Tulip Time...Early

We went down to Centennial Park Saturday night to get pictures of the girls in their costumes while the tulips still look really nice. I did not tell Leila to pose with her hands like that, but she could not seem to come up with anything else to do with her hands.

The girls did a great job in spite of the fact that it was really cold and windy.

Papa took pictures too and his turned out better than mine, it might have something to do with a nicer camera that takes pictures every two seconds, so we ended up with 140 pictures to go through.

I like the ones of the girls separately because you only need one person to smile at a time.

I just LOVE this one :)

Town Crier 10k

I am so glad that it decided not to rain today. That meant that the girls and I could go and cheer on Jer at the Town Crier 10k in Saugatuck today.

While dada was running, the girls and I went to the park. Stella LOVED the swings! She giggled and smiled the whole time she was swinging.

The girls could each be in a swing while I pushed.

Leila loves to swing too...higher and higher!

This is the view from behind, I thought it was cute too.

We tried to feed the ducks down by the water, but there weren't any out to feed. Then we cheered dada on as he raced on by.

Stories of a 2-year old

For April Fool's Day I decided that Leila needed a joke. But this has to be thought out carefully, because she is not going to get the fact that it is a one-day-only type of thing, so she will keep doing it I am sure. I decided the most harmless trick would be to tell someone that there is a spider, then say, "April Fools!"

Leila's first victim was dada - after I told her the trick, she runs out to the kitchen and says to dada, "April Fools!"

She forgot to tell him about the spider first. Oops.

We went to Duie's for lunch and she had perfected the spider gag, so she did it to Nana, Papa, and Duie. Then Nana decided to give her another trick - to tell people that mama has a baby in her belly - I DO NOT! :)

So when Aunt Lindsey gets there, Leila goes with the baby trick, and Lindsey bought it!

Especially since Leila forgot to say "April Fools!" for that one.

Tonight the joke was on us. Leila was saying - there's a bug in the family room...April Fools! And she kept saying it, so after a while we checked the family room, and there really was a bug.

Leila is the worst bargainer I have ever met. Whenever we are setting the amount of food she needs to finish in order to get dessert, she bargains higher. I tell her she needs to eat 2 beans, and she will say, "No - 3!" If I tell her to eat half of her sandwich she will tell me that she needs to eat the whole thing.

As you can see, Leila just got her pictures taken at Sears again. She did so great this time, I am glad we are over that crying through pictures hump. After the photo shoot, she was positioning me all day, she would say, "I need your foot here. Good, now stay there." This last one is the picture I went with. I had a hard time deciding!

Stella has been teething hard core the last few days - she has 4 nubs on the top through. She has been slightly clingy but not too crabby.

Jenna came over to visit while home from college. She brought a scarf for Leila with princesses on it! Leila thinks that Red Fred (her snowman that went back to the north pole...) will be jealous of her pretty scarf.

This was the same night of the Sears pictures, Leila was trying to pose Stella.

Put your arm around her...

No further down...not so tight...

Yeah, perfect...not choking your sister at all...let's be done :)

Stella is in to EVERYTHING! I can't believe how much more curious she is than Leila was. Leila also liked to pull down towels, but Stella is always opening and closing drawers and cabinets, testing the child safety locks. Good thing they are working! :)