April Happenings so far

I feel like I haven't been able to post all of the fun pictures and happenings from around here lately! This will be a random conglomeration of April-Shenanigans so far.

Clara taking a selfie :)

 Reading to her baby sister.

Video:

Kisses:

Silly grins

 Love these girls! (And that Daddy :)

:)

 Looks like she's about to pray herself into a nap

Emma Lou has the hiccups:

A Happy Gram from Clara's first week in the Toddler 2 class! 

Poor baby girl got her first busted lip :( Ouch!

Thank goodness for ice and lots of hugs.

 

Clara LOVES coming home and seeing Emma.

In this particular case, Clara was ready to play outside and got some of her socks out for Emma to put on so they could go "pay balls ousside" (notice the sock on Emma's head) 

Disappointed that Mommy said no to outside because it was raining, she then tried to get Emma out of her carseat to put her in her baby doll highchair. Mommy was quick to intervene and suggest she put Baby in there instead.

Here's a video of Clara feeding Baby. It cracks me up that she does all of the "mmmm"s and "oh, yummy!" and "take a bite" like we do when we're trying to get her to eat something. Observent kiddo! 

Then Clara moved on to giving mommy foot rubs, yay!

video:

She's actually pretty good at it!

And then Clara got to eat some yogurt ALL BY HERSELF! No parents holding the yogurt or spoon. She was in Independence-Heaven! 

Disappointed in her inability to change Baby's diaper on the *real* changing pad, Daddy tried to assist her by bringing it in the living room. Then she just got confused.

Changing Baby's diaper:

Had to include this one because I adore the goofy expression she's making for Daddy:

so expressive!

 Emma and Daddy snuggles:

Clara playing hide'n'seek: 

Video:

Just reading a story. Quack, quack, one two THREE!

I have several fun videos from recent times, so I'm just going to include them all here. If you need a laugh and have some time, they really are cute :)

"Hat!"

Videos with Sissy:

Toddler Date with Zachariah:

Taking care of Sissy:

Playdate with Alexa:

Watching Ronnie and his friend play:

Hospital Photos!

On Wednesday the hospital photographer came by to offer her services to take pictures of wee Emma Lou. I think anyone who reads my blog is fully aware of my obsession of pictures of my fantastic and adorable offspring. (My bias is obvious and I'm surprisingly okay with that :)

And then Grandpa generously treated us to the pictures!! Thank you so, so much!!

I love the photos in color and black & white, so I'm going to post both :)

This is Emma's expression of choice

Heart melting

:)

It's amazing how different the newborn experience has been for me this time! So far no signs of PPD, and no emotional breakdowns.

(Although I did choose to put the dogs in the backyard rather than kill them this afternoon, so maybe I'm not 100% patient :)

1 week new!

One week old today!! Wow!!

That was fast!!

Meeting Baby Jonah

We have really enjoyed our friendship with the Bunnis family, made even more fun by our babies being so close in age. 

Jonah Allen was born yesterday morning, weighing almost 9lbs - big, healthy lad!

Bryan, Emma and I went to visit them at the hospital today. He's so sweet! (And very sleepy :)

We finally both have outside babies - hooray!!

Dads and a baby swap :)

Michelle with Jonah cuddles:

I'm hungry, Mama!

Emma with her Daddy, just snoozing while we visited:

We were headed out right as Michelle's  Dad arrived with Zachariah, so we were able to get this sweet picture of their new family of four!

Congratulations! Jonah is darling!