God was good to give our girls friends who are almost identical in age that they can spend a lot of time with. Elena and Maeve will not always live close to us so we thought it would be fun to get their photos taken together. Everything was pretty distracting so it was a little hard to get them interested in looking at the camera. That’s kids for you! Emily and Elena spent a lot of time dancing together. Thankfully they paused and looked at the camera for this amazing photo.

Julia had been playing in her pack-n-play with her toys and gave out. I found her asleep among her toys. I have to believe that is a pretty good way to fall asleep. I quietly stole the toys from the playpen and left her to take a good nap. These are sweet days!

The snow may be gone, but we have our memories of it.

We woke up to a white world of snow. How exciting! We looked out all of the windows so that we could see as much snow as we could. After breakfast Emily, went out to explore in the quickly melting snow. She couldn’t decided if she wanted to wear her gloves or not. First she touched the snow on the ground and tried to eat it and then discovered that it could be eaten right off the bushes. Julia went out a little later for her snow-time. There wasn’t much snow left. I couldn’t get her to be parted from me so the best I could do was to have her touch the snow from my lap. The experts were calling for snow last night, but they are usually wrong so we were surprised to find it this morning. It is definitely early for us to have a dusting and gave us all a bit of excitement that Christmas is approaching.

This simple box is a seasonal favorite toy at our house. I have holiday photos of Emily at one playing with it and last year we filled the box with surprises for Emily. Julia took right to the box and is hiding things in it and putting the lid on. She was just being silly and enjoying herself and I couldn’t pass the opportunity to take a photo.