Feed the birds

Last weekend my parents came for a visit and my dad put our bird feeder together that he gave us for Christmas. Emily and I filled the bird feeders and have been watching each morning to see what birds come to visit:
I also took Emily to get her haircut last week. She had fun sitting in the car seat that they had:
Abigail continues to enjoy watching Emily and Emily can keep Abigail calm better than me or Joe:
I took them both for their checkups. Emily weighs 28 pounds and is 37 1/4 inches tall. They took her blood pressure for the first time as well. She is in the 50% percentile for weight and height.

Abigail weighs 14 pounds 7 ounces and is 25 1/4 inches long. She is in the 75% for weight and height.

Princess

Grandmama sent Emily and Abigail some valentine cards yesterday. Emily's had a cool bracelet and crown that you could decorate. She enjoyed wearing them today with her pretty princess gown:
I bet you can guess what movie she wanted to watch while dressed up! Thanks Grandmama!

4 Months Old!

Abigail is 4 Months Old Today!!!!

My baby is getting too big too fast! Sweet Abigail is 4 months old today . . . she is trying to sit up more and is definitely going to suck her thumb. She is getting better at using it but still has to be laying down to find it best. She loves to put her left hand up on her hair and put her right thumb in her mouth for comfort. If she is fussy all Emily has to do is come into her view and she smiles . . .

She is happiest right after a nap and a full tummy and loves to smile and giggle. She has just recently started going to bed around 7:30 and sleeps until 7:30 the next morning. This age is the best sleep time ever for a baby! Here is Abigail in action this morning sucking her thumb. After that photo shoot I put her thru she needed to lie down and suck her thumb for a little bit : )
With Emily I remember getting so excited with each month that she grew to see what she would do next . . . but with Abigail I get a little sad because I won't have my baby to love and cuddle with each month that she gets older. I do look forward to having two young girls that can play together but I also hold Abigail a little closer from time to time to remember that sweet feeling of holding a baby.

Projects

I bought lots of my favorite t-shirts the other day and decided to go ahead and embroider all of them in anticipation of warmer weather. Here are some shirts for Emily:
Here are a couple of shirts I did for birthday presents for friends:
And here is daddy with his girls. Since Abigail has been sucking her thumb a lot, Emily decided to give it a try to see what all the fuss was about : )
Yesterday at church Emily looked at me and said, "Ah . . . me and Abigail don't match!" I guess I better start getting some more dresses together for them to wear!

Snow Snow Snow!

On Friday the south got snow! We don't get to play in the snow very often and this time we got lots of it. It started snowing on Friday afternoon around 1:30 and didn't stop until well after dark. Emily and I went outside when it first started snowing:
Abigail hung out in the swing while we played outside:
I did take her outside later that afternoon and she enjoyed watching Emily and the neighbors run around in the snow.

We even attempted to make a snowman. Emily and I were so proud of our accomplishments . . . and then we went to the front yard and saw all our neighbors snowmen! Needless to say . . . our snowman was much smaller than everyone else's.
We went back inside to warm up and the snow kept coming. By the end of the day we had lots of snow to play in:


The next morning we enjoyed playing some more:

And our neighbors invited us over to play in their backyard too. They had played in our backyard Friday night and then called Saturday morning because Julie wanted us to play in her snow in her backyard:
You can hardly tell that we had any snow to play in now . . . but it sure was fun while it lasted!

Big Girl!

I'm sure everyone is tired of hearing about the potty . . . but this is one happy mama and I just have to write about it! Emily has done so well since Friday. We have been so proud of her. She even went to school today in training pants and stayed dry! I spoke to her teacher to ask her to take her about every 90 minutes if that didn't disrupt class, and they said she went each time and stayed dry!!! Yea!!!! So we didn't even use the p@ll ups that we bought. I noticed on Saturday and Sunday when we used those that we never could get Emily to go to the bathroom. I think it's because when she has those on she can't tell when she needs to go . . . I never thought this would happen so quickly. I'm so excited. I even got rid of the little potty yesterday! She is going on the big potty with the little chair on top.

Last night during bath time she put all her clothes in the hamper, got on the potty and went, flushed and got in the tub all by herself. It's like . . . one day you help them with everything. . . and the next day they are doing it by themselves . . . I just marveled in that moment : )

Well if Abigail never really takes to the chair we bought this weekend, we are definitely getting our money's worth with Emily:

She sat in this chair today while she watched T$nkerb@ll. She has to put the tray on there too. When she gets up she tells me it's Abigail's turn to sit in the chair and when Abigail's turn is over it will be her turn again. "We have to take turns mom". She's a hoot. The girl hasn't taken a nap since Saturday . . . I think she is too hyped up on chocolate from all her treats : ) I think it's time to phase those out . . .

New Baby Gadgets

This weekend we went to our friend Korrigan's 3rd birthday party. He had a firetruck come visit and the kids took a ride on the truck.

Emily decided she wasn't going to get near it though. The siren scared her so she decided to stick close to dad instead.

Here is the birthday boy climbing on the truck:
We got Abigail all bundled up to go check everything out:
Korrigan's mom made the cake. I was SO impressed!

Abigail has been wanting to sit up more so I've been propping her up on the edge of our chair. She found her thumb while sitting up:

Because she has been wanting to sit up more I went to my favorite web site: cr@igs list and bought her this chair:
Emily had to try it out too:
Last night we sat her in it during dinner. She even played with some linking letters:
Don't let this contentment fool you though. She lasted in the chair about 5 minutes and then got REALLY loud until someone got her out. So we still haven't been able to all eat dinner at once together : ) But I know that this too shall pass . . .

Our friends Jason and April let us borrow this jumpy seat for Abigail. Here she is checking it out today:
It sure does take a lot of contraptions to keep a baby happy!!!!

Emily has continued to do well all weekend in potty training. I'm so proud of her! We had a dry weekend and we are dry today!