Allie- 5months

Age: 5 Months

Clothes: Size 3 diapers. Depending on the brand she is wearing 6-12 months clothes. I am also making an effort to dress her more girly because she has been mistaken as a boy way too often.

Favorite Foods: She loves her bottle, and Hallelujah she can hold it herself! We also started rice cereal and she tolerated that, but in the last couple days I have given her squash, and girlfriend LOVES it. Eating is pretty serious business around here. I'm making my own baby food this time around and it's actually been pretty fun, and very easy, and obviously extremely cost effective.

Words: No words, but lots of babbling and cooing

Activities: She is loving her Excersaucer right now and also just laying on the ground and wiggling. If I have her in the Moby wrap (which I do a lot, because when you have a toddler you need two hands, am i right?) she must face outward so she can smile at everyone and kick her legs.  She naps 3 times a day for 1.5 hours, but is pretty flexible if we are out an about and can skip a nap and catch up later.

Favorite Things: She loves stuffed animals that she can squeeze and chew on. Her Sister. Cuddling 

Signature Moves: She loves to be on her belly. She sleeps on her belly, and when she is playing she rolls over pretty quickly to her tummy and kicks and squirms. This week she started getting up on her hands and knees and rocking back and forth.

Mom's Proudest Moment: This has been my favorite month so far. I could really see the light come on and her personality is developing. I got her to really giggle yesterday over and over. There is something so addicting about baby giggles. I could sit there for hours making her giggle.

Dad's Proudest Moment: From Andrew "Her big smile when she sees me walk in the room"

Allie 4 months

16lbs 12oz
26 in
Head= 42cm

My happy little baby.
Allie is always smiling at everyone and is very content playing on the floor.
She is rolling over all over the place.
She loves chewing on her sisters stuffed animals, which does not make Dani happy.
We tried squash for the first time the other day, and I am not sure any of it actually made it to her stomach.
Dani is absolutely in love with her baby sister. There have been a few times when we have left Allie with the grandparents and Dani has started crying because she didn't want to leave sister. and kept talking about how much she missed her.
When it's time to get Allie up from her nap Dani always wants to be the one to run in and get her.
They love to snuggle together on the couch or in bed.
Dani is an awesome helper when it comes to sister. I am so excited to watch their relationship grow as they get older. I pray that they are always best friends.

Dani 3 years old

Danielle:
Age: 3 years old 35 lbs 39 in tall

Clothes: Currently she is all about the "beautiful" dresses. Luckily she has a few that she loves so I can rotate and wash them:) The past couple weeks it's been all about the ballerina dresses with TuTus. She has also decided that she loves my old wooden clogs from when I was her age. They have hand painted geese on them and she calls them her Goose Shoes.

Favorite Foods: Pizza, Mac and Cheese, Chicken Nuggets, French Fries, rice and "Foofies" (smoothies). And of course anything with sugar.

Words: She is becoming so articulate! It completely amazes me some of the things she says. We've been working on putting words to her emotions and it is so hard not to smile when she looks at me and says "YOU. MAKIN. ME. ANGRY!" the other day I asked her to please put her dishes in the sink a she looked at me and said, "I'm too busy right now."

Activities: Her favorite thing is going on walks and riding her bike. She loves going to the park, baking cookies, and still plays babies all day long.

Favorite Things: Orange is her favorite color. People are her favorite, especially her family. Going on adventures with her daddy. 

Mom's Proudest Moment: I always tell Dani that I love her, but I have never told her to say it back. I always wanted her to figure it out and say it on her own. Just the other day we were snuggling on the couch and she looked at me and sad "I wuv you" and I melted into a little puddle on the floor

Dad's Proudest Moment: It was a hard year, where Dani went through a stage where she was really mean to Andrew. But after getting some counseling and being very intentional, they were able to work through it and now he is her favorite person. They love to play together and go on adventures.

Wedding Season

My gosh we have had a ton of weddings this summer. I think we have gone to 6 or 7 since June. Most of the weddings were kid friendly so we were able to bring Allie and Dani.

Some of the highlights:
Dani loves a good party so she was so excited to see all her friends and she could not be dragged off the dance floor. She twirled and jumped to her heart's content. One wedding even had a balloon animal guy. Dani lined up and got herself and orange puppy and a pink crocodile. Her favorite animals in her favorite colors.

Andrew was invited to a wedding by one of his sub contractors at work. This was a full on Mexican wedding that started at 1 and went until midnight (or later, we did not make it that late). We had another party that day so we decided to skip the ceremony and just go to the reception. According to the invitation we showed up to the reception an hour late, but the place was almost empty, but a couple of hours later it was standing room only and the party really got started. It was so cool to experience a wedding from a different culture and in comparison, American weddings are super boring.
After the garter toss all the guys try and knock over the bride and groom:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozwnPtw642A

After they knock him over they throw him in the air:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5w0rmQsFOw

After they they throw him in the air they carry him out to the funeral march and then he came back in wearing an apron and sweeping while the bride was whipping him:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5w0rmQsFOw

Dani getting her groove on:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bt5nloKR54

We have a wedding coming up in November that Andrew and I are in and Dani is a flower girl. I am so excited!