2 Cutie Pies

Our 2 sweet little angels :) Are they not the cutest things you've ever seen?
Cara looks suspiciously happy to be sitting so close to Gwen and Gwen appears to have her fist ready to punch someone.

Gwen got all dressed up in a dress...had to get her in it before she outgrew it!
She looks a bit like Little Miss Muffet here with a spider dropping down beside her.

Gwen is Super-Baby!
Cara got a big kick out of seeing Gwen flying.

Cara is serious about eating all of her fruit salad!

Cara is also good at a nose scrunch.

Gwen being adorable.

Pretty in her pink dress.

Getting Eskimo kisses from Daddy :)

2 Growing Byrne Girls

Gwen - 14 weeks old.
She can laugh and giggle, hold her hands together, hold and reach for toys. She's trying to roll a bit and she can sit in her bumbo seat!

Speaking of rolls...she has got some rolls! Notice the wrist rolls and ankle rolls! Her rolly-ness makes her very cuddly!

Cara has been showing Gwen how to do things. Like sitting in a chair and holding hands.

And how to shake a rattle!

Little sister "looking up" to her big sister :)

So adorable!

Cara is such a little girl. She likes her cereal in a bowl with milk just like Daddy.

Daddy was trying to have a nap on the couch so Cara brought him a toy to snuggle and then dressed him up like a "clown".

We started making tents with the couch cushions and our couch might never be used in the usual way again! Cara has so much fun! And her hair does fun things too :)

So happy and static-y!

Gwen is so good at napping through a lot of the noise.

Happy Valentine's Day!

Gwen's first Valentine's Day - she is our little cupid :)

Cara loves any day that she gets candy!

Cara and Daddy finished their last class of this semester of swimming lessons on Saturday. Cara passed and was very proud of her accomplishment. Just like we are very proud of her!

Gwen had her 3 month check-up with the doctor on Friday. She weighed in at 16lbs! Up 2 pounds from just a month ago! She measured 59.5 cm. She is a very healthy and happy little girl :) She continues to sleep very well at night and is grasping at her toys. She is also laughing alot!

Mummy reading to her girls :)

Cara and Daddy building a snowman! Not much sticky snow around so it was a baby snowman. Cara kept telling us to "shhh" because the baby snowman was sleeping outside! Hopefully we'll get some good snowman snow in the spring and make a really big snowman with her.

Cara and her baby snowman!

This is a first for Cara. Falling asleep on the couch watching TV.
We're all getting a cold and it hit Cara first, poor girl.

Cara's pigtails!

Groundhog Day!

We were outside to play in the snow alot this week. Gwen doesn't like the wind so she snuggles in the front carrier with me and Cara rolls around in the snow...careful to avoid the yellow snow.

Balzac Billy (Alberta's "groundhog" - really a guy in a costume) saw his shadow so look for at least 6 more weeks of wintery pictures from us!

Peek-a-boo!

Gwen is sleeping very well for us. Napping in the swing and sleeping in her crib with usually only one wake up!

Gwen eying Daddy's pizza.

Cara loves Friday-night-pizza-night! This week was Hawaiian :)

We finally got some hair accesories for Cara's goldi-locks. She is showing off her barrettes here (and she has a ponytail too!) Looks so grown up!

Gwen and her Bear-Bear (thanks Caleb and Lucas!) They are almost the same size!

Cara and Violet (thanks Caleb and Lucas!) She really loves her!

A fun wintery week!

Finally some warmer weather (thanks to a chinook that gave us a record breaking +13 one day!) and time to play in the snow making snow angels! Cara was out in the snow alot this week building snowmen and getting wet with the melting snow. Thanks to Nana for getting this great shot!

We spent a day at Nana's house and Cara played with...you guessed it: puzzles!

The best news this week was the arrival of Cara's and Gwen's newest cousin!
Baby Eamon Joseph Anderson was born on January 24 weighing 8lb 11oz!
Welcome to the family Eamon!
(Cara refers to him as her new little brother-cousin)

Gwen Rebekah - 11 weeks
She rolled herself to her side! She rolled to her side, by herself and stayed there for a few minutes. She's only done it the one time but pretty soon she'll be flipping over and over and over!

We tried Gwen out in the Bumbo chair and she was ok for a few minutes...her neck isn't quite strong enough yet for extended sitting times. She is a happy girl though, smiling at her Husky!

It was a nice week until the weekend and that brought a terrible, cold, blowy, snowy, blizzardy mess. We had a snowfall warning from Friday - Sunday morning and a dump of snow. And it is followed by some very cold tempuratures again....-33!
Daddy and Cara made it to swimming class on Saturday though! Cara is getting braver every week and put her whole face in the water this week.

Gwen thought the best place to be was in front of the cozy, warm fireplace :)

Sisters! Gwen can't keep her eyes off Cara!

Baby in a bucket :)
We aren't torturing her, she wasn't crying until the camera came out! She was rescued right away!

Then Cara had a turn with the bucket.

Cara is getting to be a great little helper. She sets the table almost every day for lunch and supper. She loves this chore!

Nana and two of her grand-girls :)

A Warmer Week

Sleepy Gwen had another good week. She now sleeping in her own room for the whole night and usually only gets up once for something to eat then back to sleep until 830 or 930. Now we're working on getting her to go to sleep for the night before midnight!

Our friends Rebecca and Leah came over for a playdate this week. Cara and Leah had such a good time together. They were making each other giggle and sharing really well. And of course Rebecca read them some stories!

Gwen 10 weeks old.
Gwen discovered her hands this week and has started staring at them with amazement.

Cara being gorgeous!

Lots of smiles and some giggles from Gwen!

Cara enjoys spaghetti night...A LOT!

Who wore it better???
Left: Cara at 2 months old. Right: Gwen at 2.5 months old.
Gwen fills the outfit out better but who looks cuter in it? How does one decide??

It finally warmed up to reasonable temps this week so Daddy and Cara went for some fresh air and snow time.

Cara and her tiger reading stories.

Cara is amazing at puzzles, really amazing. We picked this puzzle up on Wednesday and by Friday she was doing it by herself so we shot this video so you can all see how awesome she is at it...we sped it up too so it isn't too long! A 25 piece puzzle is no problem for Cara - she'll be doing 1000 pieces in a month or so ;)