Happy Mother's Day!

My Mother's Day started out like every Mother's Day should. I could hear Abigail on the monitor around 6:00 followed by Sarah a few minutes later. Jonathan quickly left our room and entertained them both so I could sleep in until 7:30! That extra bit of sleep was wonderful!

We spent the rest of the day at church, at lunch with friends of the family, and at my parents house to round out the day. Now the girls are fast asleep in their beds and I am relaxing by the blog on this quiet Sunday evening.

Here are a few pictures of me and the girls.

I also wanted to recognize and share about other wonderful mothers we hold dear:

Happy Mother's Day to my Mom, also known as Nonna to the girls. We're blessed to be able to see Nonna at least once a week on her day off. We always have nice visits whether we run errands, blow bubbles, or even just hang out.

Happy Mother's Day to my other Mom (my mother-in-law), she is Grandma to the girls. We only get to see her a few times a year, but each visit is very enjoyable. I have a wonderful mother-in-law. She stayed in town a few days extra after Sarah was born and was such a HUGE help! Here is one of my favorite pictures of her with Abigail:

Happy Mother's Day also to my sister, Laura, a mother-to-be in a few weeks. Here she is with Bridget. She is almost 36 weeks along. I cannot wait to meet my little niece!

Of course we cannot forget our wonderful Grandmothers, Aunts, Cousins, and friends who are also mothers. Happy Mother's Day to all of you!

Photo Fridays 05.07.10

I thought I'd try and get a nice picture of the girls for this week's Photo Fridays post. For those of you with more than one child, you know this is not an easy task. For fun I thought I'd share some of the hits and some of the misses:

A Sticky Situation

Probably one of many in the years to come...

Of course, this happened while I was feeding Sarah. Abigail was off into the dining room again. She did come back to see Elmo, but then went right back to the dining room. This time I could see a blurry shadow of her on the wall. She was bringing her hand to her mouth and making a slurping sound. That's when I remembered the syrup was on the table! I didn't figure it was a huge deal. I assumed she was simply sticking her fingers in the top of the container. I was wrong...

And then what happened?

Abigail is still talking about her trip to the museum. It's exciting that we've been able to have little conversations about it, though it's the same conversation over and over:

Abigail: George say
Mommy: What does George say?
Abigail: Oooo Aaaah!
[Now picture a huge smile and little two year old arms reaching up]
Abigail: George sky! [referring to the inflated George hanging from the ceiling in the museum]
Mommy: Yes, George was in the sky. What did you say to George?
Abigail: Bye bye George [on the way out, of course]

She is just too cute!

Like a Kid in a Candy Store

We took Abigail and Sarah to the Children's Museum for the first time. We were in town for a Doctor's appointment and thought we'd make an afternoon of it and head to the museum afterward.

Abigail was like a kid in a candy store, or a kid in a children's museum. It was hard to get Abigail to slow down. She wanted to go off and try out everything. While I went off to feed Sarah, Abigail went with Daddy to check out the Peep and The Big Wide World exhibit. What I didn't know at the time was that this exhibit featured a ton of water and sand activities. Abigail was a little wet after this experience.

We went to a few other exhibits before landing at the special Curious George exhibit. Abigail was so cute when she made it to the George statue in the middle of the exhibit. She walked right up to him on the bench and grabbed his arms. It was like she couldn't believe she was meeting him. Abigail also enjoyed going down a rocket slide that was part of the exhibit.

The last exhibit we visited was a room full of one of Abigail's favorite things: bubbles. The first thing I noticed was that the floor was covered with soap! Abigail wanted to get right into things. I was hesitant to let her try and make bubbles on her own, but she actually did really well.

Abigail wasn't too excited about leaving. Once she was OK with leaving, she said "bye bye George" about half a dozen times as we left the building.

We had such a blast and look forward to checking it out again!

Photo Fridays 04.23.10

Sitting Up

I have been trying to give Sarah opportunities to sit up lately. Up until yesterday she seemed very unsteady. She would either want to try and eat her toes, or go for other toys on the ground. But this time I placed a toy that was more at her eye level to keep her looking up. She was able to sit up for quite a while and had a chance to play with her sister.