drum roll, please

baby boy is 10 months old! i know it might not really be a big milestone. in two months there will be much more fanfare.

but baby boy is sure excited about being 10 months old. he ate his first doughnut. and if only we had gotten pictures of him smushing it into his mouth, you would have seen his pure delight.

too busy

mr. pike and i have two busy kids. they don't sit still for long. and neither do we. (how i long to sit down and eat lunch with a book!)

i can't even get my kids to stay still for a photo. baby boy loves climbing onto little girl's bed and they'll roll around laughing and smiling. i love catching the two of them together. i just wish my camera could catch them as quickly.

why is it that even a crawling baby can unroll half of your toilet paper onto the floor before you finish washing your hands at the sink? or your toddler can be singing and dancing in her room at 10 p.m. while you've been wasted for hours already.

if i had some of their busy genes, maybe my to-do list would be shorter. maybe i'd be burning more calories than i consume. maybe i could keep baby boy from unrolling the toilet paper.

should we just stop counting?

[some of the carnage]

maybe you already have. but here are pics of baby boy's fifth, yes, fifth haircut. and we really did take a lot off. it's been almost a month, and we need to do it again.

there are days i wish i could stop baby boy's hair from growing. and his finger nails. stop growing, finger nails, please. why do i have to cut these things so often? especially with a very busy baby.

[after shot]

asleep

never quite sure when sleep will finally overtake little girl.

thoughts from little girl

when you're two and a half, you say what you think. and so, we're always hearing about little girl's thoughts or opinions. here are a few of my favorite recent ramblings.

LG: "mom, you say my name starts with 'A,' but i say it starts with 'H'."

ME: "you do start with 'A.'"

LG: "i 2, mom, i start with 'H.'"

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some nights mr. pike and i will hug little girl at the same time on either side of her. we like to call this a "sandwich hug." last week during a sandwich hug, little girl screamed out, "i the cheese!"

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during lunch, i left little girl at the table to run upstairs. she met me on the stairs as i was coming back down. in a whisper, little girl said, "mom. i just saw a dinosaur. some parent dinosaurs. a girl dinosaur. and a baby dinosaur."

"are they nice dinosaurs?" i asked.

"they are t-rex dinosaurs. and they will eat us. let's stay here."

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while the whole family was getting out of the car, i said, "boy, someone smells stinky!"

little girl replied, "it isn't me. i go to the bathroom on the toilet."

happy valentine's day!

over the past few days, i've been telling little girl about valentine's day. and she has been so excited to make cards and give treats to her friends and cousins.

last night for family night, we decorated sugar cookies. and little girl could not be more happy than sprinkling sugar all over.

(purple was her favorite, because it matched her pajamas. and when the purple sprinkles were all gone, she wanted to know where it all went. fortunately, red was next best.)

take 33 seconds to watch little girl finish off her decorating magic. i'm sure you'll be wishing that we were bringing some cookies your way!

lots of love to all of you! happy valentine's day!

turn it up, baby

in the afternoons, i like to make dinner to npr. little girl would rather listen to they might be giants, here come the ABCs.

but, it doesn't really matter what either of us want to listen to.

baby boy ends up controlling the air waves. he's mixing and turning. playing whatever his little fingers find.