I Can't Get Enough of These Two!

The rumors are true, I have the two cutest little girls in the entire world! Here are a few of my favorite things right now:

• McKinley calls her thumb her thumbkin, I'm totally going to be sad when she stops doing that.
• Molly cuddles right up on my shoulder when I'm holding her and puts her little arms around my neck.
• Sometimes McKinley calls Molly MollAY and laughs hysterically and tells Molly she's funny for no reason at all.
• Molly smiles at me every time I get her out of her crib...I'm pretty certain there is NOT a better way to start my day.
• Each night at dinner McKinley says "Thanks for dinner Mom, that was good. Now Dad, you say it!"
• It's super easy to motivate McKinley right now, all you have to say is that you're going to beat her and she starts doing whatever it is as fast as she can all the while saying "hurry, hurry, hurry!

I just love my girls!

One Last Overnight Trip

I go back to work this coming Wednesday, so I decided that the girls and I would take one last trip while I'm still off work. My mom was going to Pocatello to visit all my grandparents, so we tagged along. It was a quick trip, we headed up Tuesday afternoon and came back Wednesday afternoon. We had a great time visiting, but of course I didn't take any pictures of that. I did however get a few pictures of McKinley and playing in the snow.

Pocatello had 5 inches of fresh snow that morning, so we made a snowman, she ate a lot of snow and we sledded down my Grandma's yard. We had a lot of fun!

2 Months Old

I took Molly in for her 2 month check up earlier this week. I can't believe how fast the time is going by. She weighs in at 10 lbs 9 oz (48%) and is 23 inches long (84%). She smiles a ton now and will talk back to us when we talk to her. I love the cute little baby noises! She's still a really chill little girl and loves to cuddle with her mom.

I love this little half smile:

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!