Birthday Party Slideshow

Christmas Day

What a fun Christmas this year! Two year olds are the best! Happy birthday to the girls today - though the official celebration is tomorrow.

Here they are playing with the best kitchen (or chicken as Hailey insists it's called) EVER. They love it, and the grown ups do to!







Here they are later in the day, at Grandma Gerry and Grandpa Scott's. Hopefully spring comes early this year!


After a long day, Hailey cozied up on the couch with Auntie Sandy and cousin Jordan...


...And fell asleep.


And finally, Riley just before she zonked out on Arlinda too:


A great day was had by all!

A Holiday Message from Hailey & Riley

In the words of Hailey and Riley, "Merry Christmas Everybody!"



We had a fun Christmas Eve day. Here are the girls setting out the spread for Santa.


We also had a full day of cooking and baking. Here are Stacey's elves rolling snickerdoodles.


The Sheehans and Arlinda wish all of our readers a very happy and safe holiday!

Dough and D'oh!

Since this blog is a little bit like my baby book/scrap book too, I have to put up pictures of the the good and the not-as-good. Here's one of the not-as-good: Hailey with a fat lip. She had a tussle with one of her little chairs. The chair won. (She's fine.)



After I photographed Hailey and her giant lip, the girls insisted on showing off their manicures:


Today we made some Christmas cookies. The girls did great.

Hailey making the shapes:


Riley and Arlinda rolling the dough:


Decorating:


They had fun eating the cookies too! We set a few aside for Santa, the girls are excited for this week! I am too, I can't believe we're going to have two TWO year olds on Saturday!

Awww

Snuggle bunnies in their snuggle bunny pjs. I can't get enough of these pajamas, they'd wear them every night if it didn't require extra laundry. Don't you love their post bath fly away hair too? Riley is sprouting wings.

Grandpa's Helper

Whenever Grandpa Tom and Grandma Susan come to visit, we put Grandpa to work fixing something. This weekend there was some work involving the assembly of large Christmas presents, as well as fishing out the large bulb of garlic that had fallen behind the stove. Since Hailey wasn't allowed to help with the first task, she took advantage of the second and was quite the helper to Grandpa. She was very serious and stuck with it, holding the flash light and yard stick the whole time, and listening to Grandpa's instructions. Seems like it wouldn't have taken that long, but it was in fact a very large, and very stuck, bulb of garlic.





Here are some playing pics. Hailey:


Riley, with a cold:

Snowgirls

The girls and I went out to play in the first real snowfall of the year this morning. It was really the first time they've played in snow, they weren't walking this time last year and it was more of a pain to take them out. But I think they had fun today!

Riley:


Hailey:


After playing in the snow they were ready for their space walk.


On Friday, Erin took the girls for the day (which is always a nice treat for me!). They went out to lunch, to the park, and did some shopping. They came home in a ridiculously good mood as they always do after spending the day with Erin. She just sent me this picture this morning. I'd love to know why they were making this face and how she managed to get a picture of it!