Kevin and Alison

Made these sweeties matching outfits for them and their dolls.  It was quite exciting to get to wear them for the first time!

....for this "date night" to happen.  See, when Uncle Tom left Chloe decided that when he came back we needed to go out for dinner..... Can you spy the camo? :) That's right! He's back - and surprised us by showing up on our doorstep last week!! :)  April started chatting away, as though he hadn't been gone for 11 months, and Chloe covered her face with her hands in shock.  It took her about five minutes (and some presents from Uncle Tom and Aunt Chelle) to be back to her normal self.  She was just flabbergasted that Tom was in our living room :) We are praising God for Tom's safe return to the States!!!

We had a special delivery of steaks from Mimi and Poppop (THANK YOU!) and it came with some dry ice in the bottom of the box.  Of course, we had to call our Uncle Bill to see what fun things we should do with the ice!  He had lots of ideas, some of them not really for children :) He suggested adding bubbles and some warm water in a "vase"....because he knew we didn't have graduated cylendars at our house ;) .....and tossing in a piece of dry ice.  So, that's what we did! At first, it was smoky, but you can see some bubbles rising up in our container.  Soon, they were all over the place! Very serious "thumbs up for science" from these two :) We started getting some really big bubbles towards the end - when I threw in a 'really big piece'.

April wasn't feeling well about two weeks ago.  It ended up being something she ate (I think) so, no virus or stomach issues after one afternoon.  She will still mention getting to nap on the couch.  It wasn't planned - she just fell asleep there and I let her stay!   Reminded me of this picture from when she was a baby -- didn't even take up a whole couch cushion!