Lily at 15 months old!

My sweet girl is 15 months old today! She is seriously the most fun, happy, lovey toddler  baby ( shes still my baby!) ever! She just makes me so happy. Me and mike are just amazed by her everyday. She is growing into such a beautiful, spunky girl and I thank God for her everyday.

Her vocabulary has expanded so much and she understands things so well! 

here's what shes saying...

Momma

Dada

bow

flower

apple

ball

cookie

fishy

pop pop

moooo when she sees a cow

whooo whoo when we show her an owl

rawr for lion's

quack for duck's

hi rye rye ( our dog)

hi boo boo ( our other dog)

bo bo ( what we call the dog's toys)

baby

juice

book

baboon ( balloon)

I think that's it..

her most common ones are Momma and Dada and hi rye rye. I hear that ALL DAY LONG she loves her doggies, and they love her too!

She is so sweet and loves to be outside.

Speaking of outside, she had her first real visit to the beach. As you can tell by the look of serious concern on her face, it may take a few more trips to get her to warm up to it! ha

She is wearing 18 months- 24 month cloths

still in size for diapers. 

She take 1-2 naps a day, sometimes she skips one, and just takes one around noon, but some days she takes one at 11 and around 3:30. For about an hour 15 Min's- 2 hours.

Still sleeping from 8pm-8:30am. I love her for this! ha ha

She is very dependent on her baby, "Ba Ba" and her blankie. sleeps with them every night and cuddles them it's very cute!

and yup, she still sucks those fingers.

She is eating well and loves veggies and fruit. 

her personality is beyond adorable. always making funny faces and giggling.

she loves to sniff feet! ha ha

she can point to her nose, eye, ear, hair, belly button and neck when you ask her where they are. 

she LOVES books. She almost always has one in her hand and loves to babble as she flips through the pages. She also loves to sit in your lap and have you read to her.

She is so precious and I feel so lucky everyday!

Miss Mia 28 weeks!

I am 28 weeks as of yesterday! time is just flying by!

Baby girl is doing great, and so am I, though I am definitely feeling the added weight. I have already gained as much weight as I did with Lily. I am 1 lb away from what I weighed the day I delivered her. That kind of shocked me! ha ha all for a good cause. I had my glucose test yesterday, so hopefully that went well. Also, as of 27 weeks my cervix was still closed and baby is up high! what a relief. It's so nice to be pregnant and not on bed rest! Work is getting a little hard, I stopped working 2 weeks ago during Lily's pregnancy so this is new territory for me, ha!

here's the big Ole belly in all its round goodness

I am just so thankful for this little one growing inside me!

our baby "sprinkle" is tomorrow so I'm off to get some last minute things ready for that!

Baby Mia! 26 weeks

Things are going great with miss Mia. I feel like a hugh house, I am MUCH bigger at 26 weeks this time then I was with Lily. I am 26 weeks 3 days, today. Doomsday as I like to call it was on Thursday. The day I turned 26 weeks with Lily was the day I went into pre-term labor, so naturally.. I was a little nervous for 26 weeks. So far, so good. I have had a few braxton hicks here and there, and even a few real, painful contractions. Luckily, the are few and far between. As I get closer to my third trimester (OMG already?!) I am definitely getting more uncomfortable and exhausted. Some days I look at my belly and think how in the heck am I going to get any bigger!? sleep is getting harder also, I have a hard time getting comfy. I have my next OB apt on the 12th. after that I will start bi-weekly visits. 

here's the belly, in all it's glory...

and my hubs in the background picking up shoes, ha

Then Mike and Lily joined in on the fun. we all look a hot mess! oh well, it was a lazy Saturday.

I am really getting excited about how close we are getting to meeting our girl. 

She is very active, Lily was too... but Mia, is insane in there. sometimes I think she will poke right through!

Easter 2011

We had a wonderful Easter! I slacked on getting Lily's basket together so the night before I left it in Mike's hands. He was working overnight so I told him while he was out in between calls to grab stuff for her basket. He did an awesome job if I do say so myself. It was fun to see her pick the things out of her basket. The winner, of course was the "baboon" She loves balloons so Mike knew this would be a hit. She also loves the little plastic eggs. We didn't even fill them with anything since she can't have candy ( though she did have a bite of mommy's Reese's egg) But she still loved them. she just walked around saying "ball! ball!" very cute.

After we got settled we headed to the Hunt Club, a local farm that puts on events for kids during holidays. I was so happy to see that Lily caught on to the egg hunt pretty quick. She was so proud of herself for putting eggs in her basket. She also loved the bigger eggs.. or balls, haha. 

She even did alright sitting on the bunny's lap... though I couldn't get a smile. 

Here is her photo from her first Easter 2010

And this Easter.. 2011. Look how she has grown! blows my mind. I can't even imagine going with 2 kids next year!!

She enjoyed the petting zoo part, though she wouldn't touch a goat for anything. she enjoyed saying "hi boo boo" which is what she calls our dog, Bailey. I guess they looked similar to her, ha.

