A meal in her Bumbo

 Molly loves to sit up and join us at the table these days.  Most of the time she sits in her highchair but today she is in her bumbo chair.

Guess who's getting older?

 Jake turned 34 years old on Dec. 20th!  Jake and I actually went out for dinner by ourselves and left the girls with a sitter.  Everyone did well except for Molly.

Snowflake Lane 2012

Thought this was an adorable picture of Bridgie and Jake.


A week before Christmas we took the girls to Snowflake Lane downtown Bellevue.  Each night during the holidays they do a live show at 7pm where the Snowflake princess comes out and some other characters come out to greet the kids.  Drummers beat to the music blasting outside and fake snow falls from the sky.  People jam the sidewalks listening and dancing.  It is a ton of fun!  This year Ella was sooo into it and of course Bridgette was scared.  So she stayed inside the restaurant with me and Molly while Jake took Ella into the action.

 I had the girls get dressed up to go to Snowflake Lane because after dinner and festivities outside we stood in line to see Santa.  Ella asked for 110 kittens and cats.  She is obsessed with kittens and cats.  And Bridgette asked for a new baby doll.  I spoke up for Molly and told Santa I just wanted a good nights sleep!

Molly is 5mos old

 They all want to be like Molly.

Finally took Molly in for her 4mo well child visit a couple of weeks ago.  She weights 16lbs 90-95%, 26in long- off the charts in height.  The doctor was very impressed with her head control and her eye contact.  She actually said that Molly was advanced for her age espcially since she is grabbing for toys and pulls her feet to her mouth.   Just in the past week she has had two teeth pop through and she now rolls over on a regular basis without help.

 Molly is 5mos old!  Yipee!

Gearing up for the holidays

The girls loved helping Jake put up our Christmas Tree this year.  Ella had a string of lights and half the ornaments on the tree before Jake could even string up one strand of lights. 

 Who does this look like?  It is Molly but I see a lot of Ella in this picture. 

Here comes trouble!  A double dose of candy canes here.

First Meal

 Molly had her first taste of Rice cereal last week.  She wasn't to sure of it.  Bridgette of course wanted to help me feed her.  She is such a good big sister!

And here is Molly's newest trick is putting her toes in her mouth.  Silly girl!

Christmas Pictures/ Thanksgiving

For those who missed it I had to add this picture of Jake growing out his mustache for Movember.  I was very proud of him for not shaving for an entire month.  It was to bring awareness to prostate cancer.  NO he doesn't have prostate cancer.  This picture was kinda taken in the beginning of the month.  Take a look at our Christmas card to really see the end result.

The girls getting ready for a family portrait for our Christmas card this year.

We hosted Thanksgiving again this year but in our new house.  It was great to have a large crowed.  My parents came over Wed. to help get things ready and everyone else came Thurs. even afternoon.  Even my grandparent (Ga and Ga) drove over from Spokane that morning.  Thank you to everyone who came and brought things to share.  We are truly grateful to have such a wonderful supportive family.

I honestly didn't take any other Thanksgiving pictures other than these.  I think I must have been too busy.  I will try and do better for Christmas.

Molly is 4mo. old

My sweet little baby girl is growing up so fast.  These last 4months have been such a blurr.  Not because of Molly but just because I constantly needing to take care of someone or something during the day.  Molly really enjoys the girls entertaining her.  She will coo and gurgle with delight when Ella and B are talking or singing to her.  She has found her hands to suck on but definitely loves her binky for naps.  She is also reaching for toys and is learning to bring them to her mouth.  Molly is still working on rolling over.  She did it once a couple of weeks ago but hasn't done it again by herself since. 

Halloween 2012

 

Since we were gone the entire week before Halloween we were a little behind on carving pumpkins.  The girls used good team work to clean out the first pumpkin.  After that they were done getting messy except Bridgette, I think she would have cleaned out the second one as well but it was bedtime.

 Ella got to wear her costume to school on Halloween.  I am in charge of planning all the parties for the year for her class along with another mom who is actually my neighbor.  We had a awesome time planning the party thanks to Pinterest and my mother-in-law Marjie who gave me some good ideas. What I think I liked most was getting to be in Ella's class and meeting all the kids.  I was in charge of the spider web game, and when I told each group of kids that I was Ella's mom, they all spoke right up saying how much they loved Ella.  It was really cute.  Sorry no pictures to share of the party.

 Halloween night, we brought home a Papa Murphy's pumpkin shaped pizza for dinner.  Then got on the girls' costumes and headed out trick or treating.  I went along for part of the neighborhood just so I could watch the older girls in there costumes.

 Bridgette was a Princess Fairy- and of course had to throw the biggest fit about wearing a shirt underneath her costume.  She almost didn't make it out because she was so upset.  I swear the terrible twos or killing me!

The girls by there pumpkins before heading out trick or treating!  Ella made it around the entire development. Even when it started to rain.  Bridgette came back early and helped me pass out candy and of course sample a few pieces.  All in all everyone was in bed by 8:08.

What else would Ella be besides a cat!  She was too cute. 

A week in Spokane

We all went to Spokane for a week so that Jake could study for this huge SE (structural engineering license) test that was being offered there.  Some people study for this exam for a year in order to pass.  But not Jake he does his best work under pressure.  He barely got the books unwrapped. He thought he was doing good for studying for a total of 4.5 days.  Mind you there is only a 38% passing rate on this very expensive exam.  After the second 8hr day of test taking he actually thinks he might have passed.  We will find out 8-10 wks from now.  All prayers are welcome for Jake to pass this test!!!
For those of us who didn't have to study we had fun hanging out with Uncle Brandon for a day.  Here is Brandon holding his newest niece.  He was impressed because she didn't even cry.  She is such a good baby! 

 

 

 

All his nieces!

 

 

 

Jake did manage to break away from studying to play with his girls at night and a lunch time. 

 

 

 

 

Nana and Papa also got to spend a lot of time with the girls.  Here is Nana and Bridge rocking their babies to sleep.  Nana is holding the real baby, Molly.  Thanks again Mom and Dad for feeding us such amazing meals, doing all our laundry and helping out with the girls.