Smiles!

I promise, underneath those cheeks and above those chins, there is a smile in there.

Lowes Food Tour

Friday we went on a tour of Lowes Food grocery store with our joy school group. They talked about heathly snacks and smart eating. Ironically, Emily was asking me for a "pop pop" (lollipop) the whole time because that is what I give her while I am grocery shopping. It was a really cute tour and they had healthy snacks for them in the different departments. Then they got to go in the freezer in the back of the store that was 10 degrees below zero. Brrrr!

Obviously Emily was used to getting so many snacks on the tour, that she thought she was supposed to eat the sign too! Gross!

Thanks Erin for setting up all these fun tours. We look forward to them!

SNOW

Even though I had my doubts about the predictions... it snowed! I think we got about 6 inches. I showed Emily the snow when she woke up and she said "Snowman. Santa." I had to explain that Santa wasn't coming again, but we could build a snowman. I kept waiting for the snow to stop coming down before we went out. I am glad I waited because Andy called to say his branch was closing at 2 pm, so he came home to play with us in the snow. I had to get creative for Emily's snow clothes, she was wearing 4 layers, but she lasted a lot longer than I thought she would and LOVED it. She didn't like walking in it and just wanted to sit there and throw it, which was fine by me. And we made a baby snowman.

We went picture crazy...

And of course, we had to document Sarah's first snow. She made out to the front porch for about 3 seconds.

Marbles

Andy took the day off on Friday, just for the fun of it and so he could have an extra long weekend since he had MLK Day off. So we decided to spend the morning at Marbles Kids Museum. We had fun, but it probably would have been more fun if we had some friends there too.

Sarah had fun too... I don't think she even opened her eyes once while we were there. We are so lucky to have such a good baby!

Mommy Emily

Emily is such a great mommy! I am always finding her baby on Sarah's playmat or in her bassinet or bouncy seat. Here are some pics of her taking care of "Emmie's Baby":

Giving baby a ball to play with

Getting baby ready to eat

Nursing her baby

Giving baby a bath

Taking baby on a walk.

Obviously her mommy skills are better than her fashion sense - that is a glove on one hand and sock on the other. However I am the only one to blame for that HAIR!

Best Friend

The other day I asked Emily "Who is your best friend?"

She said, "Noah. Nick."

(2 of her cousins)

And who wouldn't want these 2 ninjas to be their best friend??!

We miss you two! (And we miss our other non-ninja cousins too)

Losing my mind..

Well I haven't lost my mind... yet. But here is a list of things I have lost in the last 2 months:

• Driver's License (this was actually more than 2 months ago)


• Wallet (found at Dairy Queen- after calling twice looking for it)


• Temple Recommend (just found in my jewelry box after getting it replaced)


• Retainers (have had these for 15 yrs after my braces - $600 to replace)


• Brown belt


• 1 silver earring

• Pair of sunglasses


• numerous baby socks


• my free time at night since Sarah is up until 11 pm and just wants to be held!!! This one hurts the most, well maybe the $600 retainers hurts a little more.

However I have found something recently. I have found out that I CAN love another baby as much as I love Emily. AWWWW!

Sarah @ 2 months

Sarah hit the 2 month mark on Sunday. At her dr's appointment, she weighed 11lbs 9 oz. She was in the 75th percentile!!! Woo Hoo! It is fun having a "big" baby that has such cute cheeks and things that I love to nuzzle on. However Emily was in the 50th percentile at her 2 month check up. It wasn't until the 4 month that she started going down, so we will see how Sarah turns out.

At 2 months, Sarah...

smiles a lot

has started to coo

loves to fall asleep in mommy's arms or on her shoulder

slept for 7 hours one night, but is back to waking up every 3 -4 hours

has a strawberry birth mark on the bottom of her face

gets stories read to her by Emily

is great in the car and when we are out and about

I tried to take some pics to document the 2 month mark, however I have learned that it takes more than a nice camera to get a good shot. It might help if I wasn't trying to prop up a baby that can't hold herself up while fighting off a 2 year old that wants to get in the picture.

Catch Up

OK, I am trying to play catch up here.

Let's start with New Year's Eve... we spent it with lots of Boney's and had a yummy breakfast dinner. And guess who stayed up until midnight??! Yes, we let our 2 year old stay up. We were going to go home early, but she was having fun with Simon and his cousins and we were watching the UNC game. She did pretty good until 12 when she started dancing and tripped over a toy. What a way to bring in the new year!

Then that weekend we went down to my dad's for our Christmas exchange and the to watch the UNC game.

Don't you love Andy and his Carolina girls??! Unfortunately these cheerleaders didn't cheer loud enough and they lost. And today we are down right now against Wake. I am seriously stressing that my girls are going to wake up with all the yelling Andy is doing. (And Tom I will delete your comment if you post smack about this game!)

This week we went to Petco for a tour with the playgroup. I had been trying to get Emily excited about petting a snake. However she had no desire to pet the parrot, snake or breaded dragon. But she was all about petting the furry animals... ferret, guinea pig and chinchilla (none of which we will EVER have as pets! Do you hear that Nana??) On a side note, my neice, who my mom did buy a guinea pig for, walks it on a leash and carries it in a purse around the house. Is that not hilarious??! Anyways, Emily has an animal book with a pictures of all the animals she petted, so she loves pointing them out now. I had no idea what a chinchilla even was. The tour was really fun (thanks Erin for setting it up)! Afterwards we had lunch at Chick Fila and all the girls looked so cute eating lunch together. And I really enjoyed chatting with the other mommies

So Emily had a little sticker fun with Sarah while I was in the shower. However I was very glad that she didn't get pu t any on her face. If this is the worst thing she does it Sarah, I think we are going to be OK! However Sarah doesn't really look like she appreciated the stickers.