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Hey there folks! It's been at least two weeks since my last post but boy have we been busy around this house! We welcomed our sweet little Sophie Dianne on January 16th and things have been crazy since then. Thank goodness for our wonderful friends and family who have kept us stocked in food and company. Todd's been off for the last two weeks as well allowing me to sleep in until 10 and take a nap everyday, no matter what is going on.

Here are some pictures of the last two weeks. We've had a good time adjusting to being parents of two vivacious girls. Sophie is still sleeping most of the time and Kara is eating up all the attention and time she is getting to spend with Daddy. 

We had newborn photos taken earlier this week by my very talented cousin--will post those soon...can't wait to see them myself.

Have a great week and enjoy!!

January 14: Kara playing at Kid's Cove (Thomas Road) - This is where my labor started...

  

January 16:The first picture of our sweetness

 

January 16: My girls--don't you love the gown??

January 17: Sweet girl

January 18: First wash off

January 19: "Mommy, I want to hold Sophie"

January 20: What a great dinner! The BEST fried chicken I have ever eaten....

January 21: Happy Birthday Breakfast

January 20: She loves her new dollhouse Granda-da made for her

January 23: Little helper, holds Sophie's hands when we change her diaper

January 22: Too cute

January 24:Both the girls in my lap

January 26: PJ day at school

Project 365

Have you ever heard of Project 365?  Okay so really it's for photographers or people who want to be photographers. I am neither. But I like the idea of taking pictures every day for one year. I think it will help us sort of catalog all the fun we have this year. My pictures are not super artsy or even that great. But they are of what this family does. And to us, that's important.

So you should also know that I've not been great with doing something every single day.  And it's only January 11...I know, pretty pathetic right? So this may not be Project 365...but Project "Whenever Johanna remembers to take a picture" Worth a try right?




Here are the last two weeks worth of pictures. Some of them you have seen in previous posts. I'll try to post at least once a week--again, we'll see how that goes!



Enjoy!

My new toy! Came in great for making Kara's party decorations.

Todd took this picture one morning while eating breakfast. There are about 15 birds out there. This is the view from our kitchen table to the backyard.

Kara and I relaxing after dinner and playing with the Kindle.

Kara's family portrait

Came home early from work to paint this and surprise Kara.

Birthday Party Day! LOVE this picture.

Kara was feeling a little sick so we were cuddling on the couch...again

Woke up early (530am) and couldn't go back to sleep so I made breakfast. Yum!

Painting...and loving it.

Three years old? Really?

Today we had Kara's 3rd Birthday party. It's crazy to think it's been three years since this...

But it has, and soon--actually very soon (13 days until Sophie Day 2012), we will be welcoming the newest addition into our family. That's if she decides to arrive in time. Of course, Mommy here is hoping she'll come just a little bit early. It's getting hard to sleep and be comfortable.

So for the 3rd birthday party I was a crafty little mama if I do say so myself. I made a lot of the decorations, from scratch cupcakes with buttercream icing (yummy) and we had a pretty good time. I was given the coolest crafting machine ever, the Silhouette Cameo, for Christmas from my adoring husband. It is basically a cutter, so---let me just show you. We played "Pin the Wand on the Fairy" to keep with the fairy theme-but it's just like pin the tail on the donkey.

Here's a picture of our fairy without her wings, after I cut the cardstock from my perfect little machine.

                                          Pink Cardstock going into the Silhouette - there's my
                                          computer on the side.

                                           Pulling the cardstock up after it's been cut, that's the
                                           fairy's ballet shoe (she was a fairy ballerina of course)

                                        These were stars I drew on the computer and then cut
                                         out using the Silhouette - they were used to make wands.

                                         Here is our birthday girl standing beside the finished
                                         project. I just cut all the cardstock and then taped it
                                         together. Pretty simple actually.

                                                   

                                               Making Fairy Wands! This was fun for all.

So our second game was finding "Fairy Wings" outside. It was 60 degrees outside today...crazy for January right? Had I known it would be this nice I might have planned more outside, but you just never know. Anywho, I cut some butterflies out on my fancy cutting machine and then taped them all over the yard. It was a mad dash to get the most-we had to play twice because the girls loved it so much!

