11 months and growing like weeds...

Mickey moo bear!  How can it be that you are 11mths?!?!  It just doesn't seem possible that you are almost 1!  I just love you to death and I am so excited about all you are doing and learning!  You are such a little dare devil and you keep me on my toes!  Your big sister Adah is quite the pill and beats you up pretty good but I think she better watch out bc you are one tough cookie and you are going to soon put her in her place!  Here are a few things you are up to this past month:

• you now have 2 teeth
• you are trying to walk, you can take 5 steps in a row before falling
• you are a BIG time mommy's girl
• you LOVE your sister and still get so excited to see her 
• you want to do everything your sister is doing
• you love to click your tongue 
• you say da-da, ma-ma, na-na and you try to say adah (uh-da)
• you learned to clap
• you learned to wave and you wave ALL THE TIME!  Instead of pointed at things you want you wave
• you have started to smile more at people instead of being so serious
• you wanted to make your last 2 days of 10mths exciting and you had your first real visit to the ER and were diagnosed with pneumonia just the other day and from that you had a bad allergic reaction and we found out you are allergic to penicillin
• you LOVE food...all of it!  You just hate being fed, you want to only eat things you can feed yourself

Michaela, we love you more than you could ever imagine!  You are such a joy and we could not imagine our lives without you!  You make all three of us smile everyday and we can't wait for you to wake up each morning or from nap so we can run in and see your precious smile and hear your excited squeak!  Now to start planning your first birthday party!

Here are a few pics to recap this past month for M:

She hates pumpkin patches

She loves to play peek a boo at the coffee table and sometimes eat it

Kid watching is one of her favorite hobbies

Doing some more kid watching and wishing she was big enough to play on the playground!

How could I leave out big sister Adah!  She is growing and changing so much too!  Now 2 1/2 she talks more and knows more than most!  She is one smart cookie!  She loves music and sings non stop in the car!  She knows all 100 songs on her kids cd!  She is loving school!  It is so neat to have her come home and amaze me with each new thing she learns from letters, to writing, songs, sign language, colors, etc!  She is officially potty trained!  It took us 1 week and she is a pro at it!  She no longer wants me in there with her or my help!  She is such a precious, sweet, loving, moody, bossy, loving girl!  She is a great big sister when she isn't trying to strangle M, tackle her or body slam her!  I just can't get enough of each of my girls!  I am truly blessed beyond anything I could have ever imagined! Who knew you could love two little people so much!  I thank God for them everyday!  

Isn't she beautiful!

 Adah's first daddy/daughter date night!  They went to chick fil a and got to go on a horse and carriage ride!  

 This girl LOVES to bounce!  She would bounce all day!  This was as her preschool fall festival!

 first time getting her face painted (at the festival)

 She won the cake walk!

Adah's preschool had the cutest little Thanksgiving feast last Friday!  All the kids painted "indian" shirts and the teachers were all pilgrims but little miss prissy didn't want to wear hers!

Adah and her teacher Mrs. Dawn!  She is honestly the best teacher!  She truly loves the kids and they LOVE her!  

We had a play date at the park this past week bc it is so nice/hot here!

Mickey moo is 10mths

Michaela-

I can't believe that you will be 1 in two short months.  You are such a big girl and it amazing me all that you can do at just 10mths.  You are still so different in so many ways from Adah and even though you are 10mths I feel like you are still so tiny!  You don't talk or babble as much as Adah did but you sure do move a heck of a lot more than she did!  You have been crawling now for a little over 3 months and you have been pulling up and cruising for longer than that!  You are so fast a crawling and cruising!  In the past 3 weeks you have really started to stand on your own.  You will crawl over to places and pull yourself up and then let go and just stand there or play with things!  I have no doubt you will be walking soon because you keep wanting to take a step but can't quite get it yet!  You are quite the dare devil and you are into EVERYTHING!  Mommy had to call poison control on you because you got into a home fragrance oil!  Silly girl!  You hate to be left alone and you always want to be held by mommy!  You are finally used to daddy now and don't mind being with him and you smile so big when he gets home from work but you still prefer mommy.  No stranger can talk to you without you crying...in fact unless you really know the person you won't let them talk to you without crying and clinging to me!  You don't smile much for strangers...which is SO not like your sister!  You are a lot more serious although no one can make you laugh like your big sister can and I just love to hear you two playing together in the back seat and giggling away!  You have taken some beatings from your big sister and have had several battle wounds but nothing too major!  you have two teeth now, both on the bottom.  You are not nursing as well anymore but you don't want to drink anything any other way...you are stubborn.  We are good to nurse 3-4 times a day.  You nurse really good in the morning but then you get so distracted for the two mid day feedings and then sometimes you will eat before bed but if not I go in and nurse you before I go to bed just to get an extra feeding in there.  You are doing so good at eating table food and eat pretty much anything I put in front of you as long as it isn't mushy!  I don't know how you do it with only 2 teeth but hey you are happy so I am happy!  You are in size 3 diapers still and size 9mth and 6-12mth clothes.  You don't care for shoes or socks so you don't wear those much.  You also hate any type of bow or clip!  We are trying to get you to drink whole milk but you are not having it.  I give it to you in your oatmeal everymorning and on your cereal when you have it but you will not drink it straight....until today....I have tried blending it with fruit, warming it up, etc and today I was a bad mom and put a baby spoon full of Nesquik chocolate powder in a sippy of milk...not even enough to change the color to brown but that little bit of chocolate flavor won you over and you LOVED it!  I know I probably shouldn't have done that but I was desperate!

You are the sweetest, cuddliest little angel and i could just kiss your sweet face all day long!  I can't get enough of you!  When you smile it melts my heart!  I love your precious little grin!  You are mommy, daddy and sisters world!  We can't imagine life without you and can't wait to see what your future brings!

Love you my little M&M

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!