The Strausses

Friday, March 27, 2009

Playing Around

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood

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Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Jealous or Not... That is the Question??

Poor little Ashley. She is my beautiful little angel. But her little brother has been getting all the glory lately. She is handling it quite well... until....the other day. We were walking in to Starbucks and the person holding the door for us bent down in the stroller and said, "what beautiful eyes your baby has" then the lady at the counter said it too. She then got the barrista to come over and look at his "baby blues." On our way out, two ladies stopped and said "wow, what beautiful eyes your baby has." This happens pretty often. But this particular day it felt like everyone was stopping to say something. In fact, it happens so often that when Ashley talks to her baby she says, "you have beautiful eyes." Anyway, back to the story. We left Starbucks and walked over to the grocery store and on the way in WE HEARD IT AGAIN! My heart was melting for Ashley. Not one person acknowledged her. So while we were standing at the deli counter Ashley looked up at me and said, "mommy Ashy has beautiful eyes." As we are pulling away from the deli and about to check out. I was so afraid to hear it again. But instead we heard something else. "MAAM YOUR DAUGHTER STUFFED HER SOCKS IN YOUR SONS MOUTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Hahaahahah... not to laugh because poor Aidan was sitting there stunned. Was that jealousy or just boredom?????

Friday, March 20, 2009

Getting smarter every minute

This morning Ashley came in the room and said, "where's daddy?" I said that he is at work and she said, "no mommy he is in CAGO." Yes, she is right that daddy is in Chicago. Then why did she even ask me?????? She then came up on the bed with me and laid down on daddy's pillow. I was snuggling with her and she said, "no mommy, head off of daddy's pillow... MINES... MY DADDY!!!

Future Barista!!

Yeseterday Ashley, Aidan and I were taking a walk. We ended up at the swimming pool across the street. Ashley was looking at the empty pool and kept saying that she wanted to get a swimsoup(my favorite word of hers) for the summer. Then she spots the bike racks and goes over to them. She steps behind one of them and says, "mommy, I am Starbuck do you want a SOY-TEY or CAF-MOHA. I said, "sure!!" She then looked at me and said, "swipe your card mommy." And so we played the same game over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over. Even Aidan fell asleep in the bjorn as we went back and forth swiping the fake card and blowing on the hots drinks. SO FUN!!!

Monday, March 16, 2009

Ashley's 2nd Birthday

Our little girl turned 2 this past week. Unbelievable how fast 2 years has gone. We went up to New York two weekends ago to spend some time with my family. This past weekend we had a party at our house. Here are some pictures from both weekends.