A fun bunch

As of this week, we have a crawler.I really thought Aaron would fool us and drag it on and on with the almost-crawling, but on monday night (Feb 1st) he actually began to crawl. He skipped the army-crawling and went right to traditional crawling. In the last few days he has gotten smoother with his motions and has purpose to get somewhere. We find him in precarious situations now though.
Most mornings I pull myself out of bed saying 'shhhh. don't you want to sleep more?" to my kids as they bound from their room with all the energy in the world. Well, thats because, like tonight, I'm up at almost 1 AM reading about photography and editing pictures and posting on my blog. It's an obsession, this photography. I know what I want to become and I know in time I'll get there, but I know I'll only get there with practice and knowledge and the house is pretty silent in the middle of the night.
So, as I was saying, I pull myself from bed and after the kids watch some morning cartoons and have breakfast, get dressed, etc. I really try to turn off the TV and have them do something worthwhile. This particular morning the kids painted. Celia spent about 45 minutes painting. She's really getting into this art lately - which is pretty cool in my book. She had some specks of purple paint on her little face when she looked up at me.
And after some painting, Nicholas thought it would be fun to try to fix our 2 broken flashlights. He's loving to fix things. Our friends, Erica & Pete, bought him a toy tool set for his birthday and he adores it. Although, there is nothing like real tools.

I better pull the plug on this computer and head to bed, cause in about an hour or so Aaron will want to nurse and in a few hours after that I'll be shushing the kids at 7:30am and begging them to give me 5 more minutes. :)