I am soooo in love...

No one could have prepared me for how awesome it is to be a mom of 2 kids. I am really enjoying the girls, it is finally just all coming together. Emmi and Marli really play well together like in a recent post. But other things are just so awesome to watch.
Like in the mornings or during naptimes aka quiet time for Emmi, she will get in Marli's crib with her at the first peep. It is great on the weekends since Emmi will even take Marli's Sleepsack off so they can jump in the crib. They will play until we go get them. Emmi keeps asking when Marli can sleep in her room.

Or like the other day when I needed to shower so the 3 of us got in together after we all got washed off I handed Marli to Jacob. She immediately started to cry since she didn't want to miss any fun. Here is a bathtime fun picture.

Or just watching Marli belly laugh at things Emmi will do. No one can make her laugh like Emmi.

Or watching them play together with the dollhouse or other toys.

I hope that they will remain as good of friends as they are now in the future.

Now that is is slowly warming up and in at least the 40's we have been trying to get out more. Here are some random shots:
Moo reaching for a snack. She is standing more and more without holding on to anything.

At the Playground:
Backyard fun:

The new adventure

Here is Moo drinking her sippy of milk.

Busted as you can see as soon as the gate is to the side Moo makes way to the stairs. Emmi realized that she can move Marli now by picking her up slightly so she does a great job pulling Moo off the stairs.
If you notice in the picture moo is wearing cloth diapers, isnt the pattern perfect for her??? We have made the switch. I have honestly always looked into them at various times with Emmi but always decided against it. My friend Jen who is also a working mom cloth diapers her son. So recently she had a post on FB about it so I looked a little more into it again for Moo. I had a coupon for 20% off Amazon diapers and asked my fellow mommies a ton of questions. After all the help I decided to make a go for it as well as Jacob said he would be on board.

These are not the diaper and pins that people may think. They are called pocket diapers so very similar to a disposables. They have snaps or Velcro to close them, have a pocket where you can add different inserts for custom absorption, and they are one size fits all so she will wear them for the next year or so. So far so good as it has been almost a week. I am waiting on my order to arrive so I dont have to keep washing daily but we will be using primarily Kawaii Diapers. Super cheap at $5.50 per brand new diaper off ebay from the retailer for the lot of 15 I bought compared to disposables which if I can seek out a deal maybe $6.99 for 96 diapers which last 2 weeks or so. They also have liners you can put in them, similar to a paper towel of sorts, to make the duty changing much easier as you can just flush all that away so no swishing and scrubbing. Again waiting on my Amazon order for those. :D

Washing them is not bad. Just start with a cold pre-wash with Oxyclean. Then do a regular hot wash with Country Save detergent with Vinegar for fabric softener and an extra rinse. Really I only start my washing machine twice since mine has an extra rinse setting.

Since I had stocked up on disposables we are using those as nighttime diapers as well as if we are out and about since the diaper bag in the car already has them in there. This has also gotten me to take out my sewing machine as I want to make what they call wet bags. They are bags lined with PUL fabric to put the dirty diapers in. You also see reusable sandwich bags made out of them. I have been making the sandwich bags with fabric Emmi picked out to practice as the PUL fabric can be slippery to work with. So that is our new adventure in parenting.

Snow Round 2

Here in the South when it snows a little everything shuts down. We were all home since Jacob ran to the office with Emmi to get a few things so he could work from home too. It snowed all day until we went out to play when it was switching to sleet/rain. But we still were able to enjoy some time in the snow. The multi-purpose sled for Moo.Here is our snowman. Emmi wanted to use buttons but since we didn't have any we used grape tomatoes for the eyes and a carrot nose.
Then when we were all done Moo ate Lasagna.....
while Emmi fell asleep watching Beauty and the Beast.
Some schools have already called off for tomorrow so we are assuming Emmi's school will be canceled too.

Playin together

It is so cool, Emmi and Marli actually play together be it with the dollhouse or play kitchen.


Moo sometimes needs a step up so she can reach better.


Emmi has also asked if Marli can sleep in her room with her. We told her not until Moo sleeps in a big girl bed which could be right around when Emmi turns 4. Crazy how time is flying which we also realized that the big 1st birthday is right around the corner.
Here is what the aftermath was when eating chicken pot pie.

Snow, Xmas #2, & Nascar

We got snow here on the 26th. Probably the closest we will come to a White Christmas in the South. Here is looking up our street.
We attempted a snow man.
Of course Emmi has to eat as much as she could, but like typical snow in the south the streets were clear by afternoon and it is just about gone from our yards considering it is almost 50 degrees today.

Emmi had a blast with her Memere. She has asked Memere to stay and not go. Unfortunately I don't think it worked.
We had Bacon Explosion for our Christmas Round 2 meal with of course Pake. yum yum
Here is Woj with his godchild.

One day to kill time since the guys couldn't golf we headed Uptown to the NASCAR Hall of Fame. Emmi drove a race car.
She was the Jack Man, a job Jacob has always secretly wished he had.

Christmas 2010

All set and ready to go. The girls both got houses this year, doll house and laugh & learn as their big gifts.

Then their stockings were filled with random goodness.

Emmi also got a doctor kit from her GodMother which you can also use with a doll house, who would have known. :)


Peak a Moo

Speaking of Moo she is starting to climb. From the stairs to pushing her blue chair around to get on top of things. Friday I looked up to see her standing on the blue chair to get a closer view of the TV. This morning it continued where she stood on the chair to get to the remotes on the end table.
Chances of snow today will only help continue with the fun. Memere and Grandpy Harley come in on Sunday so we will have Round 2 on Monday.

The girls in pics

Here is Emmi watching Dora on the computer while eating her dinner all serious.

Here is Moo. She is slowly on the go. She will push chairs or boxes which we get tons of from our online Christmas shopping. But not quite ready for the push buggy.

Moo loves the applesause squeeze packs. She yells and screams if anyone has one and she doesn't.
Emmi is on vacation so hopefully we will get out and about to do some fun things. Naps seem to be fading fast with her. She now is only taking one long one like 2 days a week.