From Mommy to Mum: January & February 2012. . .is it really September?

I am hoping to get back into a more regular habit with this blog. . we'll see--I've wished that before! Maybe one day I'll work from the start of 2012 forward, another can be anything that comes up, and the third can be working backwards--then I can catch it up! (I could do Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays like Jimmy Buffett AND have at least one margarita per entry!) It sounds like a plan and it would be great to reach a point that I schedule writing in to our lives, but how many Mommies (Mums) actually pencil in things that fall under the category of "me time"? But I really enjoy writing this blog and will keep poking away at it!! And who knows, maybe a pattern will emerge and it can be my own little free therapy (the cost of margaritas aside)!!

So January and February 2012. . .

Hanging out in Grammy & Pa's room. . .obviously still in the States here!

Our niece, Annie--my brother, Mike's youngest.

The Butler cousins!

LOVE this picture of Charlotte and cousin Brynn (Mike & Beth's oldest)

It was time for Charlotte's first haircut. . .

I had to snap a picture of Charlotte's baby curls in case the first haircut knocked them out! So far the curls are still there and we have had three or four!

It's good that our little Tennessee girl got to rock the mullet once in her life!!

Hey. . I say whatever works!

On to Charlotte's 2nd Birthday!!

This pushchair ranks near the top of the "best presents we ever bought them list". . .it's up there with Legos, the play kitchen and the Matchbox cars!!

Daddy teaching Mags to ride without "stabilizers" (training wheels).

The pep talk!

Potty training this child will break me!

Hannah's first cross-country race. . .she finished 30th, but couldn't have been more proud! Bless her!

Let it snow. let it snow, let it snow!

The view from our bedroom window.

The girls were so excited to wake up to a snowy weekend!

This is the first snowfall that she might remember!!

Good to know that our "snow apples" fall in the UK, too!

Our Minnie Mouse snowgirl. . . who progressively did the limbo lower and lower as the week went on!

Mid February, we headed to London to pick up Keith's parents for their first visit. . .they ended up having their flight cancelled because there was an engine fire in the plane they were supposed to take. While we were waiting for them to arrive, we took the girls to the Aquarium.

Always gotta find Nemo and his menemone. . .anem. .e nemone. . .:)

No one could figure out if this crocodile (alligator?) was real or not. . .it was perfectly still in this position for the whole 10-15 minutes we were in this section. . the only thing that convinced us that it was probably real was that it finally shut its eyes. . .