7.31.2012

First Wrestling Match!

I finally figured out how to quickly upload movies to YouTube!  We take so many little movies but I was uploading them from iMovie and that was taking forever!!
So here are Ali and James in their first wrestling match!  I'm sure Jimmy was so proud!


And then they had fun sitting in the fort Daddy built them!  Ali is just learning how cool forts are.

We love watching our kids play together.  Being a parent is the best!!

7.29.2012

Monkey See, Monkey Do

Truth be told I am not the best at making my babies do tummy time.  It seems like it is either like this:
Or like this:
 I love how James has mastered tummy time!  What a genius!  Why not just lay down if you don't like something!
Ali finally appreciates it.  She was so funny!  As soon as I picked James up she laid down and started copying him.
 I had given him a little ribbon so she pulled it over and played with it.
 She even pulled it across her body like he had done at one point.  It's fun having two little ones!
The funny thing is that the younger kids are supposed to copy what the older kid does but it's the other way around in our house... at least for now.  Other things that Ali has picked up from James are the following:
☞She likes to have a binky when she sees him using his binky even though she stopped using one a year ago.
☞He cried during his first few baths and since then Ali has not liked her baths as much and freaks out when we wash her hair.
☞She likes to sit in his baby seats.  We've never been able to put James in his bumbo because Ali always sits in it when we bring it out.
☞When he cries, she cries.  This one totally kills me!  I always tell her she doesn't have to cry just because he's crying.  Ha!  He usually stops crying because she starts crying so loud and he looks over to see what her deal is.


7.27.2012

SLEEP!

It's great that James takes a binky now so he can play with play dough without eating it!

 Ali just learned the art of making play dough snakes.
 James decided to suck his toes one afternoon!  So funny!

 Our Ali loves watermelon!  This is also the first picture she has smiled on cue.


 Prettiest girl in the world!
 James eating a biscuit.
These two are just perfect!  I want to laugh and cry at the same time when I think about how happy they make me!  Plus we sleep trained James a couple nights ago and I got my first real sleep last night.  It was HEAVEN!  It has only been three nights and he slept from 7:30 pm to 5 am.  I nursed him at 5 and he went back to sleep till 7.  It's amazing how good a person can feel getting uninterrupted sleep!  I recommend it!

Taking Over

I walked over to get a spoon out of the drawer and returned to Ali feeding James.  
 She did a pretty good job!

Here she is dancing and being silly to make James laugh.
 He was loving it!!
LOVE these two so much!

 She is also good at reading James books.
As soon as this girl learns how to change a diaper I guess I can retire!

7.16.2012

A Trillion Photos!

One day Ali insisted on wearing her swim cap on our walk.  It was kind of raining so it saved me having to take an umbrella for her! (Love the beautiful New England greenness!)

 She also likes her shopping cart on sunny days!

 James is so chill!
 Pure awesomeness!
 Bananas and books in the morning.


 Swimming!

 On Sunday afternoons, or in the evening during the week, we like to walk around the pond.  When we do this we usually take out the single stroller.  When Ali feels like she wants a short ride she sits on the front.  Since James is in the grabbing phase he grabs at her shirt (and sometimes her hair) and she cannot understand why he is grabbing her.  It is hilarious!!  She just doesn't understand that he isn't doing it to bug her.  It makes us all laugh.
 Ready to go outside and dig!
 This stroller pulled into the park the other day and I just about fell over!  It was awesome!!  As I turned to get the camera out of the stroller Ali climbed into a vacant seat and made herself at home!  I can just imagine my mom pushing this around the property with all the kids piled in!  So fun!

 Our table sees a lot of arts and crafts!  Coloring-
 Playdough-


 Glitter- it always starts out on the paper then ends up on her hands, stomach, 
 even toes!
 Paint...
 has the same story.
We're having a fun summer!

7.13.2012

FOOD, Glorious Food!

It's amazing to look at James and realize that all of his squishy cuteness comes from 100% mother's milk (said in the voice of Hexxus from Ferngully...haven't seen it? watch that part)!  People may also be surprised to learn that James really doesn't nurse all that much and when he does it's not very long.  I don't get it, but it's obviously working out for him so I don't worry about it.  
He has really been grabbing at our food this past week so I was excited to see how he would enjoy his first solids.  
To say he LOVED it would be an understatement!


 I fed him a small amount this morning and he was a natural!  He definitely would have kept eating but I didn't want to fill him up on oatmeal and then not have him nurse all day.  We decided to feed him more in the evening.  Again I didn't want to feed him too much so after he'd eaten quite a bit I got up to put the bowl in the sink.  If you know James, you will know that he rarely cries or gets upset.  That was before I took his food away!  He grunted and his face turned red and he started to cry.  He never acts like that so I brought the bowl back and he finished the rest of the oatmeal.  It was hilarious!  He is such a cutie!  I can't wait to feed him again tomorrow!  I'm also interested to see if his sleep improves now that he's eating solids.  That would be awesome!
Here's James with his other new love, the binky.