Happy 5 months old Sophia!

Another month, another round of children not wanting to smile at the same time. At least I documented the day! :)
Disclaimer: Under no circumstances do I think these pictures are awesome, so view at your own risk of kid's heads cut off, shadows, or just bad poses HA.

Emily posing with my Grandma Cline's teddy bear because she has to have her picture taken if Sophia is.

Sophia posing with her 5 months sign, I asked Emily to make Sophia smile but Emily was more interested in watching Team Umizoomi. I decided to throw in the one picture where Sophia looked drunk for laughs(see disclaimer!)

Yet again I tried to get them both together, sitting, smiling, looking good and I failed again. I really need to start attempting it when another adult is around to jump around and make them smile & focus. Oh well.

And then some for fun(see disclaimer :) ) I think Emily really wanted to hold Sophia still and Sophia was sooooo done with pictures.

4 Months Old!!!

Well Sophia has made it to 4 months old. Not sure on her stats as we go to the doctor later today but She certainly looks bigger and her clothes are proof. Emily desperately wanted to take some pictures with Sophia as well but wasn't in the mood to pose for them.

My daughters the purse models

The whole idea as to why I have taken pictures of my kids with a vintage older than dirt green purse is not important :) However, I thought some of them turned out absolutely adorable to I am going to post a ton of pictures of my kids. I am kind of glad my kids are girls because Sean had to take some pictures too and he looked a little fruity in his!!!! Emily loves purses of all kinds and at the age of 2 had her first Coach purse(not purchased by me for the record!).

The carefree look at my purse pose

Sophia taking a snooze

Emily's runway walk with the purse

 Emily taking a moment from modeling to check out what's on tv

 Emily's "I am done posing for you Mommy look." But notice she still has a death grip on the purse.

The Joys of Storytime-Super Long But pics at the end :)

Basically if you want to have any sort of fun around here for free you have to go to the library. Weird thought, I know. I NEVER thought I would go to the library for activities & to just play with their puzzles. I mean, we have puzzles at home but for some reason at the library Emily puts the pieces in them & then puts them away vs at home where the pieces are just everywhere. While our libraries(we have 3 we can go to) have some sort of free toddler storytime/craft time every single day I limit us to two times a week for my own sanity. On Thursdays is the two & three year old story/craft time and thankfully Ed is usually off so I take Emily by herself for some Mommy & Emily time to make sure she feels special still. Its a hit or miss on if she is going to behave & love it or just be a complete mess. Usually its either she's very good for the storytime part & then freaks out during craft or is wiggly & obnoxious during storytime & rocks the craft. This week was wiggly during storytime & she totally LOVED the craft. As a mother I was so excited when our craft did not involve a glue stick as Emily just likes to use it like a crayon & not for its original purpose. It was a jingle bell necklace! How freaking cool is that. Emily totally wanted to help me put all the beads & jingle bells on & actually was very cooperative with letting me do a color/bell pattern. And of course she had to put it on the minute it was done & actually ended up wearing it the rest of the day, yes even naptime.  I think we finally got it off of her for bedtime.


Then on Fridays since Ed works and just one day a week didn't seem like enough since we have nothing better to do I take both kids to baby/toddler storytime. This one is a little different where they do more songs, shorter books, dances, and parent/child reading time. Oh, plus bubbles which is Emily's favorite part. Its so exciting to see how far Emily has come with this storytime. I started taking her when I was pregnant & all she wanted to do was run away to go play with the toys after five minutes. Then it was 10 straight, then 15, then 20, & FINALLY she would participate for the whole 30 minutes. I love that she does the motions & is starting to be able to answer the questions the woman asks. How do I accomplish this task since for those of you who know Emily & her past history of running at storytime? Well, right now thankfully Sophia either sits or sleeps contently in her carrier in my super huge stroller that is a pain in the butt. What's gonna happen when Sophia isn't happy in there anymore.....NO CLUE!

