Some of the promised photo's

OCTOBER

Abby moved into her big girl bed. She was so excited for her big girl room.


Comfort cuddle from Dada

Sweet outfit


Not too impressed with the bumbo

Halloween time. I love the faces Anna Jane was making




Abby went through a line everything up phase. Her she is trying to decide what snack to have.



NOVEMBER

Thanksgiving gift





Enjoying a cup of hot chocolate


One of the may cold that hit us this year



DECEMBER

Baking some Christmas treats

S'more bars


Christmas morning.


She was given a Dora outfit from her Great Grandma and Grandad, she loves it.

Too much

WOW! where does the time go. I have been wanting to do a better job at updating this blog and especially keeping track of what the girls are up to. Obviously I have been doing a lousy job with both. I will try to hit some of the highlights, or lowlights!

October - One of the big issues that we have had to deal with is that I am suffering with postnatal depression. I was diagnosed in October last year and I am now much improved.
December - We had a great Christmas with my family. JA, Kristen and their boys as well as our family spent the holidays with my parents at their home. There was not much space and it took about 3 days to open all the gifts (I am not exaggerating!) We all hated to get back to our "normal" lives.

February - we celebrated David's birthday. We had a early celebration when we were, again, with my family so that David could attend a men's day. We had another small celebration at home on his birthday. Then at the end of February we were back with my family again as my Grandad turned 90! We had a great time together, as always.

This month we have been just as busy. The girls had a tummy bug and were vomiting, mostly over David! The washing machine was never empty and the whole house smelled of vomit and poop. I got a little bit of the bug as well but was not sick like the girls were. In the middle of the month we all got together in Aberdeen to not only celebrate my birthday and mothers day but an early celebration for my dad's birthday as well. After Church we went to the Homemade Hamburger restaurant for lunch (they were having a mothers eat free for mothers day). My dad had the great idea of the men taking the kids home for naps/quiet time and the 3 ladies got to look around the mall and have a coffee. Needless to say we had a blast and all got at least one new top. Then it was back to JA and Kristen's house were we had nibbles and birthday cake as well as presents. We got home and put the kids straight to bed, they were so tired.

Now that you have an idea of what we have been up to lets focus in on the girls.......

Abby is amazing! She is the best big sister in the world and loves to make her sister laugh. She helps me set the table for dinner and can get snacks for herself and Anna Jane if I ask her. She is also learning how to write letters and numbers and spends a great deal of her time doing this. Often times when I call her name I hear a sweet little reply from the other room "Yes, mama?". If I do something for her or even a few times after dinner she will often say "sanks mama". Other things that we are hearing a lot right now - "What were you saying just now?". When she is lying in her bed if she wants as to cuddle with her she says "come here you mama/dada" with laughter in her voice and arms outstretched. She loves to sing little songs and learns them so fast. At the moment the one that cracks us up is when see sings "IIIIII like you very much, IIIII like your style" but the style part is in a completely different key to the rest :)

Anna Jane is so sweet and loves her sister more than anyone else in the world. She is 9 months now! Over the last few months she has learned to sit by herself, she has her first tooth, she eats almost anything you give her and loves it when she gets to eat the same as her big sis. She loves to be on her feet and wants to be able to follow her sister everywhere, the unfortunate thing is that means we have to walk bent over with her hanging on our fingers. Her reflux is really settling down now and we are down to 1-2 breastfeeds a day. She sleeps pretty well most nights, about 11-12 hours, and her naps are okay but they can vary a lot in length. She goes into her cot awake and gets herself off to sleep. One of our issues is trying to deal with her extremely short temper! She loves music/noise and can bust a move when the mood takes her.

That is all for now as it is late, late, late! I will post pictures of the last few months soon. Here is one to make sure you come back for more....

Snowman

I am abandoning the idea of catch up for now to bring you our news of today. David Has had almost an extra week off work as the weather has been so bad, there was so much snow! We finally managed to get out in it all together for about an hour and a half. We had a blast and built our first family snowman which should win an award, if I do say so myself. Enjoy the pictures.


Abby had a blast despite having a cold.


David made a great start to the family snowman


After a LOT of hard work.......


This was about the only thing Abby did to help


Meanwhile....... This is how AJ spent the time. She was well bundled up since she has a cold too.


We made the big snowballs out in the park area by our house then rolled them into our back garden to build the snowman.






Here we are putting on the finishing touches. We used so much snow to finish him off.





David thinks it looks more like a snowlady than a snow man! Maybe we should just call it a snow person :)

Promise

Sorry I will post soon. Over the holidays.

Over 3 months

Things have been a bit crazy and so I have not been able to blog as much as I had planned too. So what has been happening. I'll let the pictures tell the stories.


Anna Jane loves to be on her feet and because she is very small she can take her own weight. I can already tell she is going to be advanced, just like her big sister. She babbles away almost constantly and watches everything that is going on. She is constantly trying to sit up on her own. She loves to smile and usually sleeps well at night.

She loves her big sister and watches her all the time. She is constantly trying to catch her eye with smiles.

When ever Abby sees one of Anna Jane's passies lying around she usually grabs it up and uses it. I think it is because she sees Anna Jane with one all the time so she thinks she should have one too.



We got out the Bumbo seat for Anna Jane to use as she is almost at that stage, most of the time it is hijacked by Abby. I can't believe that she can still fit in it.

Abby is going through a reading phase right now and spends most of every day with her books and magazines. Her must read books are Dogger, Dora's Potty Book, Big Sister Dora and her Dora explorer Little Library.

As much as Anna Jane LOVES Abby, Abby also LOVES her. She can't wait until she is old enough to play with and she is always so excited when they get to do things together.


On a sad note Pappy and Uncle Daniel moved back to Yuma at the start of October. I know that the girls will miss seeing Pappy and Uncle Daniel. We hope that we will see them as much as possible.

Abby is absolutely in love with Dora the Explorer at the moment. She wants to watch her all the time and loves anything with Dora on it. She can spot Dora at 50 paces! So we got her her own backpack! It is so cute and she takes her books and a few toys with her when we go out.



Abby's hair is finally growing long enough to do things with. We tried bunches and they looked adorable. She has the most beautiful hair with soft ringlets, I hope that doesn't change.

We went to visit JA, Kristen, Brennan and Jonathan for a day. Aunt Kristen had bought the kids a special treat. Gingerbread butterflies.

We had a momentous event - Anna Jane's first laugh! She was a bit camera shy but I got a bit of it on the camera.

Short clip

This is a short clip of one of the games the cousins played on their overnight stay. It was called round the neighbourhood and involved them running round our downstairs with mobile phones. This was towards the end of the game, they had been running faster, at least as fast as Jonathan could go!

Some Photos

They are not in any order, I'm just glad to get the time to post them!

Story Time. Aunt Kristen with 3 of the 4 kids.
I love the intensity of Abby and Brennan's face in this picture it is just a shame you can't see Jonathan.

We got Abby a kids garden set so she could help mama make a flower bed.
Looking for wiggly woos (worms - its a song)

Anna Jane enjoying her playmat.

Great Grandad Renwick who is 89 years old!

Playing in Great Grandad's garden. I wanted a picture of this as I have fond memories of playing in this garden.

Visiting Great Grannie Wilson. 4 Generations of women.
Anna Jane's first swing

Sweet picture with Uncle Chad and Aunt Sarah, who are expecting their own wee bundle next spring.
Hope you enjoyed these, hopefully more soon.