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| Kate and Lily in Cinderella's carriage |
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| Kelly & Kate, Jennifer & Elise, Catherine & Lily |
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| Lily |
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| Kate |
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| Jennifer and Elise |
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| Me and my girls! |
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| Lily and Catherine...it was SO nice having her help with the girls! |
Friday, September 23, 2011
Pumpkin patch pictures
We took advantage of this amazing Dallas weather this morning and headed to the Arboretum. Catherine, Jennifer and little Elise met us and we had a picnic. It was so much fun and great to catch up with good friends!
Hate that we can't see Catherine and Lily better in this picture!
Friday, September 16, 2011
23 months
Since we're getting close to Kate ad Lily's second Birthday I figured I would do a quick update on what we've been up to.
Kate: You used the big girl potty for the very first time last week! I picked you up from school and your teacher said you asked to go potty and went and sat down and successfully went. You're such a big girl! I'm so sad I wasn't there to witness it. However, you are clearly not ready to begin potty training. I brought out the potty seats after we got home from school because you said you needed to use the potty. You took your diaper off and ran from the bathroom to the living room and pooped behind the couch. We'll be sticking to diapers for the time being. You are becoming so social and love to make people laugh and laugh yourself. You're such a happy, funny girl!
Lily: Your teacher at school, Mrs. Collette, also asked you if you wanted to try the potty and you said "no-no" and ran away. Funny girl! You are more "suspicious" of things but seem to truly trust your sister and her judgement more than anything. Its so sweet that if you're scared to try something, you'll usually go after your sister does. How lucky are you and Kate to have each other?! You give the very best hugs and are becoming so sweet. However, you are equally sassy which cracks me up...most of the time.
I can't believe we're only a few weeks away from being two. You both have grown so much and are so much fun to be around. You go to school on Mondays and Thursdays and then alternate on Tuesdays. This is something new we're trying and so far it has been wonderful for both mommy and you. I get to spend one on one time with each of you, something I've never really done before. And my goodness it's easy only having one at a time. I wouldn't trade you guys for the world though!
Side note, I would LOVE to post pictures of Kate and Lily because they are so stinking cute, but my camera has been broken for over a month now. So frustrating! The Geek Squad at Best Buy better have it fixed before the big party!
Kate: You used the big girl potty for the very first time last week! I picked you up from school and your teacher said you asked to go potty and went and sat down and successfully went. You're such a big girl! I'm so sad I wasn't there to witness it. However, you are clearly not ready to begin potty training. I brought out the potty seats after we got home from school because you said you needed to use the potty. You took your diaper off and ran from the bathroom to the living room and pooped behind the couch. We'll be sticking to diapers for the time being. You are becoming so social and love to make people laugh and laugh yourself. You're such a happy, funny girl!
Lily: Your teacher at school, Mrs. Collette, also asked you if you wanted to try the potty and you said "no-no" and ran away. Funny girl! You are more "suspicious" of things but seem to truly trust your sister and her judgement more than anything. Its so sweet that if you're scared to try something, you'll usually go after your sister does. How lucky are you and Kate to have each other?! You give the very best hugs and are becoming so sweet. However, you are equally sassy which cracks me up...most of the time.
I can't believe we're only a few weeks away from being two. You both have grown so much and are so much fun to be around. You go to school on Mondays and Thursdays and then alternate on Tuesdays. This is something new we're trying and so far it has been wonderful for both mommy and you. I get to spend one on one time with each of you, something I've never really done before. And my goodness it's easy only having one at a time. I wouldn't trade you guys for the world though!
Side note, I would LOVE to post pictures of Kate and Lily because they are so stinking cute, but my camera has been broken for over a month now. So frustrating! The Geek Squad at Best Buy better have it fixed before the big party!
Friday, August 26, 2011
This year and Last
Why do I do this to myself...I can't believe how small the girls were when we went to the beach last year. What a difference a year makes. I don't even want to think about comparing the pictures next year!
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| August 2010: Lily and Kate |
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| August 2011: Kate and Lily |
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| August 2010: Kate and Lily |
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| August 2011: Lily and Kate |
Beach Pictures part 2
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| Lily eating her snack |
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| Building a sand castle |
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| Devin with the girls |
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| Making brownies! |
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| Family picture: Uncle Jeff, Aunt Jenny, Papa, GiGi and Lily, me and Kate, Devin |
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Back from vacation
We just got back from our annual beach vacation in Orange Beach, AL and it was so, so much fun! We stayed at the Phoenix West which is such a family friendly condo full of super nice people from the southeast. We went with my parents and my brother and his wife, Jenny. I got some much appreciated help with the girls and a pretty nice tan if I do say so myself! The weather was amazing, a high of 90 with a nice breeze and it didn't rain once. Here's a little preview of pictures. There will be tons more!
