She's almost 3!

Well LilliAnn is quite the little lady. It won't be long until we will be celebrating her 3rd Birthday!

At first I was thinking of having a monkey themed birthday party, as she was very into the "No more monkeys jumping on the bed" books. I even thought i would serve monkey bread, and banana cream pie, and had an idea to make up her invataions. But most recently she's became very interested in Cinderella.
When I asked her what kindof birthday party she wanted a monkey or a Cinderella one, she seems to rotate or pick both. So at the moment we have not 100% decided, but i have a feeling we are leaning more into the Cinderella party.

Cinderella is currently one of her favorite movies, along side with Leapfrog's Scout's Number Land. she sometimes asks to watch it daily, and will sit for the whole movie. I've even gone as far as, buy material to make her a Cindrelley dress, it a very complicated pattern, and I've only finished part of the dress, I do have high hopes to finish it before her birthday so she can wear it, as well as use it as a dress up dress.

It's true the kids can say the cutest things. I can only think of 2 on the top of my head. One was when I was asking her are you tired. She says " No I'm not tired. Look! My tongue is tired" and another one was when I asked her is she was all done going to the bathroom "No, momma I still have poopoo in my bottom." I know there has been a dozen others, I need to be better at writing them down.  She surprises me with her intelligent just the way she places words into what she wants to say, to get her ideas or questions across.

She's still going strong in taking naps. Horray! There are the days she just plays in her room, but for the most part, she usually does sleep. Funny thing is tho, right now the girls are tag teaming, and i haven't quite gotten them to take naps at the same time, but in a way i count it a blessing because then, I get one on one time, being able to give them special attention to each of them.

For Mothers Day we drove up to Snoqualmie Falls this has been LilliAnn's 3rd trip. It was so beautiful out, unlike last year where it rained. The mist felt good on our faces from the falls.

LilliAnn loves to play outside, and the weather is starting to get better and better. She's a good helper at watering our herbs, vegtables and fruit plants that we are experminting on this year, only time will tell how it will go.

She's 3 Months!

It's truly amazing how time flies! Naomi's 3 months and to me she looks like the same lil' girl i just gave birth to. If it wasn't for the Sz 2 diapers she recently moved into or the 6 months clothes she's finally creeping in, I don't think I would have noticed much of her little body growing. To me she's just my ... "baby."

Today one of my customers had asked "oh you had your baby" i tell them "yes she's 14 weeks" to which they reply "that long already?" .... long already!! ?? did I miss something, it seems like I just had her! I even had someone tell me last week "your already pregnant again?" ...AGAIN!? ....umm no...sorry I'm not super woman, and I know I still have some more of this baby/belly fat to loose...but really!? some people really say the strangest/boldest things.

Naomi is a wonderful addition to our family. I find her best moods are in the morning,  and after her 1st bottle, she smiles non stop and becomes quite talkative. We like to talk to each other back and forth sticking out our tongues and say "aaaaaah-aaah-aahh" she's quite good at it.
She sits up well in the bumbo, and will stay content in there, while we work on the dishes, or fold laundry, and sometime I'll set her in there while i take a quick shower.
She is a fan of lying on her back to sleep, tho sometimes I will roll her on her tummy,  she doesn't seem to mind. She does like to be swaddled, and seems to sleep longer this way.  Within the last week, she actually once slept over 10 hours without waking!! I was very surprised and the morning she did this, I woke up, and fixed her a bottle and I had to WAKE her up, because goodness she needed to eat!

Normally we make her 4oz bottles and she drinks it all, no problem. Sometimes, but we never know when, she will need just a little extra, so we will then fix up another 2oz. I'm not sure she quite ready to move to 6oz bottles yet.
Speaking of bottles we did just recently switched her to a new brand called Tommee Tippee, she seems to take to these bottles ALOT better then the Medela ones we were using, I only wish we had started her out on these ones. She is now completely on formula diet, i made it 3 months nursing her, due to my supply not fully coming in, we were supplementing after every feeding, my supply got lower and lower, so I made the decision to stop all together, but I am happy for the time and bonding we did get together for the short period I was able to do it. It was hard, and not how I planned it to go, but things happen, and I am comfortable with the decision we've made.

Like i posted before, within this week, she's moved to Sz 2 diapers, and her 3 month clothes were starting to get a little snug, so i washed up all of LilliAnn's 6month clothes, and have been trading her other clothes out.

She hasn't quite rolled over yet, she sure is working on it tho.

She's made it to her 1st Mother's Day Snoqualmie Falls trip, this past Sunday, my oh my the weather was nice. Even tho we went later in the evening it wasn't busy but sure was beautiful. Before hand we got to visit Naomi's Great Grandma Freeze at the LuthernHome ,while she is recovering from a bloodclot she has in her leg, We got to snack on some ice cream in the Courtyard, and spent some time with Grammie, Auntie Carmie and cousins Maddi and BraeLynn as well. It was a very pleasant visit.

Well until her 4month check up, we'll give you another update then! God bless.