Portrait Pics and Proud (sort of) Mommy Moment

First let me clarify that the portrait pics and proud mommy moment are not at all related. Couldn't be farther from the truth. Actually pictures today was one of my LEAST proud mommy moments as all three of my kids could not find it in them to sit like good little children while I was trying to select photos-- all three had major tantrums. Fun.

Here are a few of the pics (note, these are the UNTOUCHED ones... the ones we ended up with look a lot better)-- I will post the outtakes at another date... good stuff.






Proud mommy moment--
I have been working really hard with Nico on his speech lately. We do language activities for about an hour each weekday and I am starting to really see some improvement. He's starting to speak in complete sentences with correct word order. Yesterday I was so incredibly proud of him when he spontaneously used TWO whole sentences correctly AND pronounced EACH word of both sentences correctly.

I was proud enough that I didn't even correct him for what he said...
"Move it Josiah! Get out of my way!"