project 365: week 4

This picture taking project seems to be making the weeks go by really fast! I like that in a way, but I am loving the girls' ages and I don't want them to grow up too quickly! Someone asked me the other day how old they were and I said, "Almost 3 and 1." When did they become almost 3 and 1?! Yikes!!
Here are some pictures from last week!

Monday: This was Caroline's dinner plate. Wishful thinking, I know, but if I don't offer she'll never try anything. She ate most all of the pasta and "brocollies" and half the fish stick. She wouldn't touch the corn, but has eaten it before. Oh well, I'll keep trying!

Tuesday: Grand Dan came by to visit today!

Wednesday: Baby Nora came to visit with her big sister, Ella! She looks like a little doll!

Thursday: Morning Wake-Up Call!

Friday: Some of Molly's birthday party decorations are starting to arrive! Early, I know, but I am planning 2 parties in 3 days! I like to get things done and check them off the list!

Saturday: Family trip to the Aquarium and a rare appearance of me in front of the camera! ;)

Sunday: Caroline found this helmet and insisted on wearing it around and upside down!

Hope y'all have a great week, we hope to get out and enjoy this nice weather. I have a feeling we're in for some brutal weather soon. It can't be spring yet, can it?

baby love

I think we've hit my favorite age for Molly so far! I know I say this a lot, and did the same with Caroline as well, but seriously wanting to keep Molly at this stage for a long while!

She smiles at the camera now, she babbles, giggles, cackles, screeches constantly. When you say, "no no," she will smile and continue doing it anyway; I obviously say it too much, because Caroline now walks around saying, "No no Molly." ha! She says "Mama"!!! Y'all, this is huge! Caroline didn't say it until She was almost 2! It was only "D" for Caroline, her shortened version of Daddy.

Molly is just so dang happy, it's hard not to love on her all day long. She's definitely got the chapped cheeks from all the kisses we give her!

She couldn't figure out how to go over the chair (good thing), so she went around!

Love this face!!

spring is in the air!

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Happy Shopping! 

project 365: week 3

Did last week fly by for y'all too? I looked up and it's Monday again, and I'm frantically trying to put my pictures together for this post! 

Monday: I was trying to get a picture of Molly cruising around the steps, when Caroline jumped in front of the camera to make her "George" face...its a face Curious George makes in the movie. She's so silly!

Tuesday: Happy Valentine's Day! We made Cinnamon Swirl Banana Bread for Caroline's teachers, and used adorable printables I found on Etsy. Caroline made me a heart necklace that I of course wore all day for her! 

Thursday: I found these super cute Easter plates, napkins, and utensils at Target. I think they are perfect for Caroline's Easter Egg Hunt birthday party!

Friday: Am I the only one who DREADS afternoons between 5-7? If the weather permits, we like to take walks, lots of walks, around the block! It makes everyone involved happier, except I guess Caroline wasn't feeling it

Saturday: Do you see the big blurry object? It's a HUGE hawk! This thing flew into our living room window when I was catching up on my dvr-ed shows and scared me half to death. I haven't seen it again, and hope it stays away for good.

Sunday: Does it get any better then this? This little lady helped me make lasagna for our friends the Grants who just had Baby Nora. 

Have a great week! I actually have a post scheduled that isn't just "our week in pictures"...shocker! ;)

project 365: week 2

This week seemed to fly by, and I have to admit, I had to remind myself to take pictures every day! We had stuff going on each day this week and were busy bees!

Monday: Playing with scarves (and Claire "Bear" Brown, as she introduces herself as) at Music Class

Tuesday (really Monday night....details, details): Caroline sleeping in her Big Girl bed All.By.Herself!

Wednesday: We took a trip to Target to pick out her "prize" for being such a big girl! She now goes by "Cinderella" and walks around in her costume all day losing her slipper (walking out it and saying, "Oh  no, I lost my slipper!)

Friday: Molly seems to like Caroline's new bed, as well as her own! I moved Caroline's crib into Molly's room. We were given one while Caroline was still in it. Caroline also seems unable to look at the camera and give me a nice smile these days, as evident in these pictures. 

Saturday: We made Valentine's Day cards for the Girls' Waumba Land teachers! I used Caroline's hands for all eight cards, because I wouldn't have trusted Molly to sit still with red paint on her hands!

I promise next week won't all be about Caroline's new bed, but when an event like this happens, it seems to consume your whole life!

baby mozart

The girls got this Melissa and Doug piano from their Aunt Claudia, Uncle Matt, Charlie, and Megan for Christmas. Caroline likes to bang on it every now and then (but especially between 5-6 at night or when I'm on the phone), Molly however loves to sit and play with it. I don't mean, actually play, but she'll press the keys and clap for herself, giggle some, and play some more. She reminds me of the Charlie Brown character, Schroeder when she's sitting at it because she fits perfectly under just like that little boy in all the Charlie Brown cartoons. I think that's why she likes it so much; it's the perfect size for her. And yes, I did have to google Schroeder's name. :)

She was playing away the other day and let me get some pictures of her. 

Maybe it's the subject or the new lens, or a little of both, but I love this shot!!

