Guest Posters?

This is the last call for anyone interested in doing a guest post for me in two weeks { starting next Friday } while we are enjoying some sun and having piggy-toes in the sand...

If you would like to do one please don't hesitate to ask!

:)

Emily: You are SIX Months Old!

Thursday, July 26, 2012 - 6 months old

{ Stats }

Weight: Probably around 18 pounds, dr. appt Wednesday and we will know for sure!

Height: 26 inches

Brown Hair

Brown Eyes

 Size 3 Diapers

6 Month, 6-9 Month and 9 Month Clothes

Size 1 Shoe

{ Sleep }

Sleeps in her new big girl crib in her room (thank you Grammy and Grandpa!).

Sleeps from 8pm-8am! :)

Started sleeping through the night after three CIO nights about 2 weeks ago! Way to go big girl!


Sleeps on her tummy; goes to sleep on her back but always is sleeping on tummy!

Takes 2 naps - 15 min nap at 10:30am and naps from 12:30PM to 4:00PM, sometimes longer! :)

{ Food }

Drinking Similac Sensitive

8 ounce bottle at 8:30am
3.5 ounce of a veggie at 11:00am

8 ounce bottle at 12:30pm
 Has about 1 cup of Gerber Banana Oatmeal Cereal with 4 ounces of formula at 5pm (takes 5 to 10 minutes to eat!)

8 ounce Bottle at 8pm

I didn't give her any veggie or fruit until Thursday, July 26th. She had peas and ate the entire container. Today she had green beans and once again ate it all!


I also have started giving her water during her two meals and she loves it!

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Rolls over all the time.

Loves to play on floor mat or be in exersaucer.

Loves to giggle and laugh! 

Loves bath time. Loves to kick and splash and read her bath books.

Everyone says how happy she is!

Loves to smile and blow raspberries.

Such an easy-going baby!

Loves to watch her sisters.
"Talks" all of the time.
Has great head control.
"Swims" all over her bed!
Loves to stare at the TV now!
Starting to scoot and back-up!
Loves her feet and to chew on her fingers!
Is constantly drooling!
Loves her binki, pink lovie and her bed toys, which include her glow octopus!

We love our little Emmy-Lou! She is such a blessing to our family!


Just for fun..here are the girls at 6 Months.

Madelynn, Claire and Natalee: 19 Months!

Tuesday, July 23, 2012 - 19 Months


Holy cow...we are now closer to TWO than ONE! How does that happen!? I swear it's so true what they say....time does fly!

{ Stats }

Madelynn: 22 lbs

Claire: 22 lbs

Natalee: 18 lbs 10 oz

Size 4 shoe

Size 4 diaper

12-18 Month clothing

{ Words }

Momma

Dadda

Baby

Go

Bye-bye

Yes

No

Ball (C)

Ba-ba (bottle)

Quack Quack (for what does a duck say)
Pretty (M)
Good Girl (M)

{ Signs }

More

All Done

Milk

Eat

Thank you (sometimes)

The girls are so fun. I know I say that every time, but it's true! I love their unique personalities from one another and how they all interact. I feel so privileged to be their Momma and watch them explore the world and learn.


This month you have really started giving kisses on command and we absolutely LOVE it. You give kisses to everyone and love to kiss Emily a thousand times a day on her head. Madelynn, you give the sloppiest wet kisses and then you clap and say "good girl" after it. So funny!

You are all babbling like crazy! You never stop! I love it so much! You all are definitely developing your own language with each other.


I know I say this a lot, but I absolutely love watching your relationships develop with each other. It's so priceless! Such a wonderful gift to have each other forever and I hope you each value, respect and know just how lucky you are to have one another.

Right now you are all LOVINGLY OBSESSED with books! You all sit together in the corner and flip through books and babble to one another for such a long time. It's the cutest thing.

Claire still is the best at coloring. She loves it and is so cute with all her colors. Madelynn is okay and sometimes wants to eat the crayons, but Natalee is terrible at not coloring and biting/chewing on the crayons constantly. We are working on that.

You all love to climb and will climb everything!


