Easter

This year for Easter we had my mom and Kevin's parents and grandma over for a delicious ham dinner. We dyed eggs the night before, the Easter Bunny came, and there were Easter baskets from Nana & Papa, Grandma & Grandpa, and Great-Grandma. It was a beautiful day!

Easter Bunny Masks

Dying Easter Eggs! 

Finished Product

Emmy's favorite thing from Easter. A bunny who sings the "Easter Song"
Here Comes Peter Cottontail! 

Moving Quickly

Miss Eliza has decided that she wants to move. Her first step in moving was learning to pull herself up on things. Now that she has done that she pulls herself up on everything. She doesn't want to miss out in any of the action. She is extremely quick with her army crawl and wants to be doing everything her sister does. Every day I look at her I realize how quickly she is growing up.

Winter Blues

Now that all of the sickness has past I am feeling the winter blues. I am ready to open my windows and get the kids outside to play. The girls are both getting so big. They are at really fun ages.

Emily is so interested in how and why things work the way they do. She has an incredible vocabulary and has great imaginative play. She loves to dress up like a princess and go to the castle. The castle happens to be our first floor bathroom. She also loves to play taking a nap. It is funny listening to her pretend to snore. She is looking forward to turning 3 and has already started a birthday gift list which includes earmuffs. Emmy is doing a great job dressing herself. She can do everything except her shirt. We are still potty training as going #2 on the potty isn't that easy. Em also loves to sing songs. We make up a lot of silly songs at the dinner table. It is so cute listening to her sing. She also sings along with the radio. I have to be careful about my music selections because she doesn't miss a thing.

Eliza is almost 8 months! Which is unbelievable. She is crawling all over the place and loves to get into anything that her sister is doing. She makes her way to all corners of our living room. She has starting climbing up on things including our coffee table. Liza is starting to eat some table food. She is a great eater who loves her baby food as long as there is fruit mixed in. She is slowly getting bigger and is filling out her 6 months clothes. Her sister was a little bigger by this age. Eliza laughs a lot and gives us lots of smiles. She loves to play with her toys especially her puppy dog. She thinks almost anything her sister does is funny.

I am really looking forward to this summer. I think we are in for a lot of fun times with the girls.

All the sickness

I haven't blogged in awhile because there isn't much to talk about. We have been living in a land of sickness that just won't end. Emily had a terrible ear infection that caused her to throw up for hours. The first antibiotic didn't work and we moved onto the next one. It got rid of the infection but now her tummy is on a rollercoaster from all of the antibiotics and general yuckiness. I am hopeful that we have visited the doctor for the last time today and that we are all on the road to recovery.

Eliza recently took a trip to the ENT to have her adenoids checked out. She has had several sinus infections and still has trouble sleeping through the night. Our pediatrician felt that she might have enlarged adenoids. After sending a camera down her nose it turns out that she doesn't. She does have a lot of mucus back there that shouldn't be there. So we are trying an aggressive attack of saline for the next 6 weeks to see if it will break up. Eating has become a bit of a challenge for her and I am hopeful that this helps.

That is the story of our lives these days. All of the sickness needs to go away.

Christmas

The build up to Christmas this year was a lot of fun. Emily is at the perfect age to enjoy all of the wonder and excitement that Christmas brings. She was very excited to get our Christmas tree and help decorate it. She loved pointing out the beautiful Christmas lights around town and always could see Santa . After all of the preparation and excitement our family ended up with the stomach flu over Christmas. All four of us were sick for a couple of days. We spent several low key days at home baking cookies and playing other fun indoor games. We were eventually able to see both sides of the family and celebrate Christmas. The girls both loved all of their presents. Emily can't stop telling people that Santa brought her a kitchen and Eliza got a new puppy. Christmas really is the most wonderful time of year. I just hope that next year we can skip the being sick part.