Now if you only hear her chubby little fingers clanging away!

10 months, what?!

 Molly is:

*Weighing 24-25 pounds - she's officially a "big baby", as in off the charts. Sweet Chunky Baby! 

* 28 inches in length {75th Percentile}

*Wearing size 4 diapers during the day and size 5 huggies overnights for bedtime. Both girls can wear 4s and 5s at night so this will save some $. C only wears them at nap time.

*Molly is wearing 6-12m dresses only, 12 months, and 12-18 months, those these are long. I am mostly borrowing, and working with what I have, but a couple stores were having huge sales, so I bought a few things. I'm hoping that since she's moving more now, she'll slow down in weight. 

*She has 9 teeth (5 on the bottom, 4 on top), but I feel her molars coming in. We had a few sleepless nights due to those a couple of weeks ago.

*Sleeping on her belly for 12 hours at night with 2 naps during the day (a shorter am and longer pm), although her morning nap is slowly going away. She still naps, but it can vary from 45 mins to 90 mins, I think by summer it will be gone. I've gotten the girls on the same afternoon nap schedule {Hallelujah!}, so they both go down at 2, and I get some "down" time.

*Taking around 24-28oz of formula including what she gets with cereal. She's started not eating as much, Caroline did this as well. Once we started her on solids, she realized that was better then the formula.

*She's really only eating baby food with her breakfast and if she doesn't eat a lot of the table food I give her. She's over it...I don't blame her either.

*We've given her deli meats, cheese, blueberries, peaches, black beans, peas, green beans, black eyed peas, broccoli and cheese, mac and cheese, pizza, CFA french fries nuggets.

*Besides the baby food, she eats by herself, this makes feedings so much easier!

*I've also started giving her water out of a sippy cup. We get a lot on our shirt, love to dribble it out of our mouth, but do get some in too!

*She still loves Yogurt Melts and Puffs, also from Happy Baby Food.

 What Molly's loving these days!:

*Pulling up and cruising. This started over night, and seriously hasn't stopped. She crawls to the fireplace, couch, windowsills, and up she goes.

*Crawling, no more army crawling for her, unless she wants to go really fast or is tired from chasing Caroline. She LOVES to follow you into another room.

*Eating in her highchair or bumbo!

*Puffs, yogurt melts, and Cheerios! The girl can put these away! 

*Playing Patty-Cake and clapping when you say, "Good Job, Molly!"

What I'm loving about Molly these days {besides everything!}:

*Her belly laughs when you tickle her!

*She reaches for us when we go to pick her up. Melts.My.Heart. Love this!!

*She is so smiley! When I go in to get her from her nap or in the morning, she gives me the biggest grin, love it!

*That she LOVES her big sister, and her big sister LOVES her!

*Her independence. She wants to try everything for herself...including the taking the spoon from me, not that she can feed herself, she just doesn't like me doing it.

*She is seriously the happiest baby ever, seriously.

Thanks so Moms On Call, here's our schedule:

Wake up and have bottle (8oz): 730ish

Breakfast: 8-830am -- oatmeal and fruit (or Ella's Kitchen Brekkies) and Eggo Mini Waffles (our new favorites)

Nap: 9am-10/1030am -- my girl is growing out of her am nap, its happening! Some days I have to wake her, but more often then not she's up before 1030.

Bottle (4oz): 1130am

Lunch: 1230ish (I fix Caroline's lunch at 1230 and then feed Molly) Deli Meat, peas, diced peaches, blueberries, cheese, then cheerios and water from her sippy cup

Naptime and bottle (4oz): 130-145p (JUST got them both napping at the same time); she gets a small bottle here.

Supper Bottle (4oz): If she wakes up early from her nap, she gets a small one, if she wakes around 5pm, I just give dinner a little early. She's trying to drop it.

Dinner: 530pm -- deli meat, veggies, fruits, pizza crust; she doesn't care for a ton of baby food anymore, so I've really stopped trying.

Bathtime: 630

Bottle and Bed (6-8oz): 715ish

Molly and Caroline at 9 Months:

And because what's a post without this Munchkin too?!

our week in pictures: project 365

I came across this project on my friend Megan's blog, and thought that this is something I should definitely be doing! I've been such a slack blogger lately that I figured this would make me take pictures and blog, perfect!

I really haven't been meaning to be MIA, but we've had a case of the yucks over here, and our schedules have been off. No naps means no time for Mommy, and no time for blogging.

So...even though I'm a month late, and I don't even have pictures for the entire week, I'm going to give this a whirl. I also will be posting on Mondays, because I like weekday posts versus weekend ones. I'll also include Sundays, because I'm a rebel! Ha!

Here are some pictures from our week!

Tuesday: Told you we were sick...

Wednesday: Blueberries sure are tart!

Thursday: I had the privilege of taking some pictures of my new niece, Charlotte. I hope to show more soon, but I couldn't resist sharing just one!

Friday: Teaching them young to love the Christian Chicken! Our carseats even show our support for CFA! 

Saturday: We went to see all the "-ishies" at the aquarium! 

Sunday: Our weekly outing to Publix after church. Caroline was "burry" despite the sun shining and it being 60 outside.