Reese is 3!

Happy happy 3rd Birthday Reese Kenadie!  She continues to be a strong willed, independent, fun loving and spicy little girl. There is never a dull moment with her. She loves her sister, loves to play, watch movies, dance, sing, and currently is into acting out scenes from Frozen.  She is a great eater most days, still takes great naps and loves to read stories before bed.

Loves: Crackers, getting treats after dinner, tinker bell, movie nights, disney junior shows/characters, going to daycare to play with friends, going on walks, her family, legos, coloring, painting, reading, playing with kitchen, helping cook/bake, learning, using her imagination, the park, singing and dancing

Reese tends to have tantrums at home or in the car......would rather have that then have meltdowns while we are out and about =). She is potty trained, but still is working on staying dry at night time.  She now has a big girl bed and we changed her room to more of a big girl room for her birthday.  This was also the first year that I had a little party for her with her friends. She had 5 of her friends come over for a couple games, lunch, cupcakes, and to play.  She had a blast and it was so fun to watch the kids interact with each other.  At night we celebrated with family so needless to say she had a full birthday celebration.  Looking forward to a great year with Miss Reese.

The sign at daycare to celebrate Reese

Reese and Avery

Reese and her friends for her party

Blowing out her candles

Reese's friend Jack got Reese an Elsa dress

Opening presents

Singing Happy Birthday with family

Tyler helping Reese read her birthday cards

 Birthday food

Doc McStuffins party

 coloring her purse she got from a friend of mine

treat bags

Operation game

Kids Party

11 Months

Avery's little personality is starting to shine =). She continues to be such a joy and a very happy little girl. She loves to cruise along furniture and pretend like she is talking on her phone (uses her hand as a phone or mom's phone).  She still prefers to eat pureed food, but there are those occasional days when she will eat finger food without throwing a fit.  Eating is not high on her priority list.  We are working on teaching her signs, but she would rather just scream =(.

Loves spaghetti

11 months

1st pony, looks like the little girl from despicable me =)

Do I have something on my face?

Opening a present a month early from Auntie Molly

Playing with Uncle Jeff

Chillin' at the park

10 Months

Avery has had many firsts this year. She is finally "normal" crawling, pulling herself up to stand and climbing up the stairs(one of her favorite activities). She loves to clap, growl (like a tiger), play with her sister, bananas, and books.  Our little petite peanut.

Weight: 15 lbs. 7.5 oz (less than 5th%)
Height: 27 1/4" tall (25th%)

She is an amazing sleeper and loves naps and bedtime. Avery sleeps 12-13 hours a night and most days takes one nap 2 1/2-3 hours....although once in awhile she likes to take a second nap in the early evening.

Other loves: playing peek a boo, clapping, laughing, waving and playing with anything she can get her hands on =).

Always wanting to stand

Eating like a big girl, she gets highly distracted by her sister

Reese and Avery

10 Months!

Valentine's Day!

I spoiled myself with a facial and a massage and sugar scrub, it was amazing....the girls each got a new valentine book and outfit =)....We do not celebrate Valentines, but its an excuse to get the girls a little something =)

Candy Robots for Reese's friends at daycare

Avery's cereal valentines for her friends at daycare =)

Valentine's treats

new outfit

new shirt

9 Months

Miss Chill is 9 months old! She has started to learn her voice and she lets us know it. Avery has developed quite the squeal when she does not get her way or when something is taken away from her (mostly by Reese). She loves to be held so she can see what's going on, but also likes to army crawl everywhere. I keep waiting for the day for her to "normal" crawl, but she is going on three months of her own little crawl, so who knows if the "normal" crawl will ever happen.

Firsts
Squeal
Clapping
Lots of giggles (loves laughing at her sister)
Lot of flapping...so happy
Hard to get Avery to stay still when changing her diaper
Finger foods (loves to feed herself, but she gets distracted often by her thumb)

Sporting her 6-9 month outfit...she is getting there =)

9 months! She looks happy but she is not a huge fan of the walker....yet

sister bath time

Cheering on the Bengals

Reese being a good big sister

darn thumb!

clapping!!!

Enjoying watching her sister play in the snow

New Years Eve

Like usual, Nate works on New Years, so the girls and I had a party =). We made a cake, made pizza, played and watched a movie =). Girls were in bed by 9! Cheers to 2015!

Watching her cake bake

Selfie!

Eating her pizza she made

Avery chilling with her bottle!

Cheers to 2015!!!!

Christmas

I love this time of year, Nate on the other hand is a bit of a bah-humbug, but surprisingly this year he was great (I think the girls have something to do with that =)). Avery was excited about the paper and just "stuff" that was around and Reese loved everything! It was so fun watching her open presents.  Both girls received lots of toys/books/crafts so we cleaned out and donated 3 boxes of toys. It always feels so good to clean house =).

Avery got a Fox piggy bank from Santa

yay presents!

so excited about her hello kitty flashlight

A talking Doc McStuffins!

Jess had two friends in town for Christmas....they had the coolest presents for the kids, snowballs!!!

Avery sporting her new hat

Amazing sugar cookies made from a bakery in California! Thanks Jen and Tish!