Well, as previously stated, I was a bit under the weather this past weekend.  I caught Layne’s cold and then woke up Saturday not feeling well with what turned out to be a mild case of pinkeye.  JOY.  So there went my two sessions for the weekend.  As a result, there will be no sneak peeks this week, just other random posts.  For today, Mine on Monday.  It’s been a while since I shared the kiddos…

First up is Nolan.  This is the perfect picture of him for two reasons.  First the legos.  Legos are HUGE in the house.  HUGE.  We started off with the big old duplo blocks and then progressed to the big legos and then last Christmas he received his first set of 480 teeeeeny tiny legos (Thanks, Uncle Nate).  Ever since then it has been lego land in our house.  This Christmas he got a giant crane from the uncles – he calls it the “Craner Crane”  As a result the lego interest has just grown.  He is forever building – cars, houses, etc.  He is slightly obsessed with them we think.  But he loves it.  And I have to admit that some of the stuff he builds is pretty cool.  The second reason this picture is perfect is that he is also equally obsessed with the Penguins of Madagascar which you can just slightly see on the shirt he is wearing.  Ever since being introduced to the movie Madagascar 2 at a friend’s house, he has fallen in love.  We watch the show, we DVR it, we talk about it.  And he has named his lego men after them – so on his lego car in the picture are Skipper, Kowalski, Private and Rico.  And he remembers who they are from day to day – not like he makes up new names for the men each day…  This picture just captures everything about him at this moment in time.  Now if only I could have put some pbj sandwich or mac and cheese in there too it would be 100% perfect…

And next miss Layne.  Since she first walked across the room exactly one month ago today, she has been quite the independent spirit.  She is always on the go, and going quickly.  I used to be able to open the refrigerator, get what I needed out and then close it before she could get to me.  Now she is across the room and trying to pull things off the door before I have even gotten anything out.  She does laps around the house…  And the hair, oh the hair.  It is forever hanging in her face yet she refuses to wear a barrette.  (Though as I write this she is going on hour three with one in her hair, I think she forgot I put it in!!)  As soon as I take my hand away from putting one in to hold it out of the way, she is pulling it out and handing it back to me with a big smile on her face.  I snapped this the other day and it’s just a perfect little snapshot moment – all on her own, cute little diaper bottom, hair in her face, miss independent.