This Week in Outfits

This is quickly becoming my favorite pastime -- taking pictures of Danielle in her cute outfits! :)  Here are the pictures from this week.  It was Spring Break, but it was actually pretty uneventful.  Lily was bored, but it was nice to play and home and relax some!

From last Sunday night. We went to Rhiannon's parents house for their weekly 'Family Dinner':

On Tuesday, after the Arboretum:

This outfit was once Lily's.

Thursday we took an outing to get frozen yogurt and Danielle wore another of Lily's hand-me-downs:

On Friday, we had some errands to run.  Lily picked this outfit for Danielle before she was born and has asked that I keep her for her kids. (Lily is JUST like me when it comes to attaching sentimental value to things).  This will probably be the last time Dani gets to wear it since it is size 3 months and she is getting too tall for it:

I love that face SOOO much!

Arboretum

This week was Spring Break for Lily and Chip, so on Monday morning we all went to the Arboretum to meet Rhiannon so she could take family pictures and pics of the girls.  I don't have any official pictures from the photo shoot yet, but while we were waiting, I snapped some pictures of Lily in front of the tulips.  It was a sunny morning, so it was hard to get a good picture -- that is why I left it up to the professional!!

Then on Tuesday we went back to the Arboretum with Rhiannon, Matthew, Carys, Abby, Carrie, Logan, Summer and Rhiannon's Mom, Elan and Grandma!  It was a really nice day and the kids had a blast running around and playing.

Matthew, Logan, Lily, Carys and Summer.

Danielle has been trying to sit up in her infant carrier, so I brought out the big girl stroller attachment for the first time.  I think she liked it!  I was a little apprehensive about her taking a nap without her infant carrier, but later in the afternoon when she was clearly exhausted, I just reclined the seat and she fell right to sleep!  It was awesome.

Carys and Lily in the petting zoo brushing a goat.

Danielle and Abby are SO cute together.  Abby can almost say Dani and tries to play with her, give her hugs and high fives.  It will be so much fun when Danielle gets just a little older!

Both days at the Arboretum were fun!  It was nice to get out and get some fresh air and enjoy the nice Spring weather.

Ipad

Danielle LOVES playing on the ipad!!  I got her the Fisher Price apps (yes, Fisher Price makes free apps just for kids Danielle's age) and she gets so excited to play and dance.  It is so cute!  We usually play with it in bed when we wake up before everyone else.  It is our quiet snuggle and play time. 

Random Silliness

I found this picture from last week on my phone and had to post it -- it is the silliest picture of Lily with an Easter basket on her head as she is rocking out.  What a goober!!

Our Week

Another busy week means more pictures of cute babies in cute outfits!  :)  It rained half the week, so we only got to go the park and out for frozen yogurt once on Tuesday.  But the girls and I went shopping over a couple days to get clothes for them and me and that is always fun!

Besides dressing up and running errands, I have been struggling with Danielle's naps, or lack thereof.  She goes down SO easily at bedtime.  I can put her in bed awake and she quietly falls asleep within 10 minutes or so - sometimes less.  But that is the ONLY time I can do that.  When she wakes up in the middle of the night, I usually have to nurse her back down and the same goes for nap time.  If I try to just leave her in bed she cries and fusses until I come get her.  I hate to make her cry it out.  It is very frustrating since I know she knows how to put herself to sleep -- she does it nightly!  The main issue now is how LONG it takes to get her down for a nap.  I used to only have to nurse her about 15 minutes, she'd fall asleep and I'd gently lay her in her crib.  But now, she wakes up and cries as soon as she hits the crib.  We have to go through the whole process 3-4 times and sometimes it takes me over an hour to get her down and sometimes the 5 minutes she was asleep while nursing was cat nap enough and I don't get her down at all.  It is so frustrating and it is taking up my whole day. I really hope this phase ends soon.  The good thing is that even on days when she only naps 20 minutes all day (as she did on Wednesday!  From 10am to 10:20, then I tried at 12:30 and 4:00 and she wouldn't go down) she is still happy and not really fussy.  So it is nice to know that she can miss naps and doesn't need as much sleep so I can take Lily on impromptu playdates and out for ice cream after school and I am not tied down by Danielle's nap schedule.  But she never got the memo that babies sleep all the time and nap all day.  She has been like this since birth.

It also looks like Danielle has some tooth buds and teeth will be here soon.  Both the middle bottom ones look like they are starting to come in.  And Lily who has been saying for months that she has a loose tooth -- she is obsessed and wants to lose teeth, may actually have a loose tooth!  She has been saying that her top tooth is "wiggly" for sometime now, and it never has been.   But when she made me feel it the other day, it was a little wiggly!!  So I have to wonder if it is actually time for her to lose teeth or if she loosened it herself by playing with it constantly.  My babies are growing up WAY too fast!!

 

 Sadly, it looks like it may be time to retire this size 3 month outfit.  It's getting a little tight.

 I love this dress I bought for Lily and we finally found a hairstyle that works well for growing out her bangs, so I had to get a picture of Lily this week too!

This pose is ALL Lily -- ironically the dress is from Gwen Stefani's Harajuku collection, so maybe that inspired Lily to pose like a Japanese tourist?!?

 All ready for the park!

 Let's go to Lily's dance class!

 The perfect outfit for a rainy shopping day!

 I love that little jacket.

 A casual cozy outfit.

I LOVE my little dolls!