"My child" pink blankie

Well it is time to blog about the one and only "pink blankie"! This blankie has become Juliette's best friend. If she has a bow in her hair, pink blankie must have one as well. If we go somewhere there is a lot of talking and convincing in order for blankie not to join us in the grocery store, CVS or friends' houses.

This morning I dropped Juliette off at school and as I am walking in the door with her I notice that she has pink blankie under her arms trying to sneak her into her classroom. I laughed and told her that she knew pink blankie could not go to school with her. She handed her to me and I placed her on the bench down the hall from the classroom. Of course it happened, as I am approaching the interstate I realize that pink blankie has been left! This was a first for me. I u-turned before getting on the interstate and headed back to the school. As I walked into the building pink blankie was no longer on the bench. I was panicked to say the least and opened up her classroom door. I looked and pink blankie was folded at the back of the room. Ms. Ginny spotted her as she entered the building. As I walked in and asked about pink blankie Ms Ginny said, "Of course we knew it was pink blankie and who it belonged to, we pray for her at church every week."  I could not help but think that was one of the cutest things yet that I had heard about her. Each week the students each get to pray for something and each week Juliette prays for her pink blankie.

Tripp is two months old today!

Here we are at two months old today! We have been enjoying each day of the new ride with Tripp. He has been such a joy to all of us so far. To celebrate his birthday today we went to the aquarium for the afternoon and his big sister had a blast.

Don took care of him these past two nights while I got a full night's sleep. It is amazing how wonderful you feel after two good nights of uninterrupted sleep. How funny that the night his Daddy is taking care of him he sleeps until 5 AM. How typical is that? He usually is up each night around 2:30 eats and goes right back down. He then is usually up again around 6 PM. He is getting close to throughout the night so I am hoping that it is any night that I am going to get the surprise and wake up and it is 5 or 6 in the morning.

Tripp is smiling like crazy. He will fuss when you leave the room and he knows that he is alone in the room. It is amazing how aware of his surroundings he is. When you come back into the room he immediately begins to smile. It will really warm your heart when you see that smile! Another new thing is blowing bubbles! He is beginning to make bubbles with his lips - that is always so cute too.

Juliette has been really great with Tripp. She is really not in the least bit interested in helping or doing anything for him but she talks about him a lot and when he is not in the car with us always asks me where he is. If I ask her to help men hold the bottle for him she tells me that her hand hurts after holding it for 8 seconds at the most.

He has how two month checkup tomorrow so we will find out where he is in his weight and height. So far at one month he was exactly 50 percentile.

A day in the life....

You learn that when you have kids there is never a dull moment in your life... today we were up to

Drawing Ju's favorite foods - here are her favorites - (please don't call the nutritionist) - the black item is steak, the big pink circle item is a maraschino cherry, two large iced cream cones (because two is better than one) and the brown rectangle is a delicious piece of chocolate.

I mean are you kidding? If I am not chasing after the kids - could you guess where the pacis are disappearing to? Yes, this is what I walked into in our bedroom... Gypsy just resting the paci in her mouth

Seemed like a great day to bake chocolate chip cookies but heck when isn't a good day to bake cookies?

Fun times in the crib

Well the time has almost come for Juliette to move on to her big bed. I cannot complain as she is 3 1/2 years old and up until one week ago NEVER got herself out of the crib. One morning last week she showed up in my room dragging pink blankie behind her... I knew that was the beginning of the end. Now she shows up downstairs whenever she wakes up. On that note, it will make it a little bit easier to transition her to the big bed. Juliette and Tripp both spent some time in the crib together as we were reading her books last night. Juliette assured me that Tripp did not like being in the crib with all of the pink everywhere.

A beautiful day for a walk with Tessa

Catching some of the first real smiles!

We have been getting some real smiles over the past few days! It is so much fun to interact with Tripp and get very close to his face and watch him smile. It is just so cute and so priceless. It is hard to believe that he is 7 weeks old! He is now too starting to make sure bubbles with his mouth.

Just a few things we have found in our backyard over the last three days...

It has been quite a busy time in our backyard these past few days. I guess with the warm weather, all the creatures are out. We have some blue bird eggs in the box, wood duck eggs are in their boxes, snakes are out (luckily this one was non-poisonous), this one was hilarious - yesterday I spotted a mallard duck and the male swimming in our tiny fountain, and last but NOT least - how about an otter that showed up on the dock relaxing and laying out!

Silly ducks - they prefer freshwater so they found the fountain to take a swim in

Look! Blue bird eggs (actual eggs below)

Non-poisonous water snake

Juliette "carefully" sneaking up on the ducks....

Nothing but fun...

We are having so much fun and each day seems to bring something new and special! Today, Tripp had a first real smile today. We were able to make him smile by giving him a little tickle on his belly and boy did the smile come out. I actually got a picture of the smile while he was on his tummy and I was tickling his back.

Spring brings so many fun and exciting things going on. Last weekend we went up to the Flowertown festival and had so much fun seeing good friends, old friends and everyone else too... Easter is well on its way too. It is coming up this weekend.

Sharing my baby brother with good friends Lily May and Aldret

Tine for some face paining at the festival

Daddy and Tripp time

Check out my first day of some real smiles

3K Easter party

Juliette had her annual Easter party today. It was SO much fun and all of her little classmates are just the CUTEST! They still have so much baby in them and come up with the cutest things to say! They were even greeted by the Easter bunny. There was an egg hunt and as usual Juliette was only concerned with picking up one egg and opening it immediately to eat the candy. Quantity was not important to her, only instantly being able to eat the candy was important.