You all love to clap and wave!


You love to sit on anyone's lap!


You love to swing and would for hours upon hours! You still have major melt-downs even after an hour of swinging at the park


You all love to run around in circles and chase each other! That's pretty much what you do all day long!


Loving Barney still too!

You all love to be outside and we spend a lot of time outdoors at the park, going on walks, in the pool, ect.


You love to "help" Mommy....if I say, "can you get me a book to read" you will go get it and bring it to me or if I say, "go get me your shoes" you will. Even when I say, "find your ball," you will! Ah-Mazing!


You all understand so well when you want to. When I say, "it's lunch time" you run to the kitchen and wait for me to open the gate, or when I say, "let's go take a bath," you wait at the other gate...love my little duckies!


You love to pretend to talk on the phone with anything that resembles a phone.


You are pros at eating with spoons!


You all never want to sit still!


We still are fighting with the biting issues! No fun! You guys can bite each other so hard, you bleed some days! Breaks Mommy's heart!

You all love tu-tus right now. Everyday since I brought them home after Nana bought them, you bring them to me and want me to put them on you. Love!

{ Schedule }


Wake-up - 8am
Come down, eat breakfast.
9am - Playtime, coloring, play-dough, park, outside, walk, books...ect!
Lunch - 11:30am
Read books, bottles
Nap - 12:30pm - 3:45pm
Playtime
Dinner - 5:45pm
Bath - 6:30pm
Books, bottles
Bed - 7:30pm 

{ Foods }


You guys pretty much eat everything expect meat. I don't get it! We are huge meat eaters and I thought for sure you all would be too! I know it takes time and I have seen improvements, so I should complain too much!  You do like pork and chicken, but steaks and red meats we are working on. 


This month you are loving spaghetti and pizza! Anything that I put in a bowl, is a pretty sure guess that you will eat! So funny! 


You eat every fruit and veggie known to man, fresh, frozen, dried...you love it all. We eat a LOT of that!


You love popsicles!


You all love bread, cheese, chicken nuggets and every snack food!


This month I am going to try peanut butter and jelly in every way possible to get you all to like it! So far no luck in the past!


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Mommy and Daddy love you all SO much! You are each the light of our lives! I can't believe this is our last month in the teens! Ah!

Day Trip to DC!

On Thursday my close friend Shannon and I loaded up all our kiddos (my biggest girls and her son, William) and headed to DC for the day to go to the Natural History Museum! I can't count the number of times I have been there but of course this was the girls first time! I know there will be many hours spent exploring DC in our future! I love all that it has to offer!

Even though it was really hot and humid, we tried to find the closet parking spot as we could...but  I totally forgot that my Ford Expedition will not fit in normal parking garages so that made finding parking a little harder, but finally we did fins a spot a few blocks from the museum. 

Let's just say the walk was a little father than we thought and by the time we arrived after pushing two double strollers, we were soaked in sweat! We waited in line to get in and finally made our way to the bathrooms!

We first went to the mammals and then to the ocean area and finally the dinosaurs. The kids loved looking at all the stuff and as long as we were moving, they were happy.

It's really nice that the exhibits are easily seen for kids in strollers, unlike our zoo!

Natalee and William enjoyed their time together! He was wooing her from the start! He is quite the ladies man!

Sharing his snacks with her...

Trying to hold her hand...

And he finally went in for the kiss....good thing Daddy wasn't there!

Around lunchtime we let the kids out to stretch and run around...the loved being free!

We took some more photos and quickly ran around the exhibits...the kids were getting tired and so were we!

At around 1:00pm we finally decided that we were ready to leave and made our way back to the car in the sweltering heat! Boy, was it hot!!!!

We took some photos of the kids on the mall....as you can tell, they were so tired and no one was protesting!

And flip them the other way...

Everyone fell asleep as I drove home and it was nice and quiet! Once we got home it was like the girls had a second wind and were more giggly and funny than I have ever seen them! We took some video...Claire had tears in her eyes she was laughing so hard!

All and all it was a really fun day spent with some great friends! I hope there will be many more trips like this for our families!