Five and Six

They say time flies when you're having fun and that has never been more true than it is for us right now! These girls are growing so fast and we are having so much fun with them. 

Emily might as well be a teenager with as grown as she is lately. If you ask her how old she is she will say she is 6. She is talking in full sentences, she can count to ten and recognize numbers up to 20. She knows her alphabet and loves to sing her A B C D s. She loves to sing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star and Jesus Loves Me. She also likes when Mommy sings with her. It only took 35 years, and I had to give birth to her myself, but I finally have someone who appreciates my singing!

Here is our big five month old! (Who is now 6.5 months old). 

She is an absolute joy! Even though she has been sick for what feels like forever, she is still always smiling and talking and just being sweet. 

She "found her voice" in the past few months and now she is cooing and hollering all the time. She even makes a Da Da Da sound that thrills her Dada enormously. Her teachers continue to comment on how happy she is and say that she will just lie in her crib and smile and talk to her mobile. 

Emily's hair is curly and fine and grows in a really strange pattern. It kind of starts on the crown of her head and swoops around, and it is much longer in the back. Some might call that a mullet....

She hates for us to mess with it or brush it so we decided to take her in for a little trim. 

We went to a kids salon and they were very sweet to her. She cried a little and wouldn't let her daddy take his hands off her, but overall it went well. 

This was supposed to be a cozy warm headband but it ended up being a suffocation hazard. 

Emily turned two on Thanksgiving this year! We didn't do a party but we had a few family members over for pizza and cupcakes. 

She is a huge fan of a certain little mouse, so I did my best to pinterest up some cupcakes in his honor. 

She got tons of Mickey stuff that she loved, and a track to race toy cars down. 

We also got her a balance bike that she rides a lot and she likes to hide things in the compartment on the seat. 

Charlie, just smiling away. She has had a cough and congestion for almost two months now. We have had her at her doctors several times and she will get better and worse, off and on. The amount of snot that comes out of that girl would blow your mind!

We worry about her and hate that she doesn't feel well but hopefully it is something she will outgrow soon. She is still gaining weight and growing so all is well other than lots of boogers!

Charlie loved borrowing her cousin Anna Katherine's bouncy chair. 

I got all three girls matching shirts for thanksgiving and they looked so cute! It's crazy how much babies grow in those first few months - these two are only 5 months apart, but such a difference. 

Uncle Tyler thinks he is Katniss Everdeen. 

 

All three sweeties in their Christmas pajamas!

We tried to start Charlie on rice cereal recently, with so so results. She is really drooling a lot right now so most of the food comes back out with the slobber!

Emily's teacher texted me this picture. Silly girl loves to get messy!

And I love that she has teachers who let her! We really got lucky with her teachers this year and she absolutely adores them!

She is about to out grow that pillow!

I looked away for one minute and she flipped herself off the pillow and ended up on her belly with this shocked look on her face. 

Emily loves to watch YouTube videos on our phones. One day she got quiet and we found her just sitting nicely on this stool in our room, watching her shows. 

We babysat AK for a weekend while her mommy was in a wedding. She was a good girl but having a newborn in the house reminds me how glad I am to be past that phase!

Six months old here! At her checkup she weighed 17 pounds. She is in the 75th percentile for height and weight and 90thfor head size. She got 4 shots and they made her feel pretty yucky that day. 

At Emily's two year appointment (which was the same day - and was an interesting experience!) she weighed 26 pounds. She is about 70th percentile for height and 50th for weight. 

They still love each other and just laugh and smile when they see each other. 

We are all ready for Christmas and can't wait to spend some family time together!