Why, it's Princess Jeweliana!

Halloween costume, check! Big foam tiara, check! Mommy's shoes, check!  What's this outfit missing?

Of course!  You can't be Princess Jewelianana without your sparkly rainbow ball!  (If you have no idea what I'm talking about, read this.)

Miss Independent demonstrates her hand washing abilities.

Reaching that sink handle is all about the upper body strength.

Hey look!  It's Aunty Suz!

Oooh, wait a minute!  It's just Madam wearing Suz's shirt, shoes, and glasses.  My bad.

Look over there!

Over there!  The monkeys!

Yeah, I know I'm cute in these glasses, but I'm trying to show you something, Mommy!

Gasp!  It's the elusive Mr. Matt!  We meet at last.

He's ok by me - he helped Jaynie feed the sheep.

I have a farm-animal-phobia that prohibits me from helping feed sheep, goats, horses, whatever.  Eww.

Jaynie loves it though.

Look at that face!

This was hysterical - she was opening her mouth reaaaaally wide as if to encourage the sheep to do the same.

What a cute farmer!

She feeds the cows, waters the flowers...  she's so handy to have around.

Look at this poor tortured baby.  "I DON'T WANT TO BE A FARMER!"

What about yarn stretched over two chairs says "Princess Palace" I do not know.

But when she saw it there she got all excited and ran for her crown.

Also she ran for Princess Minnie.  "She can sit in my palace with me!"  So cute.

Here we have the "You've been here a week but we didn't take hardly any picture so now in the last 15 minutes before you leave for the airport let me take 300" pics.

I wish I could remember what Matt was saying off camera to have Suz giving him that look.  (How adorable is the Twink in this one?)

What's a lion say?  (Answer: RWOAR!)

Woo!  Hhhhot girls on the porch!

RWOAR!  (Why do you refuse to make the lion face, Suz?  It makes for such cute pictures!)

Ah - the traditional lay on the floor pictures.

Jaynie looks absolutely thrilled to be participating in them once again.

RWOAR!  (Better, Suz.)

Tongue out.

Crinkle-nose face!  (Why does Jaynie look adorable like this and I look like some kind of demon?  Just focus on the cute kid, thanks.)  (Also - Matt - we must work on your crinkle nose.  I don't know what's going on up there but I run a family website here.)

Grandma's here!  Yay! (Whoa. Look at those ears.)

What was that, Mommy?  You said something about my perfectly adorable ears?

You're right, kiddo.  All of you is perfectly adorable.

You too, gorgeous.

Heee!  That's what I thought!

Hey Buddy!  Whatcha doing there?

Ooh! You're swinging!

Well - watching your sister swinging, at least.

Hey - now that I've got your attention, is that sun bothering you?

Cause I have this hat that Jaynie made if you want it.

Oh don't give me that look - it's keeping the sun out of your eyes, isn't it?

C'mon!  Stop glaring at me.  It's cute!  Trust me!

Plus, I promise not to put these pictures on the internet. So you don't have to worry about anything.

Ha!  Whatever Mommy!  You're probably thinking up captions in your head right now!

Two kids on swings = twice the cuteness.

Oy - speaking of twice as cute!

This slide was having serious static electricity effects on her hair.

I was laughing so hard it's amazing I got a clear shot of it.

My little Muffin Man.

Yes - he is every bit as delicious as he looks.

More sliding!

Yay!

How did this kid get so freaking big?

You're not going to turn into a big kid, right baby?  You're just going to stay little and sweet forever?

Of course, Mommy!  (Look at that sweet innocent face!  He's so yummy!)

Hey!  Up here!

Enough of the taking pictures already!

Time to PLAY!

Um, Jaynie?  I think you may have those on upside-down.

(I can't think of anything witty right now, I'm laughing so hard I just snorted.)

I tried to tell her, Mommy.  But would she listen?

Obviously, the most comfortable way to travel by wagon.

Two cute kids at the zoo. (Notice Madam's official Zoo Outfit. "I will wear my giraffe shirt and giraffe pants and I will say to the giraffe 'Hey!  Look at my shirt!', okay Mommy?")

Happy baby pictures!

I love the happy baby pictures!

Look at this kid! Who knew the zoo would put him in such a good mood?

You know, when I took this picture I was impressed by the thigh chub.  Now, 3 weeks later as I type this, he looks positively scrawny.  He's really chunked up recently.

Aw - just when you thought these couldn't get any cuter, he gets his toes in the frame.

Snuggle bunnies in Mommy's bed.

Good morning, sunshine!

Yeah - that would be the lion face again.

Jonas thinks she's great.

And here, we have proof that she thinks he's great, too.  Look at that adoring look she's giving him!  Melt my heart.

Daddy is home at last.

And bogarting all my morning snuggles.

The story goes like this - Joe and Jaynie are playing in her room.  He's reading her a book or something (probably, if I know him, he was cleaning.  organizing her socks or something equally insane.), and she was drawing on her aquadoodle.  She gets his attention and tells him she's drawn a cow.  He looks from the picture to her cow to the picture, then comes running out to get the camera.  By the time he finds it the thing has started to dry and doesn't look as much like the cow anymore, but he still took the picture. You can see the circle for the nose w/ two little slashes for nostrils, you can see something that looks like the ear, and you can see something on the right there that looks like the little hoof.  Joe swears it was even more recognizable before it started disappearing.  I think it was worth A) taking the picture of and B) posting it here.

Aaaaaugh.

He's so freaking cute, I cannot stand it.

Look at him!

Have you ever seen such cuteness?

He babbles.

He eats his shirt.

He looks at me like I'm insane.

He flashes chubby armpit - begging for chomps.

He laughs out loud when you chomp him.

He's perfect.

Ack - even cuter.

Pictures that include his little feet!

Look at those feet!  I may have to risk waking him to go kiss them right now!

I love this kid so much.

Ooh - just when you thought you could go on taking pictures for the rest of the day.

Things start to wind down.

It takes a lot of energy being so smoochable.

Time to recharge.  Goodnight.