Ponytail

Adi has been really, really, really, wanting a pony tail. I spray, spray, spray, slick it down, and WAHLA - a sweet little ponytail. You'll get more hair eventually my love!!!

Missing you daddy!

We <3 U!!!

PINK

My pink themed post starts with pink eye! YUCK...Adi got pink eye on Saturday night. Her poor little face looked horrible, but I tell you what she was quite a little trooper. She didn't even seem to mind that her eyes were matted shut. It took a couple days for them to heal. Brandon took Adi and I took Abe. I hesitate to even write this, but we have seemed to prevent the spread of it to anyone else. A lot of Lysol, Clorox Wipes, serious amount of laundry, and raw hands have seemed to work. We spent Sunday just laying around since we were highly contagious. Thanks to Grandma and Grandpa Haight we enjoy enjoyed the new Pooh movie!



The next pink pictures are Valentines Day. I really tried to get pictures of the kids in their cute little Valentines outfits, but life happened. Abe has carrot spit up on his shirt, and Adi was covered with pink icing when we were finished decorating cookies! All-in-all a very successful Valentines day!






Adi has been saying some pretty funny things here lately. This has nothing to do with this post, but I want to remember a few of the cute things Adi is saying right now.

Adi's two year old little language:
Koala Bear aka Walla Bear
Chocolate aka Choclick
Raisins aka Roasins
Gummy Worms aka Jiggly Worms

Even though we're stuck in doors and the kids seem to be sick often life couldn't be any sweeter right now! <3

Winter

It finally feels like winter around here. We spent all week in the house playing. Abram is becoming more and more interactive. I was telling Brandon that I can't believe he is almost half way through his first year of life. :( These two spent one evening working on their cars, and I can't help but to sit there and soak up every second of these sweet times. It was nice having Brandon off on Friday. We spent the day enjoying our two little ones, and then had a great evening out on our own.

Adi and Abe working on their cars.


One early morning with all her jewelry on!


Those squeezable cheeks - I just LOVE them!

Abram is 5 months

Height - 26.5 inches (? percentile)
Weight - about 15 lbs 6 oz ( ? percentile)

Sleep - Well, well, well, what can I say about sleep? I can say that I'm not getting all that much of it. :) All of these transitions within the first year make it difficult to really follow through with much of anything. I am handling the lack of sleep much better with this little guy. I think I finally have convinced myself that these sweet little babies are one before you know it, so I am really trying to enjoy all of it - whether that be 2:30 in the afternoon or in the middle of the night. But, for my records, he is going down about 8ish, he is walking about 11:15. I am trying to hold out on nursing him until after midnight. Once I feed him once through the night he is up every 2 hours until morning. He is out of his swaddle sack since he flipped to his belly twice now while swaddled. A friend of mine let me borrow a magic sleepsuit to try and transition him out of the swaddle. Unfortunately, he seems to really hate it. The poor little guy just doesn't want to sleep unless he is swaddled! It is strange he acts like he is ready to get up for the day at 6:00, but if I nurse him and lay him in the middle of our empty bed he falls asleep immediately. Oh well, we'll get to the sleeping through the evening eventually. I got the rest of my life to sleep right?! :)

Eating - He is nursing about ever 3 hours and doing it pretty quickly. He is much more interested in everything else this month. Keeping on and focused seems to be a bit more of a challenge. I introduced apples yesterday and he LOVED them. We are well on our way to eating solids!

Milestone - He is rolling a lot and honestly is showing signs of wanting to start crawling. My little baby - please stop! You're doing these big boy things too quickly! He is really wanting to sit up a lot right now. He is just more and more interactive. He thinks it is hilarious when I sneeze and when we play peek-a-boo. What a JOY you are Abram!!!



That smile just melts my heart!


Rocking and rolling



His first time eating his apples.


Waking up in mommy and daddy's bed.

64!

Really - 64 degrees in February?! It is just beautiful here today! We were out and about this morning, and when we got home I decided to push Adi's nap back a bit so we could play in this wonderful weather. I'm sure we'll get another snow before spring gets here, but I sure am taking advantage of the warmer weather today!

Adi has been talking a lot about telescopes here lately. She had funny pretending with the one on her slide today!


Can you say SLOBBER!


Can't go outside without picking out handfuls of her "favorite" rocks.


And just a little more slobber - just look at those ADORABLE cheeks!

The start of WONDERFUL conversations

I was getting ready to take Adison to bed tonight when she looked up at me and had this sweet little conversation with me.

Adi - We're going to go to heaven to sing Happy Birthday to baby Jesus.
Me - Really, that's nice.
Adi - Is it warm or cold in heaven?
Me - The weather is perfect in heaven.
Adi - When are we going to go to heaven?
Me - When Jesus calls us there.
Adi - I'm going to call him and tell him when we're coming, where's my purple phone?

I look forward to many more conversations like this. I love it that our two year old is already talking about the Lord (in her own two year old way).