Yesterday (11/21) Emily took her first steps!! She is not actually walking on her own yet, but Matt and I were holding her and having her take turns walking back and forth between us...she took a total of 5 steps one time! And she stood up on her own balancing for a few seconds as well. Yay! So proud of her. She also can stand up and "lean" on a table using only one hand and barely hanging on. She will be walking before we know it.
I think I had also forgotten to mention that she's getting more teeth...two more on the top, and two more on the bottom.
Also just a cute thing to share about Ashley. Her imagination is soooo much fun. The other day we were "camping", using her blanket as a bonfire and pretending to roast marshmallows, build a tent, etc. Then another time we pretended to make snowballs and have a snowball fight. So cute and so fun!
Well that's all for now...
Friday, November 22, 2013
Monday, November 18, 2013
More house pics for Aunt Arlene and Leah :)
So here is the rest of the house....I was waiting until we were finished with updates, but we are taking a little break from projects until we can afford to do a little more....So, these are our works-in-progress.
The first is the dining room. We still near to add the boxed chair-rail/molding like we had in the dining room at our last house, and we may also change out the light fixture.
Sunday, November 17, 2013
Life these days...
Well I haven't been able to post pics because we are having issues with our hard drive/backing up pictures at the moment, but figured I'd at least do a quick update.
The girls are really just growing up and doing so much right before our eyes! Even Lisa (grandmom) has said how she notices so much more in just a weeks' time.
Ashley is talking so much more, using complete sentences, makes sense when she's talking (and totally makes sense of what you're saying). She is doing great with counting, number recognition, etc.
She has also been so much fun with her imagination and playing. She likes to pretend that I'm Cinderella and she's the fairy godmother, that I am a scary dragon who chases her around the house before she "locks the door", etc, etc.
She has also been very intuitive lately, picking up on moods or expressions. I'd like to say that I am calm and patient 24/7 (I really try hard to be as patient as I can), but if I have a moment of frustration, Ashley will notice and say "you not happy", or "you happy mama?". It's sweet, but I also don't want her worrying. I try explaining that sometimes we all feel happy, sometimes we all feel sad, sometimes we feel mad, etc...and that it's ok...and no matter how we're feeling, we still love each other. (I know, I totally sound like a therapist I'm sure..haha).
She is also already starting to notice/compare/ and "need" what others have (scary that it starts so young). For instance, she was looking through a catalog for Christmas gift ideas, and she saw a picture of a baby wearing a santa's outfit. Suddenly she needed to have that. So luckily I had bought a few Christmas dresses in different sizes for different ages a few years back at a consignment sale...so we proceeded to put on her "santa outfit", along with fall stockings that she picked out, then she "needed"a Santa's hat (we used her hat and mittens) along with her "movie star" sunglasses. It was so hysterical--I will be sure to post a pic soon!
She is also starting to skip naps sometimes. At first I thought it was because she was excited about afternoon plans, or about someone being over at the house, but now it's just hit or miss. There's about a 50/50% chance she sleeps. If she doesn't, there's also a 50/50% chance of grumpy behaviors to follow when she starts getting overtired. Either way, I still have her stay in her room for some quiet time. It's good for her and also for me :)
Emily is doing great. I can't believe she's about to turn one. We've been getting ready for her party, and having fun planning for it. She isn't walking yet (still wondering if she will be by her first party), but she is really getting around quickly--scaling the walls, walking all around the house, furniture, and she's even tried balancing on her own a little bit. It won't be long!
She also is talking more, using words and trying to talk, point and reach for things. She also started to use my phone to call dada. Haha.
She is also teething, getting a couple more on the top and also on the bottom. Fun fun I'm sure.
Emily is also finally starting to sleep a little later, and goes down very easy for bed. Also, she used to wake up crying and upset, and now she is starting to wake up happy and more pleasant which is nice.
She is absolutely loving being a "big girl"...she loves eating like a big girl, playing like a big girl, getting around like one, etc....although there are still moments when she just wants her mama and wants to be held and cuddled.
We are getting toward the end of our nursing too. She's at the real basics now, and I know my milk supply is slowing down too. Kinda sad to think that this is it. I may still stick with the night time nursing a little longer, since she still seems to like nursing (whereas Ashley was totally done and had no issues with giving it up). Emily still loves to be held, rocked, and LOVES to hold/play with my hair all the time. Haha.
Well that's all for now...
The girls are really just growing up and doing so much right before our eyes! Even Lisa (grandmom) has said how she notices so much more in just a weeks' time.
Ashley is talking so much more, using complete sentences, makes sense when she's talking (and totally makes sense of what you're saying). She is doing great with counting, number recognition, etc.
