Picture Overload!

We have not seen either set of grandparents for a while, thus the plea for and gift of pictures!! We have had a pretty busy week here, but I will let the pictures do the story telling :)

Heidi is learning to walk so fast! She has been army crawling for about two months now, with no interest in moving her little legs, but in the last three days, she has started to pull herself up on everything! Usually, this is fine - but for the first day or so, she had NO IDEA how to unlock her legs and get back down. Cut to me flying down the stairs at 3 in the morning to respond to the shrill shriek of a very confused, very stuck baby. She has since learned, thank heavens!

Heidi and her best pal, Simon. They looked out this window and growled and barked (yes, both of them growled and barked!) for about an hour the other morning.

I love that the girls are playing together now! They have a wonderful system where Michaela tells Heidi exactly how it is going to be, Heidi doesn't listen at all and usually knocks down the tower Michaela is building or throws the barbie rather than saying the assigned statement. Michaela usually gets mad, tries again and again, and then finds a different activity.

Beach Anyone? You would never know it from this picture - but she is happy to be having a picnic in the sand!

Just look at that cute little...Ponytail!...did you think I was going to say bummy? Cause that is not appropriate for the Internet, no matter how adorable those buns are!

Heidi baby avoiding a sunburn :)

Very quiet backseat after the sun and sand...(Please note Michaela's choice of "light reading!"

Root beer Float anyone?! To say it correctly in our house though, it comes out a little more like this, Root Ba-reer!

And last but not least, a lesson in child rearing. When you throw two people in a marriage, lets call them Kresge and Fife, you have two different influences available to teach your children, lets call them Kresge and Fife. In this instance you have a perfectly wonderful, sunny, low humidity day, perfect fro two things. One - napping upstairs for three hours with your baby, and Two- washing the cars! Fife absolutely won this influence, as Kresge was upstairs napping for three hours with the baby! His dad would be so proud - and SO WOULD MINE!!