduce it so that when I go back to work he will be used to having a bottle. Cate did not like the bottle at all when we first gave it to her. It took a few weeks to get her used to it. Ashton on the other hand started drinking from it right away. He is such a laid back baby!

We got out Cate's old play mat for Ashton and he seemed to like it.

Here is a video of Cate playing with Ashton. I love how at the end she says "bless you" to Ashton.

What a great big sister. She always asks if she can hold and hug him.

Last night Cate and Eric cuddled up on the couch and watched some football