Funny Girls

Both girls are really growing up and developing fun habits and characters. Ava has become completely enthralled by the Disney movie Tangled, to the degree that she requests to listen to songs from the movie constantly (the jury is still out on whether or not it was a good idea to buy some of the songs on iTunes). Since we purchased the songs and have begun to listen to them frequently, Ava has started to sing the songs at random times throughout the day. Sadly she won't perform them but we can occasionally catch her in the act, as seen here:

Kate too has started doing some fun things, as seen here (Ava is watching the camera screen as this video is being taken, thus the excessive commentary from her):

Another Birthday!

I had another B-day a couple weeks ago, and received a big snow storm (~2 feet)! What a present, church was cancelled so we got to spend the day at home. With previous snow storms (mostly in Boston) Ava was either too young or we didn't have the right circumstances (time, etc.) to be able to go out and really enjoy it. This time Ava and I went outside to play in the snow on the playground in front of our apartment. We had a BLAST!

In addition to going down the slide what felt like dozens of times, we made some snow men, threw snow balls, knocked snow off of the bushes, and kicked snow balls off the playground platform. Ava was in HEAVEN!

That evening we had homemade ice cream cake but I had a bit of a mishap with the candles; you see for yourself what happened...