Bentley turns 15 months!

Just enjoying his breakfast served to him in a truck:)

He's saying a lot of "dis", "der", and "dat" and pointing and everything. He's becoming more like his brother in the sleep department and sleeps and sleeps and sleeps! He loves to be tickled and is way more ticklish than his siblings.  He loves dancing(bopping up and down). We love how coordinated he is.  He's super careful when walking up and down stairs which is a huge relief.  We just love our little bear:)

The joys of having a big brother! Presto thought it would be funny to put some trucks in Bentley's hood

Loves the tupperwear drawer!

Baths with sissy

Can't wait for the summer...he's going to love the pool and the backyard.  He's obsessed with water!



Aww...sissy washing his back:)

Hi bear!

All clean!

Look at this sweet sweet face:)

Pictures of our Princess at 20 weeks!

She's a bashful one...not for long in this family!!!

This one is a bit blurred but I love her pose:)

Such a sweetie pie:)

Cannot figure out how to rotate this but her little nose and lips look just perfect!

Phia's drawing of the Tees kids

Phia drew this picture yesterday of herself and her siblings.  Per Phia: The purple picture is Phia(with pigtails), the red is Preston(awesome hair), the blue is Bentley, and the little brown girl(with a bow in her hair) is new baby sister.  So sweet! She's so excited to have a little sister.  Her and I talk about it at night when I put her to bed.  She always comes up with new ideas of how she can help.  "I know, we can get her pink and purple binkies and you can leave them with me and when she cries at night I can give her one".  Phia can "read" all of Pinkalicious and Purplicious(she "reads" them to her dolls after we say goodnight to her).  By "read" I mean...she's actually memorized every page of both books.  We realized she could do this around Halloween when she memorized an entire Halloween Disney book after having it read to her 2 or 3 times....amazing memory she has! Anyway, she plans on "reading" to her sister at night and singing her songs! So so precious.  This baby girl is so lucky to have Phia as her big sister!!!

Kids dreams...

Phia just started telling us about her dreams.  She remembers them now and they're awesome! Last night she dreamt she was at the beach with the "Yellow Wiggle"(Greg). She said he told her he liked her bathing suit then she jumped in the water and when she got to the bottom there was a shark.  She swam back up and told Greg that the shark ate Daddy:) WOAH!!
Along the same lines, Presto has been dreaming but he doesn't actually know he's dreaming.  Leyla told  us he woke up from his nap yesterday and asked her where the waffles were that Jen and Chad made him.  He was sure they'd made him waffles and brought them over.  She said he looked for the waffles all over the house when he got downstairs and then accused her of eating them!! Love it! As if they weren't amusing enough when they're awake, they're apparently very much enjoying themselves while sleeping:)

Gull Wing's Children's Museum

We've been wanting to check out this museum for a while but with all of us being sick for the past month there was no chance.  Finally we're all on the mend so since it was FREEZING cold this weekend the parks were out and we headed on out to the kiddie museum.  It's really small and not crowded(total plus for mama!!).  There was a giant bin of colored rice which the boys took to.  Bentley accidently got some on his face and combined with toddler drool it made for one giant red face! They had a little boat the kids could go on, a space ship, lots of dress up, and an art room.  It was fun for all.  We then headed out to a giant two story Toppers on the water.  We already love Toppers pizza so it was a perfect find.  It was such a perfect Saturday...we love finding new things for our family to enjoy together:) We're now planning our Spring Break vacation up there.  Phia asked if we could spend "Spring"(all of it) in a hotel we found up there.  The kids do love hotels!!

And B got the rice on his face...woopsie! His face was red for the rest of the day!

The kids loved the boat!

And of course Presto loved the train!

Blast off!!

The toddler area was perfect for bear

Phia brought her shopping cart into the spaceship!

Phia walking on the moon...

Purty Phia

Dress up!

So cute...Phia had a blast painting the palm fronds

Tada!

Presto's first day of school

Our big 3 year old!!

 PPresto has been talking about going to school for the past 6 months.  We knew he was READY!! WWe waited 'til he turned 3 and Mommy told him he had to learn his colors so he basically crash coursed himself and said "mommy I go to school now?".  He was soooo excited on his first day and already knew Miss Adele from when Phia was in that class last year.  The Mon/Wed/Fri class is perfect for him.  There's only 8 kids(9 with him) and 6 of them are boys!!! Phia kept saying "Presto I can't wait to see you on the playground"!! Room 1 and 2 play together but on the first day they didn't which confused them both(Monday's they both go to music class at different times so they don't play together) so Wed was the big day!!  They're currently learning the "Hail Mary", and the Pledge of Allegiance and by Friday Ms. Adele told us he was already sitting on his square during circle time(they say it's very normal to not early on and our Presto sure is full of ants in his pants so we're very proud he caught on so soon).  He's already talking about his sticker chart! When they get 5 stickers they get a trip to the "treasure box" so he's very much looking forward to that.  We're so happy he's adjusting so well...goooo Presto!!

He's so very excited to go to school with Phia! Note: We cannot cannot get Phia in pants(except for jeggings which are not included with her uniform.  It's been in the 30's and 40's in the am and Phia is still in a dress.  Thankfully she agrees to wear leggings...which apparently are the sister pants to jeggings...ha!)

Love you handsome boy!

This was our first day back to work after 2 weeks off...mommy and daddy don't look excited about it...but we were very excited to take Presto together to his first day of school!!!

The Tees two

Awww sibling love

We've arrived!!

Presto wanted to run in sooooo bad!!

Miss Adele trying to catch Presto so she could put his name tag on:)

He went right up to a little boy and started playing...that's our boy!!

And of course found the trucks asap

Proudest mommy ever!!(no chance Presto was going to look at the camera when there's trucks in sight!!)

New Year's Eve 2012

This picture pretty much sums it up!! Happy New Year!!!

 We spent New Year's Eve at Chad and Jen's.  The boys bbq'd and we were in bed by 10pm...my kind of New Year's Eve!! Jen's brother, wife, and daughter joined in the festivities and at 9pm we took the kids outside and popped poppers and of course made lots of noise! Kids had a blast and we didn't have to leave our neighborhood...perfection!!  Here's to 2013...

Presto and "twin baby" sharing the recliner

Dada at the bbq...it was FREEEEEZING!!!

Presto enjoying his cider:)

All the kiddies in one place...the noise makers and poppers we brought were a hit!!

Mama and bear.  He hardly had a nap but with all the excitement bear did really well!

Phia and Presto had a dance party

And bear got excited...he claps whenever he hears music:)

We rang in the New Year with Phia and Presto dancing for everyone to Gangnam Style.  Somehow the song isn't nearly annoying when our kiddies have mastered the moves

Outside for some loud fun

The Penrod's!

Phia enjoying her popper

I love Phia's face in this one

Bear was such a party animal

Happy New  Year bud!!

The poppers had jokes inside and Jen read them to Phia.  She said Phia is the best audience b/c she laughs at everything(she really does!!

Some of the poppers had prizes inside like Phia's little paper crown:)

There was a  parachute inside one of the poppers...Presto loved it!

And we rode off in the night on the kids new bikes!

New Year's Day morning...mommy had time with the kiddies in the morning before we took off for Austin!