Playdate

Ava really enjoyed having her friend Natalie over today.
They carefully changed Baby Alive's diaper after she ate her bottle :)
Smiles
Eating fruit snacks :)
Cute girls!
Silly girls!
Big Squeeze :)
Girl friends are so much fun!

Around the house

Just a couple pictures of Carter and Ava playing together this morning.

Jewelry making

Ava enjoyed an afternoon of making necklaces and bracelets with Mommy while Carter was napping. The holes on those beads are pretty small, I was impressed with how well she did putting all those beads on the string!
Concentrating hard!
Here she is modeling her new necklace and bracelet :)

Carter is 17 Months old

My baby boy turned 17 Months old yesterday, so I took some pictures of him on his "month" birthday like I usually do :) What I love about Carter is that whatever he does in life, he does it with a smile! I say this all the time, but he is just such a happy baby. He loves to make people laugh, give high fives, and dance to music.

Just loungin'
Carter has the Absher chin too.



This is my favorite picture from today! Most often he looks more like Cristian to me, but here he looks just like his big sissy :)
Hard to believe he's almost 1.5 years old!!

Valentine's Day

The Fireplace (and house) was all decorated for Valentine's Day when the kids woke up Sunday morning.
Here's Carter opening up his Valentine from Mommy and Daddy.
He was SO SO SO excited with his gift. When he saw what was in the bag he said, "Ohhh, Ball balls, Ball balls."

Ava with her Valentine presents from Mommy and Daddy
And Cristian with his presents
Carter put all the balls right into his ball pit and enjoyed playing
We got Kyle a couple of Disneyland shirts, here he is holding one of them up. (Little does he know that my dad got the exact same ones, so next time we all go again, everyone can be matchy-matchy, LOL)
The table set for breakfast
Yummy!! Strawberry waffles with a sprinkle of powdered sugar.
Auntie opening up her Valentine present from all of us... a "movie night" package with the movie Made of Honor, popcorn, Pepsi, nerds and M&M's.
We went out to dinner at MaMa Stortini's. Carter kept blowing me kisses :)
All of us at dinner! I should have taken my jacket off for the picture because I was wearing a red shirt too :)

2 Birthday Parties

We went to two birthday parties over the Holiday weekend. The first one was for Trenton (Ava's friend), it was at Peak Gymnastics in Enumclaw. The kids had a great time running around.
There they are ready to slide down
Wheeeeee.... what a fun slide!!
Carter is such a big boy, he loves to do everything the older kids are doing now.
Cristian playing on the rope swing
Ava swinging on the rope swing
Happy 4th Birthday Trenton
Later that same day we went to Cousin Clair and Marcus' Super Hero party at the Odyssey. Cristian was spiderman, Ava was Batgirl, and Carter was Buzz.
Kyle climbing around with Carter
Batgirl

Peek-a-boo

Carter loves to entertain our family. He particularly loves to "hide" and jump out and say "BOO" He'll do it over and over, as long as people are laughing at him :)
Peek-a-boo Carter

Carter loves Dale

Ever since we got back from Disneyland, Carter has been wearing Cristian's Dale hat around our house.
Pretty cute if you ask me :)

Valentine's From Nannie

My mom and dad went out of town with so friends this weekend to go snow shoeing, so my mom stopped by with Valentine's gifts for all of us. Cristian got a Webkinz otter.
Ava opening her present and Carter watching
Carter opening his present
A webkinz unicorn for Ava!
Carter excited to see his toy too! Thanks Nannie for the presents! I can't wait to plant my new Winter Daphne bush and enjoy it's wonderful fragrance every winter/Valentine's day!!