Allison Kay

Here are a few pics from Allison's 3 year pics!!  Thanks so much to the wonderful Steff Jansen who took them!!  Tomorrow we have Miss Kara's pics!  6 months!!!  I would write more, but it is after 10 and I neeeeeeed to get to bed!!!  Hopefully more posts to come tomorrow!!  But isn't she beautiful!

Roll Over Rover

Miss Kara is rolling over...she rolls from her back to her stomach (has been for a good week now).  Doesn't surprise me too much because since she was 2-3 months old she has been going WAY over on her side to look at something or reach for something, but she does not like tummy time!  So she rolls over and then gets mad after about 5-10 minutes...occasionally longer and starts grunting and now screeching (she is very loud!).  She is very strong, she gets way up on her arms, but then when she is getting sick of it she puts her arms out to her sides sometimes with her head up and kicks her legs, then she will put her nose on the ground and eventually lay her head down.  We are trying to teach her to roll back, but she hasn't figured that one out yet.  I think she did it one day, but no one was in the room.  I left her on the blanket to get something and she was WAY off the blanket, the only way I can figure out that she got there was rolling.  The silly girl rolls over ALL the time tho!  Everytime we put her on the floor within a few minutes she is on her stomach! 

Happy Halloween - A bit late!

I was sooo frustrated, on Halloween we had taken some cute pictures of the girls on the front step before we took Allie trick or treating.  However, when I went to look at the pics later on my camera, they weren't there?!  Turns out my SD card was full!!  I didn't even know that could happen, oops!  Anyway, ever since then I have been meaning to get the girls dressed up again and take some pics, we can't not have any pictures of them from Halloween this year!  Anyway, I FINALLY got around to it today!  It went good considering I had to try to do it by myself (not easy to get them both to look at me and get Kara to smile with me behind the camera!).  Only bad thing was it was too windy (and cold) to go outside.  But here are my kiddos in their "Halloween" costumes!  Better late than never!  And they are pretty darn cute if I do say so myself!!

Meow!

They are so cute!!!

My beautiful "butterfly" ladybug - Allie says she is a butterfly.

Cereal and More

When you go a month between posts there are about 100 things I could blog about, and it seems overwhelming with where to even start, but I'll just start here:

A week ago we started cereal with Kara!  She was showing all the signs she was ready, sitting with support (minimal), watching us eat, opening her mouth if you pretended like you were going to give her something!!  It was more a matter of I wanted to do it when she was feeling good...no ear infection!  (We'll get to that!!)  Anyway, the first time she made some pretty awful faces, but did pretty good.  Second time she gagged.  I was ready to quit, but we decided to try one more time.  She did GREAT!  And has ever since.  We are now giving it to her 3x a day.  I think she still prefers her bottle, but especially today I noticed she was really going for it. 

All ready...

WHAT was that?!

Ok, we'll try again...

Not going well

Seriously mom?!  Ok, believe it or not, she DOES like it now!!

Another mile stone accomplished in the last couple weeks...she now rolls over.  Just one way so far, which it baffles me, she rolls from her back to her stomach.  Which she hates - or used to, actually she is starting to like it for 5-10 minutes.  But then she grunts and screeches, and complains until you help her roll to her back.  Silly girl!  She does it ALL the time though, it kind of drives us crazy because we will put her on the floor and within 5 min. she rolls to her stomach and then gets mad! 

AND...her ears.  Poor kiddo.  I feel like we live at the clinic.  I think we are there EVERY week at least 1x!!!!  I told our pediatrician, I remember a time in my life when I went to the clinic MAYBE once a year for a physical and that was it!  Anyway, the latest is she was in last Monday and started on an antibiotic that she is supposed to take for 3 weeks.  HOWEVER, last night and today she didn't sleep the greatest.  She is happy as can be when awake, but it is not like her to not nap good and tonight she woke up after being in  bed for an hour and was crying.  So, I had called the clinic earlier, not sure what to do (I feel so paranoid sometimes!) anyway, we are going to see ENT.  They are supposed to call me tomorrow for an appt.  I am very anxious.  I am so sick of her poor ears hurting and her having to be on antibiotics!!!  I also have to see ENT, so maybe we can get a 2 for 1!!