Wordless Wednesday: Turning Five!

Happy Birthday Buggaboo! I love you. :-)

So excited!

We're having Amelia's birthday party in a few weeks, and the Grandmas are coming! ( My mom, and my grandma, AKA Grandma Dancing.) Even better, one of her cousins is coming too. Amelia is so excited, and I'm guessing my niece is going to be pretty excited too when she finds out. I think this is will be some much needed happy for Dorothy. Woohoo. :-)

Tickets are really cheap, so since the Grandmas were already coming, I got the idea today that Dorothy should come too and we got her a ticket.

The last time she came to visit she was only a few years old because it was Amelia's first birthday. Now I just have to convince the Grandma's that they want the spend the money to go to disneyland one of the days while they are here. (Amelia and I have passes.) Wish me luck!!

Wordless Wednesday Turning Two

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Happy Birthday Little Bug!

Today my baby girl turns 4. I can't believe that it was 4 years ago today that I had my first c section. I experienced pain (not being totally numb was pretty rough as was my first attempt at breastfeeding). But I got the best gift. A sweet snuggly little baby girl. She liked to sleep a lot, but only when being held. It took us a while to work out eating and sleeping, and she scared us a little by not gaining weight. But she did get to her birth weight eventually, even if it did take a month.

And here we are four years later. She's in preschool and gymnastics. She has a baby brother she loves to harass. She adores all things fairy and princess. Her favorite food is peanut butter. She is intelligent, and strong willed, and can be incredibly sweet as well. And I wouldn't have it any other way. Sometimes I wish I could keep her just the way she is, not let her grow older, but then I guess I'd miss out on all the things she has yet to be.

Happy Birthday to me...

For a while now, Jeff has wanted to get a new laptop. I have a frankenstein kind of computer, and it's a good little computer, but not for all the stuff i do. So today he calls me and says he found a great deal on one, and asks my opinion, I thought it sounded great, so he went and got it. He says that's my birthday present. He's been so sick that we didn't do anything for my birthday which was last weekend. So anyway, I can't wait for him to get home from work so I can set it up!

My mom and Grandma both sent money for my birthday. I was going to put it in savings since I don't need anything but then I found this at the scrapbook expo. I can get it for $180. Now I just have to decide if I really want it or not. It's very cool, I got to try one at the scrapbook expo. But I'm not sure if I'd use it enough to make it worth that much money. I am going to research it some more, but if you have a Cricut, do you love it? Was it worth the money? Oh and one more thing. If you are a scrapbooker, and ever have a chance to go to the scrapbook expo, do it! I went to walk around, and then went to the crop night, it was awesome!

Happy Birthday to you..

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Today my baby girl turned three! I can't believe she is three already. Where has the time gone. She ended up in our bed and so did Anthony. Here they are sleeping together. Aren't they sweet?

She is growing into this amazing little person. She can generally tell me what she wants and needs. We can have converations now. Gone are the days of pointing and whining, she can communicate! She is still working on the potty training, but we'll get there. She loves anything to do with princesses or arts and crafts. She is totally in love with her baby brother. When we're driving in the car and he starts to whine, she makes shhhh noises at him and tries to hold his hand or turn on some music. The park or playgroup are her favorite places to be. She is totally in love with her friends, constantly asking to see Jack and Trinity. She is also quite the little diva when it comes to clothes. She has gotten very picky about what she wears. She would go everywhere in pajamas if I let her. It's not unusual to find her clothes in a pile somewhere and then out comes Amelia in her jammies and ready for lunch! It's been a challenging year since she has become so smart. But that's okay I wouldn't change it for a second.

On turning 2...

Amelia is two now. She is doing amazing things. She can count to 13. She can sing most of the alphabet (She gets confused after qrst and goes back to the beginning.) She is almost completely potty trained. She is speaking in sentences. Over the weekend, Jeff heard her say "daddy please open the door" when she was done with her nap. She loves Dora the Explorer. She loves to sing and dance. She hates to be wet or poopy, and will usually change herself if she has an accident. She is so curious about everything. She has an amazing memory, and is great at repeating what we say. "Kitty get down!" is one of her favorite things to say. She can climb to the top of a huge playstructure and go down the slide. She loves the swings. She asks to go "bye bye in car please". She is so smart. She will move the dining room chairs around the house so she can reach what she wants. She knows where things go, and is starting to help put them back in their place. She says "Bless you" if someone sneezes. She asks "You okay?" if someone coughs. She is so independent. Sometimes when she gets mad she will hit mommy or daddy. But then she will pat us and say, "sorry". She loves her friends. She talks about Abbie often. Anytime she colors she looks for her. She also loves her friend Jack. She now knows when we turn on Jack's street, and starts yelling "Jack, where are you?"


It seems like so long ago that she was the small fragile newborn that I was holding in the picture below. Now she's a person. This mom thing is the most amazing, hard, crazy, thing I have ever done. And I have a feeling it's just going to become more so.