It was a sad day in motherhood today. Esther has decided, with no warning to me, that she is done breastfeeding! She woke up this morning, crying as usual so I brought her in my bedroom to eat while I snoozed a bit more, only to hear her wail louder. Perplexed, I sat up and made sure she wasn't eating my camisole by mistake. She just looked at my like "what am I supposed to do with this?" It's like she totally forgot all those tender moments and all the snugly snugly times. She just wanted cows milk. I tried many other times today and she just bit me and laughed.
I didn't think that I would be hit so hard with this, but it's taking a while for it all to sink in. My friends say "you'll have others" and " what are you gonna breastfeed her 'til she's a teenager" and I laugh and say I know I know.... it's just the sad end of an era and it's my first taste of letting go.

"Eh eh ehhhhhhhhh!
Show Daddy your tongue!"

Toys exploding everywhere, pretzels stuck to bottoms of feet, and yummy food for Mommy's to eat.

Thats what happened at my apartment yesterday while we said a sad farewell to Susanna and Camden. They are probably on the plane to Croatia as I write this. They will be there another few months and then they come back . We miss you and will be praying for you!

Camden and Esther "sneakily" wait for us to find them standing on the treadmill.











Camden gives david's drum a try

The First Snow of the Season. Esther has never seen snow before because she was just weeks old when it snowed here. We went on a walk so that she could get introduced the right way.











..not too impressed here













A little interested here.." what keeps falling on my face?"
















Oooooh, this is cold and wet!

After a close examination, Esther discovers that Daddy really is different from Mommy.

Sunday best...
Of course she's playing with the phone and the remotes. It's the only way to get her to sit still










A charming close up!

Nakey Time!


















Esther practices combing her hair sometimes. It's very cute, although here she's combing her teeth.

Tuomas turns 1!
He got to play in his yummy cake and everything!

Esther explores on her own











So cute!

Esther and Tuomas discover that if they pull all the shopping bags out of the cabinet, they can crawl in there.












Here they're strategizing about the best way in.









Doesn't Tuomas look so tough here! he takes after his dad:) Esther is in the background making cute faces

Yea! Nikki and Mike had their baby today! Hope Nicole. She is very pink and healthy and cute!
















She gave me a little smile here (gas?)












Mike changes his first diaper ever!! Way to go Mike!:)

Mommy and Esther relaxing together

Little cutie-bug in her new coat!

We went on a family walk yesterday at Robert E. Lee park. It's a little park by our house that the light rail goes through. it's fun to watch the trains.


















Here's one going by now!!







Okay, back to the water!

If you look really closely at these pictures you can see tears rolling down her cheeks! Daddy wanted to get pictures of her during one of her crying spells.
Kinda mean, I know, but it's still so darn cute!

Esther takes a bath in the "big" bath tub now. Didn't Daddy do a great job with these shot??:)

















I like this arial view






splashing is so fun!!!