Ever since Corinne became mobile it has been a lot more difficult to photograph her. She likes to get really really close to the camera, point at the lens, and look at the display on the back of the camera. But none of that makes for very good pictures. Recently she seems to be getting more comfortable with the camera. On a couple of occasions she even said to me “I want to take pictures”. Below are some of the results of this new found cooperation.
Faylinn is slowly but surely getting more physically active each day. Corinne seems to be excited, although at times maybe a little inpatient waiting for her little playmate to, well… be able to play. In the picture below Corinne was going in for a little kiss but I think Faylinn had something else in mind.
This little cardboard house was a big hit at Corinne’s 2nd birthday party. One of my favorite parts of the party was watching while the kids on the outside of the house shoved balloons in one window while the kids on the inside pushed them back out of the other windows.
No egg-free organic cupcakes this year. Corinne celebrated two years old with two different kinds of cake. (She got back on track the next morning though, with organic milk on her organic cereal that she ate out of an organic bowl.)
This might not be the last time these four are in a line-up.
For her second birthday we got Corinne a baby grand… i mean toddler grand piano. She sat right down and started hitting the keys and singing away.
We came down the steps and as soon as we turned the corner Corinne yelled BIKE! I didn’t even know that she could say the word bike but it made my day.
Corinne and Faylinn both watched intently while mommy opens a fragile gift.
Christmas number two takes place on Christmas eve. at aunt Laura’s house. Here Corinne is sitting with aunt Steph and she’s wearing a new hat that Steph made for her.
The third and final Christmas was at Nana and Pop Pop’s house. Corinne patiently tore one piece of wrapping paper off at a time and handed it to aunt Sheri. Wait, maybe it was aunt Sheri that was the patient one…
We started a tradition when Corinne was still in the belly that we would buy them a special ornament for the tree each year that we will give to them when they have a tree of their own someday. This year Corinne got a bear reading a story to a baby bear.
We couldn’t get the powdery snow to stay together well enough to make a snowman so we had to settle for the snow blob.
Christmas trees for sale at the Christmas Village.
Christmas tree outside city hall.
Macy’s window display.