The Kinley Calvin Fort.

Simple.
Just draped some extra cloth across my table & clipped the ends to some chairs and Voila! You've got yourself a fort. An ingenious creation to keep little babies busy for everrr!

Sorry for the poor quality. Phone picture, ya dig?

My Ladies Man.

So cute. SO CUTE!
My little Calvin giving Kinley a hug. Which eventually turned into just a one arm thing around her shoulders. They were both so hypnotized by Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.

Little cuties.

Handy Man

A Helping

Probably nothing gives Calvin more delight than going and "helping" his parents. He loves to steal my broom or rubber gloves while I clean, likes to put things in the garbage (even things that don't necessarily belong there) and most recently: 

"Helping" David shoot evil zombies... ? 

And as soon as these two Hang-Out Dudes have had their

fill of evil zombie shooting, they get together for a little chillaxin' time

by the TV (Note: This was David's early surprise Christmas present. 

I am the best wife, ever.)

More Flowers

Floral Disaster!

Check it.

This was my apartment from Wednesday afternoon to Friday morning. There was literally no way into kitchen type items (refrigerator, stove, microwave, sink, etc.). It was all pretty much off limits, which meant a lot of snacking throughout the day.
This also meant, not being able to go barefoot in my home for those days for fear of scary thorns,
barricading Calvin out of the aforementioned workspace with my couch cushions,
and my apartment being a huge grimy mess for a few days...

The wedding flowers turned out GORGEOUS.
Look at The Fleurist blog to see more pictures...

My kitchen area was taken over by flowers!

Much of the floor was also taken up by flower buckets... 

Click here to see the outcome!

For The Love of Elmo!

HILARIOUS.

Calvin has recently proven his knowledge of movie characters... Most recently recognition of one, Elmo the little red monster from Sesame Street. Heard of him?
Whilst in the middle of a giant flower MESS (from my most recent wedding flower job), I decided to distract Calvin with a little movie called "Elmo in Grouchland", which I love... don't judge. Calvin was glued to the screen, totally mesmerized by the little monsters dancing & singing. It went a little something like this:

Me: Calvin! Come on, lets go get Elmo! (Translation: "Lets go turn on the Elmo movie!")

Calvin: *runs away to his room and returns with his giant Elmo book and also brings his baby Tickle Me Elmo*

Me: *amazed that he actually knew what I was talking about*


I guess I was just surprised that he's gone from not knowing or caring about movie characters or tv characters at all, to knowing exactly who they are and his favorite songs, etc. He's like an actual PERSON now.. Whatever happened to my little tiny baby?!