She even woke up to check me out for a bit.
CONGRATS Lenny and Carrie, she's beautiful!
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Welcome Eva Capri
Our friends, Lenny and Carrie had a beautiful baby girl on Oct 1st. Little Eva Capri, she's such a beauty. We went to meet her last Thursday night and I didn't want to put this little love muffin down. I mean really, would you?
She even woke up to check me out for a bit.
CONGRATS Lenny and Carrie, she's beautiful!
She even woke up to check me out for a bit.
CONGRATS Lenny and Carrie, she's beautiful!
Pumpkin Picking...take 1
2 weekends ago we headed to Giamarese Farms to go pumpkin picking with neighbors and old neighbors that moved. We did this last year too it was so fun!
Giamarese Farm had some pretty crappy pumpkins, alot had those warts all over them. We managed to find one that was decent after searching for what seemed like days.
Here we are ready to pick! Check out all these poses, SASS MACHINE!
She insisted she wear one of my necklaces. NUT!
I mean really, look at those warty pumpkins.
Daddy and his little pumpkin pie
This one mommy. Seriously love that tongue sticking out!
LOL!
Daddy and his little girls
I mean really, look at that array of pumpkins. The ones that looked ok were probably rotted on the back.
hello there my little rosey
lol
Jack, Mya and Emma, NONE of them would look and smile at the same time. This is as good as I got!
Pony ride time, this girl LOVES horses. At first she was a little hesitant too, I put her on one and she said no. So I said ok fine. Aris went on than and she goes, Mya go. She pointed to this white one and wanted to ride her.
The Bea fam!
cutie
We went back to our old neighbors new home. Here I am holding the 2 Almond Drive babies. Lisa and Greg's little girl, Sara, and Ashley
The kids chowing down on some pizza.
So much fun guys. Can't wait till next year, hopefully we'll find better pumpkins.
Giamarese Farm had some pretty crappy pumpkins, alot had those warts all over them. We managed to find one that was decent after searching for what seemed like days.
Here we are ready to pick! Check out all these poses, SASS MACHINE!
She insisted she wear one of my necklaces. NUT!
I mean really, look at those warty pumpkins.
Daddy and his little pumpkin pie
This one mommy. Seriously love that tongue sticking out!
LOL!
Daddy and his little girls
I mean really, look at that array of pumpkins. The ones that looked ok were probably rotted on the back.
hello there my little rosey
lol
Jack, Mya and Emma, NONE of them would look and smile at the same time. This is as good as I got!
Pony ride time, this girl LOVES horses. At first she was a little hesitant too, I put her on one and she said no. So I said ok fine. Aris went on than and she goes, Mya go. She pointed to this white one and wanted to ride her.
The Bea fam!
cutie
We went back to our old neighbors new home. Here I am holding the 2 Almond Drive babies. Lisa and Greg's little girl, Sara, and Ashley
The kids chowing down on some pizza.
So much fun guys. Can't wait till next year, hopefully we'll find better pumpkins.
Monday, October 24, 2011
Fun with friends
Last Friday we headed over to our friends for some Friday night fun. We met this fam at Gymboree and love hanging with them and their 3 kids.
Here are the 3 O'Connell kids wondering what the heck another baby is doing there.
Mya jumped in to tell them it was her sister.
Some of the festivities that went on that night....
Dress up time! Caiden in her tutu, this kid can't be seen without her tulle!
And Mya opted for a hat. You fancy huh?
Mya insisted she wear her Halloween costume over, hence the Jets Cheerleading outfit.
They happened to have some glow sticks, so what better to do than have a rave. Crazy Friday night I tell ya.
Here are the 3 O'Connell kids wondering what the heck another baby is doing there.
Mya jumped in to tell them it was her sister.
Some of the festivities that went on that night....
Dress up time! Caiden in her tutu, this kid can't be seen without her tulle!
And Mya opted for a hat. You fancy huh?
Mya insisted she wear her Halloween costume over, hence the Jets Cheerleading outfit.
They happened to have some glow sticks, so what better to do than have a rave. Crazy Friday night I tell ya.
Time for Ryan to toss the kids in the air. This must have been going on for 10 minutes!
Dessert time, they wasted no time jumping up ONTO the counter to dig into the cookies, ice cream and apple crisp! TOO FUNNY!
I really wanted to get a shot of all 5 of them, but the 2 girls will have to do.
They all gathered around Ashley, all packed up and ready to go. She was loving all the attention.
I love Ashley's face, all excited to have all the kids around her.
I really wanted to get a shot of all 5 of them, but the 2 girls will have to do.
They all gathered around Ashley, all packed up and ready to go. She was loving all the attention.
I love Ashley's face, all excited to have all the kids around her.
Good times as usual!
Monday, October 17, 2011
2 and a half
My little princess is 2.5 years old. WOW, where has the time gone? I feel like just yesterday I found out I was pregnant with her, now 2.5 years and another kid later, we're here. I couldn't ask for anything more, life with 2 girls is just fabulous and I feel so blessed to have them (and my dear hubs too, of course!). So what has Mya been up to the past 6 months.
