She speaks

Katen playing dress-up

Our record snow piling up. Those are mailboxes!

Miss Ana the snowbunny - about to take her first outside walk

Ready for Easter

Sweet Ana has found her voice! Up until now she's been giving us quiet little coo's and smiles but in the last week or so she's really found her voice. Now she's talking to us when we play and it sounds like she's holding serious conversations with some of her toys as well. watch out!

She's also discovered her hands and tries multiple times daily to fit her entire fist in her mouth. I'm half worried that she might succeed. Since she realizes that her hands work, she can also pick up toys and things as well. This has opened up a whole new level of play for her. I clipped a little blue birdie onto her carseat the other day and she's been mesmerized by it ever sinice. She bats at it and grabs the feet. Super cute!

She's also really tall so she can fit into her jumperoo and touch the ground now. She just discovered yesterday that she can jump up and down in it. At first I think she was pretty much terrified, judging by the look on her face, but quickly she decided it was fun and jumped for quite a while. As she jumped she made the most hilarious faces. She was pretty serious about it. Ha!

I had her at the pediatrician last Friday and she's up to 17lbs already. She and Katen wear the same size diaper and Ana is wearing a onesie that Katen just grew out of last fall.

Things around the house are going well. I have my Dove Chocolate Discoveries launch party this Friday. We're still waiting on our house to sell but we've settled into a good routine around here. Ana pretty much is up at 7am and eats/sleeps again at 9. That leaves me time to catch up on emails and play with Katen. Then we're out the door to our activity for the day when Ana wakes and eats again. At noon it's time for lunch, nursing, and then naps again. I can usually get both girls to sleep at the same time, so that leaves a nice chunk of time for me to clean and catch up with any other work I need to do. After naps we play a little and then, when Daddy gets home, we have dinner and the girls get a bath. Ana goes to bed for the night by 7pm which leaves Katen a little more one -on -one time and it makes it easier to get both girls to sleep when we're not trying to do both at once.

Everyone asks if Ana is a good sleeper. Well no, she's not. She's up about every 2-3 hours, but that's okay. Katen wasn't a good sleeper either so I expected that. I'm not completely exhausted during the day unless we've had a particularly difficult night dealing with reflux or sickness, so it's working for us right now. Sure, I'd love for her to sleep better but she's a big girl who likes her food. What can I say? :)

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Speaking Toddlereese

Katen chatters a lot. She gets that from her Dad. :)

Today I was trying to nudge my hip into a chair so that I could sit and nurse at the table where Katen was eating lunch. I thought I heard her say, "You suck." I looked at her and said, "WHAT???" She repeated it and I realized she was asking, "Are you stuck?" whew!

Sometimes we just have to laugh at the words she comes up with. For example:

Fumich = sandwich
Napett = napkin
tea towl is actually her way of saying tortilla
I think I already mentioned bandans (band-aids)
oh and fooms = spoons

I'm sure there are more. Just wait. Haha :)

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New Adventure in Chocolate

I've decided to become a Dove Chocolate Discoveries Chocolatier. I figure that I love chocolate and it kind of sells itself, right? Plus it will be nice to have some spending money of my own. I miss bringing home a little bacon. ;)
Check out my new blog dedicated to the business at: WillWork4Chocolate

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Big Girls

I was so struck today by how fast our girls are growiing that I had to sit down and write about it.

We've moved Katen's toys down to the finished basement so she has this huge room to play in. While we were down there, I went into the store room to grab our Bumbo for Ana to play in. There I saw Katen's old Jumparoo. (Still with me? A bumbo is a little seat that supports them sitting upright and a jumperoo is like a johny jump up only you don't hang it. It stands alone.) I pulled out the jumparoo just to see how much longer it would be until I could put Ana in it and have her touch the ground with her feet. Katen was about 6 mos before she could play in it, and we had to put books below her feet because she was still too short. Well imagine my suprise when Ana could touch the ground at not quite three months. Wow she's tall! ...And how did those three months fly by?

After recovering from the shock I looked to see what Katen was doing and she was sitting on her little red trike. She's always loved playing with the buttons that honk the horn and play songs but it's been a gift she had to grow into because she couldn't reach the pedals. Well guess what. She had her feet on the pedals. I can't believe how fast they grow! All of her pants are getting to be high waters too, so we need spring to get her so we can pass them off as cropped pants. Ha!

If anybody knows how to freeze time, let me know. Although I imagine things just keep getting more and more fun. They have been so far. Man, I love our kids. :)

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Sledding... down the stairs

Katen and Daddy have built a nice little sledding ramp down our back stairs. The only problem is that it heads straight for a tree.

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