So, You Never Saw Our Santa Experience? Shame On Me!!

And Santa still brought her an art easel and art supplies? Wow! She must have been pretty sweet during the year! :)

Mommy and Me

Here are pics of me and my girls. Lainie and Emmie were around the same age when we took these pictures. I loved the one of Lainie and me, so I asked Justin to take one similar to it of Emmie and me as well! Love my girls so much!

Emmie's 6-month appointment

Ok, I admit, I have been a big ol' blog slacker lately. For some reason, I just haven't been feeling it. However, I have lots and lots of posts ready to go. Before I can get them posted for you, I will have to download pictures! :) I promise some updated posts with cute pictures are coming soon.

In the meantime, Emmie had her 2nd 6-month check-up, and all it got us was another ear infection diagnosis. Ugh!! She had no symptoms at all, and Dr. Ray said her left ear was indeed infected. I did see Emmie give a sly little grin when she overheard Dr. Ray say "no shots" again. We will go back next week for an ear re-check and our 3rd attempt at her shots. To top it all off, Lainie ended up getting another ear infection as well. If I hear those two words again anytime soon, I may lose it! I am so tired of giving my sweet girls antibiotics.

We did get Emmie's stats while we were there and she is a growing girl! They were:

Height: 27 1/4 inches - 85th percentile
Weight: 18 pounds, 9 ounces - 83rd percentile

I did find it very ironic that she weighed the exact same amount that her big sister weighed at 6 months! Gotta love those chubby babies...can't get enough of those rolls and big, squeezy cheeks!!

Tutu Cute!

Warning: You might want to sit down for this little shocker of an update!

Ya'll, you will never believe what happened in our house this week! I honestly don't know what to do with myself! Emmie had her 6 month pictures last Thursday and I decided that I would take the opportunity to use the precious tutu of Lainie's for Emmie to wear during her pictures. As I have posted before, Lainie is terrified of tutus, or so I thought! After the pictures were done, I put the tutu in a bag at the bottom of the stairs to take up to Emmie's closet. Welllllll, the other night, I was standing in the kitchen and I heard Justin say, "Oh Mommy, you better get the camera!" I turned around and Lainie was bringing the tutu to Justin so he could help her put it on. I almost had a coronary right there! Bless my man...he knows how long I have been waiting on this moment. In fact, I had really given up hope with Lainie and had put all of my tutu dreams on sweet Emmie with hopes that she would one day love tutus.

I grabbed the camera as soon as he put the tutu on her thinking the moment wouldn't last long. I truly believed that I would only have a small window of time to get pictures. Being the sweet prince that he is, Justin went upstairs to grab Lainie's princess shoes for her to put on. Ya'll, she walked around ALL night with her shoes and tutu on! Can you believe it???? ALL NIGHT! And would you believe that she has worn it everyday since then, along with her princess wand? Can you feel the excitement here?! I still cannot get over it.

I have to admit, the only thing I would change is the fact that she had on a brown outfit that didn't match the tutu at all. I really wanted to change her into proper tutu attire, but I figured that was giving into my OCD qualities, and I am really trying to fight that issue these days! :)

Lainie's prince putting her shoes on for her

Pictures of our tutu princess!

Happy Birthday Reagan!

Lainie and Emmie's friend, Reagan, had her fourth birthday party this weekend at Build-A-Bear. Before they went to make their animal, they had Chick-fil-A and cookie cake in the food court. Lainie chose a Hello Kitty to stuff and named her Kitty Cat! (A+ for originality! HA!) I took some pics of the kids while they were in the food court, but Justin ran off with my camera while we were in Build-A-Bear. Oh well....you will have to imagine her stuffing "Kitty Cat!" I know, you are devastated I didn't capture that for you on camera! :)

Daddy Doughnut Day

Thursday was Daddy Doughnut Day at Lainie's school. Lainie and Daddy had breakfast together and then Lainie gave him some gifts that she had made for him earlier in the week. They had a great time! Lainie loves her Daddy so much!

Thursday morning before they left for school

Jake Turns One!

Lainie and Emmie's sweet friend, Jake, turned one on January 10! We can hardly believe that he is already a year old. It is amazing how quickly time goes by with these sweet kiddos! Lainie and Emmie had lots of fun celebrating with Jake at his birthday party. Here are a few pics from the party and of the birthday boy.

Jake turns ONE!!

Loving the birthday cake

Lainie's sweet friend, Maddie Grace or Gracie Grace as Lainie calls her!

Digging into some cake

DEEEEEEEELICIOUS!

Um, Where Did You Say My Milk Was?

Just had to document Emmie's first experience with baby food! She was not too sure about the whole idea, and she still isn't completely thrilled. I think she would be happy to take milk from a bottle until at least kindergarten if I would agree to it. She is too funny and SO different from Lainie. Lainie started rice cereal at 4 months and never looked back. She had her first baby food at 6 months and loved it. How can two kids from the same two parents be so different in so many ways?!

So, this is what carrots taste like?

Ugh..I think I liked carrots more than these peas

Ok, enough of this! Somebody pass me the milk please.

All cleaned up and completely over the food experience!


Oh, and by the way, Emmie got her second tooth this week...her bottom right!

Anybody Want Some Sugar?