Hard to believe...

It's hard to believe how much a baby grows in just 5 short months!

Photo1 Gemma's birthday
Photo2 Gemma today - 5 months old!

Look what I have!

Gemma has feet! They are so much fun to play with and chew on! The picture isn't great because she loves the dot pattern on the case of my phone. But, so adorable to watch her grab her feet!

Picture 2 here is from this morning. I was getting ready for work and Gemma was keeping me company in the bathroom (because she is safest with me!). Suddenly the light was just perfect and Gemma was so adorable I needed to take a picture. So, I ran around to make that happen instead of getting ready for work.

Amelia wore this same outfit when she was a baby along with this hat. I don't think the hat is going to fit for much longer, which makes me just a little sad...

Election 2012

We stayed up last night with the kids for awhile to watch the election returns come in. John printed each of the kids a US map to color in for each of the candidates. Amelia's candidates were pink-Obama and purple- Romney. She got quickly tired of waiting for the actual returns to come in and just colored the map to her liking. William chose orange for Romney and blue for Obama. He was very excited about the results and cheered every time a state was declared, regardless of candidate.

He started out the evening hoping Obama would win (why? I just like him mom) and then flipped to wishing Romney would win (why? Because he ha the most states colored when we turned the TV off.)

He made us promise to tell him the results right away in the morning. I will say his geography knowledge is pretty impressive. He was able to color in most of the states by himself without any help accurately locating them.

It's Monday!

Oh Monday....it was a long day. A very long day with a very long list of work to be done. Add in an extremely challenging 3 year old and a crabby (teething?) baby and it equals for a long day. At least these two adorable faces are smiling here, right?

Kindergarten fun!

It's been fun watching William's writing/spelling develop and evolve! Here are my two favorite words from this week: hows (house) and hammur (hammer). William is learning so much and we are pretty proud!

Gemma's first Halloween

Here is one of Gemma's Halloween costumes! She had a tinkerbell costume to match Amelia's and she wore it to a neighborhood Halloween party. However, it was in the low 50's temperature wise on Halloween we opted to put her in the zebra costume I got last year on clearance because it was much warmer!

My first Halloween!

Gemma's first Halloween!

Also: Gemma is not feeling cooperative about having her picture taken.