My Leetle Arteests

I love to see careful Shelby crafting her picture in her satiny pink pjs and Wyatt going free-for-all and looking like he might be tinkling in the paint cup.*

*This picture is deceiving. 

I, actually, hate kid paint. 

As far as I am concerned, it's a walking time-bomb at this age. I am too busy to fight that battle clean up battle so it only comes out 2-3 times a year.

First Day!

Mark the year folks: 2012

It is the year the public school system welcomes one special, curly-haired girl to it's numbers.

Being her first day, her dress was chosen with great care.

"Mah signature culah is pink."(name that movie)

(I actually had to heavily edit the pictures. We took so many we could have created a flip book starting with Shelby walking out the front door to her arrival at her Kinder class.)***

Nothing says "Welcome to Kindergarten" like a lump o' playdough. 

(Please observe that the teacher gave her a piece of PINK paper beneath her PURPLE playdough. An auspicious beginning indeed!)

Look! I'm being smothered by a small horde of blonde children!

And lovin' it!

***So, you might be wondering, "What's with the hands in all the pictures?" 

Excellent question. 

About six months ago she took her first visit to a magical place called Disneyland. When she arrived home, we began to notice a theme that seemed to crop up in

EVERY

SINGLE

PICTURE.

The hubby and I were at a complete loss until Disneyland pictures started rolling in. 

See below:

Hmmm...I believe we have solved the mystery of the weird picture hands.

Case closed.

Not to be left out, Wyatt begins his first day of the 3's class in preschool.

And Walker....

well...

I think the new schedule is wearing him out.

Daddy's in charge on Saturday...

Therefore, donuts with special sprinkles

 and comics.

The good life.

Hazards of marrying a vet

So with all this new technology, Seth's photos automatically load to our home computer. Normally, this would be convenient, however, I have also set up our screen saver as a montage of our pictures. See below:

la de da sweet Christmas photo...

 awww...

 1st Halloween...

ha ha silly kids...

SHA-BAM!!!

Unexpected blood and guts slipped in between photos of our sweet kiddos! 

This is truthfully one of the tamer ones (I was trying to look out for any potential blog readers who actually might  want to eat later). We have horrific mouth tumors, intestines, infected wounds and on and on. Just gird your loins if you are ever flipping through our pictures or watching a montage on our computer screen. 

Yep, this is our reality. 

Safe to say our kids probably won't be overly squeamish.