Friday, April 30, 2010

Morning at the Zoo

This morning we met Jennifer and her kiddos Ethan and Kiley at the zoo. Jennifer is a friend from our birthing class with Paige. Reyna and the twins met us there too for a while. It was so funny because with all of the kiddos on different schedules we didn't really see much of the zoo because we kept pulling over to feed one kid or another! I only ended up taking one picture of Paige playing on the playground. We had a great time!

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

A Star is Born

One of my Mom's friends gave us a precious frame that is the says "A Star is Born" and plays Twinkle Twinkle. Kristen has been letting us borrow all of her boy clothes and one of them is the same brand as the frame so it is perfect! I tried this afternoon to get a cute picture of Tyler wearing the onesie to put in the frame!


I think I like this one the best!



Dancing Queen

Paigey in her blue dance outfit...her new favorite! Who knew? :)


Monday, April 26, 2010

Story time & Yoga...ha!

This morning we went to story time and yoga with some Nicole and her playgroup. Seriously...yoga for a 2 year old?! It was pretty entertaining. Any Monday morning I'm not feeling Stroller Strides we are going to do this again - it was so much fun!

Story time - not quite sure why Paige is stretching! Multitasking maybe? It was so cute to watch them listen to the story. Paige is SO ready for preschool!
Ethan and Paige catching up on some emails
There were at least 15 rows of children's books and Paige managed to find the one Disney Princess book. I don't know how she did it! We were just walking up and down the rows and I'd pull some out to see if she was interested and she zoomed to the princess book and said that was the one she wanted! I swear she has a radar for it.
After story time we had some time to kill before yoga so we went to the park across the street. Look at those little hiney's! They were talking to Ava & Caitlin at the top of the slide.
Paige, Ava, Caitlin (her BFF from preschool) and Ethan (look at the face on Paige!!!!)
Yoga! The instructor tried to get them to do some simple poses but it just wasn't happening! They pretty much just ran around the room and giggled!

She did manage to get them to do downward dog

The final resting pose - if only she'd go down this easy for her nap!
I think she thought it was nap time so curled up next to her buddy...isn't this picture priceless?!

Sunday, April 25, 2010

One Tough Papa

My Papa (my Mom's dad) is 84 years old...isn't he cute! I can't believe he doesn't have a cowboy hat on in this picture. He always has one on! He still goes to his farm everyday to take care of his cows, horses, donkeys and chickens. He was putting out the food for the cows and one of the cows tackled him and he fell down and hurt his arm. Here he is with his cast! What a trooper!

My little painting princess

Friday night Kiki and Pappi (Grammy has a new name :)) spent the night with us. We had a fun night BBQing and hit the sack early. Jeromy was SO helpful! He went to the grocery store, made dinner and then cleaned up dinner!! What a helpful hubby. It was so nice and makes me so happy!!

Saturday morning Jeromy, Pappi and Matt went and golfed 18 holes and Jeromy played the best game yet! Needless to say, he was in a great mood :) Kiki was so happy to give Tyler a bottle that morning and Paige was happy to give her baby a bottle too!We met Pappi and Jeromy for lunch at Champagne Bakery. After lunch we played at the fountain for a while and then took Paige to the ceramic store to paint something. Surprise to all of us...she picked a princess! Last night we hung at the house and Kiki and Pappi spent the night with Matt, Reyna and the twins. Today we went to Matt and Reyna's house for lunch. It was fun to watch Paige play with the twins. I still can't believe they are 6 months old!

My little fish

Friday morning we went to the once a month swim playgroup. Paige had a blast! It's so fun to watch her happy and having fun :)

Tyler's New Girlfriend

We got to meet Baby Halo! Kadee and her family were in SD to see her brother Baker graduate from Marine boot camp. They stopped by Friday afternoon on their way back to LA. It was so fun to hang with Kadee, JR, her Dad Bill and her sister Suzanne. I haven't seen her Dad or sister in probably 20 years!! Kadee seemed like quite the natural Momma and it was so fun to hang out with our babies!

Me & Halo and Kadee & Tyler
Jeromy is always so serious :)
I look so tired in these pictures! Todd and Clela showed up for the weekend at the same time Kadee did. I was trying to sneak in a quick nap before they got there and don't think I fully woke up until after they left!


He's officially rolling over!

Rolling over at 5 weeks?? I can't quite believe it myself but the little strong man won't stay on his belly! He can roll over both ways from his belly. Does this mean crawling at 2 months?

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Tyler is 1 month!



Tyler gained 2 pounds in 2 weeks! At his 2 week appointment he was 9lbs, 9oz and 22 inches. At his one month appointment, he was 11lbs, 9oz and 22 1/4 inches. He's a big boy!! Paige was 11lbs even at one month. He's eating every 3 1/2 hours during the day (5 times) and getting up once at night (usually around 2am). This, of course, isn't a set schedule every day but for the most part, this is the schedule we're on. He is a pretty chill baby, yeah! He has been falling asleep about an hour after he eats and is up and down until it's time to eat again. The days of him sleeping all day are gone! Paige is still doing so good with him. She wants to get on his mat and do tummy time with him, wants to help me change his diapers (she opens the tabs and throws the diaper away for me) and likes to help me bathe him. She really is a good helper! I love him so much and love the newborn baby stage. I have been able to take a short nap almost every day and Jeromy has been getting up with Paige in the mornings for about an hour so I'm tired but really doing pretty good! I can't believe it's already been a month!!! I love him SO much!!!!

Dinner at the Elleraas'

Nicole very generously arranged for all my friends to bring me dinner - it has been the best thing! New dinners each night delivered to you from your best friends...can't beat that! Except the fact that I've put on 2 pounds since these dinners have started...homemade lasagna, Ben & Jerry's, wine...I don't know how I gained any weight?!?

So, when it was Nicole's night (almost 3 weeks ago now but I'm just getting around to blogging about it!) she had us over to her house and we had so much fun. Here's the kids at their own table per Ava's request. We sat at the dining room table and the kids sat at the kitchen table. What big kids :)After dinner the kids went upstairs to play...which by the way is so nice that Paige is old enough to go play by herself for a while...and they came down in ballerina outfits and had put together a dance routine for us. We headed upstairs and had no idea what we were in for! They were hilarious! Paige kept squinting her eyes when she would dance like a ballerina - not sure where that came from but it was cracking me up. I seriously had a tummy ache from laughing so hard!

We did a quick photo shoot before leaving. We need to do another one - Tyler's hat wasn't staying on and he looks like a little knome!


We love the Elleraas family!!!!

Playdate with "the boys"

Today we had a playdate with Zachary and Christian. Paige played so well with them and Tyler did great too...his first playdate! Paige wouldn't call them by their names, just "boys"...ha! Pearl made some really good apple bread (gotta love Trader Joe's) and while they were eating the bread Paige goes "look boys, here's my elbow"...random but it was funny! Anyway, they had a great time playing and I'm so happy to be getting out of the house!!I know this picture is blurry but I thought it was so funny...they look like they are an old couple posing for pictures!

Sunday, April 18, 2010

Where did Paige go?

We went to Del Mar today for a walk while Jeromy surfed, pizza lunch and a few hours playing at the beach...my favorite thing! Jeromy buried Paige and she couldn't have laughed any harder...it was so fun!
What a pose!



We pack so much to go to the beach and of all things for me to forget...I forgot a swimsuit and hat for Paige! Seriously?!? She did fine in her Elmo undies and sunscreen but I can't believe I forgot those essentials!