BFF's Already

So my friend Adrienne is pretty much the funniest person alive (sorry Derrek I know you hate to hear this but its true). Her sense of humor never gets old to me after 25 years. Since Avery and Elsie are so close in age (2.5 months) we go on lots of outings together! I will post some pictures but first you have to read this post I stole from Adrienne's blog (since its private) about our last adventure. She stole all the words right out of my mouth....

the bff's, miss avery and miss elsie, made plans to go to market street for dinner on friday night. what will these crazy munchkin's do next?! luckily their parents raised them right and they were kind enough to invite their dear old mom's and dad's along with them. it was simply a magical evening full of good conversations, laughter, oh, and a waitress who was 100% nuts. she forgot pretty much everything, bumped into anything in her line of sight, knocked over what she could, stared at us awkwardly after everything we said, asked if i wanted the trout after i ordered salmon because, "it's pretty much the same," and kept us there for TWO hours.

although we were there forrrrevvvverrrrr, we really did have a blast and it's obvious that avery and elsie are enthralled with each other. i mean, just look at them!

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ok, obviously these pictures show that elle was so tired (i think she was asleep with her eyes open) and that avery was way too interested in getting every single thing on the table in her mouth, but if these pictures don't shout out L-O-V-E, i don't know what does.

thank you avery and elle for letting us tag along on another one of your wild adventures!

Now here are some other pictures...

Elle and Avery at their soon to be friends baby shower

We celebrated Avery's 6 month birthday

They really can't get enough of each other apparently

At Avery's Blessing

Photo Shoot

So at the beginning of May I wanted to get some pictures of Elle in her blessing dress, some nursery pictures, and some pictures done for her 3 month birthday and we (my sister-in-law and I) wanted some of the girls(Brooklyn and Elsie) together... long list. So darling darling Lindsay came down and took pictures. Can I just tell you that Lindsay is AMAZING!! She really is the best ever!! I recommend her to anyone. She is so creative and so good with lighting. I love the shots that she gets and most of all she is so so so patient, which is key with kids. She has the cutest two baby girls so she knows patience. I'll say it again... she is simply the best! I love her! Check out her website.

Here are some of the pictures...

Blessing Dress

The Girls...

The Nursery...

End of May

Last week Elsie and I got to hang out with these cute girls!!

I have missed them so much...but I think they were far more excited to hang out with Baby Elsie than me!

It was hardly any work...they did it all! Little mother hens!

We had so much fun and can't way to see them again!

Look at how fast this little girl is growing up! Every month we have taken a picture of Elle next to "Lillie the Lamb" to see how much she has grown!

One week

(This makes me almost cry when I see how little she was and I realize how fast it is going by, Dave of course thinks I am so weird for getting sentimental, he says "You have them forever why do you get sad when she gets big", he doesn't get it)

One Month

Two Months

Three Months

Four Months

And here she is yesterday after her shots..those cutest little legs!!

4 Months

Peanut:

My how you are growing so fast! You have changed so much these past few weeks. Everyday you are mastering a new skill and discovering new things. You are now starting to "play" with mommy and daddy more and we love it! At the doctors today you weighed 12.9 lbs, you were 24 in tall and your head was 16.5 in. You are in about the 50% for your head, about 32% for height and about 28% for weight-you are our little peanut! You got 4 vaccines today, and so far you are doing much better than last time. You are a healthy baby girl and we are so thankful for that! We couldn't ask for anything bettter!

