6 months!

Today is Camdyn's 6 month birthday! Wow, halfway to her birthday - which will, of course be pink princess themed. :)

I feel like it was just yesterday that I was sitting on the couch (I still remember exactly where), holding my pink Fossil watch, timing contractions while I watched Millionaire Matchmaker. There is no way that was 6 months ago!

She has changed so much over the last 6 months....and will change so much in the next 6! We are getting ready for a mobile baby. One who scoots, crawls, walks - and finally runs! Her little coos will soon mean something - I'm sure Mommy will be her first word. :)

As of today, (April 27th), she weighs 15 lb 1 oz (33rd percentile), is 26 1/8 inches long (65th percentile) and her head is 41 1/2 (24th percentile). Looks like she is on track to be tall and thin - like her big brother!

She is still breastfed but when she eats bottles at daycare she eats 7 ounces at a time. This week we started sending homemade veggies with her to daycare, too! Yesterday she had carrots, today she had green beans - which she doesn't like. :) We also eat a bit of cereal after work/daycare. Pretty soon we will be having three meals a day!

She still wears 3-6/6 month clothes and is in size 2 diapers.

She loves playing with rattles, playing on her tummy and laughing at her silly brother. She is seriously the happiest baby, she just has so much emotion!

We love her soooo much! :) <3

Super easy cookie recipe!

I wanted to share this peanut butter cookie recipe! Seriously the easiest recipe ever. Parker loved helping me make them tonight!

1 C Peanut Butter
1 C Sugar
1 egg

Preheat oven to 375. Mix all ingredients. Roll into small balls and roll on a plate of sugar. Place on an ungreased cookie sheet and press with a fork to make criss-cross design. Enjoy! Here is a picture! :)

My baby isn't a baby! :(

Today we celebrated Parker's third birthday. Sometimes it feels like he has been in our lives for 10 years. Other times I feel like we just brought him home with absolutely no clue what we were doing. I remember taking him in for his checkup a couple of days after we left the hospital. The nurse told us that we had done a good job with him the first couple of days we were home with him. I'm sure she tells everyone that....but I remember thinking that it was the greatest complement anyone had ever given me!

I feel like the infant stage just flew by. I hardly even remember him crawling around or waddling around on shaky little legs. I feel like 2 1/2 years of the three years he has been in our lives he has been at the exact stage he is at now. Time has gone by so quickly that it is just a blur.

That tiny little person in the other room has changed my life more than any other one person or thing ever has or ever will. He made me who I am today - a mommy. I would have never guessed it but being a mommy is what I am most proud of, what I am best at, and what I was put on this earth to do.

I love that little guy for so many reasons but a few off the top of my head are:
His giggle.
The way he says Mommy.
Watching him with Camdyn - he loves her more than anything.
Sitting back and watch things make sense in his head and watching him learn how the world around him works.
That crooked little smile.
The way his mouth turns upside down when he cries - just like it did when he was a baby!
That beautiful red head.
Seeing how happy he becomes when he gets to do something little that we take for granted - like going outside or getting ice cream.
The fact that he has made me a better person.
Watching him grow into such a sweet, caring little man.

Just a couple of pictures of Parker. Look at that tiny little guy!

I had to include this song as well. I downloaded this song when I was pregnant...it will always remind me of our little monkey. :)

Tired...and birthday countdown!

Well, today I feel like I have a newborn! Camdyn got up twice last night - once at 11pm and once at 2:30 again. I don't know how people do it when they have 'normal' babies who wake up past their second month! :)

I keep telling myself to enjoy it - even at 2am - because a year or so from now I am going to wish I had a tiny little bean to snuggle with all by myself in the middle of the night. :)

Tomorrow is our 'Friday' - woohoo! I took Thursday and Friday off. It is our tradition - each year I take off Parker's birthday and then a day or two so we can have a super long weekend together! I bought some cupcakes (I'm a bad working mom who doesn't have time to bake after work) and ice cream cups for Parker to take to daycare. :) Sadly enough, I had to leave the cupcakes in my car.....I don't trust the little rug rat. Even if I hide them, I know I would wake up at 5am and see him sitting in the middle of the kitchen with half of them eaten. :) I am going to make a cake for him on Thursday and then Saturday is the big fire truck birthday party at Playstation! I feel like this week he looks about 3 years older. Hard to believe 3 years ago I was at home freaking out because it was my last weekend of being able to do whatever I wanted. Yeah, I could do whatever I wanted....but what a boring life!

Such a beautiful life!

I just wanted to add some new pictures of my adorable little kiddos! How could you not love those faces?? :)