Oreo Mess

One of Jared's favorite treats is oreos! He loves to get a glass of milk and dunk his oreos in the milk and THEN eat them! Jayden has had "dry" oreos before, but tonight he experienced his first dunked oreo!




...and it was a MESS!!!!!




He was laughing and thought it was hilarious at first, then he was upset because he wanted to be cleaned up! See for yourself!

Girls Are So Much Fun!

I love, love, love looking online at all these cute headbands and bows to put in Bella's hair! I became borderline obsessed with the website Etsy today. I did make a few headband purchases because I simply could not resist the cuteness!

First, we have a cream crochet headband with cream flower embellishment! I L.O.V.E. it!


Second, we have an ivory white flower on lavender lace. How cute is this?!?


Next, we have a light pink crochet baby headband with a light pink satin flower. Oh my gosh, I loveeeeee it!!!


Finally, we have a cream crochet headband with a handmade chocolate brown satin flower. Adorable.


I can't wait for these to arrive. I see more photo shoots in Isabella's near future! :)

Crazy Week!

Our little Bella is now 3 weeks old! I never posted about her 2 week check-up on 8/16/11, but everything was great! Here are her stats from that appointment:

Height: 20 1/4" (50%)
Weight: 6 lb. 14.6 oz. (10%)
Head: 34 cm (5%)

She is a little cutie pie! She is eating about 3 oz every 3 hours, and sleeps a lot during the day, but keeps us up a LOT at night. She is very gassy and I think she has colic like her brother did........she pees and poops a LOT. Like A LOT. I can't express a lot enough. Literally, we are using about 20 diapers a day. 20 diapers MINIMUM. I feel like all I do is change diapers, pump, feed babies, chase Jayden, burp Bella, wash pump pieces, wash bottles, wash sippy cups, do laundry, BUT it is all worth it! I LOVE being home with Jayden and Bella and I am so thankful that Jared and I made the decision for me to stay home this year. (even if I do not have time to take a shower until Jared gets home from work) :)

Jayden is TWO years old. He is such an awesome little boy. He is like a sponge and soaks up everything we do and say! When I get more time, I will write about all the things he is into these days.... but time is limited right now! And I have a story...

So, here's the quick version of my story..........

Jayden had his 2 year check up at the pediatrician on Tuesday, 8/23/11. His appointment was at 2:15 p.m. Jayden takes his nap every day from about 12-2. We wanted to wait until the last possible minute to wake him up to take him to this appointment. And since Bella is so little, I was going to stay home with her and Jared was going to take Jayden to the doctor. Jared and I were standing in the kitchen talking. I was holding Bella. It was about 1:50 pm. All of a sudden, we heard a loud noise and our house started SHAKING. All I could think of was our house was just going to fall down! The glass in our china cabinet was clicking and shaking together. The tile floor beneath our feet was shaking, the walls were shaking, the wood kitchen table was so loud vibrating against the floor, EVERYTHING was shaking! We looked at each other kinda in shock! We did not really know what was going on. Honestly, my first thought was we were under attack! :/

Jared suddenly yelled, "Take Bella and go to the basement!" He ran up to get Jayden (who was sleeping in his bed upstairs.) Literally, by the time I was on the third step of the basement stairs heading down, Jared had already gone upstairs, down the hall, scooped Jayden out of bed, ran back down the hallway, down the stairs, through the hall downstairs and he had already caught up with me on the third stair!!! haha By this point, the shaking had stopped and loud background noise had gone away. We both immediately tried to make phone calls to see if anyone else felt that. There was no cell phone service at all.

We did realize it must have been an earthquake, but it was just sooo crazy!!! It turns out it was a magnitude 5.8 earthquake!

Now, we did not have any cell service and we didn't really know what was going on. So, jared was going to head on and take jayden to the doctor and I was going to follow with Bella, and bring Jayden home after the appt. so Jared could head straight to work since he had to close that night. No more than 10 minutes after Jared left with Jayden, they came back. Jared had received a phone call saying his store had damage and he needed to head up to Target right away.

By this time we were pretty late for the appointment, but phones were still not working so I could not even call the doctor's office. I decided I would take BOTH kids out for the first time by myself and venture to Jayden's doc. appt.

It was not easy, but I managed! Jayden got his flu shot and his Hep A shot, but he only cried for a minute. He was happy to get the lollipop after. :)

Jayden's 2 year doctor's appointment stats:

Height: 36" (90%)
Weight: 27 lb. 3 oz. (48%)
Head: 48 cm. (35%)

His doctor predicted (based on some formula) that he is going to be over 6 ft. tall!

After the appointment, we came home to a house full of crooked pictures on the wall. Thankfully, everyone was ok from this crazy VA earthquake! We can handle crooked picture frames.

Now we are bracing for HURRICANE IRENE that is going to hit the east coast this weekend...

This sure is a CRAZY week!

FUNNY dad video

This video was sent to Jared by a friend of his. He sent it because yesterday we made a purchase of something we said we would never buy.....................

a VAN!

Yes, we are the proud owners of a new mini! :)

It is actually a very nice van.... It is a 2011 Nissan Quest.

Pics to come later.

Jayden is TWO YEARS old!

Today, my baby is TWO years old! I can't even believe he is already two! Jayden is such a happy, sweet, fun kid! We love him so much! And guess what? The birthday card I made and sent in to Sprout (Jayden's new favorite TV channel) made it to TV! AND I managed to record it! AND it happened to come on all while me, Jayden, Nana, PopPop, Norm, and Stacy were in the room to see it live! :) We were so excited!

Just in case you don't watch the Sprout channel all day like we do... or in case you just missed it yesterday... here is a video clip of it on TV!!!



Jayden has his 2 year check up on Tuesday and I will update more about what he is up to after that appointment.

For now, enjoy the video clip! :)

Bella's Newborn Photos

We are sooo excited about Bella's newborn pictures. They were taken by Samantha Martin, Martinsgirl Photography. :) I couldn't decide which ones to put on here, so I put them all! haha

Picture overload!!!!! love her!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!






































She was 8 days old.

Bella's First Play Date

So, today little Bella had her first playdate. My friend Torie came over with her baby girl, Lila. Lila was born just 5 days after Bella. She is almost exactly the same size as Bella, too! They were born at the same hospital and everything! Torie and I are going to be spending a lot of time together this year! We had so much fun talking and hanging out with our sweet babies. Torie is very creative and brought over two shirts. She decorated them to say "Best Friends." Here are some pictures of our day! :) We can't wait for our next playdate! :)

Bella and Lila sleeping... nap time! so cute!!!




Torie is so creative!


Look how cute they are!!!!

Pictures, Pictures!

So, here are some pictures of the kids (so weird to say!) from the past week.... Isabella's first week at home! :)

They are in no particular order............ Enjoy :)