welcome SPRING.

Spring is also referred to as

"Birthday Season" in the Alfultis home.  

We will all turn a year older before
Spring turns into Summer. 

Lots of celebrating to look forward too!

And here's to Miss "I" turning a big 10 months this weekend.

Just so you know . . .

you are taking 5 to 6 steps at a time now, but still prefer to crawl most of the time because you are darn fast.        you babble lots and try to repeat lots, but your most noticeable words are "dadda", "bubba" (brother), "bobba" (bottle), "momma".      you growl lots too.   you have 4-5 teeth that have broken through the gum's surface (all on top).      you wave (sometimes at yourself and sometimes at others).    you get especially excited when you are standing with no help.    you simply adore your brother and laugh at him even when he's sleeping - you think he is so silly.    you smile and laugh bunches and your whole face lights up when you do both or either.      you really only seem to get sad or mad when you are being put in your carseat or when your left out of the action.     you are and have been sleeping 8 - 10 hours a night for about a month and a half now (I think that you are finally starting to like sleep).     your favorite peeps (aside from brother, momma and dadda) are miss mary at daycare and your grandmas.    you like lots of foods and don't seem to have one favorite thing - well maybe cheerios.      you are the co-most specialist person in our lives right now and we thank God everyday for not just giving us one but two sugar sweet little people.  thank you God for entrusting these two little lives to us and granting us the pleasure of raising them and being their parents. 
what in the world are you thinking?! just kiddin!

a perfect ending.

It was that beyond perfect kind of "almost" Spring day today in Mid MO. 
The kind where everyone has their car window rolled down and an a
little extra bounce in their step.
(remember when we used to have to actually roll the car windows down?)

I wish that I could have spent the whole day basking in the wonderful sunlight. 

When I left work for lunch I seriously considered all of a sudden

coming down with the "warm day" flu, but resisted because I thought

my co workers might miss me too much ;0. 

However, I wasn't going to let the day get away without

at least an hour or two spent in the warm fresh air so the

"A" fam headed to the local drive-in in for some dogs and

dipped cones (I actually had an egg salad sandwich). 

It definitely made up for the daytime hours that I had to spend indoors.

Miss "I" even got to enjoy a few bites. 

When Bryan would bring a bite up past her mouth she would

make this funny whining-begging noise. 

So far she is a lover of all foods, but especially enjoys the

small portions of sweets we have given her thus far.

My last two posts have been about food that I haven't made -

that should tell you a little something about me. 

Actually, it is not that I don't enjoy cooking, it's

the preparation/ planning part that gets me. 

My hope is get better at this and SOON.

wish granted.

Just in case your not from around these parts . . .

my wish for fresh air has been granted.

Lots of love to Mother Nature.

fresh air.

We had another sick body and sad face in our home this weekend.

I am not usually one to complain about the weather, after all its pointless-

Mother Nature doesn't care what I think.

However, I have to say a warm sunny day is what we (those who reside in my home) 

need around here.  I know, I know today was much better than most the past

few months, but I am talking about the kind of warm, sunny day where

you can open the doors and maybe even a window or two and let

some fresh air in.  I believe fresh air to be lysol in its

organic "better" form.

I had so many ideas for posts this wonderful evening, but here's to another day-

I am off to dream about sunny skies, warm fresh air annnnnnnnnd a healthy home :).

 

RAIN, RAIN, GO AWAY!

"GO AWAY!"

At 703 we are ready to say goodbye to all this wet stuff we have had the last couple of months (did I mention it is raining here again today - enough that the small creek behind our house looks similar to the mighty Mississippi) and hello to the cold white fluffy stuff.  One of my favorite photos of Maddox was one taken when he was about a year and a half experiencing his first "real" snow.  I think his face says it all.  I would call it "true happiness".  I could just stare at this photo for hours - what happened to my little boy who is now a little man.  Anywho, if its going to be cold outside, we are chanting 

"BRING ON THE SNOW"!

"TRUE HAPPINESS"