Here are my guys wear­ing their vests. This was our night of prac­tice for our fam­ily photos.

Now that K is three, I see some big changes com­ing. First, I’ve noticed that he’s becom­ing a preschooler and no longer a tod­dler right before my eyes. He puts his own shoes on when he wants to. He is start­ing to use the potty. He has great con­ver­sa­tional skills. He has a great imag­i­na­tion. He is drop­ping his nap. He is telling us that he wants to start wear­ing under­wear and using the potty. It doesn’t seem real that he could go from such a tiny baby to this lit­tle boy. It is amaz­ing and a lit­tle sad all at the same time.

A is grow­ing up, too. I know it has to hap­pen, but at the same time I’m not quite ready. A is walk­ing. He’s danc­ing. He also pushes cars and makes a car-like noise. He is also slim­ming out. When I look at pic­tures of him from his birth­day in July and now, I can see how he’s grow­ing and look­ing more and more like K and Jason. If it weren’t for his blonde (WHERE DID HE GET THIS???) hair, I think he’d look almost exactly like Jason and K. As it is, I reg­u­larly get com­ments about the resem­blance between the three of them. Luck­ily, I was the con­tainer that car­ried both K and A, so I can get at least that much credit.

I’ve always heard peo­ple say the same sorts of things about lit­tle kids. “Enjoy them when they’re small.” “They grow so fast.” “Before you know it they’ll be… (going off to school, dri­ving, get­ting mar­ried, you name it).” Recently, I’ve been think­ing about another say­ing. “The days may go slow, but the years go fast.”

And, because I’ve been over­load­ing with pic­tures lately, here are a few more.

Baby K

K with his lego tower

Baby A

A eat­ing a caramel apple

that Inter­na­tional Baby­wear­ing Week is Novem­ber 12–18? I didn’t know that until today.

One of the blogs that I reg­u­larly read is Adven­tures in Baby­wear­ing. In honor of Baby­wear­ing Week, Steph posted a give­away. She is giv­ing away a Pop Nest Sling or a Spar­row Hatch­ling Sling from Nonny & Boo.

If you are inter­ested in win­ning, click on over to her site, and sign up on the Mr. Linky with some baby wear­ing pic­tures or some thoughts about baby­wear­ing if you don’t have any pic­tures. Here are some of my pic­tures. Happy Baby­wear­ing Week!

In Line to See Obama in April

A in the Kozy

K wear­ing Baby Ellie

Spaghetti was one of the first whole foods that both boys enjoyed dig­ging into. We stripped them down to their dia­pers and let them make as big a mess as they wanted — some­thing they both took advan­tage of.

Here are pic­tures of K from nearly two years ago and A from just last month, both enjoy­ing their first spaghetti dinner.

5MinutesForMom is hav­ing a sleep­ing angel con­test. They are giv­ing away a South Shore Children’s Bed­room Set from Home & Bed­room Fur­ni­ture. They are ask­ing peo­ple to post pic­tures of their sleep­ing babies, and the win­ner will have their choice of either the Lily Rose or the Sum­mer Breeze set. I would def­i­nitely choose Sum­mer Breeze if I were to win.

So, here is the pic­ture. It’s adorable, and it’s one of my favorites. We were at Jason’s par­ents’ house one day this sum­mer. I ran a few errands, and when I came back, I walked in the front door and saw this…

My Sleep­ing Angels

I decided after try­ing all those lip­sticks that I should prob­a­bly post a pic­ture of my nor­mal lip­stick. I think that when you see it, you’ll agree it looks fine. It’s noth­ing super obvi­ous or flashy. it’s fine. That’s my prob­lem with it, though. It’s just fine. I want some­thing a lit­tle dif­fer­ent and more excit­ing. Maybe rais­in­berry is it. I’ll have to think about it.

My usual look

Bet­ter late than never, right?

Yuck, yuck, yuck. Let’s just say that I couldn’t find a way to make this color work for me. I didn’t wear it out of the house. Lip gloss just didn’t do it. It was very obvi­ously not me.

Pink Melon

Today’s lip­stick is okay. I don’t feel like it’s the right shade for me, but I’m not ashamed to be seen wear­ing it either, so I guess that’s okay, too. I would not buy it for myself though. Oh, I for­got to add that I chose this color because my blush from Merle Nor­mal is called Dusty Rose, so I thought they might go well together. I don’t think they do though.

Dusty Rose

This is my favorite so far. It’s not quite the right shade, but it’s fun, dif­fer­ent, and oh-so-close! I think I might need to explore some of the col­ors that are like this one but just a lit­tle different.

Rais­in­berry