First Snow - 2011

After approximately three thousand requests to "play in the winter," I finally gave in and spent 20 minutes getting the girls bundled up. We finally made it outside for a quick 10 minutes of playing in the fresh snow/slush.  Ellie was thrilled, she would've stayed out there for hours.  I had to promise to take her out later while Emma naps in order to get her in the house.  Emma on the other hand didn't seem thrilled with any of it, as you can see, when you fall down it ain't easy gettin back up! 

Sun and Music

Another day driving home from "school" and Ellie tells me "gasses mommy" - I think about it a second, look back at her, eyes covered by her hands and determine she needs her sun glasses.

She plopped them on, upside down of course, and was good to go.

She had her glasses, water, cereal and some good tunes.

Again, the song telling her to get her hands in the air...

After a hard day...

The picture quality is horrible but the content is oh so cute!



Finally...

One of these:

has finally made an appearance for this little girl:

(thank you clipart for the picture)

Valentine's Day

Ellie and Emma brought these home from school yesterday.



Emma - 6 Months Old!

Emma turned 6 months old on Christmas Day - my how time flies!

Today she had her 6 month doctor visit, including shots :(

Here are her current stats versus her 4 month ones:

Height: 24 1/2 inches (50th percentile) and 26 inches (ummm 63rd percentile)

Head circumference: 16 (50th percentile) and 16 1/2 (30th percentile)

And the biggie: Weight: 11 pounds 14 ounces (25th percentile) and 14 pounds 16 ounces - wait a second, that can't be correct (although that's what the paper is telling me) because if I recall correctly there are 16 ounces in a pound...anyway I saw the scale it was 14 something.  That is in the 25th percentile.

So we have been using the same office that Ellie has gone to since she was born.  Soon after Emma was born our wonderful pediatrician, Dr. Flagel, left us for the sun and sand of Florida.  We now have some goofy, overweight guy that is a slob and now instead of our nice, cute, put-together nurse we have the female version of our doctor. Jeff and I just made faces at each other throughout the appointment today.  What. A. Bummer.

And since we can't have a post without a photo I'll leave you with a few from Emma's one month photo shoot which have yet to make it to blogland...

Emma sleeping.

Ellie and Emma.

The family.

Emma and daddy.

And one of Ellie and her daddy.

Christmas Art

Ellie created this little masterpiece at school this week.  The antlers are her hands (look at her pointer finger on the left hand...creepy...luckily, that is not an accurate depiction of her finger) and the head is made from her foot.  Notice all the coloring/drawing in the background.