summer fun and last minute trips!

Here are a few pictures to play catch up with!  Adah is really enjoying being outside...naked and/or in a bathing suit...eating popsicles and snow cones(Thanks Nina and Gpa for the snow cone machine)....playing in her pool from Aunt Kaki!

These next few are just some random ones of M from our last minute weekend trip to VA to visit Josh since we had not seen him in a month!  We miss daddy bunches!

This is a little idea of what Adah did all weekend in VA......

....she ate candy with daddy and was glued to his hip...that is once she got over being shy toward him at first!

Here is the only picture we got on fathers day of daddy with his two girls!  His first Fathers day with 2!  These three are my world!  I love all three of them SOOOO much!

While we were in VA we got to see our good friends the Byers who we miss soooo much! 

This is M and baby Emmy....baby Emmy is 3 1/2 weeks younger than M!

Me and steph!  We had too much fun this night!  Miss you...hurry up and move to GA already....tell Joel to tell the Navy you wanna move to the south and then we can just move back to TX together!

These two love each other!  Adah sure has missed caitlyn!

Adah opening her birthday present from Caitlyn!

Me Steph and Nikki!

Hayden, Adah and Caitlyn enjoying ice cream and their own kiddie sized booth!  Too cute!

Two years and six months!

Wow have I got a lot of blogging to catch up on...but rather play catch up I will just do one post with a short synopsis of what has been going on in the Dishmon House!

End of April-Beginning of May:  Me and the girls took a 2 week trip to Texas to spend some time with family and let everyone meet little miss M!  While we were there we celebrated Adah's 2nd birthday with both sides of our families!  My brother Justin and his wife Lindsay were kind enough to open up their home for the big bash!  We had so much fun and they even got a big bounce house for the kids to play in which Adah LOVED!  The only thing missing was Josh(dada)...that will be the same for the majority of the events that occur from here on out!

May:  Adah officially turned 2 on May 12...the day the packers came to pack our stuff up!  Lucky my parents were able to come out and help so that I did not have to do it alone with both girls!  May 15 we headed out of Virginia for the REAL south-Georgia!  We got to our new home and had 9 days with Josh and my parents to get our stuff and try and get as much unpacked as possible!  My parents and Josh left and my Aunt Kathy came and helped me finish unpacking and decorating...and site seeing!  We are beyond blessed with all the help we got and our wonderful family you came to help!


June:  We have spent the past month making new friends and getting to know the area more!  We are taking FULL advantage of our country club pool and I'm pretty sure Adah is going to grow gills by the end of the summer!  If we could just get rid of all the awful smoke and fires that are near by us bc there are a lot of days that we can't go outside bc the smoke is too thick...so thick that we can't see the neighbors house across the street...try explaining to a 2 year old that they can't go outside and play bc they will choke to death! :/  This past weekend we made a last minute trip up to Virginia to visit Josh!  I was SOOOO good to see him after being away from him for an entire month!  Today June 22, Michaela turned 6 months old!  I can hardly believe that she is half a year!

What the girls are up to:

Adah:
-non stop talking machine
-can say and repeat any and everything
-can count to 14 in english and spanish
-can say thank you and your welcome in spanish
-up, down, jump, push, dog, etc all in spanish and in the correct context
-jump with 2 feet off the ground
-learning her colors
-knows basic shapes
-can say the alphabet
-asks what and who everyone and thing is
-says "may I please be excused" to get down from eating after every meal
-says NO way too much
-is very bossy and tries to be her friends mommies
-loves to see M in the morning and runs to look for her
-loves to take care of and love on M
-when she is excited about something she says "oh boy I so excited...its my birfday"
-when scared she will count out loud in spanish until she gets away from what she is scared of(weird I know)
-when she walks out of her room in the am she always says "look at all Adah's toys...their so bootiful"
-at 2 years and 2 weeks at is a little over 36inches tall and 30lbs....she is perfectly proportioned!

Michaela
-started sitting up the day after Josh left us in GA after moving here(around her 5 mth bday)
-she is a rolling machine
-we accidentally weaned her off her reflux medicine but she is just fine without it
-she wants NOTHING to do with solid foods
-nurses every 3 hours
-still waking once at night and then for a early feeding(then goes back down for 30min to an hour)
-sleeps swaddled with one arm out
-VERY ticklish
-she finally decided to take a paci when my mom gave her one on the car ride down to GA
-she goes to bed SOO easy
-loves her mobile in her crib
-at 6 months M is a little over 26 inches tall and 16 lbs!

These first few pics are from Joe's crab shack in VA...we had a joint party with another little girl friend of Adah's, Hannah!

 Hannah and Adah...The birthday girls!

 All the kids!

 Adah and her favorite boy Ben....Hannah's brother...she calls him boy!

 Joe's crab shack sang happy birthday and made her wear this big tie!

 Adah enjoying her pool on our screened in back patio = lanai!  Thank you for the pool Aunt Kaki!

 Little miss M hanging out watching her sister eat breakfast!

 Adah got jealous that I was taking pictures of M and asked me to take pictures of her eating her cereal!

Wow!

I haven't blogged in over a MONTH!  I have SO much to catch up on!  So much has happened in the past month and I promise to do a full post on each of the major events....we took a trip to Texas for 2 weeks and celebrated Adah's 2nd Bday with family....moved to GA....Adah turned 2....Michaela turned 5 months...we had a great time having Gpa, Nana and Aunt Kaki visit us in GA....and sadly we had to say goodbye to dada for a LONG time :(  I just wanted to let those wondering that we are still alive and I PROMISE to update with pictures of the girls and the new house soon!

Michaela is 4 months old!

My sweet little M&M!  You have grown, changed and done so much this past month!  You are such a beautiful little girl....and the spitting image of your daddy!  Here is what you are up to:

-you love to smile
-mommy can make you laugh a lot and so can sister!
-you can grab and play with toys
-you talk A LOT
-you are drooling like CRAZY
-you still hate your car seat
-you took your first plane ride to Texas
-you HATE to lay flat...you will to a complete crunch just trying to sit up on your own
-you can usually only stay awake for an hour and a half at a time
-you take 1 to 2 long naps a day (2-3hours long) and the rest are only 30mins long
-you go to bed around 7:30 and you are getting so much easier to put to sleep...but you are still a lot of work...but it is getting better
-you usually wake 1 time at night to eat and then btw 6am and 7am to eat and stay up for the day/morning
-you are nursing really good still and you eat every 3 hours
-we had to increase your reflux medicine and you are now at the highest dose but it seems to still be working and the doctor said that you should be over this by 6 or 7 months!
-you LOVE to stand
-you have to be facing out when held...you hate to just look at one person!

That is all I can think of right now!  Mommy and daddy love you so very much little M!  We can't imagine our life without you in it and we can't wait to see the little girl / women you grow into!