new photos from mother's day

about a week ago, laura started sleeping 10-12 hours at night. what a relief. she is still working to organize her daytime naps. she totally keys in on when she should fall asleep (9am, 1pm, 5pm) but she has a hard time staying asleep for more than 45 min. she will get the hang of it soon enough, i am sure.

we had a lovely mother's day. very relaxing with a little amateur photo session. check out the pis here.

laura is changing so quickly. she is a really sweet baby. claire is growing up by the minute. other than developing a cold yesterday, it was the perfect mother's day. but then again, with my girls, every day is a perfect mother's day!

--lynn

"Timeout" is not a game...

Today, Lynn put Claire in timeout. "If you pull that leaf off the plant you are going to timeout". That's kind of like the "wet paint" sign that makes you touch the paint to see if it is really wet. Off came the leaf. So, Lynn carried Claire to the timeout corner in the dinner room and Claire thought the whole thing was funny. She gladly stood in the corner, smiling at mom. How can you stay mad at her?

I wish want to wish all the mothers out there a happy mother's day, especially Lynn, Lillian and Dely.

Dress up

Someone turned 26 months old today. It's hard to believe. I am sure one day I'll turn around and Claire will be 26 years old. Next week Laura will be 3 months old. Both my children are absolute delights. After I got home from the dentist (no cavities!) Claire decided to play dress up with costumes we got from a neighbor.

You can see more pictures of our fun afternoon here.

Another milestone

So Claire and I were playing on the back porch after breakfast this morning and she announced to me that she had to go poopie. I asked her if she wanted to use the potty and she said yes. We went to the potty and I took off her diaper and shorts and she sat down and took care of business. Could this be the end of dual diaper changing?

Her vocabulary continues to grow each day and Lynn and I are constantly amazed at what she says. The other day she said, "I'm not going to eat my boogers". Genius!!!!

We are also working on getting Laura on to a schedule so she will sleep longer at night. As of now she is good for 6-7 hours at night, but not every night. She has also started to coo and smile. And she just loves when Claire comes over to play with her. We are blessed with 2 wonderful kids.

Growing LIke a Weed

Laura had her two month pediatric appointment on Tuesday. She measured in at a whopping 23 3/4 in (89th % for length) and weighed in at 10lbs 11oz (40th% for weight). Her little bitty head measured at 13th%!

She has begun sleeping for 8 hours at night (usually from 8pm to 4am) and then goes back to sleep until about 7am. She even took a 3 hour nap this afternoon! Hopefully we can get her on a decent schedule soon.

More details to follow. Back to grading...

Who is a ham?

1 month ago...

...I posted my last blog. not much has happened since then. Laura is getting bigger and more adorable by the day and most importantly she is starting to sleep longer - only waking up once or twice a night. She still manages to go through diapers at an amazing rate. So buy stock in Pampers.

My mom came to visit for a week at the end of March. She really enjoyed spending time with the grandkids and ironing shirts for me. Claire and Laura liked to spend time with Lola as well.

As we ease in to spring, we are spending more time outdoors. Claire loves being outside, playing basketball and drawing with chalk. She has a nice case of road rash on her right knee, on which only bandaids with cartoon characters can be affixed. Laura likes the fresh air, as she is calmer and sleeps more soundly. I think we are slowly starting to get her into a routine. That, or I am delerious from lack of sleep. Truth be told, Lynn has been the best trooper, especially at night.

On Easter weekend we went to a birthday party for Claire and two friends of hers - they were all born within 3 weeks of each other. The adults had a BBQ and the kids had an easter egg hunt. Claire was doing well, until she realized there was candy inside the eggs and then she stopped collecting eggs and started opening them.

I have a couple of new videos to post, which I will do tomorrow, but for now, you can see some relatively new photos here.