big teeth

nothing is cuter than a little without any front teeth.

so the other day when we were all just hanging out in the yard on a gorgeous day i had to grab my camera to capture the cuteness of my dear little sophie

and the sillyness

because before you know it there will be some very big teeth taking the place of that cute little gap and for now i just to r
emember the gap...
a reminder of her youngness....
because nothing screams growing up like big front teeth.

the other day we were watching toy story 2 and it was the part that jesse's owner had packed away all of her toys because she was growing up. 
sophie very innocently asked me why was she packing away all of her toys? 
she could not figure out why anybody would ever pack away their toys. 
it made me sad.
because i knew one day sophie would be packing up all of her beloved toys. the toys she plays with every single day.
and she had no idea. 
little conversations like that really help me to remember to focus on treasuring the time i have with my littles while they are little. 

because before long they will be all grown up
with big teeth. 

mommas little princess

abbie has been going through a phase of dressing up like a princess. 
it makes no difference to her what she is wearing underneath...or what activity she is doing in her princess dress. 
as long as she is wearing it she is happy.

and of course she shares of love of princesses with
her best friend kennie...

and she shares her love of princesses with her little brother...
(i can't believe how fat my little guy looks in this picture...
where is his waist??)
good thing daddy does not read my blog. he would be so embarressed for his little man.

she even can play sports as a princess!

here is my princess baseball player

and my princess kickball player



oh how momma loves her princess.

 

Ella's big news

ella finally lost her first tooth.

woohoo.

to say she was getting a little frustrated that sophie was losing teeth left and right and her own weren't even loose is an understatement

she kept asking me me when she was going to lose her tooth and all i could say was soon ellie. 
be patient.

she even started to pop out her adult teeth behind her baby teeth.

talk about creepy. 
apparently they call this shark teeth.  for obvious reasons. :)

then it finally happened. 

she was so excited.

mommy was too. :)

some snow...finally.

we finally had a snow "storm" that produced enough snow for the littles to go outside and play. 
they had a great time. 

especially levi. 

he loved it.
which i didn't reallyeexpect since my other littles hated the snow at this age.

while outside we...

 made snow angels.

made our annual whitacre family snow man.

tried to sled down a little mole hill. :)

made snow castles

found a disgusting worm slithering across the snow. 
still can't figure of what an earthworm was doing outside in the snow...do you know?

all in all we had a good time playing outside in the snow.
and we can now officially check it off our winter to do list. :)