Cami Cakes

Grace

Grace was wearing her big ladybug wings tonight and watching a show on You Tube and she looks at me and says:

G: Mommy I have to go potty (gets up and runs to the bathroom).
Me: OK. Do you want me to take off your ladybug wings?
G: No.
Me: Well how are you going to go potty?
G: I'm going to put my butt on the toilet seat.

Duhhhhh mommy :)

Pumpkin Crunch

So GOOD that its worth the extra workout and it's super easy to make.

1 box yellow cake mix (betty crocker super moist)
16 oz. packed pumpkin
12 oz. evaporated milk
3 eggs
1/2 cup sugar
4 tsp pumpkin pie spice
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup chopped pecans
1 cup melted butter

Mix together pumpkin, milk, eggs, sugar, spice and salt. Pour into greased 9 x 13 pan. Sprinkle cake mix over top of mixture. Top with pecans. Drizzle with melted butter. Bake at 350 degrees 50-55 minutes. Serve warm with whipped cream.

Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving from our family to yours! We are so thankful for our family and friends this year. I am especially thankful for my mom and Mike's mom because they have helped me so much with the girls during the past couple months. I am also thankful for a husband who takes care of the baby every night so I can go to sleep early with Grace. It makes such a difference for my sanity! We had a great Thanksgiving dinner with both our families at my mom & dad's house last night. I made a dessert called Pumpkin Crunch which turned out pretty darn good :) I'll have to post the recipe because it's so delicious and unique. I also took some time yesterday to shoot some pics of the girls (above).

Camryn's Doctor Appointment

Camryn had a doctor's appointment today. It was her first round of shots and I just cringed when she got those darn shots. It's so hard to see your baby in pain. Luckily it was over quickly and Grace helped distract her. We have been so busy lately I've been neglecting taking pictures, but there will be some nice photo opps this Thanksgiving week. Back to the doctor's appointment.....Cami is a big girl. She is growing much faster than Grace's pace. Her stats are as follows:

Weight: 12 lbs, 9 oz - 85% percentile
Height: 23.5 inches - 84% percentile
HC: 15.5 - 47th percentile

On a completely different note Grace and I have been playing a fun game at night during bedtime. We each tell eachother our "favorite part of the day" and "least favorite part of the day". For the best part, sometimes she says something really sweet like "being with you mommy" or sometime it turns out to be funny like "eating my cookie after lunch". I love coming-up with silly things like this for us to do. She is such a little sweetie!

Cami's First Friend Gavin

Today we had a lunch date at CPK with Cami's first friend....Gavin. Gavin is one month older than Cami & he's a cutie. Although they both slept through it, I can tell they are going to get along just great. It was also a good chance for the girls (Grace and Audrey, 3 mths apart) to get together and we're looking forward to going to the Spectrum next Wednesday so the girls can ride the carousel. Here are the girls with"their babies".....

Running Shoes...

The cobwebs have been dusted off!!
I went on my first run today in almost a year and it felt great. Actually, I should be honest - it was more of a slow jog - but I didn't walk. 2.9 miles. I'm doing the Nike Running Challenge with monthly distance goals AND Mike & Kristyn and I are signing-up for the Dana Point 10k in March 2011. Skinny jeans, here I come....slowly but surely...because it's a marathon, not a sprint :)

Grace's 3rd B-Day Party

Chuck E Cheese here we come! Today was Grace's 3rd birthday party at Chuck E Cheese's. We had about 16 kids come celebrate with us and Grace had a blast. She was very excited about her pink princess cake and loved playing the games and eating pizza with her friends. Cami missed out on the action and stayed home with Nana and Papa. Next year she'll be invited. We took this opportunity to get a good family photo :)

Grace

Photos of the Week: Two Little Blessings - How Lucky am I?!

Cami is 1 month old

Cami is one month old today! My first thought is....wow, we survived the first month. It has been exciting, totally hectic juggling the two, hard adjusting to lack of sleep and so fun...all at the same time. She has grown so much during the past four weeks and is no longer fitting into her newborn clothes. She is just about to graduate to the #1 diaper and gives us the most amazing smiles that make it soooooooo worth the journey. Some nights (like last night) are really good (she only woke up once) and others are not so good (waking every 2 hours to eat). Hopefully they will only get better, and more consistent, from here. Cami doesn't like her pacifier, she seems more content than Grace was when she's awake, but she definitely has her fussy moments each day & has a huge issue with gas - tooting all the time. Mike is really good at calming her down. Today was the first day I took both girls on an outing besides to the doctor's office or to take G back and forth to school and the drive thru Starbucks. We went to Joann's and I think I only started to sweat twice (ha ha ha), but the rest of the trip was not too bad. Good thing Joann's is about 1 minute from my house. Happy 1 month birthday baby girl!!

Grace Turns 3!

Grace turned 3 yesterday. She is such a big girl now and had the best birthday. We gave her a bike in the morning before Mike went to work, which she rode all day; had a pizza party with Nana and Papa for lunch and celebrated with Mike's parents at our house that evening. She got all kinds of great gifts like a new sandbox, and American Girl baby doll, dance lessons, a jewelry box, Disney princess loot, a Tinkerbell tea set and more! What a lucky litle girl. It was a day full of pink -- Grace's favorite color. Happy Birthday to our first baby who is sweet, sassy, silly, super outgoing, totally girly, FULL of personality, beautiful, fun & full of life. We love you Gracie girl!!! It feels like just yesterday that you were the tiny size of your little sister and we brought you home from the hospital. How time flies...