"Super Ditchell"

No matter how hard we try to correct him, Mitchell calls himself "Ditchell". He can say any other word that starts with the letter M: Mommy, Miri, Milk, Monster... but not Mitchell. He is also consumed with superheros, especially Spiderman so he runs around the house yelling "Ditchell Spiderman". No matter what, we think he is adorable... even with a runny nose and shop glasses but oh how we wish he would stop calling himself "Ditch"!

Anything Gwen can do I can do better....

Mitchell has digressed in his short little life to baby swings, binky's and the baby pod chair! There is no way he is going to let Gwen's milestones outdo him.... sometimes I feel like we are filming that commercial where the parents are trying to recapture baby moments they lost with their old computers and they are taking pictures of their 15 yr old in the bathtub or riding a bike with training wheels. I am sure he will outgrow this but in the meantime we will cheer him on in his 2nd round of baby milestones!

Quiet means trouble

We know when Mitchell is quiet something is not right (not surprising with a 2 year old)! His favorite "quiet" activities are: playing with Ryan's glasses, stealing gum out of my purse-putting as many pieces in his mouth as he can before he gets caught, sucking on Gwen's binky and pulling all of his clothes out of his drawers. The other night he found a new activity... taking hair gel out of the bathroom drawer, scooping out the entire contents to put in his hair. It was a mess and of course Ryan was out of town. The picture doesn't do the mess justice, it was not fun to clean up but it was pretty darn cute!

Dresses for all occasions

Gwen's blessing was just a couple of weeks before Easter so we had two special occasions to find cute girly dresses! She was adorable, I love having a girl to dress up but I have to say it is not as easy as dressing a baby boy. With tights and hair accessories etc. it is a bit more dramatic. My cute sister-in-law Heather took some fun pictures of Gwen in her outfits. We tried to get Mitchell to cooperate in his Easter digs but he was more interested in playing with his cousins Sam and Jack.

Her blessing was wonderful, we had great family support even through a spring snow storm! Easter was fun...we were able to attend Court's blessing (Gwen's cousin born on the same day). All of the cousins were adorable in their Easter clothes.

Baby Sister

Okay, so I am still a lazy blogger but I have had an excuse over the past couple of months. Baby Gwen was born on Feb. 3rd, it is lots of fun! Mitchell loves her so much...... a little too much, most of my days are spent trying to keep him from squishing her! He has his own little baby talk voice when he talks to her, he calls her "baby sister" no matter how many times we try to tell him "her name is Gwen". I keep wondering when the novelty will wear off, I will have to take a lot of footage of his great love for her now so I can use it against him later when he doesn't like her so much! :) Here are a few pictures, it was tough to get a good one of them together but I think they turned out cute.