Lizzie's Birthday Cake

A bit long, but a pretty funny snippet from Lizzie's actual birthday night.

My Two Favorite Pictures...

These were taken very last minute at the end of a very long day of waking up early to go to church, and then a birthday party, with a few stops in between (and an even longer day because we had life group right after the party... whew). I absolutely love these pictures though... just the way she's standing with her head slightly bent... priceless. Ben and I have pretty gorgeous kids, that's for sure! They look way cooler full size, so feel free to click on them and make them bigger. ;)

Bug Party...

So, the long awaited bug birthday party pictures are finally posted! Hooray! The party was the Sunday after her birthday, just down the street from us at a local park, with lost of glorious shade. It was a fairly simple party; a couple friends, some cupcakes, a little buggy type craft, and plenty of little bugs to play with (thanks to Auntie Heidi), plus the playground at the park. Lizzie picked out the theme for her party... I can't believe the bugs won over SpongeBob or Dora, but they did, and I'm very glad they did! ;)

The girls amassing their bug armies

Oh, no... where it go?

Craft time - They got to make their very own bugs

Time to blow out the candles!
I made the cupcakes too... aren't they cute little ladybugs?
We had butterflies and worms cupcakes too.

All exhausted at the end of the day!

Lizzie's Birthday Day...

I can't believe Lizzie's 3 years old now! It's crazy how fast time goes by. I wish I could just freeze time and keep her at 3 for a couple of years because she's so much fun now... not that she wasn't fun before, but you know what I mean. On her actually day it was pretty low key, we went to IHOP for breakfast with a couple of our friends and had sausage and chocolate chip pancakes, afterwards we went and wandered the mall, helped make a birthday cake, and then just chilled out at home until Ben got home. We had dinner, opened some more presents, and of course we had to have some birthday cake. Happy birthday Lizzie!

She looks so old already in this picture!

Memorial Day Weekend...

Ah, holiday weekends... Ben's home an extra day, it just happened to be Lizzie's birthday weekend, and it was cloudy and cold (well cold for down here anyways)! We open some presents over the weekend because Ben wanted to play with her new toys, so Lizzie got to celebrate a little early. She got all kinds of fun stuff, but I couldn't snap enough pictures to show it all before the camera shut down on me... sorry mom. (My camera is completely lame lately and the battery will not hold a charge anymore. We haven't replaced the one that was broken from when we went camping so long ago, so we're still using the really quirky one we had before Lizzie was born). Anyways it was a really nice weekend... more to come of Lizzie's actual birthday and her party soon. I still have to process all those pictures.

Lizzie's ladybug land. You can actually grow real bugs in there.

At the park flying a kite for the very first time.

Oh, did you notice what Lizzie's wearing the in the pictures above? That's right... big girl underwear. Our little girl is potty trained now and only wears a pull-up at night. She's doing really well. We've only had a couple accidents here and there, but that's to be expected. We've even gone on multiple trips to different places in just the undies and only once did we not make it. Yay, no more diapers!

Baby Toes...

I love baby toes... they're so cute and chunky and tiny. What's not to like?! Abby's are totally irresistible because she's a foot rubber. She's constantly rubbing her feet together and it's so darn cute.

Is that a heart she's making with her toes?! ;)

I'm amazed at how fast her toe is fixing itself. If you didn't know she was born with a slight and temporary deformity (if you can even call it that) on the 4th toe on her right foot. She was apparently a little too cramped with such long legs in my tummy that one of her toes didn't have enough room to stretch out and it set itself slightly below the rest of her toes on that foot. I think it's kinda cool actually and makes her totally unique. It will completely go away once she starts walking and putting weight on it, but it will always be a little longer than the rest of her toes... not by much though.

4 Month Update at Month 5...

I know... a little late and you've all been waiting for some new Abby pictures, but better late than never, right?! So here she is. I can't believe she's 5 months already... seriously where has all that time gone and more importantly can I have some of it back... just a little...please?

At her 4 month well baby check-up (which was really 2 weeks after she turned 4 months, but who's really counting) Abby weighed in at 18 lbs. 1 oz., was 25 1/2 inches long and her head circumference was 42 cm. It's funny when you compare Abby and Lizzie's stats, at 4 months Abby is already bigger and taller than Lizzie was when she was 6 months old, it's so crazy how each kid is so different from the other! I totally feel like we skipped the 3-6 month stage with Abby in the first place, but at her Dr.'s appointment it confirmed that even more.

Abby started rolling over the day right before her appointment and now can completely rollover both ways and back again. She can also almost sit up by herself already. Crazy girl... you can tell she's starting to get really frustrated because she can't go anywhere yet, and I'm totally convinced that in the next 2 weeks she'll start crawling. She's already scooting all over the floor and putting her but up in the air. It's only a matter of time now until she'll start giving Lizzie a run for her money.

She loves making out with her little dinosaur!

It's been sooooo long...

Oh wow, I can't believe it's been almost a whole month since my last post. That's totally and completely crazy to me, and I use to be so good at finding time for this, but now with Abby and then there's this other thing that Ben and I have been working on, that's totally and completely all consuming at the moment (more on that to come), but enough with the excuses. I'm back and we're all still here and hopefully I can find a small window of time to keep you all posted. Some big things have happened, so there's a lot to share... talk to you soon! ;)