Friday and Saturday Photos

I have quite a few pictures to post from this weekend, so I'm going to spread them out over 3 posts.

Grace loves this house!

Grace with her cute cloth diaper butt.
Love her expression and another cloth diaper.

Grace loves to raspberry.

Gracie very excited that she threw her flash cards all around the living room.

Grace is finally starting to sprout some hair!

Grace looking innocent.

Jacob staring at Miss Grace.

I love this picture; the way Jacob is staring at Jack; the way Jackson is laughing at Jacob; and the "These boys are crazy" look Grace is giving Cole.Grace and her Daddy.

Jacob grabbing Grace and Grace giving him the look.

Babies staring at each other.

Grace

We bought 100 ball pit balls Saturday for Grace and put them in her pack n play, she loves them!

She also learned she can stand up on her own in the pack n play.

Grace mad at me for walking away from her.

Weekend Photos and Video

This weekend was pretty uneventful. I'm sick so we laid low for most of it. I'm heading to the doctor's soon to hopeful get some antibiotics. Enjoy!

Grace with her first fluffy bum (first cloth diaper)

"If only I could get this hand out of my mouth"
"Whatcha say?"

"I can raspberry with my thumb in my mouth!"

I love those pretty blue eyes.

Grace loves tags and can find any tag and insists on eating them.

This picture is blurry, but still funny. She was yelling at me because I wouldn't let her play with my camera.

Grace playing with her new toy from Auntie and Uncle Josh. She loves it, thanks guys!

Jackson playing with the house.

Our pretty girls!

We took a walk yesterday with 4J (Auntie, Uncle Josh, Jackson, and Jacob) and then went to the park.

Gracie enjoying her first time at the park.

Auntie, Jack, and Jacob

Jackson being silly.

Jacob

Grace trying to raspberry:

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Contest

I entered Grace into a photo contest. Please feel free to vote for Miss Grace: https://www.greatamericanphotocontest.com/voter1/index_e.aspx?referid=EmailFriends&p=1282512&x=.jpg

Favorite Foto Friday- Beach

I've been meaning to participate in Kiss The Frog's Favorite Foto Friday for a while and when I saw that today's theme was the beach, I knew this was the week to play. Cole and I are huge beach people, in fact our first date was at the beach and that's why we're having Grace's Welcoming ceremony on the beach.

Cole and I at the beach in 2004

Cole, me, Cassie, and Andy at the beach in Aruba in May 2006

Jackson at the beach in July 2007

Our engagement pictures at the beach July 2007

Cole and I at his Grandmother's beach house in August 2007

Me on the beach in Cabo for our honeymoon September 2007

Cabo again

and again

Me 27 weeks pregnant at the beach July 2008

Cole and Lily at the beach July 2008

Mommy Instincts?!

Most days I feel pretty confident as a Mommy, I feel like I can just do it. Today though is not one of those days, I feel like I'm just off. Last night I put Grace in her first cloth diaper (yay), but I had intentions of putting a regular diaper before bed because I was still washing the night time inserts. Well, needless to say I forgot to put on a regular diaper because Grace's late nap turned into an early bed. So, Grace was soaked in pee this morning, so was I, and the couch. I stripped her down put on a new diaper and decide to wait until after breakfast to bathe her. While feeding her breakfast I knock over the sweet potatoes and Grace decides to take advantage of this mess and smears sweet potatoes all over her, not a big deal,I wipe her down and put her on the floor to play while I get the bath ready. So of course she falls over while playing and screams, she was fine, just startled. I peek in her diaper, see nothing, and bring her to the bathroom for a bath. I undo her diaper and let it fall off seeing as I just checked it, no good, poop falls out all over the bath mat, but I can't clean it up because I have her half in the bath. I give her a bath and go to take her out and realize I never took out a towel. I then proceed to fumble with the cloth diaper. She's finally clean and napping now, but I realized in the bath that her yeast rash is back, which means we need to buy more lotrimin and disposable diapers, since you can't use certain diaper creams with cloth diapers.

Where are my mommy instincts today? Most days I could laugh all this off, but today I just want to cry. Man oh man and to top it off I was awake at 5am, just because I couldn't sleep.

Ok whine over!

Mangos, Kisses, and Bunny Ears

Grace tried mango for the first time and she really likes time.

"Do you really need to take pictures every time I eat?"

"Seriously, I'm trying to eat!"

Lily snuck her nose into the picture, but it came out pretty cute. Nice work Lily!
I took some more bunny pictures today.

"Mom, you're funny!"

"Wait..do you have those stupid bunny ears on my head again!?"
"That's okay, as long as my foot can be in the pictures to!"

"Hey, I think I see Daddy!"

"It's cold in here Mom!"

"Look at my pretty blue eyes!"

Plus some kisses!

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Wrapped Around Her Finger

Our little lady certainly knows how to play Momma to get what she wants. Yesterday we all ran to Burlington Coat Factory to buy a sweater for Miss Grace to wear to her welcoming. I ended up buying her a sweater, 2 dresses, 2 books for her to eat read, and a cute outfit for Jacob, but that's neither here nor there. I handed Grace to Cole and told him to walk around the store while I shopped in hopes that she'd fall asleep since she was in need of a nap. So, Cole takes her and begins to walk around. Well, I'm browsing through the baby clothes when I hear a baby screaming from across the store. It was not a screaming cry, it was a I-have-found-my-voice-and-like-to-scream scream. I suddenly realize that the screaming baby is in fact mine, so horrified I track her and Cole down. Cole sees me and asks "How did you find us?" he's funny like that. Grace sees me and starts to giggle because she knows her plans has worked. I take Grace from Cole and as we walk back to the baby section Grace laughs and giggles as we walk away from him, almost taunting like "ha ha my plan worked!" She was then fine while I finished shopping as long as I let her chew on a book. What a silly baby, she certainly knows how to get what she wants.