We’ve been busy working on painting our cabinets and Ammon took a wall down and is adding a banister and railings. I thought you might want to see our works in progress. They’re getting there!
Bye-bye wall! This is the wall in the kit. that goes upstairs to the bedrooms
Almost there!
ewwwwwwwww
A work in progress
Tasha really gets into feeding Snowy, her baby doll and well, just about any toy these days. One day I was upstairs putting away clean clothes and heard a funny noise. I peered downstairs to find my little angel, helping herself to whatever pieces of silverware her toy of the week wanted to eat with. She’d pulled a dining chair over to the drawer to see better what she was choosin and I caught her in the act!
A random note: today Tasha told me she was going to take the bus home! This is particularily out of the blue since, we’ve never taken a bus with her and I didn’t even know she knew what a bus was, other than a schoolbus! It was also a little strange because well……we were at home at the time! =)
It’s been a week I think since I’ve been able to post anything. We’ve been so busy! In addition to the recent renovations we’ve been doing on the house, we got a big, rush job for Eternapix and we were all consumed by that this week. It’s all over now! Whew! Thank goodness! It was worth it financially, but man was it alot of work in a short period of time.
Anyways, we took some photos of the kids last Sunday all dressed up and ready for church. They were just cute enough to eat!
We had guests over in the am and as soon as they walked in, he promptly stayed frozen in place for about 10 minutes!
Finally! A smile!
Pretty Tasha-girl all spiffed up!
The girls
Me and my boy!
I couldn’t decide which picture I liked better, so I figured, hey no one is going to complain about too MANY pics
Friend of ours gave us this hot chocolate/milkshake mix for Christmas and we kind of forgot we had it. Well, when cleaning out the cabinets to paint earlier this week, i found it and Tasha’s wanted it ever since. Today, I decided it would be fun to share it with her, so I warmed it up and YUM! It had marshmellows and mini-m&m’s and boy was it tasty. Tasha didn’t like it at all, as you can see from the picture below!
Take more pictures Mommy!
Say Cheese!
Mom wanted this picture, but it took a little convincing for me! =)
Kevin hasn’t been feeling so good lately, since he got a cold three weeks ago and is also getting four eye teeth at the same time. We were happily surprised that he was feeling more like himself for quite a big part of today. Not only did he play with toys and eat ok, he said 4 new words! All in one day! He pointed at some pictures that are framed in our front entrance and said “Dada”, which he’s said before, but we’re never been sure that it was intentional before. He also asked me to pick him “up”. Later, he handed me a toy that can be turned on and asked me to “help”. Finally, we were looking at a book that had pictures of farm things and I pointed out things here and there and he copied me when I showed him the tractor! So fun to hear his new little words.
No, it’s not what you think! =) Kevin wouldn’t eat his food the other day. Nothing I could do would make him eat. He threw the hugest fit, finally throwing himself at my feet and crying. I couldn’t figure it out! (this was before his teething started. He now has four eye teeth coming in!) Well, later I decided to try it again and this time I gave HIM the spoon. He was as happy as a clam! Now, most of the time he won’t let us feed him at all. He has to be using a fork or a spoon just like his big sister!
Kevin eating with his spoon
Cheesin it up for the camera
Here are a ton of Christmas pictures we took. We spent Christmas Eve and Christmas Day at Lee and Ellen’s (Ammon’s parents). Ammon’s oldest sister, Christina, was there with her family (the two boys are hers) and Julina, his youngest sister was there as well and then we had the pleasure of having Grampa Manning there too. The kids had a great time playing together, despite their fatigue from staying up late and wearing themselves out! We played in the snow after opening a million presents on Christmas Day. Lots of fun memories!
Jaron and Ethan; brothers and friends
Pretty Christmas Angel
Tasha and her favorite cousin, Jaron
The Three Munch-kateers
Auntie Christina and Kevin snuggling
The Whole Manning Gang (Top: left to right, Grampa Manning, Julina Manning, Arvin Narayan, Christina Narayan, Ellen Manning, Lee Manning; Middle: left to right, Jaron Narayan, Ethan Narayan, Kevin Manning, Natasha Manning, Bottom: left to right, Ammon Manning and Lauren Manning)
Tasha-girl feeding “PJ” one kibble at a time
The guys attempting to watch the end of a football game on Christmas Eve-day…the kids were having a blast!
Julina and Ethan clowning around
Ammon and Ethan, Kevin and Tasha
Kevin enjoying his new truck from Grandma and Papa Manning
Santa and the girls
Tasha riding Kevin’s horse-yeeeee haw!
Push us, Daddy!
Snowbunnies to boot!
Kevin in his new snowsuit, wayyyyyy past naptime!
Tasha and Kevin getting a sledride from Uncle Arvin…this was way-way-wayyyyyyy past naptime for Kevin!
I took these photos back in November for a mug I had made for Ammon. You can see from the last shot just how much fun they have together.
