Christmas photo shoot

My dad took some pics of the girls in their matching dresses that my mom got them (from The Wooden Soldier). I just wanted a few Christmas-y ones of them, but Molly wasn't in a smiley mood and it was cold outside. There are quite a few, so here are my favorites of each one and of them together. Merry Christmas!

7 months

Our little sweetie is 7 months now! She is a total mess and into EVERYTHING! When I took these pictures, I tried to sit her in the corner of her crib and she immediately went to pull up in her crib, so all of these were taken of her standing up! Crazy little thing! She crawls everywhere, tries to pull up on everything that she can reach (which I still can't believe she was doing weeks ago!) She finally started babbling a little more and unfortunately it is dadada and not mamama! oh well, it is not like she knows what she is saying! She is happy most of the time and loves her sister! All of these pictures were taken while Lucy was making her smile...and that last one cracks me up! We love these sweet little girls!

fun times

We haven't been up to much, but we have been having fun getting ready for Christmas! I finally feel like I have caught up on stuff after being out of town. We got our tree the Sunday after Thanksgiving and I love it! I think it is one of my favorites so far. It is big and pretty! I have put more lights on it since I have taken this picture..we usually don't get one this big so it needed some more! We don't do too many decorations. We do the tree and have just a few little things here and there. Our living room isn't that big and the kitchen/dining room/living room is all open so just having the tree in the LR feels like the whole house it decorated!

I don't do a "themed" or fancy kind of tree...I have always collected Mickey/Disney ornaments and Lucy loves them and I like to be able to put the ones she makes on there too, so we have a random variety. It is bright and colorful! I remember one year my mom did a theme tree with all red balls and green, red, and gold plaid bows and I remember being so mad that we couldn't put all our other ornaments we always used to have on there b/c it didn't match!

Molly has been all over the place! She is crawling like a mad woman and pulling up on everything that she can reach. She loves pulling up in her crib the best, I guess b/c it is the easiest for her. She gets all excited and makes happy sounds when she does it! She is so cute! And....she has been sleeping the ENTIRE night (like 8:30-7:30 without eating or staying awake) for 4 nights in a row! yeah! I hope she keeps it up, but I am not really holding my breath! We still have teething to go through b/c she has none yet! I just took her to her 6 month appt last week (even though she will be 7 months in a week-ahhh!) and she was 16.5 lbs (60th) and 26.5 in (80th) so it looks like she will be our tall girl! She has consistently been in these percentiles. Lucy was only in 30th-40th for height (at 6 months) and she is still on the shorter side. At least she will be taller than her mommy!

thanksgiving in colorado

we are thankful for getting to.... love on daddy

play with cousins


play with paw paw

crawl all over the place

and look too stinking cute in my hat and turkey shirt (even though they don't match)

Hope ya'll had a wonderful day! We are about to go shopping! The outlets here by matt's parent's house open at 10pm tonight!

Thanksgiving Feast

Lucy had a Thanksgiving Feast last Friday at her school (which is also where we go to church and where I work) so I got to go and watch. It was cute. Lucy's class was dressed as indians....and cute little indians they were...They had some snacks, talked about the first Thanksgiving and hung leaves on a little "tree" telling what they are thankful for. I love this idea...maybe I can pull one together and make one for our table this year (or next since I am just now thinking of it! but it would be fun for the kids this year since Lucy is here in CO with her cousins....hmmm..) The teacher read each leaf saying what the kids were thankful for and then they got to hang them after she read them. Lucy said she was thankful to God for "dreams". Interesting!

We have lots to be thankful for! Hope you all have a Happy Thanksgiving!

My Baby is FIVE!

I cannot believe Lucy is 5!! She is such a little grown up now! I was telling her she is going to be 5 years OLD and she says, "no mama, I am not old I am young!" So I had to say "5 years YOUNG"! She is so full of life and excitement....every little thing is something to be excited about. But she also has her shy and quiet moments (usually just around those she hasn't been around much). She loves art projects, drawing, coloring, painting, cutting. She is learning to read and loves to write and make cards for people. She is scared to death of getting hurt and freaks out over the tiniest little cut or scrape (I guess that makes her a true princess...)She is the best big sister and loves making Molly laugh and hates when Molly cries. She is athletic and prissy at the same time. She is the sweetest little girl and has my heart...her faith is growing and it is so precious to see how God uses little things to reveal Himself to her. Lucy, I love you so so so so much. I love being your Mama and watching you grow into a beautiful little girl. You are so special to me and Daddy. Our prayer for you is that you will grow up to learn about and love Jesus as your Savior and to follow Him in all you do. He loves you so much, even more than your Mama and Daddy!!! Happy Birthday, baby!