You are still sleeping like a gem and I cant tell you enough how much I love it! We just dropped your late night feeding and you are doing great. We feed you at 7, you go down around 8 and we don't see you again until 7 in the morning. You are so sweet when you wake up! We can hear you talking to yourself through the monitor. You will razz and making you little sighs and breathe really hard. Daddy always jokes that you just got back from your morning run. We love to listen to you play so we let you hang out for about 20 mins, then Daddy goes to get you. He loves going to get you! You always give the biggest smiles ever!! My favorite is when we go in and you have not seen us yet. I will just watch you play and look around. Then they second your eye catches us, your face lights up and you crack up laughing. They are by far the best moments I have ever had! You are so happy in the morning until you see your mama and you realize you are hungary! You want your food and fast! You are still our little greedy eater, you take it very seriously! We always joke that your favorite time of day is on your changing pad. You seriously love it there, it is hysterical! You do your best laughs, best razzes and we have the best conversations on that table. You have been razzing for awhile now, but you have really mastered it lately and it is all you do! You make quite the little noises- cry like a little lamb, squawk like a little bird, growl like a lion. You are starting to squeal and its my favorite! You are so adorable! You are still a little chatter box and you always have so much to say. Your laugh is getting longer and louder and it is so funny. You are starting to laugh hard when we laugh with you, and you are also imitating noises we make. Everyday you invent a new noise and we love hearing what you come up with. You are such a curious little girl and I have a feeling you will be a busy baby. You already love to stand on my lap so you can check everything out, or lay or my lap so you can see everyones face. You love watching little kids play. You dont really notice other babies yet (like your cousin or friends) but you cant take your eyes off the older kids at church. Speaking of church, you struggle in that department. It's during nap time and you do a good job at telling me you want to be home napping. Last week you peed on me, the week before you spit up 5 times on your dress, and the week before that you had a massively massive blow out! Your acid reflux is getting so much better and we are so happy! I think I can officially say it doesn't really bug you that much anymore! Your new medicine is working like a champ! Now you are happy all the time. You are quite the napper too. I am amazed at the amount of sleep you get some days. If I stay at home all day you will take 2 2hr.naps, plus 2 1 hr. naps. Its pretty crazy, and again I love you for it! You are starting to stay up longer though, so I have a feeling you will be phasing one of those naps out soon. You have started to sleep without your arms swaddled and it is a huge accomplishment. I thought we would always have to swaddle you, but one day you put up such a fuss that we took your arms out and you have done fine ever since. You are sitting up so well in your bumbo chair and love to be in it. You are liking tummy time a lot better but you still get mad if we leave you on your tummy too long. You also are loving you Baby Einstein octopus toy. I hang it from your bouncer mobile and you talk that things ear off. You love to hear the music and see the colors. It is your favorite toy by far. A close second is your other bouncer chair with the lion mobile. You will every so often get ahold of the string a pull it, either music plays or it growls or meows. You crack up and you think your pretty dang funny when you do it. Like I said before you are getting so curious. When we go new places you won't really preform your sounds or tricks because you are too busy checking everything out. For the most part you are just happy to hang out and just observe you surroundings. You now prefer to be held vertically so you can see everything. You will only let me hold you in my arms horizontally if you are beyond exhausted. I love it when you fall asleep in my arms though. I fear that those days are fleeing so I do it every chance I get. You are also starting to take naps your crib during the day. This is huge for the baby that only liked her crib at night. It is the funnies thing. You will go down in your crib at night with out a peep, but during the day you hate hate hate the crib. So in the swing you went. Now you will sleep in the crib! Your getting so big and we are so proud of you!! You still love books and music. If you are fussy we just have to turn music on and you instantly stop. You hair is still growing like a weed. We wonder what color it will be. The roots are a golden blonde but on the sides you have a lot of auburn in it like your mommy did. We will see what happens!

You are our littlest princess and we grow more and more in love with you everyday. You are mamas little BFF and I love spending my days with you-I wouldn't have it any other way! We love how vocal, smiley and sweet you are. We are so lucky that you are happy and healthy!! You are such a blessing in our lives and I can't imagine not having you here...life would be so boring without you! We hope you always know how much we love you- our little sunshine girl!!

xoxo- Mommy and Daddy

Sugar and Spice ....

And everything nice...

That's what Little Girls are made of

The past few weeks

Last week we went to a long awaited lunch to finally meet Keri's babies and spend some time with Adrienne and Avery! It was so much fun! When the lady asked us how many were in our party and I answered 3 adults and 4 babies her face said it all! It was not that choatic but I guess considering it was during the lunch rush we stressed some people out at Pei Wei (the guy with the lap top next to us trying to concentrate).

It was so fun to finally catch up with Keri and have all the babies meet. They had loads of fun and chatted the hour away of course. Keri really is super mom! She deserves an award. She was holding Stockton in one hand and feeding Mckaylee while she was in the stroller with the other hand. I was impressed Ker! I know how much work one baby is while at lunch and you made it look so easy with two!

And here is my little wild child.... check out that hair! This picture cracks me up, the wild hair, sweating from the hair, hands clasped, bow falling out, and bewildered look on her face. She is a riot!

The next day we went to meet Christine's baby Luke. He is absolutely beautiful! I can't wait for him to get older so he and Elsie can play. While we were there Elsie fell in love! Holly's little boy Sawyer was there and they seriously loved each other. It was hysterical. She was exhausted but the second she saw him she could not stop staring at him and he would get so excited to see her. It was pretty cute!

Elsie and Sawyer

Baby Luke

Saturday we had a little neighborhood pizza party, needless to say it was freezing! Luckily we got to wear our cute little bear coat, (that I thought she wouldn't get to wear considering its May) and match our cousin!

How cute are these two!

Then we woke up to snow this morning, so this was how we ran our errands!

Elsie and her robe, just relaxing after a morning tub!

Oh how we love this little girl!

A Little Girl and Her Daddy

Elsie loves loves loves her Daddy!

He always plays with her in the morning and when he gets home from work. He reads her a story every night before she goes to bed, he gets out all of her toys and puts on shows with her stuffed animals, he teaches her new tricks, and he always makes sure she does her tummy time.

He has gotten her to LOVE watching Sports Center and any sports show ( i don't think I like this one), he can make her laugh endlessly, and she always lights up when she sees him.

Its no surprise that Dave was hoping for a Boy when I found out I was pregnant. In fact when we went to the ultrasound he was positive he could tell it was a boy ( good thing he is not a doctor). When they told us it was a girl I was so happy I could hardly contain it, until I saw Daves face. He was dumb-founded because apparently he was sure she was going to say boy.

I think he was a little stressed too because he instantly saw dollar signs with a girl and suddenly the house turned into a bow making sanctuary.

But the minute that little girl was born and I saw the tears in his eyes I knew he was sold!

He is such a proud Daddy, he loves to always be the one holding her and he loves to show her off. She's got him wrapped around her finger... i think its safe to say the feeling is mutual!

Daves birthday 2010