Good Night, Sleep Tight

Mike often falls asleep in the girls' beds when it's his turn to put them to bed. In fact, Isabella does everything she can to make her bed extra comfortable to try to make him fall asleep. She enjoys the company! It doesn't take much since Mike can fall asleep within 10 seconds when he's really tired. Tonight Isabella and I went looking for him when it was time for her to go to bed, and this is what we found! They were both really sleeping!! Elijah, undoubtedly, got his great sleeping ability from his dad!

Three Months Old!

Happy 3 month birthday, Elijah!!!

Suburban Camping

Last night Mike had the brilliant idea to camp out in our backyard with the girls (until they fell asleep). He had talked about it before, so they finally tried it last night. Mike broke out the tent (for the first time) that we registered for and received as a wedding gift almost 8 years ago. My Uncle Ken joked at the time that they could have given us the tent that they received for their wedding and never used. Mike had a bit of difficulty assembling the tent since he didn't read the directions all the way through before he started (surprise, surprise...). After some advice from me and after examining the diagram again, he finally got the tent set up correctly.

When we registered for the two person tent, we weren't exactly thinking about the future! They were pretty cozy in there!

Ready for bed!

Mike read a few books and told the girls a story before they all konked out.

He finally brought them in at 9:30 and put them to bed in their own rooms. It rained last night, so it was a good thing that they didn't stay out there all night. Some day... The girls absolutely loved their first "camping" experience!!

A Day at the Beach

We spent a beautiful day with our friend, Tom, and his parents at their house in Marshfield.

Tom & Elijah

Although it wasn't super warm, the girls still had fun playing in the sand.

Mike, Elijah, Mrs. M & Tom

Four Generations

We just had a great visit with my mom and grandma who came for several days. My grandma got to meet her fourth great-grandchild. With my cousin's son, Gabriel, she now has two great-granddaughters and two great-grandsons. The girls were thrilled to spend a few days with Nana and GiGi.

Elijah meets GiGi

Happy Girls & a Not-So-Happy Baby!

Looking at GiGi

Four Generations

We are looking forward to seeing them again this summer in Wisconsin!!

Four Generations-August 2005

Four Generations-December 2003

We are thankful that my grandpa got to meet both of our girls, too, before he passed away in October 2005.

Happy Mother's Day...

...to my mom (Nana), grandma (GG), and mother-in-law (Grandma)!!!

We love you!!
Then: Mom and Liz (2 years old)

Then: Grandma and Liz (2 weeks old)

Now: Nana, GG, Liz and girls
July 4, 2007 in Granville, OH

Nana, Bobu and kiddos
March 2008

Grandma and Isabella
August 2003

Grandma holding Sienna with Isabella, Trevor and Sydney
July 2005

Grandma and Elijah
March 2008

We are so lucky to have you in our lives, and we can't wait to see you all in the next couple of weeks!

Smiles!!!

I was finally able to catch Elijah smiling. He still smiles mainly at Isabella! That's, of course, who he is looking at in all of these pictures.

Time Warp

Since I've been looking through my baby book with Isabella, I came across this picture of me when I was two years old at my cousin, Liz's, baptism.


Here is Isabella wearing the exact same green dress when she was two years old!

Haircuts

I usually trim the girls hair, but every once in a while they get a professional haircut to clean up my poor cutting job. This was Sienna's second professional cut. She's not really mad. She's just engrossed in watching The Fox and the Hound 2.
The girls love going to get their hair cut because they each get a lollipop, and they get to choose something out of the treasure box. This time Sienna chose a Beanie Baby camel and Isabella chose a green braid that she can clip into her hair.

Isabella also chose a blue lollipop!

The "Wonder Pinks" and Pajama Girls

When Isabella and Sienna have their girl friends over to play, they spend the majority of the time changing their clothes multiple times. (I can only imagine what this will entail when they are teenagers!) They used to try on Isabella's various dresses, but now they like to try to find matching outfits. Isabella and her friend, Charlotte, told me that they were the "Wonder Pinks." I wasn't sure how they came up with that name.

Isabella reminded me that I told her about the time that her Aunt Katy and I dressed up as the Wonder Twins. When I was in college, my roommates and I had a Super Hero party. Katy happened to be visiting at the time, and although she was several years out of college and married, she was a good sport and dressed up with me. Mike was Mighty Mouse-complete with yellow tights!

The real Wonder Twins, Zan and Jayna, and Mighty Mouse

Even the little girls like to change their clothes now, too. Sienna and Lily raided Sienna's pajama drawer!
Four friends

Charlotte and Lily have a baby brother who is due to arrive in July, so hopefully, he'll be as good of friends with Elijah in a few years!

Where a Kid Can Be a Kid

It was a rainy Saturday, so Isabella asked if we could go to Chuck E. Cheese's. We hadn't been since November, so we decided to brave the birthday party crowds and have some fun !





We ended our visit with a little air hockey. It's fun now that the girls are both big enough to really enjoy these activities.