Michaela is 1 month!

Sweet M&M,

How can it be that you are already 1 month old! We just love you to death and can't imagine life without you! You are just the cutest thing! We love seeing you and your sister together! You love to watch her and will usually smile! You dont like it when she lays on you or pushes you though!

What you are up to:

-pretty good sleeper and eater

-spit up a lot

-go 1 4 hour stretch btw feedings at night (3 hour sleep stretch)

-eat every 2-3 hours

-can usually stay awake for 45-1 hour including eating at a time

-have a strong neck

-super strong legs...love to stand and push off of us all the time

-the only thing that calms you is to be held/suspended in the air by your arm pits and bounced

-not much on not being held when awake

-hate the swing

-your ok with the bouncy

-nap good in your crib

-had your first outing to Kohls and Dillards when you were just 1 week old

-had your first ER visit when you were just a few days old for jaundice

-had an emergency dr visit on your 1 month birthday for an allergic reaction to something you came in contact with

-you weighed 9lbs 9oz when you went to the dr on 1/22! You definitely eating good and growing! You are still super skinny!

-still wear newborn and some 0-3 but they are super baggy

-newborn diapers

-you haven't slept in your crib at night yet bc we have had lots of visitors but mommy and daddy are more than ready...especially since sister was in hers at 2 weeks!

You are just as precious and beautiful as ever! We just can't get enough of you! All mommy needs to do now is teach you to be happy not being held all the time! :) We can't wait to see what you do and how you change in the next month! We love you sweet pea!

Some have asked about her name and what it means and were we got it so here it is:

Michaela: Josh's middle name is Michael and Michaela is the female form of Michael; meaning is one who is like God

Marie: since Adah has a family middle name and we all have middle names that start with M we figured we keep the trend! Marie comes from both of Michaela's living Grandmothers! Josh's grammie's middle name is Marie and my grandma's name is Mary and Marie is a form of Mary! So we wanted to honor both of them!

No words just pictures...enjoy!

20 months!

Adah, my little sweet potatah how in the world is it that you will be 2 in just 4 months! I can hardly believe how much you have grown in the last month and how much you know! You are so smart, strong willed, sassy, opinionated, sweet, loving, caring, sensative, demanding, etc! Daddy and I just love you to death! You are such a great big sister (most of the time)! You are very protective of Michaela when we are out in public and someone wants to look at her...you start to cry and say my baby, my baby! You wear mommy out everyday....you and your sister both do! We are so excited that our friends Nikki and Hayden live here now and we are gonna start going to My Gym with them so that you two can meet lots of friends and learn and play! It is exciting that they are finally here since Hayden's daddy is the opposite crew ENG(same job as Josh) on the same boat as daddy...that means you and Hayden will grow up with each other for the next 3 years at least! Its so exciting to finally have a friend that we won't have to leave in the next 6mths!

Here are some things you are up to now:

- can say and identify most of the alphabet

- can count and identify numbers 1-5

- you repeat EVERYTHING

- you talk NON stop

- you love to dance

- you love raisins

- almost able to jump

- just moved you up to size 5 diapers even though you could still wear 4's for a while

- you tell me when you have to poop or te-te....or when you already have

- funny thing: when M toots you have to announce it to the world

- you love to play ring around the rosy

- nap for 2 hours on average once a day

- you are as picky of an eater as your daddy

- you LOVE water to drink and would rather have that than anything else...you also have to have it when you go to bed and when you nap

- still love Dora

- obsessed with cereal still

- can walk up the stairs on your own(thank goodness) without using your hands

- still take a paci at night and nap

- you can communicate to us everything you want, need, don't want, whats wrong, and so much more

You are such a joy to watch each day and I am so thankful that I am able to be home with you! I love you more than words can say! I can't get enough of your squeezes and kisses! Mommy and daddy are so proud of you and can't wait to watch you learn and grow!

(I know she is doing so much more and there are more things I ment to share but I am exhausted and Josh just called and isn't coming home....so I'm off to take care of M and go to bed!)

After just getting a call from Josh saying he wasn't going to make it home, Adah always seems to find a way to make all worries and sadness go away! She insisted on wearing M's headband and proceeded to dance around the living room laughing! I almost wet my pants! I just love her to death!

My sweet potatah drooling as she watches Dora!
Reading...her favorite activity!
Adah and Michaela last Sunday morning....Adah insisted that M lay on the couch right next to her!
Here are a few of just Michaela:

My sweet girls!

Not much to say...not much new going on other than learning life with a newborn and a toddler! We are beyond tired with Josh back at work and waking up to start his day at 3:30 every morning and not getting home until 8pm or later it makes for long days and nights for me! Michaela has now decided that she likes to scream at night and not sleep so that is loads of fun! Here are a few pics of my precious girls!

Sweet little Mmm-kay-ya (as Adah calls her)!

Adah playing with my iphone! These are her first set of pig tails! I just love them but she wasn't too excited about them....then didn't last too long!


Adah wasn't sure what to do at first.....poor Michaela is falling over!
"Oh no mommy....make her stop crying!"
Such a good big sister, loving on her baby!