Happy Birthday Chloe!

Wow! Our big girl is 3 today! Its amazing to think that we have had 3 precious years with her so far. Of course, they've been 3 pretty crazy years as well.

Here are some pictures from her party on Saturday. I made her a Swiper the Fox (from Dora) cake, she was really happy. We had a lot of fun.


Yesterday we went to Abbotsford to visit Mark's cousin Steve in the hospital. Then we went to his house and hung out with his wife Carolyn and their two daughters. Each of their daughters is about 2.5 months older than our girls, so Chloe and Anna had a great time playing. Kara and Laura had a great time making faces and smiles at each other, and grabbing for each other too. It was a lot of fun, even if Steve wasn't there to participate. But Carolyn says he gets to come home today, hooray! For more, see this post on their blog.

Look, ma!

Wow! Up on ands and feet! This started yesterday around lunch time. Kara is basically doing a push-up. Of course, when she goes back down to the floor, she's moved back about an inch, so she really is inching backwards! Its truly amazing. I think she'll be crawling soon.

Big girls and happy girls

Yesterday, Chloe proved to me how much she is growing and learning. We were in her room talking and playing after her evening bath, and out of no where she said "and its a Chloe constellation!" I was all "what did you just say?!?" and very impressed. I can only assume she got that word from TV, since its not exactly an every day word. Still, it shows that she's picking up new things and turning more and more into a little person :)

Also, on Saturday my mom was over, helping us around the house and taking care of our girls. We were eating dinner, and Kara was sitting up happily in her little blue chair. She's only 5 months, and already sitting so well, as long as she has a little bit of support! My mom says to Kara "don't you know babies aren't supposed to be so happy? They're supposed to cry and fuss." To which Mark replied "Shhh! Don't tell her that!" Kara is such a wonderful little girl. She only cries if she's hurt (duh!), tired, hungry or needs to pee/poo. Otherwise she's happy and content, giving smiles all the time, and some giggles too. She's babbling a bit now, and its really sweet to hear. Infant potty training with Kara is also going well. We catch about half of her pees, and 90% of her poos, which means a lot less messy diapers, and no nasty diaper rash. Hooray!

We are so blessed to have our little girls.

The Big Bang Theory

is an AWESOME show. Watch it!

So many things

Wow, so much has happened over the last week and a half, so I apologize now for how long this post might be.

First off, Mark had an icky birthday, but we had a really nice semi-surprise party for him the day after. Of course, Mark ended up working the 15th & 16th, right in the middle of his hiatus. Which reminds me, Mark started work again today. We have loved our daddy being home so much, it is quite a shock to me and Chloe for him to be gone again.

Right before Mark's birthday, we went to his brother Lee's house for a weekend. We had a really good time, but lost a lot of sleep. We got there Friday afternoon, and left Monday afternoon. Chloe woke up at 6:30 on Saturday, and 5:40 Sunday/Monday :( It was really bright and really warm in our room in the mornings :P

After Mark's birthday, my best friend Coral came down from Trail for a visit. While she was here, we visited the BC Renaissance Festival, went out for yummy food and relaxed. It was nice. I had really missed her.

Over the weekend was the crazy awesome light show (and fireworks too). We got wet. Then Sunday we went to Ruby's 3rd birthday party, then Mark's parents for dinner. And in less than a month it's Chloe's birthday!

Here's two pictures to end the post:

Chloe at 4.5 months





















Kara at 4.5 months

Happy Birthday Mark

Hooray, Mark is 27! Happy birthday to our husband and daddy, we all love you very much.

Home

We are home from our trip to Lee's up in Vernon. We had a great time, but it sure is nice to be back. I would love to post pictures for you, but I kind of forgot that we brought our camera along :P If I can get Lee to email me some pictures I'll post them then.

While we were at Lee's, Chloe woke up way too early. 6:30 on Saturday, and 5:40 Sunday and today. It was really hard to drag myself out of bed to deal with her :P Though on the up side, she did nap both Sunday and today. In fact, we managed to get 3 hours of our trip home done with both our girls asleep - hooray!

I sure do love my own bed, which is where I'm headed now.

Daddy Home Days

Today is the end of day 7 of Mark's 30 day hiatus. Or, in other words, Mark has a lot of "daddy home day"s in a row. We've been hanging out, doing chores, enjoying our neighbors' pool, and staying up way too late even though we know we should try to catch up on sleep. We're going to go visit Mark's brother Lee and his kids in Vernon next weekend, and the weekend after that, our friend Coral (I met her in Lethbridge) is coming down here to visit us. While she's here, we're going to go to the BC Renaissance Festival, which just happens to be (mostly) run by one of Mark's co-workers.

Also, our internet and phone line went down at 1pm on Tuesday, and didn't come back until noon on Thursday. We weren't happy, to say the least. However, it did result in Mark finishing this:

Hey, we have time right now, so if any of you wanna come visit, let us know!

Our girls (are cute and awesometastic)

Here are some pictures of our girls from the last few days :)

Kara having tummy time, and Chloe playing peek-a-boo


Chloe being awesome


Chloe and Kara watching TV


Chloe likes her little sister most of the time, though I know she gets frustrated with the amount of time I spend feeding Kara. Kara absolutely adores her big sister, and some of Kara's best smiles are when Chloe is on the receiving end. We are so blessed to have two beautiful daughters!

Happy Daddy's Day

Happy Father's Day to the best father my girls could ever have. Mark is amazing - he provides so much for us, both by working and by showing us all how much he loves us. We are so blessed to have him as our husband and daddy. Thank you so much for all you do, we love you more than we could ever say.

Things are going well in our house, except for Chloe's randomly changing sleep schedule... one day she sleeps in until 8 am, then next day she's up at 6:15 - and she's always in bed between 7:45 and 8! It makes no sense. Mark needs more sleep, I'm doing all right. Kara is a wonderful sleeper, she goes to sleep between 8:30 and 9:30pm, wakes up once or twice at night for a quick snack, and sleeps until 8 or 9am. I really love the mornings I can leave Kara in bed and spend a bit of time with just Chloe while we eat our breakfast.

It's looking like Mark is going to have a few weeks off in July, which will be a nice respite for all of us. We can catch up on sleep and do fun things - like swimming in our neighbors' new pool, or going to the water park.

Well, off to bed now, I need sleep.