Thursday, October 30, 2008

She's here. She's there. She's EVERYWHERE!!!

You may be wondering what it takes to make a baby sleep so peacefully....we have put together a little photo essay to show you.......
First off...it's very VERY exhausting being this darn cute...
I have to check the doggy food and water levels........several times a day.
I must make sure the straps of my car seat are straight...
I have to make sure the mirror at the other end of this LONG hallway is clean...
I have to make sure there are no cobwebs under the coffee table...
And when mommy "attempts" to barricade me in the living room with sofa cushions and car seats because she is waiting to get into the new house before buying baby gates....well I of course have to find a hole that I can escape from.
I must test the strength of our moving boxes...by standing halfway up and holding onto them.
And those are just a few of my daily chores -- I hope this has helped you to realize why I am so spent at naptime.







Princess Ella Grace











Sunday, October 26, 2008

HEEEEELLLPPP......DOES ANYONE KNOW???

I think a page is missing from my baby owners manual and I can't seem to find the volume button on these babies -- I've looked everywhere. Please help........if you know!!!

Chunky Punkys

We went to Punkys Pumpkin Patch today...and it didn't go exactly as I had envisioned. I mean I didn't picture E Squared frolicking amongst the rows of pumkins and guords.....of course only because they are still too small to frolick. I guess I did imagine them being somewhat cooperative for the photo shoot....I mean they usually have no problem humoring me.....I guess the noisy little radio flyer wagon wheels and wheelbarrows were too much for them...they stared at everything but my camera. They are both so curious these days but Edie being more mobile has a F.I.T. if you try to hold her back from adventure. Ella likes to lay back and take it all in........

Edie wants to go get em.......
Edie saying......"I'm outta here"......

Mommy may have been the only one who had a good time........









Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Owls and Mummies and Grumpassauri. Oh my!

Edie is getting around quite effectively these days. She is VERY good at crawling. The only trick for her is slip sliding on the wood floor - but that doesn't stop her! Here she is picking out a toy from the basket...
Here is Edie pretending to be a mummy...
...and an owl
Ella was a little jealous...she wanted to be the owl...

If Ella were a dinosaur she would be a Grumpasaurus...
WrestleMania.......












Monday, October 20, 2008

Babies.....ready to ship!!!

We had a little photo shoot here today for our "moving" cards......Edie and Ella seem to enjoy sitting inside of a box. Here are a couple of the pictures that I took today....too funny!!!



A BIG Birthday shout out!!!!!!!!




Friday, October 17, 2008

New skills galore..........

Well it's not that we have purposely been holding out on posting new pictures...or even taking new pictures for that matter. We have been quite busy around here with packing, working, crawling, teething, "tripod" sitting, etc......things are moving. And they are quick. Edie Claire is fairly mobile. I know, I know can you believe THAT. She is crawling on all fours now...she said so long to the army crawl several days ago -- she is on the G.O. Ella seems to be content just watching for now......though she does scoot and roll quite effectively. She also seems to be just a few steps behind Edie on the mobility front so we should be able to expect her up and about shortly. Their little personalities are so different. Edie is ALL OVER THE PLACE. She is as curious as they come... if she sees something that she wants she goes after it. Ella is just as curious but less proactive about going for it......I guess she prefers the "wait n see" approach.
For those who know both Jon and I.....the best way to describe them is this:

Edie looks EXACTLY like her daddy and is "high strung" like here daddy....
Ella looks more like her mommy and is laid back like her mommy.....

OK now that you are all done laughing...for those of you who don't know us.....I was right on with the looks description but I am actually the "high strung" one and Jon is sooooooooo laid back!!!
Now on with the good stuff......I will preface these pictures with a warning of sorts.....there are far less of Ella this go 'round simply because she is doing less snap worthy things.........
Ella Grace loves, loves to smile.......
Now this may be just motherly (and fatherly because Jon agrees) love but we love the back of Ellas head....it's so small and she has all that adorable hair......SEE
Now Edie (actually both of them) love to chew on things......goes with the teething I guess. She is not choosy......she likes fingers........
She likes toes.........(don't worry they were freshly washed)
She likes bibs........
Here is Edie almost all the way sitting.......isn't she a genius?????
Here's mommies attempt at helping her to sit with the 2 boppy prop......don't try this at home. It worked out better in my head than in real life.....but I assure you no babies were hurt in the process...........







Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Nutty Birthday wishes....

