Happy Father’s Day

About once a day I like to proclaim to Jason that we are now parents of 2 kids! He just looks at me and says “Yeah I know.” That’s because Jason has this parenting thing down. It doesn’t faze him that we have two little girls; two little girls who adore their Daddy.  Jason may be terrified of when our girls turn into teenagers but I know he is going to be just as amazing of a Dad to hormonal crazy teenagers as he is to an adorable toddler and sweet little baby.

Notice a resemblance?

*Jason likes to “joke” with me by adding after his “Yeah I know” with  “lets quit while we’re ahead” :)

Abby’s Blessing

We had Abby’s Blessing on May 23rd. It was a wonderful day and a beautiful blessing. Our girls are so blessed that their Dad can do their blessings.  We’re fortunate to have such amazing family and it was really nice of everyone to come up. We had 19 people sleeping at our house (including babies)!  It was so much fun hanging out with everyone. How neat is it that Kate and Abby get to grow up near both sets of grandparents and a bunch of cousins.

Sweet Baby Girl

She is ALWAYS smiling :)

Our Family

One night Kate was talking to Jason while wearing these super cute leggings. I didn’t even know she could hear me but I walked by and said “I like your cute little booty.” She stopped talking turned her back to us, bent over, and shook her bottom. It was so freaking cute and now whenever she’s naked she does the booty dance :) I have no idea where she learned it from but I love it!

Kate refers to all men as Daddys and all women as Mommys. One day I took the kids to Borders. There was a very masculine women in line and Kate pointed at her and yelled “Dada Dada” over and over. I tried to distract her but the lady still glared at me.  Sorry, but it’s not my fault if you insist on getting a boy haircut and wearing boy clothes!

This is how you know Jason has a slack dress code at work: The one day he wore a button down shirt when he got home Kate said “Daddy church, where’s tie?” Jason could not convince her he wasn’t going to church and she just kept saying “Daddy church” over and over.

Nothings Better Than Family

Fun times with family at our house and downtown Duluth.

Growing Girl

We had Abby’s 2 month check up. The doctor was amazed at how strong her legs are. Abby loves to stand so she spends a lot of her wake time with me holding her while she bounces around. She just doesn’t really like to sit right now. Everything else checked out fine too, a healthy little girl that I think is pretty perfect!

Head: 38cm

Length:  22 1/4in

Weight: 11lbs 14.6 ozs

That’s right, my little 6lb 14oz baby is almost 12lbs! I’m a little sad that’s she’s almost outgrown her newborn clothes.

She’s so happy, smiling all the time!

She fell asleep holding her little hands. She is such a sweet baby and just so amazing.

In Retrospect

I was talking to someone yesterday about the difference between having 1 and 2 kids and it got me thinking and laughing about a lot of things. I can’t believe I thought there were difficult parts of having a baby! Abby is the easy one, having a baby is easy. What’s hard is having a toddler running around and not being able to nap “whenever the baby naps.”  Until Kate was a couple months old we only went for the first hour of church. It wasn’t until she was about 3 months that we stayed for the whole thing. Again, what??? It’s easy to have Abby at church for the whole time, she’s nothing compared to having a toddler who has yet to master the art of whispering…

On a side note, when Abby was first born and we all stayed home from church for a couple of weeks Kate was literally begging to go. It was so cute, she kept saying “Kate church, please!”

I don’t think we took Kate to a restaurant until she was like 3 months old. I’m not sure why because it’s so easy to bring a baby out to eat. They just lay there and look around. I told Jason if we have another baby then we can just laugh at all the things we thought were hard with 2 kids.

I should add that having 2 kids is a lot easier than I imagined. I think it’s because towards the end of my pregnancy I got all panicky and thought it was going to be impossible. That’s my advice to all first times moms: imagine how difficult it will be so then you’ll be pleasantly surprised when it’s not as hard :) Though 3plus years of no caffeine does make for some very tired mornings!

Good Times

I don't know what's funnier; Kate aiming for Abby, Abby's dramatic response, or Kate's expression at the end.

I know Kate wasn't really aiming at Abby, it's just funny how no matter what Abby seems to end up in Kate's path...