We had a little party for her at the park this year. It was beautiful weather and very simple and easy. Lucy had a blast. We are going to Colorado for Thanksgiving this year so we will have another party for her there with her cousins and Matt's parents. So, speaking of our trip, I am way behind on the packing so I better get back to it!! Oh, last year's post for Lucy's bday I had pics of her from each year, so if you want to see my baby growing up, click here.

1/2 birthday

Molly turned 6 months on the 13th. I was going to do this post after her dr appt so I could put her stats on here, but the dr office called today to reschedule. So that will just have to wait 2 more weeks (couldn't make it next week b/c we will be gone for Thanksgiving). In the meantime, I will tell you what the little one is up to....

She is sitting up for long periods of time. She has a problem with it b/c she wants to be on her tummy crawling...yes, crawling, my friends. Little girl is on the move and she doesn't want to sit still for anything. You sit her up and she will sit there for a minute and then twist herself so she can get in a crawling position (she does this while I am sitting on the floor with her, or else she would hurt herself!) She also likes her walker, she goes all over the place in that thing and gets mad when something gets in her way. She is eating baby food like a champ. She loves it. The only thing she hasn't been real crazy about is peaches. I don't blame her. The baby food peaches stink. ugh. She still doesn't sleep all the way through the night...she goes to bed between 8-9 pm and gets up around 4 or 5, eats, and then goes back to sleep. We'll get there one day! She drools a lot and bites everything but doesn't have any teeth yet. Her little personality has gotten so cute. She is hilarious just like her sister. She loves to squeal and blow raspberries all. the. time. It is funny unless (like tonight) she does it right when you put a spoon full of baby food in her mouth...then it is not so funny. She is just so much happier now then she used to be (thank you Jesus!). I wish babies could just come out at 6 months. It would make for a much harder delivery (HAHAHA) but we would have happier babies and mommies! She is interacting a lot with lucy now and it is so fun to watch. Lucy makes her smile and laugh all the time (which lucy loves) and it is so sweet. Tonight Lucy was upset and crying about something and Molly crawled over to her, so I stood Molly up next to Lucy and she put her head on Lucy's shoulder and her hand on her back and Lucy just started laughing..she immediately got over what was bothering her and started making Molly laugh. It was sweet.

Lucy will be 5 on Friday, so hopefully I will get another post in this week about her before we leave for CO for Thanksgiving! We are very excited about that!

better late than never...

Sorry this is so late....but I guess here is an update on our past few weekends. The weekend of the 23rd (Matt's bday...happy birthday!!!) was Troy's homecoming, so we headed down there Friday night (with molly, without lucy) and we got to stay at the Marriott (which was super nice, felt like I wasn't even in Troy-ha! and have any of you been down lately? the new bookstore is awesome, it even has a Starbucks, once again, felt like I wasn't in Troy!!) when we checked in the hotel, we got our keys and opened the door only to find someone's stuff scattered everywhere and we were a little dumbfounded....we were just standing there trying to figure out what to do when the other people checked in that room came in and we were all pretty confused! Anyway, we got it worked out and had a fun time at the game...but it was freezing! I had Molly in the moby wrap and zipped up in my jacket! I got looks of glances and comments, but it was fun. I think one time I heard someone say, "does she have a child in there?" haha. I didn't take many pics but oh well. then we had all kinds of halloween fun (even though our trunk or treat was cancelled b/c of rain)...I'll just post pics-pumpkin carvings, lucy's class pics, the girls in costumes and trick or treating....they don't need much explanation...
Last weekend we had a little (early) bday party for Lucy (who will be 5!!!!! on the 20th) but that is a whole other post!! I may post that a little closer to her bday. Hopefully it will not be this long again till I write again! It seems like so many times I have all these ideas and thoughts in my head to write about and they sound so good in my head, but then when I write it, it just doesn't come out the same. I am so not a writer!

There she goes...

Well, she has come a long way in just a few days! I took this video this morning and she is on the move! She is 5 1/2 months and I am sure by 6 months she will be well on her way! Lucy was the same way...we've got our hands full! Oh yeah, and I am still planning on posting about this weekend in Troy...this was just a little more exciting! ha! (oh yeah, all you google readers, you may have to come to the blog to watch the video)

Molly's new tricks

Molly is starting to sit up for longer periods of time by herself and she is doing this little push-up thing when she is on her belly....instead of her getting on her knees like she is going to crawl, she pushes herself up on her toes! crazy little thing. she will be so happy when she is mobile! stay tuned for a new post soon on our events this past weekend...hopefully I will get it up tonight, or maybe tomorrow...I am procrastinating a lot lately!