She has also been so much fun with her imagination and playing. She likes to pretend that I'm Cinderella and she's the fairy godmother, that I am a scary dragon who chases her around the house before she "locks the door", etc, etc.
She has also been very intuitive lately, picking up on moods or expressions. I'd like to say that I am calm and patient 24/7 (I really try hard to be as patient as I can), but if I have a moment of frustration, Ashley will notice and say "you not happy", or "you happy mama?". It's sweet, but I also don't want her worrying. I try explaining that sometimes we all feel happy, sometimes we all feel sad, sometimes we feel mad, etc...and that it's ok...and no matter how we're feeling, we still love each other. (I know, I totally sound like a therapist I'm sure..haha).
She is also already starting to notice/compare/ and "need" what others have (scary that it starts so young). For instance, she was looking through a catalog for Christmas gift ideas, and she saw a picture of a baby wearing a santa's outfit. Suddenly she needed to have that. So luckily I had bought a few Christmas dresses in different sizes for different ages a few years back at a consignment sale...so we proceeded to put on her "santa outfit", along with fall stockings that she picked out, then she "needed"a Santa's hat (we used her hat and mittens) along with her "movie star" sunglasses. It was so hysterical--I will be sure to post a pic soon!
She is also starting to skip naps sometimes. At first I thought it was because she was excited about afternoon plans, or about someone being over at the house, but now it's just hit or miss. There's about a 50/50% chance she sleeps. If she doesn't, there's also a 50/50% chance of grumpy behaviors to follow when she starts getting overtired. Either way, I still have her stay in her room for some quiet time. It's good for her and also for me :)
Emily is doing great. I can't believe she's about to turn one. We've been getting ready for her party, and having fun planning for it. She isn't walking yet (still wondering if she will be by her first party), but she is really getting around quickly--scaling the walls, walking all around the house, furniture, and she's even tried balancing on her own a little bit. It won't be long!
She also is talking more, using words and trying to talk, point and reach for things. She also started to use my phone to call dada. Haha.
She is also teething, getting a couple more on the top and also on the bottom. Fun fun I'm sure.
Emily is also finally starting to sleep a little later, and goes down very easy for bed. Also, she used to wake up crying and upset, and now she is starting to wake up happy and more pleasant which is nice.
She is absolutely loving being a "big girl"...she loves eating like a big girl, playing like a big girl, getting around like one, etc....although there are still moments when she just wants her mama and wants to be held and cuddled.
We are getting toward the end of our nursing too. She's at the real basics now, and I know my milk supply is slowing down too. Kinda sad to think that this is it. I may still stick with the night time nursing a little longer, since she still seems to like nursing (whereas Ashley was totally done and had no issues with giving it up). Emily still loves to be held, rocked, and LOVES to hold/play with my hair all the time. Haha.
Well that's all for now...
Friday, November 1, 2013
11 Months and Halloween Fun!
Well, let's start with the fact that my baby is 11 months old. How is that possible??? I don't know. I feel like this past (almost) year is a blur, it whizzed past me WAY WAY too fast! Emily is doing fantastic. She isn't quite walking on her own, but she does great walking around the furniture, walking with assistance of people and her toys. She is also quite a pro at climbing up stairs and other things.
She is quite expressive these days. She does a lot of babbling, saying words or attempting to. She also lets you know when she's not happy about something too, and will try to demand her way. Haha.
Her new thing is also to reach for things that she wants, and try to point or grab at them.
She is also LOVING foods. She started eating real food about a month ago. A little late start, but with her choking issues the doctor had said to take it slow, and I kind of followed her lead with how she handled her baby snacks. I think she is thrilled to be eating "big people food" now and devours most of it up--from pastas, to veggies, to fruits, and even a little meat. Thankfully she hasn't had any choking issues so I'm hoping we're past that.
She's been on a pretty routine schedule for sometime now. Emily is quite the early bird--she is typically up between 6-6:30, sometimes even earlier (ugh), and on a rare occasion, sometimes later. This is hard for me because Ashley was always a great sleeper and would sleep until 8 (she still does 90% of the time). I am NOT a morning person, so it's a struggle for me waking up that early since I'm usually still in a deep sleep. Anyway, she'll typically get up around that time, nurse, have open playtime and one-on-one mommy time until Ashley wakes up. Then we'll have breakfast around 8:30, and she's down for a nap by 9/9:15. She sleeps for an hour to hour and a half, then we have an open window until 2 where we play, eat, go out, etc. Then she'll nap for about 2 hours at 2, then bedtime at 8. So overall not bad.
