Guess Who's 2?!!

I'll give you a hint, it's NOT our first born...



Happy birthday Lizzie!!! At two years old, Lizzie is a lot of fun and a lot of work :) She is absolutely adorable and is very sweet and affectionate. She is typically pretty obedient, but will often throw a fit even as she is obeying just to make sure you know that she's not happy about obeying. She is very smart and has most of her letters (and the sounds they make) down and can count objects up to 12. She loves to read books and will bring them to you and either demand you "read, READ!" or "TALK!!". Her vocab has exploded and she is now able to communicate a lot more of what she is thinking.

Lizzie is our little adventurer and continues to be a prolific climber... which sometimes gets her stuck in precarious situations :) I absolutely adore our oldest little girl and I love what she has brought to our family. Happy birthday, Lizzie Boo!

Rub a Dub Dub....

...Jane hates the tub. Or the sink, in this case... can you tell?


Hmmm, how about now?

Yeah, bath time around here is a blast!

Friends

It can happen.... my two oldest CAN get along for more than a minute at a time. And I have the pictures to prove it!

A Picture a Day Keeps the Doctor Away...

Several people that I know have started doing a photo a day challenge and it sounded like fun, so I jumped on board for February. The iPhone definitely makes this MUCH easier! Here is the challenge~


Day 1- Your View Today. Lizzie being super adorable~

Day 2- Words. My living room wall... I don't get out much these days~

Day 3- Hands. I see a lot of sweet baby Jane right now~

Day 4- A Stranger. Fact- I am too wimpy to risk someone knowing I'm taking a picture of them, so I took this one stalker style from my car~

Day 5- 10 am. Church, yo~

Dress-up Days

Definitely my favorite superhero~

Even if he is a bit unconventional~

Turns out that all it takes to bring out the girly in my girl is a wand... and a mass load of pink :)

1 Month Stats

Jane had her 1 month appointment yesterday and she's doing great! Her percentiles are tracking well and she's growing how she should... yay!

Height- 21.75 inches.....75th percentile
Weight- 8 lb 6 oz...........25th percentile
Head- 14.57 inches.......50th percentile

Life is a Highway

For Christmas this year, I ran across an idea that I thought would be perfect for Nate and my brother~


It's a car mat/shirt/massage medium! I think this is my favorite thing I made this year :) The one above is Nate's. It has our church (which looks like our church), school, playground, Exxon station, my parent's house (which looks sorta like the real thing ;-), our house, and Target (which Micah is obsessed with and talks about constantly.. "Are you going to Target?!! Are you going to get more fooooooooood?!! For ME?!!").

This one is my brother's.... I changed the name of the church to theirs but it'd be hard to draw so it looks like ours ;-). I swapped Target for a replica of their local library which they go to all the time, and gave them a representation of Big'z (their favorite burger place)~

Each dad got a shirt and a car for each of their kiddos to use on their new shirt! Our kids are big fans and Nate gets a back massage of sorts when they play with it... everyone wins!

1 Month Old

I'm trying to avoid saying this because it has to be one of my least favorite cliches, BUT.... I can't believe Jane is 1 month old already! It just does not seem like it has been that long, but here we are.... it makes me a little sad since Jane is (as far as we are concerned) our last baby. I have a feeling I will be disproportionately emotional about each and every milestone she reaches until... well, forever :)

So anyhoo, I have always taken pictures of my kids at each month "birthday" but never with a certain stuffed animal or a sign saying how old they were or any of that. Well..... I am a sucker for a good idea, so when a friend of mine with a daughter two weeks older than Jane posted her 1 month pictures I simply had to shamelessly copy her... the idea was too cute!

See? Cute, right?! Well, if you don't think so then I am officially no longer your friend... try to control your tears. Anyhoo, I have an idea for how I want to spice up some of the other months, so we'll see if Jana does the same thing I have in mind :)

Janie decided to go to work immediately on removing her flower.... I guess I officially have my second hair accessory intolerant child, le sigh~

At one month old, Jane is starting to spend more time awake (day and night) and is fairly content.... unless she's not... just sayin :) She follows people and sounds with her eyes and will track her very noisy brother all the way across a room. She will happily do tummy time as long as she has a book propped up where she can look at it.

She has started giving us a very occasional awake, non-gassy, non-tired smile but you really have to work at it. Mostly she'll just give you a look like she's just not too sure that you're "all there" the harder you try to make her smile. Her siblings both love talking to her, patting her head, and giving her kisses and our main problem is keeping them from suffocating her with blankets or burying her in books while they're trying to take care of her.

And because the startle reflex is always good for a laugh~

We didn't even pose her, Lizzie just wanted to be near Jane~

Happy 1 month to our Janie Bear... we love you!