Well, things have been a little crazy around here with a new baby and the holidays. Hence, the blog has taken a back seat. Hopefully I will be able to get back up and posting more often soon. We had a great Christmas and stayed at home this year, no surprise. It was very nice and low key. Oma stayed to help us after Avery was born and was here until Christmas, thank goodness! Thank you so much Mom for all of help, we couldn't have done everything without you here!! Love you! Oupa came up to stay with us on Christmas Eve and we opened up all of our presents to each other then. On Christmas evening we headed over to Justin and Lourdes' house to celebrate Christmas with them and Jacob's grandparents. The girls had a blast and loved opening all of their fun presents! Little Avery slept through most of Christmas. :)
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| Sweet sisters. |
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| Love holding their baby. |
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| So sweet! |
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Jayda always ask to hold Avery.
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| "Just Born" |
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All swaddled up with her monkey from Sydney. :)
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Avery's first bath! She did so good and hardly even cried!
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| Such a cute picture after bathtime! |
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Going to sleep after bathtime.
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| Sydney wearing her new hair wrap from Oma. Too cute! |
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Heading to her first doctor appointment the week after she was born.
She was such a trooper in the freezing cold weather! |
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| Snuggling sisters! |
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The girls had fun making sugar cookies on Jayda's last day of school before Christmas break!
At Jayda's school one person each week gets to be the "bullfrog of the week" in her classroom. Each student gets a turn throughout the school year and that person gets special privelages for the week. Jayda got the bullfrog home right before Christmas so she was able to play with him over the break and then was the bullfrog the week she got back from the break. We had to take lots of pictures of her with froggy and put them in a binder along with all the other students that had been bullfrog so far this year. She also had to make an "all about me" poster with different pictures of her family, favorite places, what she wants to be when she grows up, etc. We got lots of cute pictures since we had little froggy for so long. When Jayda got back to school last week she got to take the lunch count to the front office, pick up books to return to the library, be line leader everyday, and she even got to stamp everyones folders at the end of the day a few times. She LOVED being bullfrog of the week and came home so happy about all the fun stuff she'd gotten to do.
Playing with froggy in the playroom. |
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Making sugar cookies with froggy.
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| And she slept with froggy every night too. |
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| Brushing froggy's hair in the morning. |
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| He also helped Jayda open her Christmas presents. |
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| Sydney and Avery snuggling together. |
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| I have lots of these kind of pictures. :) |
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| Avery's favorite spot to sleep. |
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We took the girls out for a bike ride one day when it warmed up and it was so nice to get out.
They enjoyed it, and are showing off their one handed bike riding skills. |
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| The girls were so excited to open presents on Christmas Eve! |
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| Jayda got some pretty jeans for Christmas. |
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| Yay! |
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| Jayda was showing Avery the socks she got for Christmas. |
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| Oma and Oupa got an ipad! |
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| Sydney showing us the bows that Avery got. |
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| Putting all the cookies and milk out for Santa, woo-hoo! They couldn't wait until the morning! |
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| Had to feed the reindeer too. |
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| Santa stopped at our house! |
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He even filled all the stockings too.
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Reading the note from Santa.
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| So happy she got an EZ bake oven from Santa! |
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| Woo-hoo, candy! |
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| Santa visited Avery too! |
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| Trying out the new roller skates, look out! |
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| Going roller blading, yay!! |
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Love this picture of my sweet girls on Christmas morning!
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| Our first Christmas as a family of 5! |
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| The best Christmas present ever!! |
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| Mammaw got to meet Avery for the first time on Christmas. |
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| Jacob and little Ty-ty. Love that little boy. |
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| Jayda was so excited to open even more presents on Christmas night. |
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| Sydney putting on one of her dress up outfits she got for Christmas. She loves to dress up! |
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| Another little Daddy's girl. |
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These girls love to sing, dance, and put on shows! Over the break they dressed up a lot,
turned on Jayda's karoke machine, and danced away. Jayda was super excited to get the Justin Beiber
and Lady Antebellum cd's with some of her Christmas money. |
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| Two little munchkins cuddling in the snugi together. |
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| Napping on Daddy's chest again! |
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| Nana was at our house for her birthday and we enjoyed a yummy cookie cake! |
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Avery has just started smiling a little bit. It's so cute!
