shenanigans with sam, libby & karis...

now that the kid is older and plays a lot more, we thought a video might better explain what we live with these days... you'll notice that our only appearance in the whole 2 minutes and 38 seconds of this is the barking from sam...

in other news, duke beat carolina last week. if you don't live in north carolina, you might not understand the immense importance of this. our family is rather divided when it comes to acc basketball: meg's mom went to & taught at carolina; brett went to both carolina & duke; meg's brother, treat went to state... and meg went to appalachian, but they suck at basketball...and it's really cold there, so we don't really care about that. but we digress.

to acknowledge the rivalry, karis decided to sport her daddy's duke hat, even though it should go for the record that neither we nor meg & brett encourage her cheering for duke.


meanwhile, karis is going to bsf with meg on thursdays (aka just another reason to leave us alone at home). this week, karis got dressed up for bsf (meg just went in a tshirt and jeans) and so meg decided to do a photo shoot when we got home. it was actually pretty cute:

...and we were even allowed to have a cameo in it...

welp... that's about all... off to play with karis and hope that she spits up on these toys and drops them so we can eat them up...

{p.s. happy day-after valentine's day! may you know the "never stopping, never giving up, unbreaking, always and forever love of God!" (as the Jesus Storybook Bible says... :))}

too much cuteness.

okay, she steals all our attention, but seriously. how AH-DORABLE is this little gal?

well anyway, it's been a heck of a past few weeks. karis is up to all sorts of new and exciting things that constantly take meg & brett's attention away from us.... one of which is sitting in this new fangled thing called a "bumbo seat," which i just had to check out:

{karis likes it just a teeeeeeny little bit}

the best part of the bumbo seat is that karis spits up all over it and it's easy to lick up on there. man i love me some good ol' fashioned baby spit up. mmm mmm good.

last thursday, they locked us up in the house the whole day while meg took the kid to BSF and then afterward, they went to hannah & piper's house for karis' first "official" play date with canaan and piper, her new BSF buddies. she enjoyed a head scratch from canaan and piper rolling over on her during the photo shoot so much!

{canaan 2 months; karis 4 months; piper 6 months}

and then there was the day when we got out our favorite new quilt from jess (whose sister, jill, took the great pictures of karis when she was itty biiiiitty...as in 2.5 weeks old...}, while wearing leg warmers from jenny {who also made karis the best onesies ever when she was a little tyke}, and enjoying the SUNSHINE from the front door... something we haven't seen much this winter!

these two pictures describe the three of us kids well... i like to bug karis by sniffing her and licking her and laying beside her...

....and sam could care less. he's missing out on a fascinating little human! {and let's be honest, adorable, too.}