Thursday, July 21, 2011

13-14 weeks

My little dumpling now has major stranger danger....sigh....
Anytime someone other than Steve or I try and hold her that little bottom lip sticks out and she breaks into a tears.  Who says babies don't have tears??   It breaks my heart because this child rarely cries, but she gets really upset when someone else holds her now.  It's worse when she's really tired.  I'm beginning to get really scared for the day I return to work.  I hate the thought of her having one or more distraught days. 

She is able to grab toys and everything goes straight into her mouth.  It's so cute to watch her little face when she's trying to get her hands to do what her brain wants them to.  You can see her little brain just going as she's trying to grab stuff. 

She is talking and talking, smiling and chuckling.  Music to my ears.


She watches us intently while we're eating so I'm sure when we start rice cereal she'll be gobbling it down.  No surprise to any of us I'm sure...haha!

She's still trying to roll her little tootsie roll all the way over from back to tummy and usually gets stuck on her side.  Ava get's frustrated and starts pulling on her onesie to get her all the way over.  Also I put toys there for her so she can be coaxed to practice and Ava takes them for herself.  I can already tell this sharing business is going to be a real pain in the hiney. 
By the way.. what is it with toddlers wanting to do the indian rain dance and gymnastics routines within inches of their baby siblings?  They have an entire room to take their little wobbly not completely stable bodies and try all their new tricks, but no that's not fun.  They must do it where they have the possibility of causing serious bodily injury to their loving sibling....sigh again. 

Sweet moment:  waking up yesterday morning and Ava had just woken up and came in my room.  Brynn was just waking up and Ava hopped into bed and said "look Brynn, your big sister is here, are you so happy?"

In other news we are all just patiently waiting the arrival of our newest baby cousin Cole.  Courtney is ready to pop any day now!!

Thursday, July 14, 2011

My little blessings

Typical day at home with my girls

I fold laundry and Ava's having a picnic with her dolls and her baby sister while watching Gnomeo & Juliet AGAIN!


Helping mommy make dinner


Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Living the good life

Updating her facebook while watching Gnomeo & Juliet

Sunday, July 10, 2011

Holla!

Yep yep my baby girl is already trying to roll over.  Caught her on her side fussing and trying her darndest to roll all the way over.  She's also grabbing toys and bringing them to her mouth.  She's a damn genius...yeah I said it.

<---Genius

Here's something you rarely see...a picture of me (the mother) with my child.  Is it sad that I had to take it myself?


I guess Steve felt sorry for me because when he saw me taking my own pictures with our giant camera, he offered to take a picture of me and Brynn.  Enjoy it because it's probably the last one you'll ever see (darling husband just isn't as sentimental as I am.  He doesn't feel the need to obsessively document every time one of our child passes gas like I do).

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Yay Blog!

Steve and I have spent some of our evening going back in the blog and reading some of our old posts about Ava.  We were laughing at all of her little antics and so thankful that we decided to start and keep up with this blog!!  I can't tell you how many times since Brynn has been born that I've gone back to Ava's age to see if they are doing the same things, or when Ava did what.  It's crazy how fast you can forget the little things that they said or did.  It's hard to remember a time when Ava didn't talk!  It makes us want to go and break out all of the video's we took of her :)