She speaks sentences now, not usually always grammatically correct but still, she speaks a TON! She has been potty trained since 8/25, HOWEVER, she still asks for a diaper to poop! I don't get it, I try to bribe her with m&m's, stickers, ANYTHING, she doesn't want it. She has pooped on the potty a handful of times, and when I tell you I jumped up and down and screamed like we just won the lotto! So we're just going with it for now. She totally potty trained herself with the pee, so I know that when she's ready, she'll poop on the potty too. She also sleeps in diapers too, although there have been a few times, where she's woken up in the night and taken the diaper off herself and put undies on all by herself. One of those times, she woke up the next morning and completely wet the bed, the other times she was all fine.
When I ask her how old she is she says two and a half!
She can jump so high. I remember at her 2 year check up the Dr was so impressed that she could jump with both feet coming off the ground. Kids can't usually do that at 2. She has usually been ahead on all of her motor skills.
She can count to 16.
She can say some of the alphabet. She loves to sing it and it's so cute cause she's much better at the end than the beginning and the middle goes something like, L L L L P (it used to be L N N NO P). She has this video called The Alphabet Factory and it goes over the letters of the alphabet with the sounds in a cute way. When she's watching it, she definitely makes the sounds with them, it's so cute!
She sings songs that Granny used to sing me as a kid, that I now sing them to her. Her favorite is animal crackers in my soup! I love singing these songs to her, it brings me back to my childhood and Granny.
She LOVES to help me cook and bake. She is a big fan of adding whatever it is to the mixer or mixing it herself. And of course she always has to taste it. She looks at me with this funny little face and says "taste mommy?" and of course everytime I say yea!
If Ashley's crying she will usually start singing twinkle twinkle to her.
Some of the things she says are HYSTERICAL! And the way she says it, even better. Some of my favorites are "no way jose," "oh boy," "do it mommy (or daddy, titi, nona, whoever she's with)," "GO JETS," "aaaaaaa minute." I know there's more but I can't think of them.
She's such a little fashionista, which sometimes is really annoying. I try to give her 2 options of what to wear, but it doesn't always work. She also still really loves her princess heels, has about 6 pairs and wears them all the time!
She's a terrible sleeper, usually comes into our bed at some point in the night. Some days we say, this has got to stop, where other days I can't wait for her to get in to snuggle up with! I know this won't go on forever, so we're loving it while it lasts.
She's such a sassy little girl. No other way to put it!
She's a little mama's girl and I absolutely LOVE it!
I'll leave you with her 3 half birthday pictures!
6 months old
1.5 years old
2.5 years old!
It's amazing how much you've changed, it's so fun watching you grow. You are such a little sass machine and I love you more than you'll ever know. xoxo
She speaks sentences now, not usually always grammatically correct but still, she speaks a TON! She has been potty trained since 8/25, HOWEVER, she still asks for a diaper to poop! I don't get it, I try to bribe her with m&m's, stickers, ANYTHING, she doesn't want it. She has pooped on the potty a handful of times, and when I tell you I jumped up and down and screamed like we just won the lotto! So we're just going with it for now. She totally potty trained herself with the pee, so I know that when she's ready, she'll poop on the potty too. She also sleeps in diapers too, although there have been a few times, where she's woken up in the night and taken the diaper off herself and put undies on all by herself. One of those times, she woke up the next morning and completely wet the bed, the other times she was all fine.
When I ask her how old she is she says two and a half!
She can jump so high. I remember at her 2 year check up the Dr was so impressed that she could jump with both feet coming off the ground. Kids can't usually do that at 2. She has usually been ahead on all of her motor skills.
She can count to 16.
She can say some of the alphabet. She loves to sing it and it's so cute cause she's much better at the end than the beginning and the middle goes something like, L L L L P (it used to be L N N NO P). She has this video called The Alphabet Factory and it goes over the letters of the alphabet with the sounds in a cute way. When she's watching it, she definitely makes the sounds with them, it's so cute!
She sings songs that Granny used to sing me as a kid, that I now sing them to her. Her favorite is animal crackers in my soup! I love singing these songs to her, it brings me back to my childhood and Granny.
She LOVES to help me cook and bake. She is a big fan of adding whatever it is to the mixer or mixing it herself. And of course she always has to taste it. She looks at me with this funny little face and says "taste mommy?" and of course everytime I say yea!
If Ashley's crying she will usually start singing twinkle twinkle to her.
Some of the things she says are HYSTERICAL! And the way she says it, even better. Some of my favorites are "no way jose," "oh boy," "do it mommy (or daddy, titi, nona, whoever she's with)," "GO JETS," "aaaaaaa minute." I know there's more but I can't think of them.
She's such a little fashionista, which sometimes is really annoying. I try to give her 2 options of what to wear, but it doesn't always work. She also still really loves her princess heels, has about 6 pairs and wears them all the time!