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| Heading out to her 2 week doctor check up. |
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| Sweet pea waiting with mommy at the doctor's office. |
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Sydney finally put her pacis out for the paci fairy to come and take them! This was long overdue and she was such a big girl to get rid of them. She was really excited to hang them in the tree for the fairy, but at about 10 pm that night she was screaming for her paci. The next few nights were pretty rough but she seemed to adjus after a few days. She was VERY attached to her paci. She only used it at bedtime but she loved her paci so much. It was pretty sad seeing her so upset that it was gone but we all knew she needed to get rid of it. She's been doing great without, despite waking up in the middle of the night and coming to our room, instead of getting her paci and going back to sleep. :)
We had a dinner party at our house for Nana's 50th birthday a few weekends ago. It was so nice to have a chef come in and cook at our house for everyone! The food was delicious and the wine was great. Definitely had a good time! |
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| Nana and the girls at her birthday party. |
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| Cheers to Suzie! |
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| Suzie and her boys, so cute! |
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| The kiddos table. |
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| Such a fun night of celebrating! |
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| Avery slept through the whole dinner. |
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| Jacob thought this was so funny. It is pretty darn cute. |
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| Last week Avery took a nap in her crib, in the snuggle nest, for the first time. She slept there for 3 hours and I was so excited! Unfortunately she hasn't been able to sleep in there again. Hopefully she will be able to soon! |
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| Big stretch! |
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| Last week we took Avery out on her first walk. Jayda roller bladed and Sydney rode her bike. We all went up to the school playground and played for a while. Avery and I walked on the track by the playground and she slept the whole time. |
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| The girls were ready to put on a show for us to Justin Beiber's "Beauty and the Beat" song. Too funny! |
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| Sydney loves when Avery lays in her bed with her. |
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"Here's your paci Avery."
This past saturday we went to Pleasure Pier in Galveston. The girls had a blast on all the fun rides there and it was so nice to spend some quality time with the big girls. Oma came with us and watched Avery so that was great! |
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| They rode this froggy ride a ton of times! |
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| Sydney riding on the horsey. |
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| They also LOVED the bumper cars! There weren't many people there last weekend so they could do the same ride over and over without waiting in line. They did the bumper cars at least 20 times! |
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| Daddy and Avery were worn out after a long day in Galveston. |
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| Such a sweet little baby girl. |
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| Little chunky monkey. |
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| Jayda and Avery before school one morning this week. She had to hold her baby before she left! |
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| Avery turned one month old yesterday! It's so crazy that she has already been here for a whole month! She is doing great and is such a sweet baby. We have started having some issues with sleeping during the day, but we're hoping that some mylicon will help that. I've been having to put her in the infant carrier most of the time the past few days so that she will sleep. She is sleeping about 4-5 hours at a time at night so that has really helped me get some sleep. During the day she eats every 3-4 hours and usually sleeps about an hour or two in between feeds. She has recently started cooing saying "aaahh", "ooohhh", and "agooo". I love when she talks. Avery has even started smiling some in the past week. She smiles the most after she wakes up when she's getting her diaper changed. It is so cute! Her big sisters love her so much and kiss and hug her all the time! She doesn't seem to mind them either, yet. She loves to watch the girls and loves when they talk to her. Avery is still wearing newborn clothes, however I think we are about to move to 0-3 month clothes. At her 2 week appointment she was up to 7 pounds, 11 ounces, so I'm guessing she weighs about 8 pounds by now. We've also moved out of newborn diapers to size 1. Avery still likes to be all swaddled up when she sleeps. We love our sweet Avery Mae so much! |
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| "Are you trying to take my picture mommy?" |
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| Not sure about this picture taking thing. |
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| Trying to smile. |
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Talking to her big sister Jayda. Too stinkin' cute!
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| The girls can't imagine why I'd be taking a picture without them. :) |
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