We finally got Lola to smile for the camera! Man it wasn't easy to catch her grin on film! Here are a few pictures of that precious face!
My crazy life as I quest to find my true calling in life...Oh and raise a family too.

Here are pictures from Lola's first time in the pool. Trish and Emily came along too. It was a lot of fun watching the girls. We brought their Bumbo seats and put then on one of the shallow steps so that they could splash with their toes int he water.
Annabelle thought the water was ok, Sophy LOVED it and Lola wasn't a little interested. She wanted to sleep and for goodness sake keep her toes out of that water! I think it was still a little too cold for her. She loves her bath though. Sophy has gotten so big! She loves to play and help out with her sister. Her favorite thing is to "go".
She doesn't care where, just put her in the car! That is my kind of kid.
i Love how artist these pictures turned out! I had to share them with everyone. It gives me hope that maybe I haven't lost all my abilities as a photographer. When I stopped working to stay at home I never worried about that, but until recently I
had been feeling a little less than par on my skills. Now I'm starting to feel better about it all. Now for that Zoo photo contest! Only people are a lot easier than animals!
We finally got a "quiet" weekend at home. Of course by that I mean that we were home without visitors, not that it was actually quiet at all. What did we do you ask? Jeff was super dad this weekend with the girls. We went to the pool and let Sophy swim. Jeff swam with her and I sat by the side with Lola. I forgot to take my camera so I have no pictures! gasp! I know I can't believe I was so thoughtless. I'll remember next time when I actually let lola go in the water! Then we went to the Zoo and walked all over the place! Jeff took Sophy in the Explorakeete
Adventure so she could see the Lorakette's and got Pooped on! He was such a good sport and stuck around for another hour at the zoo even though he smelled yucky! Then we met up with Aaron, Trish, Annabelle, and Nicki for a picnic at the park and Ice
cream at Freddie's. All in all a very good weekend and a very tiring one for Jeff. He might need a day off to recover from his days off! I know Sophy had a great weekend playing with her daddy, but poor Lola spent most of it asleep. Here are some pictures from the weekend. Notice the ADORABLE purple dress and hat on Lola. Thanks Nana for that one!

We are now home safe and sound. I still hurt quite a bit, but I'm healing well. Sophy is adjusting very well. She loves her sister, sometimes a little too much. She has had a hard time with me being sore and unable to carry her or hold her on my lap. I think shes doing very well for a little girl who's life has just changed in a HUGE way.
Her cheeks have filled out quite a bit and she has such a cute face! It's amazing how my two girls could look so different and yet still look So cute both of them. She has dark eyes! They are blue right now, but I wouldn't be surprised if they turn green or even brown before too long! She loves to curl up in a little ball. She likes to eat and sleep and that is about all right now.
this time around. I was also a lot calmer during the surgury this time. All in all it has been nice.
She is still my baby and I just have two babies now. One just happens to be alot bigger. I am also very in love with my new little girl. I can't wait to see how her personality grows and changes.
She's Here! 8 lbs 4 ozs! Can you imagine if I had gone 9 more days! She would have been over 9lbs! She is only 20.5 inches so she is short and chubby! I LOVE it! She's so cute. Sophy is doing well. She loves "her baby", but she doesn't like that she can't hold mommy. I am doing very well. I expect to go home on thursday so if you come see me you can find out her name!
| This week your baby weighs a little over 4 pounds and measures 17.2 inches from the top of his head to his heels. Thanks to his recent weight gain, he's losing that wrinkled alien look. Most of your baby's bones are hardening now, but his skull is still quite pliable. It's actually in separate pieces with spaces in between. This flexible structure allows your baby's head to compress so it can fit through your relatively narrow birth canal. The pressure on the head during birth is so intense that many babies are born with a conehead-like appearance. This is totally harmless, normal, and temporary. Your baby's head will quickly take on a more rounded appearance, but his skull plates won't completely fuse until he's about 9 to 18 months old. |
Sophy is doing very well. She seems very intrested in baby Annabelle most of the time, but would rather play or bring her toys than sit still and hold her. We got to go see baby Annabelle on Sunday and we got a picture of the two girls together. I think Annabelle looks a lot like Aaron, but in a girly way.
Aaron and Trish had their baby! She is beautiful! Annabelle Grace was born at 4:06 pm on Sunday weighing 7lbs 11ozs and looking oh so cute with a full head of dark hair! They all came home from the hospital today and I took Sophy over to greet them. Sophy wasn't too happy about her at first, but by the end we were having to intercept all the "gifts" she kept bringing over to her. It was very sweet.
Today was CRAZY! Sophy woke up with a snotty nose, and she's drooling! She wouldn't nap long and woke up crankier then when she went down! And all of this right before I went to have her pictures made! Isn't that always the way of it. To top it off she fell and bonked her head right before we left, and we were almost late because I discovered that the security tag was still on her dress right before I left. So I had to run down to Baby Depot (20 minutes away!) to get it removed and make it back in time for her appointment. I'm still not sure how I made it! 
I took some pictures for Trish yesterday. I won't post then all because they really are more personal to her, but this one of Aaron was really funny! I had to share it!
Here are some Pictures of the new baby. She is doing very well. I had an ultrasound yesterday and we were able to see her blink her eyes and open and close her mouth. It was really neat to see how much she has grown in such a short amount of time. I read about
her development each week on babycenter, but it's so different to see it on the screen. Her nose doesn't look as pointy as it did last time, so maybe she's finally filling out. We were also able to peek at baby Annabelle while we were there and even though she is too big to really see anything in particular anymore, we discovered that she has Hair! It's like getting a sneak preveiw of a new movie or something. I am so excited! I can't wait to meet that little girl! And for Trish's sake I really hope it's soon.
I know that in the story about Jeff he's on the Big fridge...but this was scary enough! I sat there and watched her climb right on up to the top. Even with me saying "NO" she still giggled along. That girl can move fast! She did get in trouble, but only after I grabbed the camera. She hasn't tried it again so maybe she'll stay off? Doubtful, but I can hope. 