Bogle Family Blog

Sunday, May 6, 2012

Shorts

At the end of the Dumbo DVD, it started to play some of the old Silly Symphonies shorts.

After the first one, Lily asked if we could now watch "pants."

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Happy Birthday, Daddy!

On April 16th, Michael celebrated his birthday with a few special gifts from his girls. First, a framed photo of an interview I completed with Lily regarding her daddy.

Her responses crack me up, so I think I might have to keep up this tradition and see how her answers change.

I also had the girls make him some footprint butterflies on a canvas (although I may steal this as my birthday present from my birthday back in March).

Finally, Lily made one of her famous mixed-media collages on a canvas. This girl LOVES glue, and after I bought a gallon from Amazon, she can finally squeeze to her heart’s content as she repeatedly reminds me, “you can’t say that’s too much glue, Mommy! You can’t tell me to stop now.”

And, of course, no Michael Bogle birthday is complete without pizza, so takeout from Pizza Hut topped off the evening.

Happy Birthday, Daddy!

Horsin’ Around

Today, we went up to Tryon, North Carolina to Lily’s friend Ana’s house for a pony ride! Lily has been so excited this week about going, and our hosts didn’t disappoint. Lily didn’t hesitate to brush the pony and feed the horse apples and carrots, while she waited for the time to ride a pony.

Ms. Jasmin recognized Lily’s eagerness, and Lily was second to ride. She didn’t hesitate for a second!

After everyone had gotten a chance to ride, Jasmin (Ana’s mom) had the horses do some jumping, interspersed with some playful galloping by the horses. Lily was enthralled.

On the way home, we discussed how Ms. Jasmin used to ride the horses when they jumped and galloped, and Lily said that maybe she could take lessons and learn to do that. She had so much fun!

Sunday, April 22, 2012

A visit with Memere

Last Sunday (4/15/12), the girls were able to spend some time with Memere (Michael’s maternal grandmother). I took a few pictures, and it seems I’ll have to pay better attention to the reflections next time because the ones where’s she looking right at the camera have a lot of glare on Memere’s glasses. The ones where she’s looking away have less glare, so I’ll post those, too.

Since it was time for Emma to eat, Memere got to give her a bottle, and quickly realized that Emma needed to be saved from her own flailing arms.

I’m so grateful to have gotten such a sweet picture of Memere with her great-grandbabies:

20 Weeks

I really need to re-crop all these pictures to take the phone out of it. One day, right?

The pictures of the two girls were hilarious this week. I don’t remember what happened, but this blurry one (where Emma looks like she’s about to launch into a sales pitch) was the best picture of the two of them.

Don’t believe me? Here are the out-takes, complete with strategic cropping since Lily apparently needs some lessons in how to sit in a skirt without showing off panties.

Lily talking to Emma mid-picture (and showing panties in original picture):

Emma trying to figure out Lily’s odd contortionist pose:

Cute pic of Lily, but Emma not looking:

Pirate-eyed Lily, Pouty Emma:

I have no idea: (but it cracks me up)

4/21/2012

As I told you before, Emma gets supplemental formula in addition to her nursings.

We have tried to wean her off some of the supplements since her growth chart looks like a vertical line at this point, but I feel I should mention that the only time our laid back baby is not quite so laid back is when you get between her and her food. It’s funny, because she’s not one to cry too much if she’s hungry and there isn’t food in front of her, but once she starts eating, you had better not try to stop her until she’s ready to pop. She pretty much starts sobbing if you take away her bottle before she has gorged herself to the point of leaking milk, so we’re not making much progress with cutting back. And who would want to see crying instead of this face?