Friday, May 27, 2016

Almost 3!

Molly Caroline will be 3 in one week and is just at the sweetest age! 

She is wild! Has so much energy! Is very observant (wonder who she gets that from?)! And she is sweet and loving most of the time. She can also talk back and be sassy...already! 


Every day when I pick her up from daycare she runs to me and says "Mommy I missed you!" Then she tells Mimi or her friends, "it's my mommy, she's here!" 


She still says I lub you much! That will be wonderful! That's great! Or it'll be perfect! Or oh, I lub that! 


She loves to sing and makes up songs every day. They are normally about "Anna Cuh ware " being so sweet or missing my  mommy! I lub her and her lub me is usually somewhere in the song too.


Her vocabulary is huge! I'm constantly asking her who told you that or where did you learn that?


She loves to play outside in our backyard which she calls the garden! She loves to swing, play in her house, and play in sand!


She loved school this year, loves going to church, cfa, the store, the beach, bounce houses, parties, the zoo...pretty much all things! She is my child!


She loves swimsuits and shoes!!!


She has started telling people if they smell good or yucky! 


She has also started giving people compliments. Like I love your dress or your hair looks pretty! She told me my earrings were beautiful yesterday! It's so sweet!


She loves reading books!


Her favorite snacks are cold applesauce, white raisens, bananas, and chips!


She eats almost anything we give her. She still won't try corn or peas!


Her favorite shows are Gilmore Girls, Greys, PJ Masks, Ponies, Mickey, Jake, Doc, and Sophia.


She loves dressing up like a princess and watches Frozen over and over! 


She loves to take baths with Anna Claire, hold her, feed her, be twins with her, play with her. shes obsessed with her baby sister. She called her "my Anna Claire" and so far hasn't shown one sign of jealously. She wants to hold her hand and make her "file" or smile constantly!


She can make Anna Claire laugh doing the most simple things and she tries to all the time!


She tells us that we're her best friend all the time! Then she adds "you're coming at my party!" We also get uninvited from her birthday from time to time.


She's started walking from her big girl room to ours in the middle of the night and prefers to sleep on some pillows on the floor next to Blakely! She doesn't even wake us up when she comes in!


She talks to Blakely all the time and plays with her! She. Calls her Boo Bear most of the time!


She's one of the silliest girls alive and her belly laugh is contagious!


She really is observant, seems to remember everything, and makes comparisons about things often! Sometimes I can tell what she's gonna say before she does! Like at baby dedication I saw the light in her heads turn on that our pastor and matt had on the some shoes! And she had to tell us right then!


She loves everyone in her family and talks about them often even though we don't get to see them near enough!


I'm sure I'm missing a million things but overall she is just such a joy! 


Oh Molly Caroline, I would surely freeze time in an instant! We love you much, P! 



Thursday, May 19, 2016

That's a wrap...

Another school year has come to an end. This year has been different...October and November were filled with lots of appointments, me preparing to be out on maternity leave, soaking up my time with MC, and anxiously awaiting Anna Claire's arrival. I left my school the Friday before Thanksgiving pregnant and ready to have our baby sister. I missed all of Dec and Jan with my class...which I so enjoyed my winter break with my babies and then went back to work in Februrary as a mommy to 2 girls! That's a lot of transition! I love my school family, but am so excited about summer time with my own family! 

We're getting ready for Molly Caroline to turn 3! 
Doing a few things around the yard and house...

And just playing and snuggling! 

Bring on the summer!

Sunday, April 24, 2016

Taking time to stop and smell the roses.

It's rose show weekend and I have a sick Molly Caroline! She started running a fever on Tuesday and is still running one. It's Sunday and her fevers are high...very unusual for her! Her gums are so swollen and she has ulcers in her throat! Yuck! 

I've loved getting to stay home and take care of her, even though she feels miserable. However, it's been really hard for me to cancel all of our plans and not continue all our special traditions...but I did. 

Over the years I've gotten much better about saying no and slowing down, but I'm still not great at it. It doesn't help that all our family live out of town, so we stay busy traveling to do things with them too! And since it's just us here, our kids do everything with us. We've been going nonstop the last two weekends and we were supposed to go to Atlanta Saturday for frozen on ice. Had to cancel that.We   didn't go to the rose show parade, watch fireworks, go to the rose queen tea, enjoy art in the park, or attend due south. I was most upset about missing her art show at school on Friday! I missed other events to be able to go to that one! So sad!



I was forced to slow down and just enjoy some home time with my little family! And I loved every second! I cut some roses from our yard and smelled those instead of the ones that the garden club displayed. :)



We watched the rosebud parade from our car.



Ate Moonspin to go instead of in person before the parade.



Listened to the fireworks from our house.



And spent lots of time playing dress up, snuggling, hanging out in the yard, and getting caught up on chores.






This morning Matt took Anna Claire to church and I held my feverish MC while she slept. Just cherished the moment.


Oh and we did still get rose cupcakes! It's the one thing MC would eat after a week of applesauce, yogurt, and Popsicles. She requested a cupcake with a flower and sprinkles on it! 


Friday, April 22, 2016

A messed up phone = lots of catching up!

So I've missed Easter


Our Spring Break beach trip

Athens trip

And a little Mickey Mouse Picnic party prep!

I'm going to try to get all caught up this weekend! 

Friday, March 25, 2016

4 months!



Anna Claire "waves" to us all the time! Makes us laugh! It's adorable!

We stopped swaddling her because she was getting very rolly. It took about a week going cold turkey and she sleeps better than ever. On her side...a lot of times with her thumb or a few fingers in her mouth.

Her laugh just bursts out! It's the cutest! Every now and then it sounds similar to how Molly Caroline's did.

Size 1 diapers. 3 month clothing sometimes! 

Weighing in at 13.4! 30th percentile and that curve finally looks good! 60th in length! She is much longer than big sis.

Notices and watches her hands now!

She likes her paci when she's sleepy. But keeps her hands on her mouth!

Drooling. Blowing bubbles. 

She laughs with us!

I just love how her entire face breaks into a huge grin if she sees us!

She's not really gassy anymore-I'm still cautious with red sauce and anything spicy. I don't drink milk or have much dairy.

She celebrated her first St. Patrick's Day and Easter!

She went to Atlanta for the first time.

Oh, Anna Claire, you are just so lovable!  You love to be held and we love it too! But you're also content to just hang out and chill. You love resting on your side and your thumb! I never thought I'd have a thumb sucker! It's the sweetest thing! I just love kissing your face and legs all over...especially when you scrunch your legs up! You smile at your sister as soon as you see her and you laugh and chuckle with us all the time! Baby sister, you are perfect!

Thursday, March 24, 2016

Here comes Peter Cottontail!

Our Easter baskets are ready! 
Anna Claire helped Molly Caroline stuff her eggs for school...with chocolate and stretchy bunnies!

Matt was the lucky one that got to go to MCs preschool hunt at the big oak. I was heartbroken to miss it, but because of a field trip I just couldn't swing it. Matt said she loved it and kept running up to him and her teachers saying "happy Easter" and "look at my eggs!"

This is how I found her this morning! Thankfully she is not a candy lover and as she would open every egg, she would say, "I don't like this!"
I just love Easter!




Sunday, March 20, 2016

Kids Sale Finds!

You know I love children's clothes and a good deal!! I only sold a few things at the sale this year, but I sure found a ton of awesome brands for greet prices! My treasures were a shrimp and grits kids Christmas dress and a lilly dress!! 

Our babysitter, Mrs. Pam went with me the second day and bought each girl a dress!  That about made me cry it was so thoughtful!