I'm so pretty

As I've blogged about in the past, Angela is not the type of girl that enjoy's getting dressed up. She loves her cotton leggings and t-shirts. Bring out a dress and she screams. Try to put it on her and she has a complete meltdown. We've pretty much given up trying when it comes to clothes. My goal in the morning is to get her out of her dirty pajamas and into clean clothes. If I can get her to let me brush her hair its a good day.

However, it seems that she now completely understands the word pretty.

I haven't attempted to put her hair up in months. Everytime I try, it lasts all of ten seconds (and results in the same reaction I get when trying to put a dress on her). But she wore a new outfit the other day - an outfit that came with matching hair clips so I just had to try!

My oh my, aren't we pretty. She stared in the mirror for a good five minutes with a silly little grin on her face.




Unfortunately she decided to pull the bows out while in the car on her way to nursery school - and then screamed about them not being in her hair. Oh well, at least I got a few pictures!

growing girls!

Last weekend we were at the doctors for Caitlin's one month check-up and today we returned to the same office for Angela's two year check-up! Both girls are very healthy - up over the 90th percentile for weight.

Angela now weighs 31.35 pounds - putting her way up there on the growth charts. She has come a long way since falling below the 1st percentile at 6 months old! The doctor was happy with everything except one thing - the dreaded bottle. The only request from the doctor was to try and (gasp) wean her off the bottle (GASP!). Angela has a great routine and goes right to sleep for naps and nights, after drinking her milk from the bottle. We have already made some improvements to this - she now drinks her bottle in the living room with us instead of being rocked in her bedroom with the lights dimmed. So do we take the bottle away? Any tips from the experienced?


Caitlin is up to 11.22 pounds - maintaining her spot at the 97th percentile! Looking back at Angela's growth chart, she was almost six months old before she weighed this much! Again, the doctor only had one issue and that was that we were letting Caitlin sleep in the swing. She had been spitting up a lot and it seemed a lot worse when she was flat on her back so the swing seemed more comfortable (and ensured longer stretches of sleep at night). I've cut a few things from my diet and the spitting up has almost stopped. The past few nights she has slept on her back, in the bassinet, and continued the 3 to 4 hour stretches she was doing in the swing!

The two of them are so incredibly sweet together. Angela has had a few jealous moments but that was to be expected. She always calls us over if the baby is crying or needs something and she loves to kiss the baby and hold her hand.

the girls

Just a few new photos...

Mommy & her girls


Hi Caitlin!


CHEESE...

sisters

Caitlin loves hanging out on her tummy and this afternoon Angela decided to join her. Melts my heart!

coziest chair in the house

Caitlin has a new bouncy chair that she just loves to snooze in. I knew it was only a matter of time before somebody else decided to try it out. Trouble!!

Caitlin Elizabeth

We are so excited that our family has grown by one. Caitlin was born on February 9, 2011 at 10:45pm. She weighed 4.265kg (9lb 6oz) was was 49cm (19.3 in) long.

Angela has been fantastic since we arrived home from the hospital. She thought it was so cool that there was a new baby around and has been giving Caitlin lots of gentle kisses. Both of the girls are getting lots of attention with Grammy and Dziadziu here! Its been great having some extra help at home as we adjust to life with two kids.

I have started uploading pictures which are available on Snapfish. I will continue to add more as I find time.

Waiting for baby

Today I am 40 weeks, 6 days pregnant. This is not something we had expected, or planned for. Even my doctor is surprised, she has been saying 'any day now' since my 38 week appointment! I guess this little girl is comfy in there. Our next appointment is tomorrow afternoon and I know we will talk about induction. Although I'm really hoping to not be induced I know that I'm reaching a point where it may become necessary.

Angela is enjoying all of this extra time as an 'only child', especially now that Grammy & Dziadziu are here. She has gotten lots of new toys and we've had extra trips to the mall, park and beach. We also did a mini-safari on Saturday morning to try and find some camels. In the time we've been here I hadn't seen any camels and we thought it would be fun to go drive around outside of the main city area. We didn't travel too far but did manage to see some cool things - including camels!

After passing many 'camel crossing' signs, we were starting to give up hope that we would actually see any camels - just a lot of sand!


And then a truck passed us on the road, and we finally saw camels!


A few minutes later, and there were camels everywhere


Ang was on camel lookout in the car


Having some fun at the beach


Storytime with Grammy