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| Kate and Lily in the Gulf |
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| Family picture on the balcony |
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| Lily wearing my bracelet |
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| Kate...she LOVED getting her picture taken this day |
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| The girls hunting seashells |
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
All about July
This month is just flying by and I can't believe I haven't talked about any of it. Well, here it goes...
One of my best childhood friends (we've been friends since 3!) got married July 4th weekend in Bentonville, AR. We had such a wonderful weekend with friends and family. I was in the wedding so a HUGE thanks to Devin, GiGi and Papa (my parents) and Aunt Jenny for helping out with the girls all weekend. Oh, and Aunt Jenny's friend Sarah who helped out as well. Thank you, thank you, thank you! It's not easy entertaining toddlers in a hotel!
The next weekend my amazing husband sent me to the Crescent Spa for a massage and some girl time with my friend Amy. Amy has a daughter Landry that is 6 months younger than Kate and Lily. They seem so far apart in age but in reality they'll be in the same class for school. We're hoping they'll be life long friends! Doug (Amy's husband) and Devin took the girls to the Arboretum and then back to our house to play. We joined them later in the afternoon and we enjoyed a new fun drink called Skinny Firefly iced tea. It's so good but I do recommend mixing it with a little lemonade. I've also been enjoying Bethenny Frankel's Skinny Girl Margarita this summer and highly recommend that as well.
And then just this last weekend Devin and I got to have a "staycation" at our house. My parents live in Shreveport so we each drove an hour and half and met in Tyler. We ate dinner and then we left in my parents car and they left in our car with the girls. We had such a nice weekend but honestly, we missed the girls! Our house was SO quiet (and clean!) without them here. We ate some delicious food; Urbano was our favorite and then we saw Horrible Bosses one afternoon and it was well, horrible. But it was so nice to go see an afternoon movie, something we used to do all the time but now is a luxury.
So that's what's been going on in July. It's crazy hot in Dallas so we're all looking forward to the Fall already.
One of my best childhood friends (we've been friends since 3!) got married July 4th weekend in Bentonville, AR. We had such a wonderful weekend with friends and family. I was in the wedding so a HUGE thanks to Devin, GiGi and Papa (my parents) and Aunt Jenny for helping out with the girls all weekend. Oh, and Aunt Jenny's friend Sarah who helped out as well. Thank you, thank you, thank you! It's not easy entertaining toddlers in a hotel!
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| Kate at the wedding |
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| Lily at the wedding |
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| Catherine and Sean Parks |
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| Majority of the bridesmaids in Austin, TX for Catherine's Bachelorette party |
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| Me, Jennifer and Catherine at Trudy's in Austin |
The next weekend my amazing husband sent me to the Crescent Spa for a massage and some girl time with my friend Amy. Amy has a daughter Landry that is 6 months younger than Kate and Lily. They seem so far apart in age but in reality they'll be in the same class for school. We're hoping they'll be life long friends! Doug (Amy's husband) and Devin took the girls to the Arboretum and then back to our house to play. We joined them later in the afternoon and we enjoyed a new fun drink called Skinny Firefly iced tea. It's so good but I do recommend mixing it with a little lemonade. I've also been enjoying Bethenny Frankel's Skinny Girl Margarita this summer and highly recommend that as well.
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| Lily, Kate and Landry taking a bath |
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| Lily at GiGi and Papa's |
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| Kate at GiGi and Papa's |
So that's what's been going on in July. It's crazy hot in Dallas so we're all looking forward to the Fall already.
Thursday, July 7, 2011
21 Months
Kate and Lily are 21 months and only 3 months away from being 2. Time flies and my girls are getting to be so big!
We just started back to summer school and we are now going two days a week. Both girls enjoy school but are completely worn out when they get home which can make afternoons challenging. They have been coming home with lots of art work and their teachers said they're doing really well and are now the veterans in the class. Since they have September birthdays they'll always be the oldest in their class. I think that will be a good thing for them!
What's new this month:
-We bought our first potty after watching Elmo's Potty and showing a lot of interest in using our "potty words". I know the girls aren't anywhere near potty training but I like the idea of them seeing the potty and having access to it, and maybe even using it one day soon. But for now it's just a really cool chair that we sit on!
-We started time out this month and it's going pretty well. We're still learning the concept but the girls have stayed when put in time out and have learned the word "sorry" this month. This morning Kate kept turning on the bathroom faucet and putting toys in the water (a big no-no) so I asked her if she wanted to go to time out. She actually went to the corner of the bathroom and sat down for a few minutes all by herself. Kate has had time out quite a few more times than Lily so guess she's getting the hang of it. It was hard not to laugh when she put herself in time out!
