Our little Julia is now 1 month and she is trying her best to hold that little head of hers up! I put her on the couch for her tummy time the other night and she did such a good job holding it up for about a minute or two. In some of the pictures you can see her hair...it stands straight up after I wash it! I call her "Spikey J". We are doing good. Still haven't really gotten into a routine, but one day I'm sure it will all come together. Kevin starts working from 3-12 on the 1st of May, so I'm not very thrilled about that. I will definetly be in need of a vacation then! Olivia went camping this past weekend with my parents and she had a BLAST! She is just a little nature girl! She is still doing great with Julia and having a lot of patience with me. I'm going to start taking her to a place called My-Gym. It's a gymnastics place but they have classes for all different ages, starting at 6 weeks that help with developing motor skills and all of that fun stuff! We have been one other time and she really enjoyed it, so we are going to join. I think it will be a great time just for her too since she doesn't get that a lot now. Enjoy the pictures and I'll have more up soon!

My favorite!!

Miss Fussy Pants
She loves her momma's chest!
" Spikey J"
"see sissy, i can stick my tongue out too!"

Since the weather was so pretty today ,Olivia and I decided to go outside and play and I cut the grass. As I was cutting, I glanced over onto the porch where Olivia was, to find this....

a little girl, playing in mommy's flower pots!


sweet, dirty feet!! a porch covered in potting soil and a little stinker washing the glass with it too....
and one dirty little girl!!!


It was so cute!!!

Here are some pictures that I have taken over the past 2 weeks. Our little Julia is growing up. She will be a month old in 3 days! I can't believe it! Since she has started gaining weight, she is looking a little like Olivia to me. Her face is getting more and more round. Well, I will post some pictures up in a couple of days. Hope everyone is enjoying this nice weather!

My pretty blue eyed girl.


Olivia didn't want to cooperate for me and look at the camera.


Sissy loves giving out hugs and kisses to her baby sister. It looks like she's choking her, but she's not! lol!

Julia had her 2 week check up today. She is definetly growing. She weighed 8 lbs 6 oz and was 20 1/4". Everything else looked great and the doctor did put her on medicine for her reflux. Olivia did such a great job helping me at the doctors office. She acts so big to not even be 2 yet. I couldn't be any more blessed!

Well, now that Olivia knows mommy and daddy have someone else to preoccupy a lot of their time, she is taking advantage of the freedom. She has been into painting things...mostly herself. Last night, she decided to paint her stomach with pudding. Yesterday afternoon, we were in the living room and Olivia decided to go to the other side of the house, where our bedrooms are. I figured she was just going to play in her room. I called her name and no answer, so I thought I might need to go check on her since there was silence. I looked in her room...not there, her bathroom...not there, then my room....oh yes, she had climbed on top of the changing table and decided to get the jar of balmex and paint her face and hands with it. I laughed so hard! Kevin walked into the house just as I was getting her down so we had to share with face painting time with him and all he could do was laugh. She's a mess!!!

Here are a few pictures that we have taken over the past week.

Well, we have made it through another week! Julia is now 2 weeks old and getting bigger! We are still doing good. I think that it's good to have your kids close in age because you still aren't over the sleep deprivation from the last one, so sleep doesn't even matter to you with the second one. You're kinda like "sleep, what is that again?" with the next one. :) Olivia is still doing great getting use to the big sister role. She has done a few cute things like trying to feed Julia wheat thins, putting play dough in her bassinet (right in her face), swinging her as high as her swing will go, giving her toys to play with....you know, just the typical 2 year old things. I definitely can't take my eyes off of her for a split second. Julia is doing great. She still has problems with her tear ducts, but I'm hoping that will go away soon because it bothers me so bad. She has her good night and bad nights, mostly good though. I believe she has reflux like Olivia did, so we have to talk to the doctor about that. She has her 2 week check up on Monday. I will update again after that and try to get some pictures up on here. Just bare with me...hope everyone has a great weekend!