Sharing

One night last week we had dinner with Dusten and Nicole (delicious chicken fajitas) and Dot and Ollie showed us how grown up they are. This is them sharing the basketball together. These two kids seriously love each other a lot! It is so cute.

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sorry this is so dark

For Nicole

Nicole: You said you'd blog again if you had this picture. Here it is.
Everyone: Isn't Oliver the coolest kid you've ever seen? No wonder Dot is ALWAYS in awe when she's around him.



Seriously, in this one he looks like a model! I'm sure he was in Gap's top 100. Its a tough competition.


Dialogue:
Oliver: "Dot, I think...ya I'm pretty sure I can totally jump off this ledge"
Dot: "Do it! That would be soooo cool!"

I have a feeling these two are going to get into a lot of trouble together. Last sunday was the first day Dot could finally walk around with Oliver and there was a lot of giggling going on.

Easter

This post is really late, but I'm finally posting on Cory's computer where all the good photos are stored.
Dotty really loved easter. We were lucky to have my parents and sister Anne with us, down from Canada for the whole week. We ate at IHOP, shopped at Target, and walked the Gateway- pretty lame hosting on my part, but in my defense the Canadian dollar was doing really well that week.
D+P invited everyone over for easter sunday. There was an egg hunt which resulted in $15 for dot {which I'm still waiting to deposit into an account for her...now its written in time and so I must not forget}. We ate good food and then played basketball till the wee hours. And I beat Anne's team! booyah.

Here are some pictures Cory took. He's loving his new lenses. PS. Thanks Grandma Hudson for all the gifs, especially this beautiful Easter dress!

Twin Cousin Book Club

My sister-in-law took this picture over christmas. I love it. This is Dotty's girl cousin Audrey who lives in Calgary.

It looks like Audrey is like "here I'm done with this one, take a look at it and tell me what you think..." And Dot's like "hmmm...I haven't read this one..."

Dotty is a Teapot

Short and stout.

So despite my attempts to be anti-denim in the first year, I have to admit they are a great costume for photo shoots like this one:

title: cowboy cousins
models: dotty and oliver
photographer: mere lesueur
dotty styled by mere lesueur
oliver styled by nicole lesueur


This is an outfit that my sister-in-law Karen sent awhile ago and since the size is 6-12 months, it is no surprise my daughter's 4 month legs are nowhere near long enough. What you can't see in this picture is that the pants are both unbuttoned and unzipped. Looking at these jeans I thought Old Navy made a huge mistake since no baby could be that long limbed while being so slender. However, both Oliver and William have beautiful skinny legs and slender torsos. Changing Oliver's diaper once I was shocked to see that his size 3 diapers were fastened with the tabs touching each other. Dotty's size 3 diapers have to be loose or else she screams with discomfort.{sidenote* check out dotty's pics to see more of the photo shoot including farm props from grandma paula's decor.}
Anyway I decided to look for a more appropriate pair of jeans for my round little dot and I jokingly said that I would have to buy a pair of 18 month shorts. Well as it happened I found a perfect pair at target {oops} and they are in fact knee shorts sized 18 months.



:(poor little teapot.{sniff}



To make her feel better about her body image we bought her a jumper. We were going to buy the kind that goes in the doorway, but since we had money on a gift card we went all out. Dotty loves the rainforest. Can't you tell? This face is saying "why would you even think of cutting this down!"

biddy buddies

Dotty has boy cousins on the boy side and girl cousins on the girl side. These are her boy cousins. Her girl cousins live in Canada and so she hasn't met them yet, but by the looks of things she doesn't much mind.