Jesus Loves the Little Children

Hi, this is me, Annabelle, at 25 months singing my rendition of "Jesus Loves the Little Children" Enjoy!

Pinkalicious

Due to unforeseen circumstances (aka Annabelle taking off her diaper at nap time and finger painting with her poop all over the crib and walls) we missed the pinkalicious tea party at the library that I (Hallie) had sooo been looking forward to. So when life hands you lemons, you made lemonade, pink lemonade to be exact!!! We improvised and mommy made pink cupcakes, pink frosting, and pink lemonade at home instead :)

Fun in Dallas

We had a great time in Dallas getting spoiled by Grana and Grandad! Mommy loves being a teacher so that we have the flexibility to stay a week in Coppell if we want to :)

 16.5 Weeks Pregnant. Maternity shirts are still a little baggy.

They match and didn't even plan it ;)

Waiting for some grub at Texas Roadhouse. Had to stop Belle from eating the peanuts whole!

Thank goodness we could just jump in the pool after these messy Popsicles!

  



What a Month: May

What we've been up to lately:

Hallie: I am still the Queen of "why's" but my questions are getting more sophisticated. For example, I've been asking mommy, how the baby got in her tummy and how is that baby going to get out of her tummy? I question everything we do and everywhere we go. I pretty much talk non-stop! My parents call me the energizer bunny because I play all day, I do not nap, and I still protest to going to bed at 8pm. My mommy says if they could bottle my energy and sell it, we'd be millionaires!

Annabelle: I am talking up a storm, a storm. I can say long sentences like "Mommy, I want to put my shoes on and go to the park please" and the other day, when Hallie kept asking mommy over and over for more snack I said (word for word) "The answer is no Hallie, sorry!" I am still growing strong staying well within the 90th percentile for height and weight. I am about 2-3 inches shorter than Hal. My nickname is not the energizer bunny like Hallie, no, I like my naps. My nickname is trouble. That is because I find trouble (not on purpose of course) and make trouble on a daily basis! Examples include finding a black dry erase marker and coloring on mommy's new bench, getting into mommy's make-up constantly, and taking off my diaper during nap time and managing to spread poop all over the room! But, although I can find trouble, I can also be super sweet and love to cuddle and kiss. :)

Baby #3: I am just hanging out in mommy's tummy getting excited about meeting the people that make all those crazy noises outside the womb. I am causing mommy just as much nausea as Hallie and Annabelle did. According to her journal from Hallie, I will keep causing it until 18 weeks, two more weeks to go! She will find out in a week if I am a boy or girl! I can't wait to pop out and join the fun in November/December!

Events:
Christy and Ian's Wedding!!!

  

 
 Trip to Dallas:

Eleanor's Birthday Party:

Annabelle's 2nd Birthday:

 

Playing with the new camera!

Easter 2012

I love my sister and she loves me, we get along pretty well most of the time. Belle is my little shadow, literally. She follows me everwhere I go. When she wakes in the morning, the first thing she says (after gathering her pacis) is "where's hallie?" When I go pottey, belle 'goes potty'. When drag a chair to the kitchen island to help cook dinner, another chair is being drug right behind me. When I start making crazy loud weird noises in the car on car trips, I have a back-up singer. So the theme of our sisterhood lately is "monkey see, monkey do." Here is a prime example of my theory: I turned my easter egg basket into a hat, and you know what followed :)

We got to Louis's house around 8 but Grana didn't show up until 10. We were so excited when Grana, Grandad, Aunt Steph and Uncle Blake showed up, let the holiday weekend begin!

Bubbles and easter egg hunts. Doesn't get much better than this!!!

We LOVE love playing outside. What a fun backyard Louis has!

The best before Easter Mass shot we could get. You know the drill, 1st one Annabelle is crying, 2nd one I am looking away, 3rd one (this one) we had to settle for Annabelle having that silly paci in her mouth. Oh well!

Hallie-isms and Favorites

Recent Hallie-isms:

Me: "Hallie, we better hurry home, I really really have to potty!"
Hallie: "Mommy, thats ok, you're sitting down."
Me: "Yes, I'm sitting down, so what?"
Hallie: " When you have to go potty and you are sitting down, you do this (hallie wiggles a lot in her seat) wiggle wiggle and your tee tee goes away!"


