Five Minute Friday

I don't have a lot of time for this today, but I'm going to do it anyway because both girls are sleeping and this is the first time I have sat down since 6:30 this morning.  Well, besides the time I sat in the car to drive to the dentist and back, and sit in the dentist chair.  I am beginning to wonder if I am too young for dentures?  Seriously.  My gums feel tender and sore, exactly the way it felt before I needed a root canal.  I figured I better not wait it out on a friday morning to see if it got worse.  They had an opening at 9 am.  This was 7:55 that I called.  That is the fastest I have pumped and gotten three girls out the door.  No root canal needed this time, but they couldn't tell me the reason for my soreness.  I hate teeth.  If you're wondering, I do brush daily, a good day I do it twice.  I floss a few times a week.  I don't drink pop or sugary drinks, but I do eat sugary food.  I hate teeth.

My mom is coming today, woo hoo!  Wade is hunting again this weekend, boo hoo.  Whitney really needs some attention and love.  I wish I had more time for her.  I keep telling myself once Ellie can walk I will be more available.  Available to Whitney, Wade, MYSELF, the house, etc.  We're getting close.

Whitney is so excited for Halloween.  I can't wait until Monday to do trick or treating on main street, and again that night.   Whitney has been asking all week if she can go trick or treating.  I tried to make a calendar and drew pictures on each day showing her what we were doing each day and when Halloween finally is.  She didn't get it.

I tried to do a Chirstmas photo shoot with the girls in their cute matching dresses.  I took them outside on a nice afternoon with a red velvet tree skirt for a blanket, some red ball ornaments and some garland and it just looks like I took Christmas pictures in the middle of fall.  Didn't really come out the way I pictured it.  Pooh!

Carving Pumpkins

this was a brief moment she was actually having fun with the pumpkin guts.  She was not that into it like she was last year.  With all the Halloween cartoons on she has been asking repeatedly to go trick or treating.  I think she will have fun with it this year!

she is very ready for the snow and cold.  She will randomly ask if she can eat snow.  not sure if she remembers that she was obsessed with eating it last year??  We rented Christmas Classics and she is very into Rudolph and the "hairy monkey"  (abominable snowman)

whitney insisted on putting this on yesterday afternoon and when I asked her where she was going  "I'm going to Wal-Mart!"

Ellison- 8 Months

Just taught her that tonight!

My baby bear is 8 months old now.  I could almost, almost, keep her at this baby age forever if I didn't already know that the fun is just beginning.  She is learning so much so quickly and I am so looking forward to these next four months until she is one. 

 She is developing a fiesty personality lately.  For the most part she is still happy all the time and will contently play by herself as long as she knows where I am.  If you take something away from her or she is frustrated, watch out!  She has crying temper fits and lately has taken to biting.  Biting anything she can get her mouth on.  She acts like an ornery little ankle biter dog that you don't want to cross.  I am not looking forward to the day Whitney is on the receving end of the bite.  She has three teeth, two on bottom and one on top.  Her second top one should be popping through any day.  She is just like Whitney getting one tooth at a time.

Sleep- We were getting better but she is getting over a cold right now so I hope she goes back to her old sleep pattern.  She still goes to bed around 8:30, give or take depending on her last nap.  She will wake between 4-6, nurse and go back to bed until 7ish, when she hears the rest of the house waking up.  She will take a morning and afternoon nap if we are home.  We usually are not home in the morning, so lately she will catch a quick snooze in the car and then take a 2-3 hr midday nap and that's it.

Eating-  about 4-5 oz milk at a time.  She prefers table food and lately will not eat off a spoon.  I may be done buying baby food.  I recently gave her a chicken nuggett (small bites of course).  Amazing how much earlier you give things to your second.  She has mastered the pincer grasp and prefers to feed herself.  She still takes formula and just a few days ago I dropped down to 4 pumping sessions a day.  I had a good supply going and rarely needed to supplement.  I have a feeling my supply will drop more than I care for it to, but, oh well.  

