Wordless Wednesday (Yesterday)

I meant to post this yesterday but forgot. Shocker. 

Here's a quick update in pictures through the busy holiday season!

Love these two

Can't we be done??

Looking just like her daddy!

Living the life.

Waiting patiently for breakfast! 

Hide and Seek Swan!

At 6 and almost 2, this is pretty much their personalities!

Love this little acrobat!

Watching sister and daddy play!

Love these silly girls!

On the run!

The only time my hair looked decent curled. And only on that one side!

Loving on Aunt Heidi 

Still so beautiful during her LAST trimester!

Means more to me then she'll ever know!

We took a lot of pictures like this and THEN realized her shirt was up. Classy.

Playing with Mimi's nutcrackers while she's not looking!

Hey it's Uncle Tay Tay!

Really, how handsome is Charlie going to be??

Sweetest couple I know!

Mi Familia

One of Maddi's "most favorite person"

So sweet!

Bay-be

Lover Lover

Kisses for James

Hey Yaw'll Merry Christmas!!

Starbucks break during trivial pursuit

More Brothers and Sisters!

It's Nigh-Nigh!

The first bell of Christmas!

Look at that style.

More toys!

We love our Nee Nee!

The three preggers!

Baby Number Three!

Yes, we're expecting! We couldn't be more excited! I am about 13 weeks now and due July 24th. A nice hot Summer baby.

Also, we have decided to start doing some Montessori lessons and activities with Macy. This was my New Years resolution. So we started reading, getting activities, and learning as much about it as we could. I  really just wanted to send her to a local Montessori school and then hang out at Starbucks until it was time to pick her up but realized I'd be working more just to pay for her to go. Sometimes having a husband with an excel spreadsheet available at all times is even less awesome than it sounds. So we decided that I could do most of it myself with her at home. The hardest part is being organized and on a schedule. We just started Monday and we love it so far! Only a few hours a day of organized play time. Introducing new colors, practical life activities, and developing fine motor skills. If anyone has any advice I'll take it! I'm not expecting too much out of this since she's only 20months and I have a very limited knowledge base on the subject, but hopefully she'll learn a few new things.

Maddi is on level 14 in Reading now! I couldn't be more proud of her. This is nowhere above average, but if you knew where we started.. Her and Macy have started sleeping in the same (twin size) bed together and Maddi says this is the best thing about her life! I love the love that she has for her sister. I love the little lady that she is becoming. Attitude and all.

Josh's birthday is tomorrow and we all can't wait to celebrate him! I am so thankful for the father that he is. And so proud to be his wife!

Here's some pictures of Macy enjoying some play time while Maddi's been at school all week!

Just waking up and jumping on the bed!

Looking for her blue bowl that I "hid"

Still looking for it!

She found it!

Watching the loud trucks

Singing and playing

Transferring some water

Isn't she getting big??

So thankful to have another on the way!

Finally settling in!

We have moved again! We are living in some apartments now and are getting all settled in. The girls are sharing a room and it's working out much better than we thought. There's no greater sound than the sound of their door being opened and four little feet racing to our room every morning. Although, the sound of coffee brewing is a close second.

We chose not to get cable and have so far really appreciated the time we have to all spend together. The girls are growing up so fast! We play more games and read more together. I'm so blessed to have a husband who appreciates these things just as much as I do. Although, I do miss some Real Housewives of New Jersey!

Maddi has improved so much lately in her reading, I am so so impressed with her. Homework is much easier and doesn't take all the hair pulling and flailing about on the floor. She enjoys reading and enjoys math and is such a joy to be around. She enjoys reading various signs we see as we drive down the road as well as magazine covers in the grocery store aisle- which always make for awkward conversation. Like, "So mom, who is Lady Gaga?"

Macy is still the sweetest, smiliest baby I've ever been around. She loves giving hugs and kisses and playing for hours. Which is why our laundry basket MIGHT be overflowing. She can still only say her three words that stand for 100 different things. Da-da, Night night, and ma-ma. Everyone is da-da except ma-ma. And juice, blanket, food, and everything else she might want are all night night. Genius. She loves to run around outside and go for walks in her stroller. She loves sleeping with Maddi and playing tickle. She loves flipping through the pages of a book while listening to us read to Maddi. We love her so much!

Josh and I have been reading Love&Respect by Emerson Eggerichs and have really enjoyed it. Such an eye opener at how different men and women really are. I love our marriage and love being married to him. What a blessing it is to have a husband that considers it to be a woman's highest calling to be a wife, mother, and homemaker.

Cleaning and scrubbing can wait till tomorrow,

For babies grow up we've learned to our sorrow.

So settle down cobwebs.

Dust go to sleep.

I'm rocking my baby, and babies don't keep.