Catching up

Things are going pretty well around here. Abby is looking forward to the end of school so she can play with Sophie more. I think it's funny because she is only gone for 4 hours/week for pre-school. I think kindergarten will be a bit of a shock for her. She's totally ready and will love it, but she has no idea what she's in for. I don't think I know what I'm in for either. Getting her dressed and fed before school took some doing for me for pre-school. 5 days a week might kill me!

Sophie is pretty adorable, which helps to offset how incredibly sneaky she tends to be. Since I last blogged, she went through a coloring on the walls with crayon stage. Ack! She also has gone through a short take off the poopy diaper phase. Not my favorite of her activities. She has let the dog out the front door the last couple of days. At least he usually comes when I call him. She also apparently went through a taking pictures on mommy's camera phase.

Luckily, Sophie has also gone through a sometimes taking naps again phase. At least there is one phase I like.

Alice is growing like a little weed. She has the funnest chubby cheeks and some cute little rolls on her legs. She started laughing sometimes. It's fun to hear her little laugh. She's definitely ticklish. She sleeps so well I can hardly believe it. She usually sleeps for about 11 hours each night without waking up. She also takes a few good long naps throughout the day. I'm glad that it is getting warmer because I love to dress her in cute little springtime/summer dresses.

We planted our garden the other day. I wish the tomatoes would just instantly grow. I hate that I have to wait for 2 months or more to get some delicious fresh tomatoes. We planted some "Mr. Stripey" tomatoes. Abby laughs about those every time we water. I hope they produce really well because the pictures of them looks pretty fun. We planted 6 tomatoes, 1 zucchini, 1 pepper, green onions, and I have some carrots and lettuce seeds I need to plant still. We also planted some grass seeds in the front yard. I love watching the grass seeds sprout and come in! It's like a short patchy green beard right now.

I have a small backlog of pictures I thought would be fun to post, so here you go.


Alice has taken to sucking her thumb on occasion and I think it is pretty cute - and it sure seems to help her fall asleep on her own better. I'm not too worried about long term implications yet. Sophie sucked her thumb earlier than this and she suddenly gave it up around when she turned two. Alice will probably be different, but I'll just hope she follows her big sister for the time being.


I caught one of Alice's smiles on camera finally. She doesn't smile all the time so it really makes me feel good when she gives me one of her gummy smiles! (This one seems to be particularly juicy.)


Our tulips showed up again this year. I really love how they just show up and I don't have to do anything to make them beautiful.


I took a bunch of pictures of Alice and Abby wanted in on the action. At least she is looking the right direction here!

We're excited to get apples on our apple tree - if the number of blossoms tells correctly, I think we'll get lots this year! Abby is SO excited to have apples - I keep telling her it's gonna be a while before they are ready to eat.


Well, that is probably sufficient to catch up on what I haven't posted. Hopefully I keep up on things so I don't need to bore any possible readers with another catch up session.