Milestones-  She loves to play peek a boo.   She holds a blanket over her head and waits for you to ask, "where is Ellie?" and then she'll pull the blanket down smiling.  She has mastered the drop game.  It isn't so bad when you have a two year old to keep picking up the items!  She likes to do "so big".  She can wave.  She tries to share things and puts stuff in your mouth.  She furniture cruises like no other and now likes to walk holding your hands.  She knows exactly where she wants to go steering us around.  She babbles a lot now, saying mama, dada, ba ba.  She says dada when she is happy babbling and ma ma, or mom mom when she is whiney.  I really think she is whining for me.  She likes to "talk" and say "ahh" really loud when we use public restooms because they echo.  Like I needed more attention drawn to me taking two girls to the bathroom.  She is not a cuddler, but loves to cuddle soft blankets and stuffed animals.  She can doodle.  We have one of those magnetic doodle board things and she will watch me write and then she tries too.

playing peek a boo under our coffee table.  she usually will bend down to peek under and then stand back up

Size-  about 17lbs??, size 6-12 month clothes, size 3 diaper.  She is a bit leaner than Whitney was, but she is a lot more mobile at this age

She is a total mama's girl, but what's wrong with that?!?

Five Minute Friday

It's that time again when we learn of Wade's new duty assignment.  It would probably take some big changes for this NOT to happen, but this is what the Army has planned for us next.  Wade will complete his ILE course in Alabama starting January.  I  will stay here with the girls until he done with school in April, and then it is off to Offutt AFB, just outside of Omaha, NE for a two year assignment.  We have been fortunate to stay around the midwest so far, Kansa, Missouri, Iowa and now Nebraska.  Being in the Army we would like to take advantage of being able to live somewhere cool, so don't be surprised if we move far away next time.  We would love Colorado, but so would everyone else.  I would like to try Hawaii and Wade would like Alaska.  We will see if either one of us wins that one.  We for sure would like to live in Germany when the girls are older and will appreciate being able to do all of the touristy things.  After Omaha, it is crazy to think that we will have to consider what school Whitney would be going to!  When Wade finishes his course in April we have one week to get him home and us to Offutt.  Makes my head spin thinking about the packing and unpacking that will happen in that week, but we've done it before many times.  And finding a house while Wade is in Alabama, oy!!!

I have been on the hunt for a babysitter, trying out care.com and sittercity.com.  Sittercity is free for military members so we'll see what luck I have with that. It looks like there are alot of candidates on those sites.  Thanks to FB we can kind of see what kind of person they are, and if we can't find a profile at all we consider that a good thing!    I will for sure need to take a break while Wade is gone for three months.

Callie Turns 2

My niece Callie had her 2nd birthday party last weekend.  Whitney just loves going to their house to play in their play room and out on their swing set.  My little miss who doesn't go anywhere on her own will go upstairs and turn the light on herself to go play.  She won't go back to her own room if it's dark!

her favorite present was a package of wipes!

Callie loves her Grandpa!

I was looking at her the other day as we were ready to go play at the gym thinking "when did she turn into a little girl with her pig tails, blue jeans, and UNDERWEAR on underneath!?!?"

Sniffles

My girls have colds again... surprise surprise.  Sunday Whitney's nose was dripping so i said, "hey sniffles, do you need to get a kleenex to wipe your sniffles?"  She looked at me and looked at her sleeve, "no, I just wipe my nipples on my sleeve, okay."    Wade and I about died laughing, I'm sure she was wondering what was so funny!

She also likes to ask Ellie if she is "faking"  "are you faking?"  She clearly does not know the context of the word.  She also says "that be an idea?"   as in, "we go to the park today, that be an idea?"  or "that be fun?"

Five Minute Friday

If you're expecting complaints out of me this friday you're not going to get it.  I've been trying to focus on what I'm thankful for and seeing the joy in every day moments.  If you would ask Wade he may say other wise, but really, I'm trying and I've been less stressed and ornery this week, really!  So this friday I am doing a few of my favorite things.  

apple cider donuts. I can't get enough right now.  Dahls has this this weekend for 2.99 for 6.  It's worth it.  We had donuts for lunch today!  And coffee, I love my coffee right now.  (decaf)

Hudson jeans.  have you heard of them?  I had not, lucky for me they didn't fit my friend and she sold them to me super cheap.  These babies will cost you close to 200 bones retail and I can see how they are worth every penny.  They fit like a glove!, in a good way!

and of course my favorite girls, because who would I be without them right now?

and my favorite man who gives Whitney the love and attention she needs at the end of the day