Even though most of you who read my blog are what we in the blogosphere call "lurkers" -- I have a HUGE favor to ask. One of my bloggy buddies Shannon has a birthday today and AAALLLLLLLLL she wants is for people to leave a birthday wish in her comments. That is not too much to ask.......now is it??? Today was her 100th post and she wants to get 100 birthday wishes........so head on over PLEASE to http://www.shannonsnuthouse.blogspot.com and leave her a comment.

Monday, October 13, 2008

7 months.....how did this happen???

Well I have been a bad mommy this week and have totally slacked on snapping pictures -- we (read I) have been busy packing and throwing away a bunch of absolute CRAP. How on earth can 2 people accumulate so much stuff? Of course Jon blames me... and he MAY be mostly right but I'll never admit it. What can I say.......I like stuff. I am far from being a hoarder but I do have way more stuff than I could ever possibly use/need. So anyway needless to say I have NO new pictures for you and for that I am so sorry. I will assure you that Edie and Ella are both cuter than the last time you saw pictures of them........you will just have to take my word for now and I promise to get some cute pics of them very, very soon and put them up here. Since we are entering their seventh month I thought I would share with you 7 fun things I have learned during this time......

1. Babies are adorable. FOR A REASON!
2. Dimpled baby bottoms. Cute.
Dimpled mommy bottoms. Not so much.
3. Some babies just don't sleep through the night. No matter how much you feed them.
4. If a baby hasn't rolled completely over yet by 6 months a sure fire way to make it happen is
to leave them unattended on a bed.
5. The advice keeps coming and gets better and better......
6. Bulb syringe. Not a babies friend.
7. It is not possible to love 2 people more than I love E Squared. It's an unbelievably amazing experience -- one that I was beginning to think I would not be able to have. I feel lucky every day to have these girls. They are so fun and adorable. I hope they know how much they are loved........I sure tell them often!!!

Thursday, October 9, 2008

One more........

Not sure what happened to this picture from my last post but it's actually my favorite......Dante is there on the right running hard to the finish line....if you click on the picture it should enlarge to get a better view of him........

On your mark......Get set......GO!!!

Edie and Ella had a great time yesterday at their very first cross country running meet. Our friend Dante had his last meet of the season so we headed out to watch him strut his stuff. It was a nice day out......fortunately. I usually have a great sense of direction and can be fairly organized......pre babies that is. I feel so scattered and messy nowadays. I was to meet by BFF Keleakai (Ds mommy... well Mom now that he is a cool teenager) at S.pring Lake for the run at 1:30... we finally made it to her at 2:20 because I went to the wrong lake and me, BOB and E Squared ended up walking the bazillion miles (in my 5 dollar Wal Mart flip flops)(which turn out to be quite comfortable) until we found them. The great news is that the girls ran first and we made it in plenty of time to see Dante run.......he came in 10th OVERALL for the entire season.....OUT OF 5 SCHOOLS!!!! Not too shabby if I do say so myself!!!
I had the wonderful idea of painting onesies for E squared to wear in support of Dante......Ella's said Dante and Edie's said Rocks........DANTE ROCKS. So when we FINALLY made it to the race and found Dante we held up the girls to show off their support and shouted out DANTE ROCKS.......well if someone could have told me beforehand that this would embarass the HELL out of an almost 13 year old boy that would have been nice. Sorry Dante!!! That growing up thing happened overnight......So I turned 21 (plus 13) yesterday and this little "embarass the teenager" incident really solidified for me that.........I'M ALL GROWN UP!!! CRAP!!!
Ella with K.eleakai.......
Isn't he gorgeous......

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU.......KRISTEN!!!

Because I know you are a faithful reader I figured this was the perfect place to give a shout out to you......I had every intention of calling you today to wish you a happy day BUT well.......sometimes things get busy around here. I did think of you often though so hopefully that counts........hope you had a great birthday!!! I am lucky to have you as a friend.

Nutritional teethers.......

I recently found some awesome ideas on another blog for things that can potentialy ease the discomfort of sore teething gums. E squared welcomed both with open arms.......
First we tried ice cold sugar free popsicles... well just see for yourself!!!
"you gonna eat that?"
Then we tried cold whole carrots (on a different day)... again, see for yourself...
Just 2 beauties posing for the camera..........aren't they lovely!!!
"mommy...Edie is touching me!!!"
Phew.......it's exhausting being this cute..........