The Wagner Family: March 2012

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Back to Work

I could seriously eat this child up.

Our little love muffin, who basically has about a two hour time limit as to how long it's acceptable to be away from Mommy, will be spending the day with Daddy tomorrow.

I prepped her for it and this was her response.

I feel ya, baby girl.

On that note, we decided to break the news to Joey in the morning.

He can actually verbalize his thoughts which, I'm learning, makes this sort of thing about a trillion times harder and sad for the parents.

Please say a prayer for all involved as we nagivate this transition.

Ugh.

Monday, March 26, 2012

My Curly Girl

When I was pregnant with Joey I hoped he would come out with dark curly hair and blue eyes.

He came out with blue eyes and blonde straight hair, which we didn't even think was possible.
Actually, he basically for all intensive purposes had no hair until he was fourteen months old.

By the time Grace was growing in my belly I was just hoping for hair, any type of hair :o).

You know .. hair for bows.

And my girl was born and she deliverd, a mop of almost-black hair topped off her tiny little head.

She looked just like I had pictured her brother would look.
She had her George Costanza phase, as we called it, where all of her hair on top fell out.
It quickly came back though, just a little lighter and equally as eager to curl as before.

As her hair has grown longer it has become possible to let it curl a little bit without it quickly transitioning into a little mohawk.
And so I let her sport her curls from time to time :o).
With her bright big blue eyes, her firecracker personality, and her curly little hair that lets me satisfy my longstanding desire to adorn a tiny little head with not-so-tiny bows .. I just could not love her more.

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Wacky Winter

This Winter has been so crazy mild. There has basically not really even been one big snow storm.

Joe so desperately wants just one big storm with Joey. He wants to build snowmen with him and drag him around, but I'm not so sure it's going to happen. He talks about it like every other day.

We took advantage of decent weather last week and took our two to the park. We've done this in Winter before but I can't ever remember doing it and not seeing a speck of snow on the ground. I thought it was so funny when I looked at this picture and noticed that they both have 'bear' outfits on.. That was not intentional, but we refer to them as brother and sister bear so it caught my eye :o). Sometimes when Grace is upset Joey will go, "Don't worry, Sissy. Bru-zur Bear is here." It's one of my favorite things.

I could just eat him right up.

Sometime between last Fall and now, Joey has become a complete master at the playground. He can do everything now, at 2.5 years old. He was good last Fall but there is such a marked difference now. He doesn't want help with anything. I think My Gym has been great both for his confidence and his ability.

Grace was sitting in this swing like this as I chatted with a mom who was pushing her son next to us. She was wearing houdstooth mary janes with bows, ruffle socks, and a big furry panda vest that has a bow on its head. You can't see it in the picture but she also has bows on her sleeves and a bow in her hair. We were talking to this mom for about ten minutes before she asked if Grace was a boy. Ha! Maybe it was because she wasn't wearing pink?!?

Sissy loves the swings. She's a wild child. She is going to be so much fun at amusement parks.

Joey made it to the top of the rock wall all by himself for the first time.

There was a grandfather there with his grandson who was the same age as Joey. They were both trying to climb the wall and go down the slide. Joey had the grandfather laughing and through his laughter he got out, "Well, Joey is a ham!" He wins people over everywhere he goes. :o)