Our Little Bug

Things I want to remember about Eliza at almost 3 (WHAT?):

- She is very scared and concerned with bees right now. "When do they go to bed? When do they wake up? Are they going to sting me?" Any bug that flies by, or a piece of dirt in the air is a cause for concern. She is afraid of them and fascinated by them.

- She makes up songs as we drive down the road. She also requests specific songs with her name that she has made up for them. (Usually the first few words of the song.) For example, "Oh my" by Taylor Swift is one of her favorites. I don't even know what the real name is but it is number 15 on Taylor's new album.

- Every day she talks about the Sun. Every. Single. Day. She wants to know if the sun is awake, going to bed, behind the clouds, or behind the trees. Is it about to get dark yet? We shouldn't touch sun. We shouldn't look at the sun. We need to teach baby sister not to look at the sun too.

- She adores Caroline aka Baby Sister aka Carebear. She is sweet to her and talks to her a lot. She does, however, forget that Caroline has legs if they are covered by a blanket and will proceed to squish them by accident.

- She has recently stopped eating yogurt everyday. This is sad because it was one of the only healthy things that she will eat.

- She likes nicknames. She calls Kase "K-Dizzle" and recently I have become "Mamadee". I am not sure why really

- She has recently taken interest in my scrapbooks and loves to look at them. It makes me happy.

- She has started telling people that they smell a certain way. For example, she told Kase the other night that he smelled like Ketchup. This morning Caroline smelled like cheese.

- She refuses to wear sandles. She loves to have socks on at all times. With the warm weather coming, we need to fix that soon!

Funny things she says:

We always lay in her bed at night at talk about her day. She asks me lots of questions and I explain the world to her. It is one of my favorite times of the day. The other night she said "Mommy, I want to talk about bad things." I was a little concerned and asked "Ok what bad things do you want to talk about?" "I want to talk about knivzsez (knives)." I was even more concerned. "Ok what about knives?" She said "Mommy and Daddy can touch knivzsez but Eliza cannot touch knivzsez. Right mommy?" Whew... that is right.

The other day I saw her holding herself like she needed to go to the bathroom. "Eliza do you need to go potty?" She said, "No, I'm just holding myself so I don't pee myself. I don't need to go potty."



She is such a smart and sweet girl. We are so blessed to have her.

3 Months

Caroline is 3 months old today. She is such a joy.

At 3 months she:

- Makes lots of gurgling, squeeking, cooing noises. She tries to talk to us.

- She still is not sleeping through the night. She goes to bed around 9, wakes up around 1:30, and then 3 hours after that wake up time. I usually put her in bed with me when she gets up around 5 so I can squeeze a little more sleep for me since I get up around 6:30 for work.

- She is good about going back to sleep after she wakes up to eat. She will go in her bed awake and she rubs her face and head with her hands until she falls asleep. It is so cute.

- She likes her pacifier but doesn't really have a thing for it. 

- She loves to snuggly. 

- She will sit by herself for quite a while happy as can be.

-Eats about every 3 hours.

- Takes 4 oz bottles at school.

- Wears size 1 diapers still.

- She really only gets upset when she is gassy, really hungry, or really tired.  

- She LOVES Eliza. She smiles so big when Eliza talks to her. I love seeing my girls smiling at each other.

- Is such a happy and sweet baby.

 I cannot imagine our life without this sweet girl.

I'm enjoying her being little so much and I know how fast she will change.

But I'm also excited to watch her grow and see what she becomes.

Easter Part II

 Easter morning Eliza woke up to find her Easter basket which she left outside her door filled with goodies. She was so excited that the Easter bunny came to her house. This was the first year that she was excited for Easter. We tried to explain to her the true meaning of Easter. Hopefully she will understand it better next year.

Eliza's basket and Caroline's basket:

Caroline's first Easter involved her mommy torturing her by putting her inside her own Easter basket.

She was not a big fan. But she looked so cute.

Eliza had to get ready for church before she could look into her Easter basket. But she looked darling in the Easter dress I got last year on clearance. score!

 Caroline and Daddy.

 Our little bunny.

 The Easter bunny brought Caroline the cutest and softest little lamb ever. I love it so much. I hope she will too. Everytime I see it I think of her because she is so cute and soft too.

 I'm discovering the only thing harder than getting good pictures of an almost 3 year old, is getting good pictures of her with her sister.

 We had SuperDeb and Grandpa over for Easter dinner. It was so fun to have them in our home. Eliza LOVES it.

Caroline and SuperDeb.  

 Grandpa and Kase hid eggs for Eliza to find. She was a big fan.

