March Fun

March.  Wow.  I can't believe how fast time is going!  Having said that, I am really wishing for Spring--not that I want to wish my mat leave away, but it would be really nice to get outside!  But in the meantime--March.  We had a great March Break.  After an absolutely crazy month and a half, it was great to have Dave home and to be a family for a week!  We didn't do anything terribly exciting, but it was still really nice. 
The girls are growing and learning every day!  Anneke is putting more an more words together and often shocks us with her complete phrases and sentences.  She's learned so many words--the other day she opened a plastic Easter egg and said "the egg is hatching", we have no idea where the word hatching came from but it's great!
Kaelyn is growing like crazy--at her 4.5 month appointment she weighed 18 lbs!  (3 lbs more than Anneke at that age).  But she continues to be a super happy and fairly easy going baby, so much so that she laughed through her 4 month shots!  She's making movements to roll over, but hasn't got all the way over yet.  She much prefers to be sitting up, which I think she'll be doing on her own soon enough!  This week she really found her legs--she started pushing up into a standing position and when she's laying on the floor or in her bouncy seat her legs are always moving.  She's also really started to grab onto toys, which is fun, although she gets really mad when she can't get them to her mouth.  The only challenge that she's giving me is that she refuses to take a bottle.  I'm not sure what I'm going to do about that.  We keep trying but she's stubborn!  And I probably wouldn't be too worried but we have a concert to go to in a month so we'll have to figure something out!
So all in all it's been a great month!

 

Music

So Anneke loves music as much as we do.  Here are a couple of videos of the jam session we had in our kitchen tonight.

 

Snow fun

Anneke has become considerably more brave in the snow this year.  Last year, she'd hardly touch the stuff (except with a shovel, she liked shovelling the driveway last year...).  This year, it's hard to get her to come back inside.  In this video, she demonstrates the proper way to go down a slide!
Enjoy!

Picture Comparisons

Today I thought it'd be neat to see pictures of the girls side by side at the same age.  So here are pictures, the first set is of them at the hospital and the second set at 3 months.   (I had nothing but problems formatting this entry, so sorry but I couldn't get them side-by-side).

 (Anneke)

(Kaelyn)

 
(Anneke)

(Kaelyn)

So what does everyone think?  Similar?  Different?  Does one look more like Dave or I?



Beating the Freezing Cold

Here are some pictures and videos to show how we tried to beat the freezing cold this week.

 Playing on the bed

 Taking an evening nap on mommy

 Hanging out on the couch

 We did some painting one day--Anneke likes the idea of painting, but gets bored of it quickly.  And here she's telling me that her finger is dirty and she needs the dukie.  She doesn't really like having dirty hands.

 Storytime in her "big girl jammies"

 At breakfast the next morning she needed to "check mail" (e-mail) while eating her cereal!

 Trying a new location.....

Making a little valentines day craft.

 

 

And a couple of videos:

First, Anneke learned a new saying this week:  (it's quite dark, sorry!)

And here she is singing away while crafting!

 

January

Here are some pictures that show what we've been up to so far this January.

This weekend we went to visit Great-Grandma and Great-Grandpa Postma and then we went to Uncle Nathaniel and Aunt Rachel's to meet our new niece/cousin, Abigail.  We had such a great time and felt so blessed!

 Anneke and Uncle Nan hanging out.

 Kaelyn finally having a nap, on Grandma.

 Grandma and Grandpa with all three grandgirls!

 Sleeping in Mommy and Daddy's bed.  (While Mommy was trying to clean up the mess of clothes after we got home from Christmas travelling.)

 Until a week ago Kaelyn was sleeping in a bassinet in our room.  But Mommy decided it was time for Kaelyn to move out so that maybe I could get a better night sleep.  So we moved her to her big girl bed.  We also moved Anneke to her big girl bed, but I don't have a picture of that yet....

 Dress Up or Dress Down.....

 Our little smiley pants.

Anneke's new hairdo.....I've been trying some new things, this one seems to work well......

Videos of our Silly Girls

Here's a video of Anneke's harmonica playing at Christmas--it's a little dark, but you can still hear her great playing--and one of Kaelyn smiling and talking to her wormy.