The kids are playing...

Together, and for the most part not fighting.

And I'm multi-tasking.

Cooking dinner.

Prepping tomorrow's breakfast.

And trying to collect a few thoughts to form a blog post. Please excuse any weird typos. I assure you I will not be proofing.

Two kids make for a busy life, busy, busy days and what appears to be long weeks, but then I blink and the weekend is here again. The camera sits idle, with the exception of a few photos and Gabe has changed once again and I don't have near enough photos to document those changes. I do, however, have photos of him on my phone. It's something, right?!?

But here he is. In Christmas PJs, but it's definitely after his birthday seeing as he's playing with his birthday present. So, I assume this is February. Maybe March.  I'm thankful there's a date stamp on the digital image so I can actually figure it out.

The kids are very much annoyed with each other most of the time. Gabe follows Madeline around and copies her. She plays along for a moment, but if she's in a mood she won't tolerate it. Still, there are moments like this...

She pretty much instigates all this, and Gabe sometimes plays along. When she wants him to, he's most likely to be distracted by a truck or just want me. But she sure does try!

I love these two photos. Craig going out with Madeline on a daddy-daughter date. Madeline was beyond excited and didn't want him to see her until she was ready. She asked to wear my necklace, picked out her hair style, I put a smidge of makeup on her, and she was ready. 

And here's a random image. Gabe has red, rosy cheeks so I know it's still winter time, but after his birthday. This gift was a winner, that's for sure. I collapse it and store it under the couches.

And I know this is around Christmas time. But Gabe was getting more blog love, so I had to find one of Madeline by herself...and Gabe still photo bombed her!  Eh, she still looks adorable!

In short, our lives are busy. Gabe is most likely naked somewhere and Madeline is most likely changing a diaper on one of her dolls or animals. I'm most likely cleaning the food off the floor or giving food to one of my children (seriously, I feel my nickname should be the food fairy. All. Day. Long.)  But we are here. Just a little behind. I'm not even going to set a goal to update the blog, but I am going to try to pick up my big girl camera every now and then. And get in FRONT of the camera, too. 

Yes. He HAS to take off ALL his clothes to pretend pee in the big or little toilet. But he's naked quite a bit anyway...