8 months and First day of school!

My sweet little Mickey-Mickey Michaela, booger, peanut, beat(Adah's nick name for her), sit-ter(Adah's nick name for her), M&M.....we love you so much!  I CAN NOT believe that you are 8 months old already!  You are my little dare devil...my fearless one!  You have the cutest big brown eyes and the cutest craziest curly dark hair!  You are a very quite little lady but boy do you like to move!  You started to crawl when you turned 7 months old...you started to pull up at 6 1/2 mths if you were near something but now that you can crawl you are pulling up and diving over everything!  I can sit you down and you are gone in the blink of an eye!  You are the complete opposite of your sister....you barely say a word and she is NEVER quite!  You are a BIG mommies girl!  You cry the minute I walk in the room and someone else has you...if I hand you to someone you whine and reach for me....you love your momma but your momma sure loves you!  You want to do everything your big sister does and you think she is so funny!  You still won't eat baby food...you will gum bread, watermelon, cantaloupe, etc but WILL NOT eat ANYTHING from a spoon!  You actually have an appointment to see a speech therapist early September to see if they can see if you have a swallowing problem....you are also slightly tongue tied and so they want to see if that is playing a factor!  You still have not taken a bottle...you will throw a complete tantrum if I try and give you one....we have even had others try and you will not have it!  You are my little boob baby but you are wearing me out!  Nursing you at 8mths every 3 hours is exhausting but I love every minute we get to spend together!  You are such a sweety!  We just love you to death!  You are now wearing size 3 diapers and are about 17 lbs!  You wear size 6-12 or 9 mth clothes.  You go to bed around 7:30 and wake anytime btw 11:30 and 1 and then again around 5 but usually go back down til 7:30 or 8!  You have the cutest little grin and the best crinkly nose smile!  I just can't get enough of you and neither and your big sister...your daddy loves you very much too and you LOVE to nap on him when he is home and not being dragged around by your big sister!  You are such a joy to each of us and we love you more than words!  Can't to see what you learn next...

Adah, Adah, Sweet Potatah!  You are my firecracker ball of energy!  I can not believe you have started preschool!  You are such a big girl!  You had your first day of school last Wednesday and it was a little rough on both of us!  I did as much as I could to talk about it and try to prepare you....we read Llama Llama misses mama and I told you that just like Mama llama came back that I would come back.  You wore your special dress from Nana and Gpa and looked like an absolute doll!  You were so excited and when we got to school you played in the lobby with all your friends...then it was time...I handed you over to your teacher Mrs. Dawn and you lost it and so did I!  They made me walk away immediately and so I went to the one way window and just watched you scream and cry for me..it was the saddest thing bc I just wanted to come pick you up and let you know that it was all going to be okay.  As I was leaving my heart was breaking bc all I could hear was you yelling mommy mommy mommy!  I was busy getting the tire on the car fixed and printing pictures for daddy while you were at school so I didnt have much chance to be sad.  I went back a little early so that I could watch you through the window...when I got there you were all out on the playground and you were sitting on a blanket under the tree with a little friend..I stayed hidden so that you didn't see me and once ya'll got in I went and watched through the window...you were not crying so that was good and you seemed to really be happy!  As soon as the first mom went to the door to pick up their kid though you started to cry...I guess you really wanted your momma!  You ran to me SO fast...not gonna lie I was giddy with excitement to pick you up!  After school we went out to lunch with your BFF Hayden and his mom Nikki!

Mommy and Daddy love you two more than anything in the world!  MUAH!

(pictures to come....)

Love my girls!

I don't ever seem to have time to update! We are keeping really busy and only have 1 more full week before Adah starts preschool! Daddy got home this past week so we are soaking up the little bit of time we have with him! Adah is smarter and more beautiful everyday! She never fails to make me laugh and piss me off....I love her more than words! Michaela is changing so much and LOVES her mommy! We are going through quite a phase of separation anxiety! It's wearing me out! She is now mobile!!!! She can pull to standing, go from laying down to sitting up, and can scoot/turn on her belly to get any and everywhere fast! She gets in the crawling position all the time but can only go backwards! She still won't eat baby food...we have an appointment for her to see a doc next week and they said they may send us to an occupational therapist and are going to see if she is tongue tied!

That's about it for now! Going to do more house work and hang with the hubby!

Lately....

I am such a blog slacker!  It seems that I just don't have time anymore now that we are back on a sea tour (for those that don't know what means, Josh is now stationed on a submarine again and goes on deployment) and I have 2 little ones!  It is a bit of a change from the last time we were on a sea tour!  I am counting down the days until we are on shore duty again(when Josh doesn't go out to sea for a while)....July 2013 I'm waiting on you! :)

We have finally settled into our new home for now in St. Mary's, Georgia!  We are LOVING the south, the weather, the community, the friends we are making, etc!  The girls and I have been staying pretty busy going to the pool, playdates, bounce houses, shopping, to the beach, the zoo, etc!  We haven't made it to Disney yet (its only 2.5hrs away) cause we want to go with daddy for the first time!

Speaking of Daddy.....we are so missing him!  We CAN NOT WAIT for him to be home with us!

We have also been keeping busy with several visitors and are about to have a few more that we are super excited about!

The girls are growing so much!  The three of us are having so much fun together but get pretty annoyed with one another...I think Mommy and Adah need a break hahaha!  I love my baby girls more than life but being a single mommy of 2 is for the birds!

August is going to be another busy month of visitors and on August 17 Adah starts preschool!  Her and I are really excited about it!  She talks everyday about going to school and I know she is going to learn so much!  They even help in potty training her!  She is beyond ready for potty training but this mommy just doesn't want to tackle that a lone!  Adah will be attending preschool at a local church and is in a class with 7 other kids her age....5 of the 7 are already friends of ours so I am hoping the transition to leaving her alone will go smoothly for her...I on the other hand will be a HOT mess!

That is about it for now...I know I have some pics to post but I am too tired to sit and upload them tonight!  Maybe i'll get to that this weekend...maybe not...who knows!

Stay cool!

7mths

Sweet little M and M, you are 7 months old!  I can't even believe it!  You have changed so much over the last month and are becoming such a little girl with your own little personality!  Here are some things you are up to:

-17lbs
-you won't eat solids!  We have tried EVERYTHING and you just gag and cry!  You only want mommies milk and you ONLY want it fresh from mommy!  (Your killing me kid ;))
-you are pulling up to standing
-you get into the crawling position and rock
-you dive for EVERYTHING
-you LOVE your sister and ya'll have the best time just laughing at each other
-you are no longer swaddled(just recently)
-you no longer like to sleep in your crib...you want mommy to hold you or you want to sleep with mommy
-you are still have bowl issues....you had to go to the doctor bc you went 10 days w/o pooping!  You now will go 5 days or so without pooping!
-you babble ALOT...mamamama, dadadada, etc
-you still don't have any teeth
-you are still in the infant carrier so that you can sit right next to your sister and laugh
-you love to ride in the ergo
-you love the stroller...you fall asleep everytime
-you got stung my a wasp in two places on your neck
-you got your first boo-boo(mommy hit your head on the corner of the table)
-size 2 diapers
-size 3-6,6 and 6-9 month clothes
-SUPER ticklish

You are such a happy, beautiful baby girl!  Mommy and daddy love you so much!  You are such a good baby the majority of the time and you just go with the flow!  Your big sister Adah adores you and loves to make you laugh and take care of you!  We love you so much sweet pea and look forward to watching you grow and learn!