Our boy sure does love to go to the park. Maybe one day we'll live somewhere with a yard big enough to have our own swingset and slide.

Em has recently discovered her feet and she's very fond of them. When she gets cranky, taking her socks off is usually a good way to improve her mood in a hurry. She spends a lot of time trying to get her feet in her mouth but isn't usually too successful. She spent about half an hour tonight rolling around on her play mat grabbing her feet and slapping at her toys and was so very cute.

He was running through the house wearing nothing but a diaper and some pink sequined bunny ears and yelling, "I'm a nudie bunny! I'm a nudie bunny!" He'll be so embarrassed by this picture one day.

For the last week or two, Kenton has been pretending to have birthday parties and Christmas parties, and all of his pretend parties have cake. He's been talking about cake a lot. So we decided to make the boy some real cupcakes this morning. We usually do a lot of cooking on the weekends anyway, so we're used to the kitchen being wrecked. However, letting Kenton help added a whole new layer of mess to our usual kitchen chaos. He was so impatient while they baked, but managed to survive the nearly 20 minutes until they were done, and then ate one as soon as they were cool enough to touch. He didn't even want to wait for frosting.

Chillin' in the beanbag chair, watching tv. Obviously Kenton was a little more into the show than Em. She seems to be learning than when the camera comes out, it's time to turn up the cute.

My husband would like me to point out that those are my shoes in the corner of the picture, sitting in the living room where they do not belong. The 2 1/2 year old in the house puts his shoes where they belong as soon as he takes them off, but the 35 year old is proving to be a little more difficult to train to clean up after herself. ;-)

Kenton's puppy bath towel is not only incredibly cute, it also matches our bathroom decor really well. He's been really into letters for the last couple of weeks and can consistently identify all upper case letters and most of the lower case ones. He's also been working very hard to learn the sounds they make and has most of them down pat. The vowels are still a little confusing sometimes, but he's picked up so much so fast. It's so amazing and so exciting to watch him learn. Tonight we went out to eat at Zaxby's and they have lots of decorative items hanging on the walls, including lots of signs. Kenton was checking them out and said to me, "The letters are just everywhere!"

Temps here are in the 70's today, but it has been a little chilly over the last week. Em didn't mind the cooler weather, since it gave her a reason to wear her super-cute winter hat when she was heading out on the town.

As I've mentioned before, Kenton sleeps with a lot of junk in his bed. A couple of nights ago, he wanted to take a pile of train cars with him, too. So I said yes and off he went. I had to laugh a few hours later when I opened the door to check on him and saw this. The first thing I thought was, "...while visions of train cars danced in his head..."

Kenton took his bucket along the other day when he was out for a walk. He was quite choosy about what treasures he chose to pick up and put in his bucket. Only the finest rocks, sticks, leaves, and pinecones would do. And then, just a half-block from home, he unceremoniously dumped it all on the sidewalk without a word, and carried the empty bucket home. We don't try to understand toddler logic.