Fall fun

Adah's preschool class had a field trip yesterday to Conner's Ah-Maze-ing Acres!  We had so much fun spending the day with all her friends in the beautiful weather!  There were so many fun things to do there  such as animal petting, train rides, hay rides to feed cows, pools of corn for the kids to play in, horse back riding, pumpkin picking, etc!  Michaela was quite the trooper unless I was putting her on the ground or near pumpkins, grass or hay!  Evidently Fall is not her time of year....that or she hates all things outdoors!  Here are a few pictures from our day:

This is from the day before, we had a park play date!

 My two little piggies and a big hay piggie!

 Adah and her teacher Mrs. Dawn!

 Part of her 2 year old class!

 ...with Mrs. Dawn!

Big Girl

Adah has officially moved to a big girl bed!  Yesterday while she was busy watching a show I converted her crib to a toddler bed!  I can't believe actually did it!  I was sure that she was going to be in a crib until she was 18!  Josh and I made the decision to go ahead a switch her because he is home for a little bit and can help me transition her and also because we want to start to potty train her before too long and want her in a toddler bed when we do so!

Much to my surprise she did GREAT!  Now I know she will have her days and nights when she doesn't want to nap or go to bed and will get out 100+ times but for the first time she did SO good and we are so proud of her!  She went to bed last night so excited to be a big girl in a big girl bed and didn't get up until I went in to get her at 7:15 this morning!  Today at nap she didn't want to nap but stayed in her bed for 25 mins playing until she fell asleep!  She did hang her feet out at one point early on and I just went in and told her that it was time to sleep not play and she pulled them back in and laid there until she fell asleep!  She is currently asleep and has been for about an hour now!  Here is so hoping EVERY day is this easy!  RIGHT!

I love you my big girl Adah Potatah!

Happy 9 Months Mickey Moo!

Mickey Moo Bear!  We love you so very much!  We can NOT believe that you are already NINE MONTHS old!  Its crazy!  I still feel like you are so little!  Maybe that is because you never ate baby food or maybe because your sister is just getting so big too!  You can't be 9 months!  You can't be almost a YEAR!  I want you to stay tiny FOREVER!  You are so sweet and have such a great personality!  You are SO DIFFERENT from your sister!  You still love your mommy VERY much and you DO NOT like to be away from me!  You follow your big sister EVERYWHERE!  You LOVE to take things from her and you like to have EVERYTHING she has and it has already caused some BIG fights!  You are quite the adventurous one....you don't care how tall, wide or big something is because if it is in your way then you WILL climb/dive over/on it to get where you want!  You are cruising like crazy around everything and you even will let go and stand on your own!  You look so silly because you are just too tiny to be doing that!  You FINALLY got your first tooth on the 10th...its your bottom front left!  You went to speech therapy and have been evaluated by a dentist because you are tongue tied and they were concerned that it was what was causing you to not eat solids and they are afraid that it could cause some speech problems as you get older!  The dentist is wonderful and doesn't want to rush into anything so we are going to wait and see if by you getting teeth and working your tongue out more will cause it to stretch and to fix itself without having to get it cut!  You will be evaluated again by the dentist in December!  You say ma-ma A LOT especially when you really want to get my attention or want me to hold you!  If I tell you "no" for any reason you stick your bottom lip out and sit down on your booty and just start crying....its quite pathetic!  You LOVED to be chased!  If anyone, including big sister gets down and crawls toward you and says "I'm gonna get you" you grin real big and start to crawl away!  You LOVE to sneak away from me when I change your clothes or diaper and you think it is hilarious when I pull you back to me by your ankles!  You are such a happy baby and you are SO ticklish!  You also started to sleep through the night this past week and I AM LOVING IT!  I put you down between 7 and 7:30 and you sleep until 7 or 7:30 in the morning!  You are SO easy to put to bed and nap!  All I do is hold you and sing you a song and lay you down awake and you just go to sleep!  You do sleep with a paci or two! ;)  We go next week to the doctor for your 9 month check up to see how you are growing height and weight wise!  You are still in size 3 diapers and in 6-12 or 9 month clothes!  You have started to eat solids but still have yet to eat from a spoon and will absolutely NOT eat anything pureed or mushy!  You HAVE to have what we are eating or you will throw a fit!  You are so good at eating just about everything we eat...I guess you just gum it to death!

Sweet little M you complete our little family and we love you our little M&M!  Can't wait to see what the next months bring!  Now to start planning your first birthday!!!!

(oh, and a little request from your mommy...can you PLEASE start taking a sippy or bottle!  You are killing me over here!  I mean don't get me wrong I LOVE nursing you but give mommy a break!  Its been 9 months..don't you want something else! :)  You are still eating every 3 hours during the day but mommy would like to be able to get away now and then!

***I ask that you do NOT take these pictures and post them ANYWHERE on the internet without our permission!  Josh nor I want the girls pictures posted all over!  We will also be making our blog private soon for that reason so if you would like access please comment with your email and I will send you an invite to view the blog!***

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....)