Climbers

Easter Outifits

Ray's mom sent the girls these darling outfits for Easter. The capris are still a little too big, as you can see from the pictures below. Ruby was not happy in this picture, but it was the best I got with the girls together.

I did get some cute individual pictures of them:


















I love this picture of Ruby. It almost looks like she was posing. I also love Cora's picture. She was watching herself in the mirror.

Playdate at the park

My girls love slides. They don't even mess with the short slides anymore, they go straight for the long (and in this particular park, bumpy) slides. I don't know how many times they went down the slides, but it was quite a few. Up the stairs, over to the slides, and down. Around and around.
We had fun. We intend to do this again sometime.

Snowman in April

No it didn't just get built, it was earlier this month. But, it was still in April.
For some reason the snowman looks a little shorter when Ray is standing next to it.

Ruby Cuteness

Cora Likes to Dress Herself

But she can't always get things on where they are supposed to go. So she does the best she can.

Pants:

Shoes:

This video shows that she knows where the shoes are supposed to go and what they are for. She just can't quite get them on her feet by herself. (I don't know why there is a weird clicking noise throughout the video, sorry.)

All I wanted

was a cute picture of the girls in their sort-of matching (I can't think of the word I wanted to describe them) outfits. I didn't think it would be this hard.




This was the best I got. I gave up at that point.

It's for you

Do I really talk on the phone that much? Ray would probably say yes. My girls think they need a phone since I have one. So Ray gave them an old cordless phone. One was not enough. I had to dig around through my stuff and find my old cordless phone (which, really randomly, happened to exactly match Ray's old phone). The girls love them.



















They love to push buttons. As you can see, Cora also knows where the phone goes when you're using it. Although she hasn't quite figured out the direction. The funniest part to me is that Cora will wander around with the non-working phone on her shoulder saying, "Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi." That's all she ever says on the phone. But when I put the real phone to her ear and someone is on the other end she won't say a word.

They also seem to think phones taste good. This is one of the major reasons they don't get to use mine. (The other major reasons being that they like to push buttons and may randomly call someone, and I don't want mine broken.)

Out Like a Lion

That would be how March left us this year.

Our house and Ray's pickup

Our street

Here are a few pics I took just trying to capture how pretty the snow looked:

If you want a comparison to see how deep the snow was, look at the picture of the gate here. The snow was basically up to the girls' waists.

Rub A Dub Dub

Two girls in a tub
And who do you think they be?Why, Ruby and Cora, dressed all in flora,
On this blog who else would you see?

Cora's Antenna

Ray regularly tells me I should just put two little ponytails in the front of Cora's hair so she will look like a bug. This day she escaped before I could finish her hair, so I took a picture for Ray.

Mmmm, cookies

We made chocolate chip cookies this afternoon. The girls LOVE chocolate chip cookies. We gave them a few small pieces of cookie and figured that was good. Then when I went to bag the cookies they wouldn't all fit in the bag. Ray said, "You don't need to worry about extra cookies, Ruby and Cora will take care of them."

When I was making dinner I set the extra cookies on the table. The girls were playing in the kitchen. I was rushing around trying to get everything taken care of and didn't even notice when the girls left the kitchen. I also entirely forgot that I set cookies on the table, so I never noticed they were missing.

Once I had everything under control in the kitchen I realized the girls were gone and decided to check on them. I found them lounging on the stairs, eating cookies and drinking milk, happy as could be. Ray was right, they did take care of the extra cookies.

For some strange reason, they didn't eat much dinner...

Okay,

Lil is GRADUATING on May 2nd. If she was getting married wouldn't it make more sense for me to say "Congratulations, Lil and ____"?

Then again, I may have been taking advantage of the day I posted it to confuse you all. :-) Who knows?

I Have Some Red-Nosed Girlies

I have some red-nosed girlies,

They are always so silly
That if you ever saw them
You would have to just agree.

Sometimes their noses change colors
To black, yellow or green.

They always make me smile,
For us this is just the routine.

CONGRATULATIONS, LIL!!!!

When's the big day?

What do you do for fun?

We look out the window. Remember this? Well, here's a recent comparison:Note that they now lounge against the back of the couch rather than barely being able to see over it. (Random side note: I was quite struck by the difference in the amount of hair, even Ruby's.) Also, they now climb up there on their own. Then continue climbing:Looking out the window is not a pastime that is reserved for just us. Friends get to join in, too:
Always have to be on the lookout for any passing dogs (Ruby and Cora bark when they see dogs, Shalon said, "Dog, dog, dog" for quite a while) or maybe the mail lady. The girls' favorite is when Daddy drives up. They will knock on the window when they see Ray, to get his attention.