 Grandpa and Eliza.

We had a wonderful Easter. It has become one of my favorite holidays of the year.

Now bring on Spring!!!

Easter Part I

 This year was the first time Eliza has ever dyed eggs. She was fascinated. She had no idea that the eggs would come out a different color, and she was so surprised.

We had a great time.

A Girl and her Dress

I absolutely love having girls. One of my favorite things to do is dress them up. It has been fun for me to be able to put Caroline in some of my favorite dresses that Eliza wore.

I particularly love this one. Nothing looks cuter than a cardigan on a baby.

Delicious.

St. Patrick's Day

We wore our green for St. Patrick's day.

Caroline looked particularly cute on her first day of green.

 St. Patrick's day is the day after my birthday and Kase's awesome parents had us over for dinner. YUMMMMM.

We had a great day!

Turning 31

On March 16 I turned 31. Yikes. Typing it out sounds so weird. But really, it's not bothering me.

My parents came to visit for my birthday weekend. My mom, Holly, and I went to a consignment sale that was awesome. Then we had a great lunch together. Then I got to enjoy one of my favorite things to do: nap. Then we headed to dinner at Carrabba's which I love.

While there, Eliza suddenly got sick and threw up all over me. It was awesome. So we had our food boxed up to take home. We had dinner at home and enjoyed a delicious ice cream cake my parents had brought.I had been wanting an icecream cake and my mom didn't even know it!

The sick girl enjoyed her piece of icecream cake with blue frosting.

And I enjoyed my desert after desert: little caroline.

Best birthday ever.

Our Week

This has been my first full week back to work and I am so exhausted! I think I can make it one more day though! I am going to try to upload a lot of pictures this weekend from March and Easter. Even though our internet is faster, the computer is all the way downstairs and I have not had the energy to venture that far.

This week has been OK. I am so grateful for good coworkers that make working more pleasant. We're all a bit on edge waiting for news regarding the furlough. All we know so far is that we will be required to take up to 14 days leave without pay from April to October. It will be a financial hardship for many of us. I'd just like to know the plan so we can be as prepared as possible. I've been pumping 3 times a day at work, and so far it is going well. I am so thankful I have a job where it is pretty easy for me to do this. Providing food for Caroline helps me feel closer to her while I am away and it is much cheaper! I hope to keep it up as long as possible even though I hate pumping.

Caroline has adjusted to daycare pretty well. She is so tired in the evenings. She is still not sleeping through the night but I enjoy my snuggling time with her and she goes back to sleep really easily after she eats. She is such as sweet girl and has been such a joy.

Eliza is such a good girl. She is so smart and (mostly) sweet. She never gets notes home from school about bad behavior and I am so proud of her.

Things I want to remember from this week:
- On Monday, we surprised Kase by coming to his 1st softball game of the season. When I told Eliza where we were going, she said "I'm going to say Go Daddy!" Oh and she did. She was his little cheerleader and is loud just like her SuperDeb. She had the best time watching her daddy play softball.

-  On the way home from sofball, I asked her if she wanted mommy or daddy to get her ready for bed. I am so tired in the evenings and grouchy. Kase is a lot more patient than I am. Eliza said she wanted me to get her ready for bed. She told me that "mommy is nice to me." It made me feel a little better because I have been short with her at bedtime. I am striving to do better.

-  Tuesday morning when I was dropping of the girls at daycare, the fire alarm went off just as I was about to leave Caroline's room. (I had already dropped off Eliza.) I could tell by the teacher's faces that this was not a fire drill. There were only two other babies in Caroline's class but I offered to stay to help because I just didn't want to leave. So the teachers loaded the other two babies into one crib and we started out the door. Eliza's class is right across the hallway and she saw me as soon as her classroom door opened. She is very scared of loud noises and I could see the panic on her face. She didn't know if she should come to me or stay with her class. I told her it was ok and to go with her class but I expected her to object. She stayed with her class and did so well. We had to wait outside in the cold for a good 20 minutes while the firefighters cleared the building. Eliza sat with her class and behaved the whole time. I could not have been more proud of her. She did such a good job. It was also good for me to see how the teachers handle an emergency. I was impressed with their speed. They all did such a good job and took such good care of the children.

- At Christmas, Eliza got some new bath toys so I got rid of some of her old bath toys that had gotten gross including a Tiger, Elephant, and Bear. During bath time this week..... 3 months later..... she said "Mommy, where is my tiger, elephant, and bear?" I tried to ignore the question but she kept asking me over and over. So finally I responded with the only thing that I could think of: "The wheels on the bus go round and round..." It totally worked. At least for today.