                                    This of course is our birthday girl in front of her door :)

All in all, I think she had a great time, as did we. I'm exhausted to be honest and glad that it's all over with. She however, would like to have another birthday party tomorrow, or so she told me when I tucked her in tonight. :)

On another random note, check out the family portrait Kara made of us. Pretty good for that big three year old right? Pretty cute too.

Turkey Shirt

Today I made Kara a t-shirt to wear for Thanksgiving. I found a tutorial here last year but it just took me 12 months to actually do it....

I found this cute shirt at Old Navy on Monday for $8. (Yucky picture)

Making shirts like this are really easy and you can applique just about anything---the key is to look for cute "plain" shirts  on sale so you can applique something fabulous on them.  I go shopping so rarely that when I am ready to do my applique I have to go buy a shirt for $8 instead of $2.  Jones Design Company (one of my favorite blogs) has an Easy-Peasy applique tutorial that doesn't require sewing. Basically I used the pattern from the turkey shirt and the process from JDC.

I think she will be already to eat some turkey next week! At least she will be cute doing so.

Stupid Monday

I titled this post "Stupid Monday" because I failed my glucose test this morning at the OB office and I'm really irritated about it. Now I have to spend 3 hours of my only day off this week in the office again, doing another glucose test. In the words of one of my friends, "Boo, hiss". Yes that is exactly how I feel.

In cuter news, Kara has done the following adorable things today:
1. Pointed her princess wand at the DVD player in the backseat of the car and tried to turn it on. She did not succeed, but did turn Mommy into a princess prior to entering Target--so not so bad.

2. Shared her security blanket with me when I was trying to get her to fall back asleep. "Here Mommy, you need some blanket too." Then kept making sure when she turned over, I had my little piece.

3. "Mommy, you my best friend"

4.  This afternoon it was in the 60s so I was having a hotflash in the car and put my window down a little and her window down too. To which she replied "Thanks for putting my window down. That was nice of you"---how polite!

We ended the evening with leftover taquitos I made last night, drawing with Daddy, and bathtime. She has a cold and along with every cold she gets now, she gets wheezing and a cough. So back to every 4 hour nebulizer treatments. Here she is before bed cuddled up with Daddy, watching Netflix on his phone and getting her treatment. Couldn't be cuter could they??

Lessons from Mom

The last two days Kara has had a little spunk in her than usual. Part of it is the fact that she is coming down with a cold and isn't feeling well. But the worst of it started last night.

Kara and I took a trip down to my parent's house to spend the night. Todd is out of town on business and since I hate (am too scared) to stay at home by myself. After 2 hours of feet stomping, crying, and teeth gnashing, she finally fell asleep at their house. We were both frustrated and exhausted by that time.

This morning she woke up at 7am and my parents let me sleep in while she did grandparent-y things with them like pancakes and crafts. When I woke up my mother reminded me of how when I was a baby she stayed up many nights with me while I was sick and how I was the only baby that she rocked to sleep every night. I rolled my eyes over my coffee and decided that she just "didn't understand".



Kara and I got home after lunch and she continued with her obstinate ways. I put her to bed and she slept only a little over an hour. When she woke up she was super grumpy crazy and threw two major fits within 8 minutes. I put her back in the bed where she cried.

I decided to take her into the new nursery and started to rock her. She cuddled up on my shoulder and fell asleep in my arms. She continued to snore away for 30 minutes in my arms and another hour in her own bed.

I guess my mom knows something or another about raising some babies :)

Can I get one of these please???

In case you don't know, my husband Todd is a computer geek. And let's be honest, I love that about him. He knows how to work most technical gadgets and can do lots of neat stuff, plus he is fun to laugh at sometimes as well. Part of his computer-geek personality allows him to surf the internet for hours a day "reading", and in his adventures he usually sends me a couple of websites a day of cool things. Yesterday he sent me to a blog that talked about hydrofloors. Totally cool..and I want it in my next house.


The concept is a movable floor. It can be flush and act as a patio, dance floor, etc. Or (and this is the totally cool part) it can move down, fill with water and become a POOL. Yea, I know.
And you can fill it up as much as you want, wading pool, kiddie pool, a swimming pool. So that's what I want to build in my next house. What do you think?? :)