Banana Oatmeal Cereal

What in the world is this stuff?

Well at least Mommy makes silly faces while dad forces this on me . .

Complete indifference . . .though she still did great!

Could possibly be one of my favorite candid pictures . . .EVER!

All done . . .till tomorrow that is :)

"Project Farmer"

Never say never!  The Farmer Family joined a gym today . . . .on a month-to-month basis of course,  as I couldn't truly commit to a one or three year contract.  This makes sense for two people that haven't worked out steadly since 2005 . . BUT, we could commit to working out with a trainer.  We're going to need this person to whip us into shape . . .

So on Tuesday, April 5th at 5:30 p.m. Dave and I will begin "Project Farmer," in hopes of living a healthier life for ourselves and our girls through diet and exercise!  Wish us luck, we're going to need it!  :)

K & C Five Month Comparison



Katie (above) and Caroline (below)

Caroline Mackenzie at Five Months

What I've noticed about you lately:

• You can roll over and every time you do, you look up at us like, huh?  What just happened?
• You tried Banana Oatmeal Cereal for the first time and like most babies was pretty indifferent about it.
• You've learned to recognize your bottle and get extremely excited whenever you see one, no indifference there!
• You still LOVE being swaddled, every time you go to sleep you get a huge smile whenever we wrap you up.
• You've started saying ma, ma, ma ma ma :)
• You love when we sing to you, make silly faces and just smile at you in general.
• You're just plain easy - good tempered, happy and make having you in our lives a complete joy!

Our month-by-month sticker picture

Trying out our wings and tutu from Katie's party

Never would I have guessed that I'd be the mother of not only one, but TWO blue eyed daughters!

Type B Personality?

Is there a book I can read?  Class to take? 10 step program to enroll in?  Seriously, I already have a ridiculous amount on my plate and honestly some days can barely keep it together.  A demanding job with two kids under two, can be at times draining.  I'm learning to be more patient and have a long list of additional things that I need to work on as well.  In a word of a good friend - I need to learn to SIMPLIFY! 

But I digressed, with this all going on . . I'm now attempting to start a blog?  Well we've all know for some time that I'm just plain crazy . . .I wonder at least five times a day what it would be like to have a Type B personality?  Does having one make life easier by not expecting so much?  Does it allow you to "go with the flow" better and lower your standards of what you hope to achieve daily . . . .as I said things that I ponder constantly.

So the blog, I thought this would be a good way for Katie and Caroline to look back and see what was going on during their childhood, to create a book of our family, their mama's thoughts and our everyday lives.  We'll see how it goes . . . . .

Katheryn Claire at Two Years

What I've noticed about you lately:

• You love your "sissy," it was like your life became complete the day we brought her home!
• You LOVE your passies or papus as you call them . .the more the merrier in your world.  You absolutely need at least four in your big girl bed nightly, if there's less you'll persistently ask for more - "papus please, papus please, papus please."
• You love going outside and could play there all day if we let you.  With learning new words daily you point out airplanes, the sun, ducks, mama's car and daddins truck.
• You have a mind of your own and can be stubborn just like your parents.
• You like things in their place and know exactly where they should be.
• You're starting to make correlations - if you see a mom, you know exactly who she is and which child is hers (Robbie/Hailey at your birthday party).
• You've learned about presents - "open box" was your favorite phrase this past weekend!
• You love necklaces, shoes, and clothes.
• You love to be a help or elp as you say, with the dishwasher, dryer, sissy . . .
• You love to dance, sing and to be sung too.
• You love Elmo (your first character of interest).
• You've learned to share with others and that makes your parents very proud!
• You're 36.5 inches tall and you weigh 33 pounds (95/95 percentile).

God Bless Caroline Mackenzie

As mentioned below, we celebrated Caroline's Baptism this past weekend to the tune of 19 family and friends.  A wonderful day, that was echoed by her cries throughout the entire ceremony.  It was, in a word comical . .especially as Caroline (almost as a rule) never cries.   Well there's always a first time :)

Hard not to laugh when you're holding a screaming baby in front of a congregation . .

After an 8 oz bottle for Caroline (who never cried again the rest of the day) and Katie carrying her fish purse a great family shot is made.

Caroline with her Godmother Heather who came all the way from Arizona on her teaching Spring Break.

We miss you Grandpa Palmer . .



The Boathouse for lunch afterward . . I liked how this picture turned out, hence why I posted it, in all my randomness.



Thanks to "The Cake Lady" for going well beyond the call of duty this past weekend.  Three cakes, 2 dozen cookies and another 2 dozen cake pops is just plain crazy . . .even crazier that I could consume so much!