-Meal times are starting to drive me insane! The girls love to play with their food and make huge messes. They seriously have got to be the messiest eaters in the world! We still throw our food on the floor if it doesn't appeal to us, we LOVE to put food in our hair and pretend like it's shampoo and we also enjoy using our fork to comb food into our hair. PLEASE MAKE IT STOP. We put our highchairs up in the attic this week and are using our booster seats at the table now. The girls enjoy it more and I'm hoping we can all act a little more civilized at the table. I'm sure this is wishful thinking but it's SO nice not having two giant highchairs in my breakfast room.
-We still really enjoy playing outside which is hard in this heat. Kate and Lily don't seem to mind the heat though and we're getting nice little sun tans from being outside so much. It's pretty cute and I can't wait to spend a week at the beach this summer with family!
-Kate and Lily still remain pretty much the same size. We're wearing 2T clothes and have gone up to a 6 1/2 in shoes. We bought new shoes a month a half ago and their toes are already almost at the end. I wear a 9 1/2 and Devin wears a 12 so guess it's safe to say Kate and Lily will have big feet like their parents! Their hair is getting so long now so we can do a lot more with it and it makes them look so old. We still haven't gotten our first hair cut but I think it's coming up. We also have all of our teeth minus the two year molars and that makes us look a lot older as well.
-The word NO has become our favorite and we just love to use it. We now know what we want, and more importantly what we don't want, and we have have the vocabulary to let others know. Luckily they've also started giving some pretty sweet kisses this last month and that makes up for the whole no thing...a little.
-And one last note on this last month...Kate crawled out of her crib for the first time (not sure if I documented this in a previous post). We were all ready to start moving to toddler beds (our beds convert) but she has managed to only do it that one time so we're holding off as long as we can.
Both girls look so much older to me now and have really lost their little baby faces. They love to point out other babies and talk to them and it's so weird to me because to me they're still my babies. But they really are turning into such big, sweet girls with very strong personalities. It's very hard having two girls that are so strong willed but it's so much fun to watch them grow and become closer and closer to one another. They kissed each other for the first time a few nights ago and it was probably the sweetest thing I've ever seen. Looking forward to more moments like that in our future!
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| Kate |
We just started back to summer school and we are now going two days a week. Both girls enjoy school but are completely worn out when they get home which can make afternoons challenging. They have been coming home with lots of art work and their teachers said they're doing really well and are now the veterans in the class. Since they have September birthdays they'll always be the oldest in their class. I think that will be a good thing for them!
What's new this month:
-We bought our first potty after watching Elmo's Potty and showing a lot of interest in using our "potty words". I know the girls aren't anywhere near potty training but I like the idea of them seeing the potty and having access to it, and maybe even using it one day soon. But for now it's just a really cool chair that we sit on!
-We started time out this month and it's going pretty well. We're still learning the concept but the girls have stayed when put in time out and have learned the word "sorry" this month. This morning Kate kept turning on the bathroom faucet and putting toys in the water (a big no-no) so I asked her if she wanted to go to time out. She actually went to the corner of the bathroom and sat down for a few minutes all by herself. Kate has had time out quite a few more times than Lily so guess she's getting the hang of it. It was hard not to laugh when she put herself in time out!
-Meal times are starting to drive me insane! The girls love to play with their food and make huge messes. They seriously have got to be the messiest eaters in the world! We still throw our food on the floor if it doesn't appeal to us, we LOVE to put food in our hair and pretend like it's shampoo and we also enjoy using our fork to comb food into our hair. PLEASE MAKE IT STOP. We put our highchairs up in the attic this week and are using our booster seats at the table now. The girls enjoy it more and I'm hoping we can all act a little more civilized at the table. I'm sure this is wishful thinking but it's SO nice not having two giant highchairs in my breakfast room.
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| Kate on spaghetti night |
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| Lily on spaghetti night |
-We still really enjoy playing outside which is hard in this heat. Kate and Lily don't seem to mind the heat though and we're getting nice little sun tans from being outside so much. It's pretty cute and I can't wait to spend a week at the beach this summer with family!
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| Lily |
-The word NO has become our favorite and we just love to use it. We now know what we want, and more importantly what we don't want, and we have have the vocabulary to let others know. Luckily they've also started giving some pretty sweet kisses this last month and that makes up for the whole no thing...a little.
-And one last note on this last month...Kate crawled out of her crib for the first time (not sure if I documented this in a previous post). We were all ready to start moving to toddler beds (our beds convert) but she has managed to only do it that one time so we're holding off as long as we can.
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| Kate blowing her Daddy a kiss when he was leaving for work |
Both girls look so much older to me now and have really lost their little baby faces. They love to point out other babies and talk to them and it's so weird to me because to me they're still my babies. But they really are turning into such big, sweet girls with very strong personalities. It's very hard having two girls that are so strong willed but it's so much fun to watch them grow and become closer and closer to one another. They kissed each other for the first time a few nights ago and it was probably the sweetest thing I've ever seen. Looking forward to more moments like that in our future!
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| Lily |
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