All smiles

Guess who is all smiles these days?

It has actually been a couple weeks now that she has been smiling but I have been a little delinquent on blogging and it is sometimes hard to capture that right moment of her smiling. (especially since my iPhone camera is broken)

Someone else is pretty smiley and sassy herself. Diva for sure.

All is going well. Crazy and busy but what else is new. We are finally starting to get into some sort of a routine, at night at least. Usually we give Maddie a bath around 7 and then I take her up and feed her and rock her to sleep while Mike gives Ella a bath and puts her down. Before we go to bed, around 10:30, I usually go get Maddie and do a "dream feed." The nighttime is completely hit or miss. We call it, "the tale of the two Maddie's." Some nights, she will sleep until 5:30 which is amazing and then other nights, she will wake up around 2:30 or 3:00 to eat. So, we hope for a long stretch every night but you just never know which Maddie will show up that night.

She is becoming so much more alert and aware of her surroundings, like checking out with puppy dog while on the play mat. She had her 2 month appt last week and she weighed 10lbs, 2oz (33% percentile) and was 23 inches long (76% percentile) so she is still our long and lean little girl. She is growing out of the newborn clothes and into her 0-3 clothes now.

We have been hanging out a lot of home and having fun dinners with the best buddies and neighbors. These two thought it was a fancy ball that needed long princess gowns and tiaras.

Maybe they were celebrating the one year anniversary of Will and Kate.

Ells still asks several times a day to hold Maddie Grace. I love this picture because they were both watching tv and hanging out in Mommy and Daddy's bed.

So, before my iPhone camera died (thanks Mike for dropping my phone), I was able to get this quick pic of Maddie giving us a huge smile. Sorry for the bad lighting, it was dark because it was late.

One word that we say probably100 times a day in our house is "gentle." Ella loves her sister but sometimes can be a little rough. Whenever she gets near her baby sister, we stop what we are doing and make a b-line for them to make sure Ella is being gentle.

This weekend, Ella's preschool held their annual carnival and fundraiser. Mike had to work the obstacle course in the morning and then the of us came to join in the fun after Ella's swim lesson ended. Of course her favorite thing was the giant bounce house, just like a big trampoline.

And nothing is better than cruising around in a purple convertible but it's hard to drive around with such a traffic jam.

A couple weekends ago, all the husbands in the neighborhood decided the wives needed an afternoon out (and we couldn't agree more) so they planned a photo scavenger hunt and pub crawl for us. With 15 kids between the 6 of us, we all really enjoyed sitting outside on a gorgeous Sunday afternoon enjoying cocktails without any distractions.

And testing out our camera to get some fancy shots in and around Charlotte.

I can't believe it's going to be May tomorrow, where did April go? Between all the late night feedings, endless diapers and two year old temper tantrums, we also have big new smiles emerging, princess imaginations and delicious cocktails. Can't wait for these warm weather days to stay for good and hopefully a beach trip at the end of the month (wink wink Papa.)