Say Cheese! And other happy faces!

Never a fan of the stoic-faced pictures of olden times where families stand posing, starched and expressionless, I love to pull faces in pictures.

I never realized the hereditary nature of the habit though - until the Little Holdens started posing for pictures!!



Lucy seems to be making it an art form...






















And no prizes for guessing which sister she gets it from!










Of course most people would say that they get it from me but then I had to have got it from somewhere....



...it looks like Grandad is doing his best to ensure that the next generation will continue smiling. Come on Joshua - say "Cheese!"

Baths, Beaches and Little Bro'

So here are the three amigos!
And it's bathtime for the bonzos. The little ladies of course love splashing around and being mermaids in the water - but some of them take this water thing a little too far...



...take for instance little sister Lucy who, noticing mummy had left the bath for a moment, decided she just was not going to wait for any silly old tradition of taking clothes off before enjoying bathtime!



...and Ella seeing the water at the beach, just couldn't resist plunging in to cool herself down and avoid getting too red in the summer sun...


...but mummy and Lucy were careful to go to the beach already red!




Meanwhile Joshua is loving the lifestyle.. I mean who wouldn't when you have doting sisters like he has!

Yeah! It's cool being a little bro'!

love you all,

the little holdens
xoxox

Ella's Brand of "CUTE"

We have the cutest kids but I never dreamed that cute could come in so many different forms. Mackenzie loves making cards. She will draw rainbows and flowers and butterflies and make hearts and she loves using this to practice her writing by usually signing them "Mummy I love you from Mackenzie". When she plays she is always the princess - Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Belle. It is very cute.
Ella is a different kind of cute. She loves being the bad wolf and the bad witch. And while I say this you need not worry that she is laboring under some dark psychological trauma - she just loves being the mischievous one! Well I think she noticed Mackenzie got lots of kisses and "thank you's" when she drew pictures for us so the other night Ella decided to draw daddy a picture. She came into the room very proudly and gave me the picture.
"Here wu gwo Dada" She said.

"Wow Thanks Ella..tell me all about it" I asked, "What is it?"
She cocked her head and looked puzzled that I would ask and then said "It's a stworm cwoud Dada!"
Like, Duh! lol
It's not flowers or rainbows or princesses or hearts but it is Ella's very own brand of CUTE!

First of spring.

We went to the park today across from the house. We played races in the snow. The snow was still very deep. We had a lot of fun and we made pink snow and we ate popsicles. And we splashed in puddles. Lucy also prayed with her arms folded.