Also, on a side note. While its awesome that Emily is potty trained, it sucks with two kids at these ages. So during storytime Emily says POTTY. I am just like seriously, are you kidding me? So I start to drag my super huge needs to be oiled up because its squeaking & the tires aren't moving like they should stroller across the room because the other moms decided to sit by the door when I got there so I had to go all the way farthest from the door. Then the pregnant woman who sits in a chair(which is fine with me but for the record I sat on the ground with my kid at 9 months pregnant :) ) put her chair smack dab in the doorway. Really? Come on. So as I am trying to avoid peoples feet & kids to get out of the room and get stuck at the door, the pregnant woman kind of looked at me like I ain't moving honey. So thankfully, the other moms are like we will watch her for you just go. I had a thought of I wonder if I should but Sophia was sleeping, not doing anything bad & I can get Emily to the potty & back in 2 minutes without Sophia vs the probably 5 or more if I have to drag her too. Thank you other mom's!

So after another successful outing with two young kids by myself I was in the parking lot loading my kids up next to another Mom. I had put Emily in the car first(for safety) & then went around the other side to put Sophia in, the other Mom had her kid on that side so I decided to get the stroller put away first, then I picked Sophia up & figured I could get the door open & put her in too. I put two kids & a stroller away before this Mom had her one. She then stops me & is like, how do you do it? I can barely handle my one(realizing I totally schooled her on putting kids in the car). My response is quite simple: You just learn to deal with it.

Now for some pictures of my sometimes absolutely sweet & adorable kids. First up Sophia's monthly pictures.

One month:

Two months:

Three months:

And my babies together today after storytime. Emily thought it was awesome I let her put her arm around Sophia. She didn't want to move it!!!

Thanksgiving-Part 1 & Part 2

This year we only had one stop planned for Thanksgiving. I was looking forward to only having to travel 10 minutes away since you never know how two young children are going to handle the stress of so many people around. Unfortunately, it didn't turn out exactly like planned. Ed woke up with a migraine that morning. This sucked on multiple levels. 1) I seriously wanted to do some shopping since I wasn't going to be able to on Black Friday so I figured I'd shop a few stores on Thanksgiving instead. 2) He was not well enough by the time we had to head to my Grandma's so yet again, its me & my two kids all by myself.

I decided to head to one store with both kids in tow. It wasn't terribly crowded. We managed to grab the stuff I wanted but then of course with a full cart Emily had to go potty. This is definitely when two adults is more handy than one. We survived, checked out Santa's Winter Wonderland & Emily enjoyed it because Santa had not arrived yet. I really wish Ed could have gone because there would have been no wait to see Santa unlike the other night when we were there.  Oh well. We went home & I then got everyone ready to go, well except for Ed who was still milking his migraine.

We headed over to Grandma Gato's & it was a light crowd of 25 this year instead of the usual 50. It was strange to be able to walk around & not bump into someone every second. I think the kids enjoyed the fact that they could run around too but they spent most of their time in the back room playing or on the organ. Sophia was happy just being passed around & Emily actually did eat some corn, potatos, & fruit. She held up pretty well considering the festivities were during nap time. Sorry there are no pictures, didn't even think about it because it was just me.

I did manage to take a few pictures of Sophia when we got home. She was a little tuckered out at first:

But then I gave her a bottle & she perked up

Even though I brought Ed home a plate of leftovers, which is was completely able to eat by the time I got home(its a miracle isn't it?). I could tell he was upset he didn't get the "fresh" meal so I offered to make Thanksgiving for him on Saturday since we already had a turkey in the freezer. Ed was in charge of the turkey & then made himself in charge of the stuffing because he wanted White Castle stuffing & wanted in the bird(I am not a fan of the cleaning or putting stuff in the bird...bleh). So we had turkey(which seriously turned out so juicy it was like one of those tv turkeys), white castle stuffing which turned out awesome, corn, green bean casserole, mashed potatos/gravy, homemade cranberry sauce because apparently Ed has an aversion to the jelly stuff, & homemade bread. And then contrary to what you might think, no we did not have a Costco pumpkin pie(mainly because I wasn't making a trip there in the short time) so I made us a pumpkin pie as well. The meal was fantastic & Ed got his Thanksgiving, just a few days late.

Emily vs Sophia

Posting to motivate myself to start blogging again!

Still here & ready to blog again!