MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

We just wanted to take a minute to wish all our friends and family a very Merry Christmas and best wishes for a Happy New Year! I hope your day was as wonderful as ours was!

Aria Joy is 11 months old!

 Dear Aria,

Today you are 11 months old. You are the cutest little babe on the planet! You are such a calm and happy baby. You now have 6 teeth. 2 on the bottom and 4 on the top which you were cutting all at once this past month. You also took your first steps just after 10 months old and have very slowly been taking more and more. A couple days ago you really started walking a lot more and are now doing it consistently about 50% of the time. You have just learned to clap and give a high five. Your favorite song is "If You're Happy and You Know it Clap Your Hands". It's the cutest thing ever watching you clap along. I am in shock you will be 1 in a month. I love you to pieces baby girl.

xoxo,

Mommy

Makayla's tomato plant

Makayla was an excited little girl this morning when she picked her first cherry tomato!!! She loves watching tomatoes appear, then turn red and of course watering the plant daily.

Aria Joy - 10 months old!

Arias First Tooth!

I have been terrible at keeping this blog up to date. Poor Aria. I have barely written anything about her achievements.

I thought I should take the time to mention, Aria got her first tooth today! I did not even know she was teething. We were at church and I stuck my finger in her mouth for her to suck on and to my surprise felt a tooth barely poking through! She has been great, a little more clingy than usual and chewing on stuff, but no runny nose, crying etc.

Ah time goes so fast.

Aria Joy - 7 months old!

 

Aria Joy is 6 months old!!!

Makaylas Princess Party Pt 1

Someone special is turning three and we threw her a princess party! It was a lot of fun! Makayla loved it. Unfortunately most of my pictures from her party were on my iPhone and I lost them all when it was stolen.

The Food:

the food table

 
For lunch we served a simple, healthy meal. Veggies, fish crackers and pb&J sandwiches. 
I had pizza, chips, banana bread and coffee for the adults

tiara sandwiches that didnt work as well as I hoped

Makaylas place setting 

The Cake:

princess cupcakes with rings for the girls

The Princess Crafts:

 

The craft table all ready to go

 The girls decorated small canvas party bags and foam wands with princess stickers and gems

  Birthday Princess Makayla decorating

Princess Charlotte

Aria Joy - 5 months old!

Dear Aria,

Today you are 5 months old! I had you weighed 2 weeks ago and you were 13lbs 5oz and 24 inches long! Definitely growing! You started sitting today at exactly 5 months! I am so proud! Even younger than your big sister Makayla who started sitting at 5.5 months! I hope that does not mean you will do everything else earlier too though, actually Ièd prefer if you didnt start walking until later than 9 months. You are such a happy, bubbly little baby full of smiles and giggles. It is so amazing to see how much you already adore Makayla. All she has to do is look at you or say Hi Aria and you are grinning from ear to ear. You love your exersaucer and your bumbo. And in the last few weeks you have started wanting to be where the action is. If I leave the room you shortly start complaining until you can see me or anyone again. I often move you around from room to room in your bumbo so you can watch me while I clean.

Your hair is growing back in. You no longer have a fohawk even though a mere month ago you did. Your hair seems to be growing in a lighter shade of brown though. Ièm curious to see how quickly itèll grow. You also have little butterball thighs and I absolutely love those rolls.

Mommy loves you

xoxo

Merry Christmas!!

Aria Joy - 3 months old!

My little cutie pie is 3 months old today. She now weighs 10lbs 7oz! I cant believe how fast time is flying by.

 

Makayla & Aria

My Beautiful Girl

Aria Joy - 2 months old!

Dear Aria,

Today you are 2 months old! It will never stop amazing me how fast time flies. We are settling in very nicely as a family. Mommy is exhausted between you at night and Makayla's early mornings. I know it is only temporarily though and definitely worth it!

You smile all the time now when we talk/coo to you and are happy sitting in your bouncer looking around at everything. You are in love with your swing awake or sleeping. We try not to let you sleep in there too often.

You weigh 9lbs 7ounces and are 21.5inches long. Still a little thing, but growing nicely! I put away all your newborn clothing today. 3 month clothes are too big, but 0-3 fit well. You are now in size 1 diapers as well.

I know some people think these 'letters' seem silly, but I hope one day you and Makayla will both be able to read the ones I have written for you.

Love,

Mommy

Aria Joy - Newborn photos

We had newborn photos of Aria done at 10 days old by Stephanie Steiner Photography. Here our a few photos of our little cutie pie.

 

 

And of course a few of our big cutie pie :)

  

Aria Joy - 1 month old!

Dear Aria,

Today you are 1 month old! It seems like just yesterday you were being placed on my chest by the doctor and I had my first look at you. Your cry was the sweetest sound and I experienced such an incredible and instant love for you.  You have completed us in ways I couldn't have imagined. You have made us in to a true family unit, 2 children not just one, a little sister for Makayla and hopefully one day a best friend. I can't wait to watch you both grow up together. Makayla adores you. She loves to hold you, give you kisses and help care for you. I'm looking forward to when you know who she is and return the love. You are such an easy baby, you rarely cry unless hungry, tired or gassy even then it is mostly just fussing. You are laid back and so far the total opposite of your big sister. It is neat to see how different you both are.

You were born at 6lbs 6oz and are now 8lbs 6oz, still little in a lot of peoples eyes but you are my 'big' baby and chubbing up nicely.

I love you tootsie.

xoxo, Mommy