This is what happens when a 3 year old is left unattended with makeup within reach.  She has a future as a make up artist, I think. 

As a stay at home mom, not all days are as blissful as one would like.  They entail a lot of cooking, cleaning, errand running and chauffeuring of children to various events.  The past week we had a simply wonderful day.  And I do mean simply.  We did nothing except love on each other and

This weekend Laila has a fun weekend getaway planned.  Her dates are her Grandma Pam and her Bapa.  She is so lucky (read: we are so lucky)  to have the ability to get away and play at the cabin!  From the reports I have been getting, Laila has been keeping her  and her Uncle Kevin

Our Baby Boo Bear is 8 months old.  Here are comparison pictures of Cooper and Laila, both at 8 months! Isn’t this just TOO MUCH!?  Look at that chubby face that Laila had!  Love it!  Cooper is a big boy and has some adorable leg rolls, but nothing like his sister did!  I love these

I don’t know what it is about this basket.  (Or how it has lasted 4 years for that matter) My children BOTH love it.  Laila was obsessed with it when she was little (remember this?)and Cooper has recently found great fun in it, as well.  I think because it is light and just their size.

Things in the Janish house haven’t really changed that much with the turn of 2012.  Cooper is sick with a respiratory illness and is being treated with a nebulizer.  Laila is fighting, probably, the same thing.  Steve and I haven’t slept much in the past week because of Cooper’s coughing and his lack of sleep. 

It has been a rough few weeks for the Janish family.  Laila had been sick for about a week when Cooper started to cough.  Not a good sign.  We took them both in last Sunday and it turns out….they both had walking pneumonia.  Luckily, we caught it early enough where only a round of super

I love this time of year.  The leaves change beautiful colors and then crunch beneath your feet.  I adore the smell of the leaves after they have fallen off the trees.  Almost a musty, earthy smell that makes me think of pumpkins and scarves and snuggling on the couch with apple cider.   Sound delightful,

  A lot.   I love my babies! (cooper is 4 months old!)

Cooper had his 4 month check up this week.  He actually made 2 trips to the doctor’s office.  We went in on Monday because we suspected he had an ear infection.  He did.    This is his first and it worries my greatly.  I had chronic ear infections, along with other ear issues, and Laila