Mother's Day Out

Well Allison finished her first school year..she really misses it and talks about her friends all the time. Unfortunatly she doesn't get to move up with the rest of them to the 3 year old preschool since she was moved up due to the lack of students in her age group.

Here are pics of Allison to compare from the beginning and end of the school year.

August 31,2010
First Day of MDO

May 10, 2011
Last Day of MDO

First day of MDO

Last Day of MDO.. There's a similar pic of me on my last day I need to find it so I can post to compare!!

Allison goes Fishing!!

Jeff and Allison went to Lake Lenexa to do a little fishing...they both had a blast! I think its going to be a regular thing for these two. E and I hung back. It was a little too hot for Emilee...so Grammy and Papa  got to tag along for the fun. And while they were there they had a little picnic!

May 2011

May came and went way too fast with me going back to work..we were just trying to keep up with how fast everything was going. Jeff was working a lot with his side job and neither of us were getting lots of normal sleep. So here are a  bunch of pictures!

Emilee in Grandad's famous KC hat. Allison has a pic about this age with the same hat.

 Jeff and his handy girl putting in our laundry room floor. Which turned out to so great! I love it!

                                                               Allison and Emilee

 This is about the last of the "woody woodpecker hair" as I call it..it grew out enough to lay down.

 Playing with Raegan on Memorial Day....I hope these two grow up to be as good of friends as their Moms since we met each other in kindergarten!

Easter 2011

Easter weekend was offically my last weekend of maternity leave...we started off going to the easter egg drop from our church. It was an  EVENT. The ball fields behind our church devide the kids by age groups and then the Easter Bunny comes and drops tons of eggs from the helicopter on top of having eggs spread out on the field.  We didn't stick around to play in the bounce house or play other games or have lunch..that was enough excitement for our little kiddos so we went home to dye easter eggs.

Allison got into it more this ear. She had  a lot of fun dying the eggs.

On Easter morning we got up to see what the easter bunny had left for Allison and Emilee and got in our Sunday best for Easter service!

 After church we headed over to my parents house since Grammy and Papa were somewhere in the carribean we had only one house to attend. Allison and an Easter egg hunt and did pretty well!

Allison the Artist

Allison has found a new hobby in painting...she was introduced in her Mother's Day out class and is always so proud of herself..so as a reward for behaving she got her own paints, brushes and paper. She absolutely looooves it! These pictures are from a few weeks ago...but better late than never. She got to share her new hobby with Grammy in the morning and then Papa Hunny that  same evening!!



Grammy has been taking an art class on thrusdays and has recently painted Allison some pictures for her "Big Girl" room. Thy look awesome..soon I'll get pics of them..I promise.

 I absolutely love this picture of Allison....she's so darn cute!

 Allison had so much fun! She is such a hoot to listen to lately...she kept singing "you can't calm down" mocking her parents but it was soooo funny..we luckily caught it on camera. She's our entertainer these days dancing, singing, playing her "drums" and has been catching onto everything and anything..she's very bright for her age.

Papa was offered an art scholarship back when he was in highschool...he's really talented and recently he let me go through all of his artwork and take what I loved... he never did go though with art school...his Dad made fun of him..back in the '50's that not something boys did. But it would have been pretty awesome to see what he would have achieved.

 Now for and Emilee update: She ended up having the same reaction to the prevnar vaccination so we'll see what the doctore wants to do. Luckily we knew what to look for so we didn't make a mad dash to the phone or get sent to children's mercy again. Emilee loves the morning time..she coos and giggles at herself and the ceiling fan. She's been sleeping a lot more lately during the day, I think she's going through a growth spurt. She hasn't lost any hair!!! But it is getting lighter. She loves to spit out bubbles and get a good look on everything around her. We are so blessed to have such beautiful children.!! :) Emilee looks so much like Jeff in this pic below....but she looks like Allison when she sleeps..funny how much they change so fast.

2 months old!

It's hard to believe but Emilee is already 2 months old! She's changed so much this last month, she's getting much more active and paying attention to things around her. She's keeping her eyes open longer and smiling and cooing.

 She's gonna be a cuddler like her big sis for sure. She currently sleeps about in 4 hour increments at night for me. She's still our "squeaky" baby.

Here are Allison and Emilee on St. Patty's Day

All smiles for miss Emilee! Finally in the last 2 nights Emilee's colic has gotten better. We havn't had to give her gas drops either night. She's fallen asleep around 9 o'clock but not for the night which is okay..I'm usually up until 11 on most nights anyway. I've been lucky that for the most part both girls fall asleep for naps around the same time as well. Allison is finally starting get back on the potty training train...and we're working on getting her away from her pacifier again. She completley regressed after Emilee was born on both of these, however she wasn't completely potty trained or broke from her pacifier on all counts. But she's starting to come around and doing good.

Allison is very protective of "her Emilee" and all of her dolls are named Emilee. She can totally change her babie's diapers with actual diapers too! She's a great helper.

If Emilee could sleep on her stomach or side  she would sleep much better..I just don't feel comfortable yet..I don't feel that she's strong enough yet. Maybe once she's rolling over.

At Emilee's 2 month appointment today she got all of her vaccinations even the Prevnar which is what Allison had a reaction to and didn't recieve. We pre-medicated her with benadryl and tylenol so hopefully she does ok. Here are her stats:

Emilee-
Height : 22 inches 34%
Weight: 12lbs 13oz 92%
Head: 39cm 56%
and for comparison
Allison-
Height:22 1/2 inches 25%
Weight 14lbs 3 oz 93%
I'm sure if they changed the growth chart measurments or if the nurse wrote them down wrong with Allison (if you look at their length you'll understand) but the Dr's office now uses all computerized print outs so it's not hand written like it used to be.

Emilee likes to look at her surroundings as I said earlier her favorite things to look at are the ceiling fans, the mirror on her swing, Miles the mouse above her changing table. Of course her big sis and the dogs. She loves to be held so she can see everything as you see it. She really only wants to snuggle when she's given up on sleeping. Which she fights on some nights.

Unfortunatly Emile is totally a momma's girl. She'll hang out with daddy but she'll cry until I come around. Luckily Jeff's had a few practice runs with the both of them alone when I play volleyball or go shopping, for when I go back to work on the weekends. I don't go back untl April 30th and I'm doing much better with that than I did with Allison. With Allison I was a complete mess. But of course I would much rather stay home full time with the girls. Who wouldn't when they grow up so fast.