Hey at least she is sharing

Lilly decided to empty the contents of her box of stuffed animals and decorate Raelynn and her play mat with them! Hey at least she is sharing!

Does this remind anyone else of E.T.? 

Father’s Day 2011

Can you believe that this is Mike’s 3rd fathers day? Unfortunately Mike works on Sunday’s so we really have not had a big Father’s Day celebration yet. Our annual tradition is for the girls to wear a shirt that shows her love for her Daddy and we take pictures with a sign, then put them in a photo album with other pictures of the girls with Mike throughout the year. Take a look at this years photo shoot and shirt.

“Daddy Makes my heart go BOOM!”

Lilly coloring Daddy’s sign

Matching Little girls!

This is the picture that ended up in the photo album. This was the only picture without tears. Too bad they were looking at the t.v. behind me!

And here are the pictures from the last two years:

2010

2009

I’m a big girl now

Mike and I have been calling Lilly a “big girl” since Raelynn was born.  She now sits in a big girl chair at the table and she has a big girl bed!  She is growing up way too fast!!!

  

Lilly trying out her new big girl bed, she had to have all of her “friends” with her too.

 

Daddy all tired out after changing the crib to the big girl bed

This is what happens when you leave an outfit on the floor of Lilly’s room! She tried so hard to dress herself it was great!

 

Speaking of growing up too fast, Raelynn sat in her bumbo seat for the first time the other day.  She did have some help with her bobble head though.

 

Check out all of the blankets behind her head :)

Of course Lilly had to sit next to her and observe.

Crib bumper or play pen

Lilly found her crib bumper in her closet the other day and decided that it is her new toy.

And yes, these pictures were taken on different days.  The bumper is a new staple in our living room.  The dogs even “play” in it.

T-I-double G-ER

Do you know the wonderful thing about Tiggers? 

“The wonderful thing about Tiggers, is that I’m the only one.  I’mmm the only one!”

Lilly just like her daddy loves Tigger and is learning the Tigger Song from her Daddy.  Tigger is very important in our house, he sleeps in bed with Lilly every night and goes everywhere with us.  Lilly has multiple Tiggers, take a look what I found in the living room the other day.  Lilly was being very quiet so I peaked over the kitchen counter at her and found this…

In order from left to right, Big Tigger, Lilly, Little Tigger and Baby Tigger.  Thank goodness only little Tigger sleeps in bed with Lilly. And yes, Lilly named them all by herself!!  She also set them up like this and left a space for herself. 

Fun in the Sun

About 2 weeks ago we had a play date with Lilly’s husband to be, Flynn.  I snapped a ton of pictures, it was so much fun!

 

I think Lilly is still in the “boys have cooties” stage because she wouldn’t swim with Flynn despite his pleas for her to swim with him

Flynn playing with the bubbles

Flynn and Lilly playing with bubbles, as you can tell the bubbles were a bigger hit than the pool and sprinkler!

Lilly being a ham

Eli is such a cutie! He just sat around and watched the big kids play!

As you can tell Raelynn is not in any of the pictures, she was napping most of the time. Have I mentioned how much I love our sleepy babies!  Raelynn seems to be taking after he big sister and daddy in the sleep department, the LOVE it!

Lilly and Momma’s play time

Lilly and I are really enjoying the sleepy newborn phase.  We even played paparazzi the other day.  Just about every time I pull out my camera, Lilly has to take out hers, so we decided to take pictures of each other :)

 

I’m still learning all the different settings on my camera

All Smiles

Ok, so I’m a little behind in posting on the blog, I promise I will try to do better!  Raelynn has been smiling and coo’ing at  us for about 2 weeks now.  It is really hard to catch her smiling on camera, but tonight I finally captured a smirk!  Check out that dimple on her left cheek!

My Brown Eyed Girl

I love Lilly’s eyes, they are so big and beautiful, not to mention expressive.  Here are a few pictures to prove it!

 

Sisterly love!

We have been pretty busy around here lately, but things are finally starting to fall into place.  Raelynn is sleeping pretty good (for a 5 week old) and Lilly loves her to pieces!  Mike and I are both only children so it is so neat to watch the relationship between Raelynn and Lilly grow.  Here are a few pictures to prove it.

 

I must say it is very fun to make them match…all the way down to their diapers! Gotta love cloth diapers!