Me: "Hallie, you can't have your animal crackers back becuase I gave them to Annabelle and she ate them, they are in her tummy."
Hallie: "Thats ok mommy, I can put on my bathing suit and go in her mouth and get them back!"
Me: thought: where in the world did that idea come from???

Current Favorites       Hallie                                     Annabelle
Book:                           fancy nancy                            i am a bunny
Snack:                teddy bears and yogurt              yogurt pretzels
Song:                             ABC's                         happy and you know it
Animal:                         giraffe                                       dinosaur
Toy:                               puzzles                           baby doll and stoller
Show:                            olivia                                        umizoomi
Art Project:                  paint                                       play dough
At the Park:               play chase                                     swing

Spring Break!

Tickle Bugs. This is a collage of Annabelle and I playing tickle bugs with daddy! Its our favorite thing to do with daddy :) We lay out all the knitted squares (we have 8 of them!) and pull them up one at a time to see if the tickle bug is hiding underneath. If so, daddy tickles us ruthlessly until we can't laugh anymore! Lay out squares, pull up one by one and repeat until daddy is tired :)

Eating PB&J and pudding at Grana's. Clean child vs. messy child. I, of course, am the clean angel child!

Playing Yahtzee with Grana. Out favorite part was shaking up the dice and spilling them out!

Mommy and Daddy headed to church without us! How dare they! Thats ok, we had fun with Grana and Grandad without you guys!

Sheet movie time! Grandad sets up a sheet, a projector, and we provide the movie. Tonight we veiwed Lion King in style! Thats me up dancing because my attention span is 5 seconds :)

We did lots of fun things in Dallas over spring break! Some include a carousel ride at grapevine mills, snacking on popcorn on the back porch, breakfast at the local diner, a trip to the zoo with eleanor, basketball and cone bowling with blake, bubbles and feeding the ducks at the duck pond!

Playing dress up at home! Don't I look like a little june cleaver vacumming in my pearls!

I am THREE!

Today I turned 3 years old! I actually thought that when a person's birthday comes, they "grow up" on their birthday. I even said to my mommy when she told me my birthday was coming up, "but I don't want to grow up, it will hurt!" So, my birthday came and went and I didn't grow up. I was under the impression that I would get as tall as my mommy and become a "big girl" but I'm glad that was not the reality! Instead of experiencing "growing pains" I got a new playset, tons of friends and family, a hot pink cake, and more presents than I can count! I am so thankful for having such a loving family and a great group of friend to help me celebrate. Here is a glimpse of the fun:

New Playset

The Spread

 Cake Pops!

 Hot Pink "three" Cake!

 Homemade Party Hats

Blowing out the Candles! 

Lots of Fun! 

Party Favors (a magnetic chalkboard with number magnents!(stole the cute idea))



Christmas In Conroe

This Christmas, mommy and daddy told me all about Santa. They also told me all about Baby Jesus and how Santa brings presents on Christmas to celebrate Baby Jesus's birthday. My favorite Christmas movie this year was Polar Express! I probably watched it 20 times over the course of the season! This prompted me to want to drink a lot of hot chocolate and to ask for a bell and a train for Christmas! Luckily, I was a pretty good girl this year and Santa brought exactly what I asked for, thanks Santa! It was so fun putting out the food for the reindeer and cookies and milk for Santa. When I woke up on Christmas morning, there was a train set up and ready to play with. But I was actually more interested in checking to see if the reindeer ate the food I left! So I got bundled up to go outside with Gramps to check. Sure enough the reindeer like my concoction of granola and glitter I left for them!

I don't really understand the concept of next Christmas being a year away so I figure I better be on my best behavior all the time. The other day, Annabelle was acting up (surprise surprise) and I said "Annabelle, you betta be good or else Santa not gunna bring you no more more presents!" Thats right, I look out for my sister :)

Here we are all dressed up in Santa Hats! 

All the girls, dressed up for mass! We won't talk about what happened at Christmas mass. Lets just say we didn't make it to the end and Mommy and Daddy weren't too happy...

We love our Grandma and Gramps!

Mommy, Me, Aunt Tisty, and BelleBelle

The whole gang! Good picture Great-Grandma! Congratulations on your engagement Aunt Tisty and Ian!!!

Me on Christmas morning, thank you Santa!

Checking out our new choo choo train set.

Gramps being goofy :)

Want some hot chocolate mom?