Love on the Bum: 2012

So most of my posts start off this way...it has been way too long! Almost a year kind of long...even longer I am sure since a proper post; but what can you do when you are a mother to two kids who are about a year apart...blame them ;)

The past year has been a crazy one, full of running after babies/toddlers, continuing work on one business and then buying another. If anything this past year ahs taught me is that I need to start asking for help more and accepting that I need the help. Raising two kids so close together while living away from family can seem so daunting sometimes, but thankfully family is only an hour away and are always willing to help, which certainly makes my life easier.

Isabelle is growing by leaps and bounds all the time. Almost every time we have a conversation I am in awe that this is the same little baby I held in my hands and nursed and loved and still love. She loves making up her own songs and dancing away and at times being nice and playing with her sister, which is such a wonderful sight to see. She has a very loving, polite side but can be a little firecracker when she to be.

Charlotte has gone from a crawling baby, to a walking toddler within the past year. She was late walking (around 20 months), we think it may be from being extremely flat footed though, so we will see how that wil play out over the next year and reevaluate around her 3rd Birthday. She is such a cuddly little girl, who can have so much energy and loves exploring the world around her. It is adorable to see her want to copy and be like Isabelle; hopefully they will grow up to be the best of friends.

I miss blogging...a lot, it is something I keep telling myself I need to do, because it is nice to look back and see some of the things we have done. It is a need more so too lately because I find it is nice to just write things down and either get thoughts out of my head, or even just another way to be creative, without pullin gout all the craft supplies and making a mess that needs to be cleaned :P. Sometimes I wonder if putting all this stuff out there in the world for everyone to see is a good thing or not, but then realize that this is sometimes such a great way to put words down and let friends and family know what is new in our lives. It is really just great therapy :)

Anyway hopefully this will some what make up for the lack of blogging lately. My hope is to do it more often, I won't make promises as to how frequently, but we'll see how things go :)

Here are a few recent-ish (yeah I totally just made up a word :P) pictures (from the past year)!

Enjoy!