She's a terrible sleeper, usually comes into our bed at some point in the night. Some days we say, this has got to stop, where other days I can't wait for her to get in to snuggle up with! I know this won't go on forever, so we're loving it while it lasts.
She's such a sassy little girl. No other way to put it!
She's a little mama's girl and I absolutely LOVE it!
I'll leave you with her 3 half birthday pictures!
6 months old
1.5 years old
2.5 years old!
It's amazing how much you've changed, it's so fun watching you grow. You are such a little sass machine and I love you more than you'll ever know. xoxo
Friday, October 14, 2011
oh the weekends...
My first weekend after getting back to work was nice. Ry had to work Saturday but I spent some good QT with the girls. We dropped by my parents in the morning cause I tried, once more, ballet class with the bean. Long story short, I'm waiting another year, I think she's just too young and just not that into it. Ashley was happy to spend some QT with my parents though. She just loves going there, just as much as Mya does! Look at that little Rosey face! LOVE HER!
She just loves Shadow.
The last time we tried ballet class, this time at a place in New Brunswick.
After nap time we met Tony at Johnson Park to feed the animals. It was such a nice day out so it was nice to spend it outside with Tony.
FAT PIGGY!
Throwing the food at the Emu.
Feeding the goats.
After Tony got Mya an icee. And I got this adorbs pics of the 2 of them.
We headed to my parents that night to see Pete since he was home for the weekend. Mya spent the night at their house too. She loves sleepovers there!
Mya and Auntie Shell who's expecting a little cousin for Mya and Ashley on April 15th! YAY, so excited for Shell and Pete. Love you guys.
Toasting a marshmallow with Dewey Pop
So typical Pete.
Crazy Uncle Pete
Outside for a matter of 10 minutes and Ashley gets 4 bug bites (1 right between her eyebrows) and Mya gets about 10! They must have that sweet blood like Ry.
Sunday we headed over to Rutgers Gardens. They had a little Fall Festival that we thought would be fun. Plus it was a beautiful day to be outside.
Off we go!
So excited to be there!
They had pumpkins to paint. Mya wanted one for her and she wanted to paint a 'baby' one for Ashley too.
Hard at work
All smiles.
She had to climb this tree too. And it was a good size for her to climb all over.
She wanted to walk all over this one. Ry had to help her.
WEEEEEEEEE
little monkey girl
Had to sit on the giant chair. So sad this pic came out so dark, grr.
Me and my girls. Sorry Ash, didn't realize the sun was blinding you.
WOW, that really tired me out.
So we get home and Ashley is just in one of her usual, UBER HAPPY moods. Love that this little rosey is always so happy and giggly, can't even take her! Beware of picture overload!
Yea, that's the bug bite, right between her eyes. Sorry boo.
LOVE the head thrown back!
My favorite people! I just love our little family and feel so blessed to be surrounded by them everyday.
OK, had to end on this one. Not sure where she learned this behaviour from but Ry and I were rolling. She went to the fridge, grabbed the milk, walked into the living room and did this!
Lovey Mya, just lovely!
She just loves Shadow.
The last time we tried ballet class, this time at a place in New Brunswick.
After nap time we met Tony at Johnson Park to feed the animals. It was such a nice day out so it was nice to spend it outside with Tony.
FAT PIGGY!
Throwing the food at the Emu.
Feeding the goats.
After Tony got Mya an icee. And I got this adorbs pics of the 2 of them.
We headed to my parents that night to see Pete since he was home for the weekend. Mya spent the night at their house too. She loves sleepovers there!
Mya and Auntie Shell who's expecting a little cousin for Mya and Ashley on April 15th! YAY, so excited for Shell and Pete. Love you guys.
Toasting a marshmallow with Dewey Pop
So typical Pete.
Crazy Uncle Pete
Outside for a matter of 10 minutes and Ashley gets 4 bug bites (1 right between her eyebrows) and Mya gets about 10! They must have that sweet blood like Ry.
Sunday we headed over to Rutgers Gardens. They had a little Fall Festival that we thought would be fun. Plus it was a beautiful day to be outside.
Off we go!
So excited to be there!
They had pumpkins to paint. Mya wanted one for her and she wanted to paint a 'baby' one for Ashley too.
Hard at work
All smiles.
She had to climb this tree too. And it was a good size for her to climb all over.
She wanted to walk all over this one. Ry had to help her.
WEEEEEEEEE
little monkey girl
Had to sit on the giant chair. So sad this pic came out so dark, grr.
Me and my girls. Sorry Ash, didn't realize the sun was blinding you.
WOW, that really tired me out.
So we get home and Ashley is just in one of her usual, UBER HAPPY moods. Love that this little rosey is always so happy and giggly, can't even take her! Beware of picture overload!
Yea, that's the bug bite, right between her eyes. Sorry boo.
LOVE the head thrown back!
My favorite people! I just love our little family and feel so blessed to be surrounded by them everyday.
OK, had to end on this one. Not sure where she learned this behaviour from but Ry and I were rolling. She went to the fridge, grabbed the milk, walked into the living room and did this!
Lovey Mya, just lovely!
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