The Charlie and Molly Ries family: March 2008

It's been months since I have updated our blog!!! My STUPID computer CRASHED (and took with it many hours and hours of recipe-typing work!), so my time on the computer is limited to nights when Charlie brings his home and AFTER the kids are in bed and the house is cleaned up, which is usually really late, so I don't often get on . . . Hence the months of no pictures, which I plan on making up for in the next few days, but who knows if that will happen!!! The kiddlings are so adorable and sweet . . . getting bigger every day, of course! They just LOVE each other to pieces, which is the sweetest thing my eyes have ever seen. Taylor just screams with excitement when Horsie plays with her, and she's the first thing he asks for when he wakes up. "Totty woke up?" he asks. He also likes to wake her up when she's napping to play and has a FIT when I block him from going in to wake her! He will say, "Mommy, Totty woke up!" and honestly believing that he heard her, I will say, "Okay, let's go check, but you have to WHISPER cuz she's probably still sleeping." And he will whisper "Whisper! Shhhhh . . ." and put his finger up to his lips, but then RIGHT when we get over her and she's still sleeping, he will scream "Hi, baby!" and then she wakes up . . . he looks at me and says, "Tay-Tay woke up!" I'm like, "No, you WOKE her UP!" He is such a silly little Seahorse! Taylor is in a grab-everything-and-pull-it phase, and the other day she got a hold of a lock of Horsie's hair in bed and pulled hard. He is so sweet and understands that she's a baby and doesn't even get mad . . . he said, "No, Totty, no! Please no pull hair, Totty!" He just learned how to say "My name Charlie" and he loves asking people their name and telling him his name, but it's the same phrase/question for both "Tell 'em NAME!" and then you have to wait to see if you should tell him your name or if he wants to tell you his name, nickname, and last name (he just learned last name tonight). We went to meet my cousins who were in town today and Horsie LOVED the pool . . . I'm trying to teach him to jump off the side but he's scared . . . He says "One, two, pree, pour, . . . nine-TEN!" but then he sits down and scoots of the side after he makes an attempt to jump. He cracks me up!!! And Taylor looked just precious in her little swimming suit . . . she is such a little DOLL--the EASIEST baby on the planet! Charlie's always like, "Is she for real?!" All she does is smile and laugh. We are so blessed!!! Well, that's about it for the kids . . . not much new with Charlie and me!!! If my mom can come in this weekend, we might go see a Cirque show for a special date!!! That will be fun--I have never seen one and we CAN'T leave Vegas after living here for 2 years without seeing one, so hopefully soon! Hercules is great too--the weather's really getting nice now so he's loving getting to go to the park with the kids and me every morning. I will post more pictures as soon as I upload them, so check back soon! You CAN'T MISS the ones of Taylor in her old fashioned PINK BONNET from this weekend!! She's too cute!!! I will get them up soon!