Weekend snaps

We celebrated my niece's 2nd birthday this past weekend. Despites colds and bad weather we had fun. My sister did a great job of keeping the kids entertained with crafts. Who knew she was Martha Stewart! See pumpkin cake above...

Isaac with the birthday hat on. Maren decided to make her own hat.

Whenever they are together, they also like to play and jump in the crib. Who knows why!

A simple game is balloons. They had so much fun throwing, sitting on and kicking them around.

Another craft--cut out butterflies and decorating with colored stickers. Isaac is in deep thought in this picture.

Isaac did a great job when Maren opened her presents. He sat quietly next to her. Maren was nice and gave him the bows and wrapping paper as she unwrapped them.

Happy 2nd birthday, Maren! We love you!

Like father like son

When Isaac sits on the couch now, he sits with a 'cuddle pillow' just like his daddy!

Go Colts!

Ah!

I have to post this. I'm sure there are some out there that disagree but oh well...

Supplementing babies' formula with DHA boosts cognitive development
"Research has shown that children who were breast fed as infants have superior cognitive skills compared to those fed infant formula, and it's thought that this is due to an essential fatty acid in breast milk called docosahexaenoic acid (DHA). Now a new study has found that babies fed formula supplemented with DHA have higher cognitive skills than babies fed regular formula."

I know, I know...I'm sure there are loop holes in the research but it's coming from a well known journal and it's a start. It gives something for those mom's who want/wanted to breastfeed but couldn't, feel and sometimes treated that they are evil for given their babies formula. I was one of them. I gave Isaac formula because I had to and has slowly got over feeling guilty about it.