Week 10 and Week 123!

William is 10 weeks old.  He is getting stronger and more alert some days.  Other days he still sleeps away!  He seems to be able to handle being awake for about an hour before he needs to sleep again.  He has been sleeping really well at night though, going to bed around 9 and sleeping about 6 am!!  I feel like a new woman even though I still stay up too late and don't take advantage of all of the sleep I could. 

Emily is 123 weeks old and is really progressing with her potty training.  She is staying dry most of the time and actually made it all day today!  She has even been dry through naptime the last few days.  The hardest part is when we are not home, but she has now gone potty at several places including a farm, park, Gia & Pepa's house, and the quarry!  She's really getting the hang of it, she just needs a lot of reminders.  Maybe we'll venture out into the real world with big girl underwear soon! 

 We went to a local farm to do some berry picking.  Emily loved picking the berries and feeding the animals.  She has been really adventurous lately and is having lots of fun!  We went to Gia & Pepa's on Friday to have dinner with Aunt Barbara and Lia who were visiting from Florida.  It was a great visit and Emily had fun as always.  We went to the quarry on Saturday and Emily had a great time swimming in the water, making new friends, playing in the sand, drawing with walk side chalk, and feeding the fish!  After all of that we needed a quiet day at home today to gear up for the big 4th of July party tomorrow!  Here are some pics of our fun this week...

Emily fed this goat a whole bag of carrots!!

Picking strawberries and blowing dandelion seeds

Princess Dance Party!

Cute boy.  One of Mommy's favorite outfits that rarely make it out for long because he seems to always poop on it!

10 weeks old smiley boy!

Playing with Pop Pop at the quarry.

Sleeping through yet another party.

Big boy sitting up, you can actually see his neck!

 

Getting ready for wheelbarrow races!

 

Let's switch places!

Week 9 and Week 122!

William is 9 weeks old!  He weighed in at 14 lbs 2 oz at his 2 month appointment.  He is also 24 inches long.  95th and 90th percentile respectively.  I knew he was a big boy and am glad that he is not off the charts yet!  The nurse even measured him twice just to be sure she had it right and she did!  Emily has been doing awesome with the potty.  She goes on the potty most of the time when we are home, but doesn't really have an interest when we aren't home.  Being away most of the weekend didn't really help, but hopefully we'll get right back on track.  We spent most of the week getting ready for the big 30 party on Saturday.  Yep, the 81ers are all 30 and we had an awesome party to celebrate!  Thank you so much to everyone who helped out and especially my parents who did so much work in hosting the big bash!  Here are some pics of the fun!

Yes, Little Brothers are AWESOME!

Emily loves her new sandbox!

Cute boy!

Smile!

Still Cute!

Just chillin'

Snuggling with their Snuggie bears!

9 weeks old!

The 81ers!

Emily LOVES the water!  She spent all afternoon playing in her pool and with her water table.

Emily absolutely LOVED riding the horse.  She wasn't scared one bit!!

Nana loved riding the horse too!

Will hanging out with Gia in his cute party shirt!

Week 8 and Week 121

William is 8 weeks old.  His big accomplishment of the week was rolling over from his back to his belly!  He has only done it once, but he is such a wiggler I'm sure he'll be doing it again in no time.  Whenever I get him out of his crib he is in a different place from where I left him.  He spins and rolls to his side always kicking his feet like crazy!

Emily is 121 weeks old and had a first this week also!  She had her first haircut.  It was really just more of a trim, but it looks better than it did and hopefully her pigtails will look a little more even now too.  She's getting better at leaving clips in although we seem to be losing them all the time.  Emily's other big accomplishment of the week is the potty!  She's been using it a lot and is very excited about it.  We still have wet diapers throughout the day but she is using the potty and asking to go more and more which is great!  Almost all of her poops are on the potty, which makes me really happy.

We had a busy weekend celebrating my birthday and Father's Day, but had a lot of fun!  Here are some pics...

J-E-T-S Jets! Jets! Jets!

 Ready to go out!

 Look what I did!!!

Our Crazy Sleeper

 And our other crazy sleeper!

Happy Boy!  He smiles all the time, when he is awake that is!

Big Girl Underwear and boots!

Pre Hair Cut

Haircut time!  Can you tell she was a little out of her element.  She did not say a word the entire time, just sat there nice and still with that face!

All done!  Still not so sure what to think...

Mommy's new haircut!  And no cut for Will yet.

Happy Birthday Mommy!

Mommy and William

Eight Weeks Old.  Big Boy!!!

Coloring with Gia and Great Grandpa.  What fun!

Emily's first shucking

Quarry for Father's Day.  The water was cold, but Emily loved it!

Looks like William got the roll your tongue gene!

Week 7 and Week 120!

William is 7 weeks old and Emily is 120!  Wow, they are both getting soooo big!  I weighed both of them on Wii Fit this week and Emily was almost 28 pounds and Will was almost 14!!!!  I can't believe how fast Will is growing.  I'm not doing anything differently this time, he's just a big boy who knows how to eat efficiently!  He's been consistently sleeping 5 to 6 hours at night which is great.  I just can't wait for a little bit longer of a stretch or at least 2 longer stretches in a row, but I'll definitely take what I can get and can't complain.  He's also been pretty good about going right back to sleep after he eats.  William also slept all night in his crib for the first time on Saturday and I think it will continue as he really is getting a bit big for the basket.  My baby is growing up way too fast!!!! 

Here are some Emily moments of the week...

One night we forgot to put on Emily's night light and she woke up in the middle of the night saying it was dark (I was thinking, yeah it's 3 am of course it is dark!) but as Michael went in to check on her her face was right in front of her pillow and she was screaming "I can't see my pillow!"  I don't think we will be forgetting the night light anytime soon!

Pop Pop came by one day this week and after he left Emily said "Pop Pop is silly" and when I asked her why she said it was because he is noisy!  She's got everyone figured out already.

We have been trying to get Emily to name her dolls instead of calling them all "baby" all the time.  Aunt Donna started it by naming one of them Maddy for her.  That totally stuck, Aunt Donna Thanks!  So we then named one of her other favorite dolls Annie.  One was mine as a kid so we stuck with his name of Michael.  The other two she finally named herself, they are of course interesting but she did it herself.  It's the first time she came up with a name other than what the item is (Doll, puppy dog, etc).  And they are......Cupcakes for the doll who has cupcakes on her dress and the other is Chay chi chach.  Really not sure how to spell it, but you get the idea.  She is quite a silly girl and yes she is noisy too!! :)

Here are some pics...

Silly Girl

William's First Bottle

Cute boy ready for the beach!

Cute boy again!

Mmmmm...smoothies!

Happy Girl

Cutie Pie

Yeah, Mom went a bit crazy with pictures....

Precious Girl

Emily had to help feed Will his second bottle.  You can see how much attention she is paying to her job!  Will does great with the bottle and Mommy and Daddy actually got a night out! :)

Emily Loves Watermelon

She would not let me get the hat on right.  She's the one who found it and wanted to wear it!

I thought maybe I'd get a cute pic of my dainty little princess eating a strawberry...yeah right!!

Just shove it in there girl!

7 Weeks Old

First ride on Daddy's shoulders

Potty Girl!  Emily pooped on the potty on Saturday.  She has been really anti potty lately, but out of the blue asked to sit on it.  We sat and read a couple of books and sang some songs and all of a sudden she stands up and says "I DID IT!"  She was so excited, but has not sat on the potty since...