ELLIE

I was looking at the blog today and was wondering if anyone still follows us. I know there are some people that do. And as I was looking through I noticed that there is not much, like nothing, about our sweet little Ellie. So I thought that I would share with the few followers out there some pictures of our sweet girl. She is 10 months. I CANNOT believe that she is almost one. CRAZY! She is very sweet. Has fun personality. She is almost always smiling! She make really funny faces, which I love. She is so close to walking. She loves to play with her sister (more like take everything away from Avree) Avree hates it, but it is cute when Ellie tries to take a toy from Avree, Avree will try to give Ellie another toy to play with instead. What a good big sister. Ellie has brought so much joy into our home and cannot imagine what life would be without her.

Hello World

I am not sure how many people still check my blog. I am not very good at updating it. But I have had some requests to update (Heather), so here you go! Since my last post we welcomed Ellie Jo into our family. She was born on April 7. She is such a great baby and has a very sweet smile. Avree turned 2! We went to the zoo for her birthday. We had an ice cream party with family. A few things about Avree...
* She still loves her blankie.
* She is learning to talk, she was a slow starter but is learning new words almost daily.
* Some of her favorite words are; ball, bubbles, tubby, juice, daddy, Dora, Uh oh,
* She is a great big sister.
* She likes to share.
* She is not a big eater. At her 2 year check she was only in the 3rd percentile in weight.
* She still loves Mickey, but has a new love for Dora.
* She is a very sweet girl and likes to give hugs and kisses.
* Altough she is very sweet, she can throw a good tantrum. She will get mad about something and either throw something or lay down very slowly wherever she is at (the store, the middle of the road)
* When she knows she is in trouble she will come give me a hug, say "uh oh" with big alligator tears in her eyes and then give you a smile that will melt your heart.
We sure love our little girls and could not be happier!

3 more weeks!!!

Time sure is flying by! We only have about 3 more weeks until our new bundle of joy will enter into our family. We are excited, nervous, anxious about this new little baby. We are so blessed to have one child and so we fill extremely blessed to add another! (This picture is from December, but it was the only one I had on the computer.) Avree has no idea what is about to happen to our little family. It will take some time, but she is so sweet and will be a great big sister.

Wow! Where have I been!?!

I know that it has been a LONG time since I have updated this blog. What have we been up to? Well... Avree is now 17 months. She is a wild woman! She loves to be independent, and thinks that everything should go EXACTLY the way she wants! But I have to say that I do love that about her. That just makes her who she is. For those of you that do not know we are expecting baby #2 in early April. We are excited. I am a little nervous about having the 2 kids, but everyone reassures me that it will be fine! We found out a few weeks ago that it is another girl. Shane is still in a little bit of denial, but is coming to terms with it. We have our targeted ultrasound in a couple of weeks and he thinks that they will tell us that it is a boy... But I keep telling him not to get his hopes up. We love our little girl now, so why not add another!

1 year pictures

well better late than never... Here are some of the pictures that we had taken of Avree for her birthday. I think that they turned out so cute. Thanks Ashley for taking them!!!

1 Years Old!

Yesterday was Avree's 1st birthday. We cannot believe that 1 year has already passed by. If any of you know me well, you know that I cry about almost everything. Yesterday morning I went into her room while she was still sleeping, and just started to cry. I sometimes wonder how I got so lucky in my life. She has truly blessed my life and I am very proud to be her mom! Here are some fun facts about our sweet Avree:

* She LOVES her blanket. Her blanket has silk around the edges and she sucks on it when she goes to sleep. If she sees her blanket she has to carry it with her around the house.
* She has been walking now for a couple of months.... and that is basically all she does. She just walks and walks around the house all day. She will occasionally stop and play with something, but mostly she just walks and walks and walks.
* She LOVES watching Mickey Mouse Clubhouse and now has started to bring me the remote and wants you to change the channel to mickey. If you don't change it, she will get angry.
* If she could, she would be outside all day. We got season passes to Cherry Hill this year and I bet she will just love it.
* She is a Daddy's girl. ( Which I love) I love the bond that her and Shane already have. She really does have the best Daddy in the world.
* She likes to help me load the dishwasher and do the laundry. She now thinks that she can sweep, but she really just makes a bigger mess and just ends up trying to eat everything that was swept into the pile.
* She really enjoys being around kids, no matter what age. She is a little social butterfly.
* She loves to push things. Like her stroller, the lawn mower, the shopping cart, other people's shopping carts...
* She loves to be chased around the house and she loves when you hide and pop out and scare her.
* She loves books. She will see a book and bring to to you so you can read it to her.
* She is not a very good eater. She will eat sometimes, but most of the time she would rather just be playing. That is probably why she is so skinny.
* She has been such a happy girl (knock on wood) She has the best little smile that melts my heart every time.

Park and playdate!

Here are some pictures of Avree with her friends and at the park with her daddy!