2 months old

I can't believe I'm doing a 2 month old post already (I'm pretty sure I'm gonna say this every month). This is going by WAY TOO FAST! Which also means my maternity leave is going by way too fast. It's been a crazy month, Ashley is getting so big and bringing so much joy to our lives. Her little smile just melts me everyday.
Your stats from the Dr visit:


12 lbs 13ozs (75-90%)
24 inches (95-97%)
Once again, bigger than Mya was. So you'll pretty much be bigger than your mommy when you're 4! My dad said something funny to me about it, he said, don't worry about being so small, people will think you're their younger sister, LOL!!!!
You are are in 0-3 and some 3-6 month clothing. You are in size 1 diapers still too. Although that hiney is definitely starting to grow. We might have another donk a donk like Mya! She's got the thigh rolls coming in too. This kid is filling out and I LOVE it!
You are smiling up a storm, you are such a happy baby.
You are cooing more and it's so cute. It starts by your little mouth moving all around, like you want to say so much, than a few coos come out and it's just so cute!
Your laugh is so cute! You don't do it too much yet but when you do, I smile from ear to ear.
You LOVE to sleep on your belly, you have given me a few 5.5-6 hour clips that way too!
Your neck is getting so strong. When I have you on tummy time you can lift it for a few seconds to look up at me.
You HATE your car seat and I mean HATE!
You reached out and grabbed at Daddy's face for the first time on 7.18.11.
You are also are an animal cause you already rolled from your back to your belly. Did it the first time on 7.23.11. I was home with you and Ry was working. Ry didn't believe me till you did it for him that weekend! But you've only done it twice. And you just went from your back to your belly, not back yet. CRAZY!
You love your swing and love watching the animals above you when you lay in it.
You are still my little ginger with that strawberry blonde hair! And the eyes are still blue like daddies! LOVES!
We're having so much fun watching you grow sunshine!






A video of you in your swing, smiling and giggling!

Happy Birthday Titi

Tuesday was Titi's 30th (LANDED) Birthday. We headed over to celebrate with some ice cream.
Mya does this thing when she puts her hands over her food and says, hide it. She doesn't want the dogs (or anyone else for that matter) to take it. This kid LOVES her food, as you can see by her edible, chunker thighs that I am always biting. Here T is doing the 'hide it' thing for Mya.

Happy Birthday Titi!!

Tony felt left out (middle child syndrome).

Make a wish.

We love you Titi and hope you had a great birthday! xoxo

I had to put this pic in cause it makes me lol. Scrunchy noses!

rain rain....

...don't go away cause Mya and Daddy like to play!!!
After we got home from the spray park on Monday and Mya woke up from her nap, it started to rain. When Daddy got home Mya wanted to get outside so we put on her rain boots and Ryan took her out to splash in the puddles. It was really only drizzling at this point. Mya had a BLAST!!!

1, 2, 3

GO!

not the biggest puddle, but she had fun!

MORE, she said! So we went looking for another puddle.

found one!

Mya did it all alone this time, I have a great action sequence of shots!

LANDED!!!

Right back up for more!!!

Landed on her feet this time!

She had so much fun, it was so cute watching her splash around!!!

Spray park fun

Monday Mya, Ashley and I headed down to a spray park in Colts Neck to meet Kelly, Gracie, Charity and Reese for a morning full of fun! This place is so cute and the park is beautiful! The best part about it, is it's FREE!!! Gotta love free activities for the girls!
We got there and Mya jumped right in. She loves playing with water so I knew she'd love it.

Getting soaked!

After the water we laid our blankets out and had a little picnic. Here's Kelly and Gracie.

Ashley was happy to be enjoying the beautiful weather.

Mya and Reese were cracking up at eachother, it was so cute!

My lovey

Trying to get a pic of the 3 big girls

Mya and Gracie

Walking hand in hand, these 2 are too stinkin cute!

We had such a great time, we have to do that again soon!!

Meet Brody

Our good friends, Nic and Lyndsey, had a baby boy, Brody, on April Fools Day. They came by on Sunday and we finally met him.

Nic holding his little guy. Nic is Rachel's older brother, who I pretty much grew up with. He's like a brother to me too.

Ashley checkin Brody out.

Brody fell asleep in my arms, THE BEST!!!

Thanks so much for coming up guys, it was great seeing you and meeting your adorable little guy. Can't wait to do it again!
xoxo

Welcome home Pete

My little brother, Pete, is home after his first deployment as a Marine. He was in Okinawa, Japan for 6 months. It was hard not having him here to meet Ashley when she was born (he didn't get to meet Mya till she was 2 months old too). But it's so nice when he is home. He got home late last Wednesday and we went over Thursday to see him.
Here he is holding Ashley for the first time.

Michelle holding and meeting Ashley for the first time too.

Mya chillin in her car seat from Nona's car.

Mya giving Dewey a shampoo in the sink.
It was so nice seeing Pete and having him see Mya again, last time he saw her was end of December. She's changed SO much since then.

My parents had a party on Saturday for Pete, Thomas was there. Ashley and Thomas were chillin. Thomas was amazed at Ashley's toes and Ashley was cooing like crazy at him, it was adorable!

Cutie

Who's taller??? Thomas is almost 3 months older than Ashley.

always making a crazy face in pics.

watching their crazy uncle Pete

Mya was being silly too.

They started talking about this new thing that kids are doing, it's called planking. Someone will just plank at some random spot.

Joey's turn

Even Ashley wanted to plank!

This whole planking started when Mya was 'flying' on the coffee table and Alexis screamed out, she's planking!!!! LOL!! too funny!!

Good times as always when Pete's home. I really miss him being home all the time. It sucks only seeing him a few times a year. I'm counting till he's home for good, which is about another year and 8 months!