Beloved Snowman

They clean up nicely, but are good fighters too

Israel and Cora have a pretty special relationship. If she does anything (like getting her nails painted yesterday), she immediately wants to show Daddy.

OH MY. Pretty sharp, as Quinn likes to say. He asked if he could sleep in his tie a few nights ago, but I had to deny that request.

Quinn was practicing some pretty impressive moves and skills in this photo series.

4+1= bigger Groveman family!

There is a fifth person in this photo, but we didn't know that yet. We are very excited about Baby #3 coming in July! I wasn't feeling "on top of my game" during the first trimester, so the blog was not top priority unfortunately.

Quinn and Cora are very excited about the new baby and I know they are going to be a big help. Cora LOVES her baby dolls, and will have a living, breathing, baby doll soon enough. Oh my. So... yeh! 3 kids 4 and under? yessiree.

I am still here

We have been having some computer problems with the laptop I typically use, hence, the silence on my blog lately. But I do have plenty of photos to put up from our vacation and afterwards. So please be patient with me!

To help you with your waiting, you can check out some of the 27 little videos I put up on YouTube. I am dumping the videos from my phone onto YouTube so that people can actually see them, and they won't just be trapped on my phone forever. Most of them are quite old, but they are pretty cute!

The ones of Quinn reading are pretty old (6 months ago or more?). You should see him now! His little brain has really caught on to sounding out letters in words and he can sound out words very quickly now. He enjoys it so much so that he asks to read more paragraphs even when we are done.

Please stay tuned for photos coming soon!

open house at firehouse

I just can't get enough of these little ones. Quinn is getting taller and slimmer, and Cora is just proud to be walking and running everywhere. I was really looking forward to the Open House at the Germantown Firehouse because we went last year and had such a good time.

I just love Cora's little legs in this shot. I just want to kiss them, but this is a common response.

I like this little sequence of Cora as it looks like she's doing cute little dance moves.

Quinn was very serious about getting into the fireman's suit and shooting the fire hose. He was the most handsome fireman there. =)

preview of precious

I am going to miss my "littles" tomorrow as I shoot a wedding with Israel all day. I am so glad that they have each other. Here is a preview from our beach trip. I know every girl is jealous of Cora's Barbie sunglasses.

we have FISH

We have a couple of freshwater aquariums now, and we've really enjoyed it. The children love looking at them and seeing where they are hiding out at times. They are our first pets since being married. How funny is that?

We have 2 Silver Dollars, 2 Ghost Catfish,

Betta,

and 2 Dalmation Mollies in the main tank.

We have 8 fish, with 7 tropicals in one 29 gallon tank, and 1 fancy black goldfish (with the buggy eyes) in a 15 gallon tank in Israel's office. We'd like to add some more soon. The Betta is Quinn's favorite and he loves to tell me when he's swimming into the coliseum. The 2 Silver Dollars are my favorite as they are a brother species to the Piranha. How cool! I'd like to get some Bala Sharks in there too. I tend to go for the sinister, predatory fish for some reason.