Weekly Post =)

I think to keep myself on track I'm going to try to make sure I at least do a weekly post ;)

oh.. and ok, sorry for the grammer errors, but layla decided to pop the shift key off of the keyboard today and i cannot fix it! gonna have to wait until ryan gets home to have the shift key back, lol ;)

I haven't uploaded the pictures yet, but this weekend I took l took layla to see princesses on ice! it was really nice and i know she had a great time. she loved all of the princesses, but was looking forward to cinderella the most. i was surprised, i didn't think that would be her favorite princess, but just like me, cinderella is her favorite.

Lexi was great on the car ride down, she is such a happy little baby. Almost 5 months old and i really can't believe it. It's hard to think that 5 months ago I was still largely pregnant, lol, ok maybe not that large ;) Sometimes I miss being pregnant, but then I remember how hard it is at the end and how anxious you are to meet your little bundle.

I'll have to do my 'retro post' on her birth story soon! It isn't as wild as some, but definitely not the way I thought it would be either.

This weekend we're heading out of town and while I'm looking forward to it, I'm also wondering how it's going to go. Last time we were out of town, Lexi wasn't feeling well and I was worried she had rsv, but it turned out she was ok. Sick kids are terrifying to me. You don't always know what to do to help them and that makes moms (and dads!) feel awful.

The 8 hour trip... takes us around 9 hours.. or at least it did last time. So I'm not sure I'm looking forward to that either. Last time it took so long because the girls were on different schedules. Lexi was eating every 2-3 hours.. and Layla was peeing every 3ish hours.. or getting hungry. but it was NEVER at the same time! We were pretty much stopping every hour and a half!

Hopefully this time will be better! Maybe I can get them on the same schedule or at least a closer one =)

It's been forever!

It has been over a week since I've last typed a blog.. and I want to make sure I keep up with it! If for nothing else, to document things for the girls. We've been busy as usual, but I thought this time that I would blog quickly, but next time, I'm going to blog about our wedding and honeymoon. With our 4 year anny coming up in May, I want to share how great it was with the blog universe :)

We were at the park today for 3 hours! It was great and both girls had a great time. Layla had a friend to play with and I'm sure she'll be worn out later!
Lexi actually sat in in the forward carry of the hotsling while we were there for a little while and she loved it. I was grateful that she sat in it, it gave her a great view and let me use both arms to help Layla =)

Everyday I'm reminded how lucky we are and I don't want to ever forget :)

Monday Monday!

This weekend was once again a BUSY one! It feels like the past week flew by and then the weekend flew even faster. Friday night we had to go to dinner for Ryan's grandfather's birthday and that was fun. I tried a new dish at the restaurant we went to, which is not at all normal for me.. but with it being Lent and this restaurant included meat in just about every dish except for the soup that I got, kind of forced me to venture out, lol! But it was good. Layla had a great time around all of the family.. she is a superstar. She loves to be in front of a lot of people and she acts like a ham. :) Lexi enjoyed it, I think.. she was passed around a little, but when the meals came, I got her back and she went right to sleep.

Saturday was a lot of fun. Lexi got to have a 'daddy day,' she spent the entire day with Ryan while my sister-in-law and I took Layla to the zoo. There was supposed to be a few fun things going on, but we missed the first thing thanks to swim class (that was actually cancelled by the time we got there.. nice) and then the zoo closed a little early that day, so we didn't get to see the screening of the new Barbie movie, but it comes out on Tuesday so I know Layla will see it and get it then... or whenever we make it to WalMart.
She still had a great time at the zoo though.. there is an almost-one-year-old baby elephant that was super cute..and definitely made me miss my little baby at home. But she did great at home with Ryan.

Yesterday was so beautiful outside.. while Lexi napped inside Layla and I played outside. I almost forgot about all the fun outside toys we bought Layla last year. I guess you can say she's a little spoiled, but oh well :) I don't care. I want her to have fun while she's little and be able to experience a lot of things.. and I want the same thing for Lexi.

Who knows what today will bring?! ;)

Sesame Street Live :)

For 2 weeks Layla has had a countdown on her Toy Story calendar counting down the number of days to the Elmo Sticker on Wednesday Feb 24th. Every day we would mark off the previous day and see how many days we had left until we got to see Elmo. Sitting through Sesame Street Live was not a new thing for us, this would be Layla's 3rd year of going to see it, but each year she is more excited than the last since she knows what's going on.




We had seats 1, 2, and 3 thank goodness, because all my child wanted to do was dance in the aisle.



She even got hugs from 3 of the cast members. It was actually bringing tears to my eyes at how happy she was!!





Now we count down to Disney on Ice: Princesses next month!!! ;)

FIrst blog post ever..

So I have decided that I want to be one of the "cool" people and have a blog.  I think I'll probably suck at it.. and it will probably be something that I forget about except for random moments. But I guess that's what all blogs are.. random thoughts.  I guess I might be good at that, I'm pretty random, lol. 

I think this will be a work in progress.. and it will take some getting used to.  I like to write, I always have.. but my words are usually all over the place and it takes a lot of editing to get them in the right order :) 

Today, like most days, is a busy day here.  Layla has music class on Wednesdays and that's always fun.  Except today she was wild and running all over the place.  She's always been her own person though.  All the other kids are clingy and sit with their moms, but not Layla.  She is up and adventuring out all over the place, visiting the other kids and parents.  She comes back to me when she needs to and I guess that's all that matters :) 

Lexi is still figuring everything out.  She still likes to look and examine her surroundings like most babies do. She is very inquisitive and likes to be held.  It's different from Layla, their little personalities are already showing how different they are going to be.  Layla is so independent, but Lexi is seemingly more cuddly.  I wonder if she'll stay that way!