After Hunt club we had lunch at Mike's grandma's house where Lily enjoyed running around in the backyard. She was so sweet and probably picked his grandmothers garden clean. Girl loves some flowers. I don't mind though ( his grandma might! haha) I think it's sweet that she goes " mom, flower!" she is really talking these days. I'll save that for when I do her 14th month post... which in true Stephanie fashion is going to be 2 weeks late.

We really enjoyed a nice day together, hope yours was great too! 

A day at the zoo!

Last Friday it was 82 degrees! Me and Mike decided it would be a great day to get out and go to the zoo. We had such a great time. Lily loved it, and it was wonderful to just have a family day, and do something just the three of us. Lily's favorite part is always the petting farm part. She is so amused by the goats and sheep.. well I think it was a sheep, ha ha. It's a lot of fun now because she can get out of her stroller and really explore more.

She wanted those goats to come to the fence so bad. They were smart though, cuddled up under some shade. They certainly weren't coming out into the sun.. even if the cutest little girl was begging them too.

Lily also really enjoys the Elephants and the Giraffe's. We probably stood, watching the elephants for a good twenty minutes.

Having so much fun!

It was a great day with my little one, we are looking forward to more warm days! 

On a different note, Lily had to be seen at the children's Hospital Saturday night. She has suffered form severe and chronic constipation for about 8 months now. She is being further evaluated for something called Hirshsprungs disease. She has another apt. today at 2 so I will update more later, but in the meantime, will you say a little pray for my girl?

Baby Mia update!

Today I am 20 weeks. halfway there! I am feeling good for the most part, just not sleeping well at all. Between getting up to use the bathroom, trying to get comfy, and one very active little girl, I'm exhausted. Guess I should get used to it, ha! 

We had an ultrasound this morning and all looks well! she is happy and healthy and a thumb sucker!

So cute! 

She weighs 12 oz and I think she looks just like her older sister did when she was that age in my belly.

Also, My cervix is still nice and long which is great news! we have our next appointment at 24 weeks, and then I'll be seen at 26 weeks also, since that is when the preterm labor started with Lily.  I am just so grateful knowing I have two healthy daughters. Can't ask for more than that!

Just for fun that is Lily on the top at 18 weeks 5 days and Mia on the bottom ( why am I not smart enough to make them side by side?! oh well.) at 20 weeks. Same nose and mouth! 

My baby is walking!

It is sideways, not sure how to turn it but you get the idea. She still prefers to crawl. Esp. if she wants something, like the cell phone in my hand recording her, haha. You can see that about halfway through the video.

So exciting!

Managing two?

Lily is a Mama's girl. Her new favorite thing is to sit in my lap and have me read her books. ( okay, okay, she does this with her daddy too) Obviously this is a behavior that I am thrilled to see and love that she enjoys being in my lap. But... she also cries when I go to switch loads of laundry, and gets a tude' if I don't help her bang her blocks, etc, etc..

My worry is, I am about halfway through Mia's pregnancy, and well I am kind of freaking out a little about splitting the attention between my girls. I know that Mia is going to need me when she first arrives, and I am so afraid this is going to devastate Lily when I can't be on the floor playing with her all the time. I also worry that this is going to hurt Lily's feelings, or make her resent her baby sister. I don't want to take too much attention from Lily because I LOVE playing with her, but I do realize it's going to happen. Especially the first few weeks while me and Mia are getting down nursing. Thankfully, Mike is taking about a month off work when Mia comes, this is going to be such a big help, and my sister will also be in town to help. But I don't want it to turn into a "daddy always deals with the older kid while mommy is with the baby" situation. I love the bond I have with Lily and don't want to lose that. I'm sure a lot of my worries are silly, and that everything will work out after we find a routine that works for our family. Lily will adjust, I know that.. but still. Worrying is what preggo's do, I suppose.

Park days and spring cleaning.

We have had some really nice days in Virginia Beach the past few weeks. Most days it's in the high 50's, low to mid 60's but we have a had a few days in the high to mid 70's. HEAVEN. I am a summer girl, so I am welcoming any warm days we get.

We took advantage of the weather by going to the park! Lily loves it now that she is more independent, and My sister and her kids just recently visited, so they were able to enjoy it with us. ( though they live in key west, so they are used to warm weather! ha!)

        Enjoying the sun and the grass.

 

 

 

Even Dylan joined in on the "climbing up the slide party"

 She giggles so much on the swings!

 And on another warm day we found ourselves again, at the park...

 Once again, her favorite part was climbing all over the slides, ha ha So cute!

On another note, Me and Mike have been tackling some serious cleaning. We cleared out Mia's room cleaned all the carpets in the house and are finally tackling some lingering piles of laundry that just never seemed to get done. We picked out Mia's bedding, so once we paint in a few weeks I'll take some pics to update on how her nursery will be coming along! we also went and registered today for her. My baby shower will be in may, so excited!