Ashley also continues to grow in leaps and bounds. It's funny, I had posted a video on Facebook not long before we moved of Ashley singing the ABCs to Emily. At that time she was a little over two and sang some and then babbled/made up her own song. Now she can sing it, recognize 1/2 the letters in the alphabet, counts good, is learning the days of the week and months in the year. She knows which days are daddys' short days and which are his long days. She gets what is going on around her, and is also quite observant.
On that note, Halloween was obviously a blast this year. Ashley totally got what was going on and loved it. Emily loved it too! We carved our pumpkins a couple nights before. Ashley had fun picking out the faces to carve on them, and was having fun reaching in and feeling the seeds and pulp, and helping daddy carve.
She loved trick or treating too. She was so anxious to go from house to house to get more candy. She did pretty good about taking only 1 or 2 pieces, although at one house she told the person that she wanted a lollipop. Haha.
She had fun ringing the doorbells or knocking on the doors. One of the first homes she tried to lean in to see the house/people, and asked to go in to play :) She also asked if she could please touch some of the halloween decorations and/or lawn decorations that people had out. It was so cute and fun to watch her.
Emily obviously didn't get it yet, but she had fun going to the doors. She was holding a bag of chips and a piece of candy in her hands and was quite happy and content. She kept holding them up to show people/try to hand to people when we'd knock on their doors. It was too cute. Grandmom and grandpop got to come along to partake in the fun this year too since it's our first local halloween.
Matt and I dressed up too--Matt went as a nascar driver, Dale Earnhardt Jr, and I went as a pumpkin to match Emily.
On our way back we stopped to look at this house in the neighborhood that was majorly decorated. It was like the Christmas Vacation movie, only for Halloween. Ashley had fun trick or treating there.
Well that's about it for now.
She is quite expressive these days. She does a lot of babbling, saying words or attempting to. She also lets you know when she's not happy about something too, and will try to demand her way. Haha.
Her new thing is also to reach for things that she wants, and try to point or grab at them.
She is also LOVING foods. She started eating real food about a month ago. A little late start, but with her choking issues the doctor had said to take it slow, and I kind of followed her lead with how she handled her baby snacks. I think she is thrilled to be eating "big people food" now and devours most of it up--from pastas, to veggies, to fruits, and even a little meat. Thankfully she hasn't had any choking issues so I'm hoping we're past that.
She's been on a pretty routine schedule for sometime now. Emily is quite the early bird--she is typically up between 6-6:30, sometimes even earlier (ugh), and on a rare occasion, sometimes later. This is hard for me because Ashley was always a great sleeper and would sleep until 8 (she still does 90% of the time). I am NOT a morning person, so it's a struggle for me waking up that early since I'm usually still in a deep sleep. Anyway, she'll typically get up around that time, nurse, have open playtime and one-on-one mommy time until Ashley wakes up. Then we'll have breakfast around 8:30, and she's down for a nap by 9/9:15. She sleeps for an hour to hour and a half, then we have an open window until 2 where we play, eat, go out, etc. Then she'll nap for about 2 hours at 2, then bedtime at 8. So overall not bad.
Ashley also continues to grow in leaps and bounds. It's funny, I had posted a video on Facebook not long before we moved of Ashley singing the ABCs to Emily. At that time she was a little over two and sang some and then babbled/made up her own song. Now she can sing it, recognize 1/2 the letters in the alphabet, counts good, is learning the days of the week and months in the year. She knows which days are daddys' short days and which are his long days. She gets what is going on around her, and is also quite observant.
On that note, Halloween was obviously a blast this year. Ashley totally got what was going on and loved it. Emily loved it too! We carved our pumpkins a couple nights before. Ashley had fun picking out the faces to carve on them, and was having fun reaching in and feeling the seeds and pulp, and helping daddy carve.
She loved trick or treating too. She was so anxious to go from house to house to get more candy. She did pretty good about taking only 1 or 2 pieces, although at one house she told the person that she wanted a lollipop. Haha.
She had fun ringing the doorbells or knocking on the doors. One of the first homes she tried to lean in to see the house/people, and asked to go in to play :) She also asked if she could please touch some of the halloween decorations and/or lawn decorations that people had out. It was so cute and fun to watch her.
Emily obviously didn't get it yet, but she had fun going to the doors. She was holding a bag of chips and a piece of candy in her hands and was quite happy and content. She kept holding them up to show people/try to hand to people when we'd knock on their doors. It was too cute. Grandmom and grandpop got to come along to partake in the fun this year too since it's our first local halloween.
Matt and I dressed up too--Matt went as a nascar driver, Dale Earnhardt Jr, and I went as a pumpkin to match Emily.
On our way back we stopped to look at this house in the neighborhood that was majorly decorated. It was like the Christmas Vacation movie, only for Halloween. Ashley had fun trick or treating there.
Well that's about it for now.
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