Hooray for January!

January has been a great month at our house. Mostly because McKinley is potty trained. After we brought Molly home in November I would go from changing her teeny-tiny diapers like 400 times a day to changing McKinley's much larger diapers a few times a day. Going from seeing a tiny little bum to a big 2 year old bum I decided it was time to potty train....I should NOT have to change a diaper on a bum that big!

So, hooray, it worked out! It basically was a week of making her go all the time and she only had a couple of accidents. The second week we still had to ask her sometimes, but miraculously she started telling us and running her self to the bathroom. I LOVE that she uses the toilet now, it's so nice! What a big girl!

The second week was nice because we stopped staying home since I felt like I could trust her in public. Here is my potty trained girl watching a Utah gymnastics meet. Way to go McKinley!

Well, Molly is eight weeks old now. She's already changing and learning so much, I just can't believe it! For about two weeks now, she 's been able to roll from her tummy to her back and she really likes doing it, so she doesn't stay on her tummy much anymore. I have it on video, but it's a format that doesn't upload to blogger, so sorry, you don't get to see it. : (

She also is starting to smile at us, though I have yet to get a picture of it. She loves to make cute little baby noises and McKinley pretends the two of them are carrying a conversation. She usually says in a high falsetto "I love you to Molly".
Last Sunday we blessed Molly and it was a beautiful day.

Christmas!!

We had a really fun Christmas this year. McKinley was so excited since we've had the presents under the tree for the last few weeks. She LOVES to sing and has been singing "Santa Clause is Coming to Town", "Jingle Bells", "Up on the House Top" and various other Christmas songs.

We've had our nativities out and explained that Christmas was about Jesus' birth. She loves birthdays, so that was exciting for her too.

She had tons of fun taking some treats around to neighbors and loved giving people Christmas presents.

We opened up presents with my parents Christmas Eve and that really got McKinley excited for the morning. Grandma and Grandpa gave us a Zoo pass that she is stoked about and should be fun all summer long! The girls got pillow pets, toys, clothes and books. Robbie and I got a Blu Ray player. It was a fun way to spend Christmas Eve.

Robbie and I stayed up and got presents ready that night and Christmas morning McKinley couldn't wait to get down stairs and tear into the gifts. Molly slept through most of Christmas. Later Christmas day we went to Robbie's parents house and opened more fun presents. McKinley can't get enough of the blanket Nana made for her doll! I absolutely love my new cookware and Robbie got the money to sign up for his half Iron Man, so he's on cloud nine as well! We are so lucky to have such fun and great Grandparents for our kids (and parents for us:) ).

Over it was a really fun Christmas, here are some fun pictures!

McKinley only asked Santa for a doll and blue crayon, and what do you know...Santa gave her a doll and whole box of crayons, not just the blue one!

Here Molly is reading her book from Mom and Dad.

She finally woke up just in time for her ball popper.

McKinley got a kitchen from Mom and Dad (really we got it for both of them, but let's face it, Molly is a ways off from actually playing with it). She loved it and immediately went to work making us food.

One Month Old!

Molly is now one month old...well 2 weeks ago anyway! I can't believe it, the time has gone by so fast. She is a pretty easy baby, doesn't really cry much or anything. She's kind of a party animal around 3 am, but it's getting better. She's also very patient with her big sister...McKinley just can't get enough of her! She's a tall (90%) and skinny baby (25%) according to her stats. She has her daddy's chin, her mommy's long arms and we're just waiting to see if her eyes stay blue. Here is my cute little munchkin:

Everybody sees McKinley's blond hair and Molly's dark hair and comments on how different they are. They have similarities, but are definitely different. Here are baby pics of both of them...yep, McKinley was born with dark hair too, we'll have to see what Molly's hair does!

It's been a really nice month. I've been able to do things for Molly that I wasn"t able to do for McKinley because of my bi-lateral femoral neuropathy and it's been awesome! I think maybe it even healed a little of heart ache I had from when McKinley was so little and I wasn't able to take care of her. You have no idea how nice it was to hear Molly's little cry in the middle of the night and be able to get up and go get her, to me it feels like a lmiracle. I didn't do a Thanksgiving post, but on my list of things I'm grateful for this is up at the top!

Meet Molly 11.10.2010

The day we have been waiting for finally came! Molly was born at 5:42 in the morning on 11.10.2010 after a LONG day!

She's so cute. She's shorter than McKinley was...coming in at 19.5 inches, but much chubbier and 8lbs 6 oz. She's perfect and sweet and already has her Daddy and big sister wrapped around her little finger.

She likes to make funny little giggling noises and sleeps a lot. I LOVE the sleeping...I swear I don't remember being THIS tired before! Looks like we'll get to come home Sunday and we're excited to figure out life with two cute little girlies. Bring on the FUN!

Happy Halloween!

Halloween was a lot of fun this year. In Utah most everybody trick-or-treated on Saturday. We had a few kids come Sunday too, but McKinley did her trick-or treating on Saturday and it was a lot of fun.
After nap time we got her dressed up and took her out for some trick-or-treating in Soda Row (it's a little area of business in out neighborhood that did some fun things for the kids and you could go around to the different stores. One of the clinics Robbie manages was part of it, so we stopped in and trick-or-treated there too and they were nice enough to take out picture. I debated putting this up since I look like I'm the size of a small apartment, but it's the only family shot we got, so here you go. Doesn't McKinley look happy? I swear she was having a good time!

When we got home we decided to clean out our pumpkins before McKinley and Robbie went around the neighborhood.

As opposed to last year, McKinley actually really liked getting all the gross stuff out of the pumpkin.

Once we were done, Robbie and McKinley hit the streets to get some "loot".
She got way too much candy for little girl, but loved every minute of it.

Then we carved the pumpkins. Pirate McKinley was in charge of the designs, telling us what she like and where shapes should go. We didn't do any elaborate pumpkins this year (something I admittedly only do because Robbie likes it), but Robbie said he had more fun with the pumpkins this year than he has before. Funny how carving a basic pumpkin with the cutest little 2 year old around can change your opinion, huh?

Our finished products

The other thing McKinley LOVED was handing out candy. Every time the door bell would ring or she'd hear "trick-or-treat" she'd run for the candy bucket and door; it was really cute!

Here's What I've Learned...

about being THIS pregnant.
You see, with McKinley I went two weeks early, so I'm an entire week past that this time and it's been an interesting week. Here are something I've learned:
1. I'm not sure I LOVE people's honestly right now. Take my wonderful husband for instance. We were walking to church on Sunday and he got this silly little grin on his face and said "Guess what, you now waddle!". It did make me laugh though and it's true.
2. Strangers like to say crazy things more and more often. Lately I've heard "Are you trying to sneak a pumpkin out of the patch?". "oh, wow, you're due REALLY soon, huh?", "You're belly is pointing at me!" (I'm not lying a lady next to me in the redbox line really said that to me!) and my favorite "You could have a baby any day" -yes, I can :)
3. The last two weeks ARE more uncomfortable. I see cute little newborns and think, oh yes, it is going to be better when she's on the outside!
4. Did you ever watch Friends? Did you see the episodes where Rachel is pregnant and a bout to deliver? You know, the ones where she starts wearing her pre-pregnancy clothes and they look horrible because they are too small and her big pregnant belly is hanging out of them? Ok, now that you have the mental picture...that's me! Only it's not my pre-pregnancy clothes. I'm outgrowing my maternity clothes!!!! I don't think that's supposed to allowed! :)
Those are just a few things I learned, mostly funny, but yes, I am excited to not be pregnant anymore.