iPhone Friday 05/16/2014

This past week included:

• a weekend trip to OKC to watch the Redhawk's baseball game
• parent observation night at gymnastics
• first strawberry of the year
• mayfest (which definitely included corn dog and funnel cake eating!)
• pretty chalk art at school
• and the girls' takeover of our bed in the mornings.  No place is safe or private anymore.

The return of iPhone Friday

I miss the iPhone Friday updates. Since I have been terrible at monthly updates for Nora, I would like to get into the swing of documenting our day to day before the arrival of the baby.

So this past week:I successfully celebrated my birthday without the Facebook world knowing, received some beautiful flowers, have been at my wit's end with Nora's temper tantrums and can't understand why Emmy has regressed to acting like a baby. All great things to be experiencing as we enter the last trimester of pregnancy, huh??

Buuuut, my girls do have their sweet moments. Sometimes they can be caught brushing their teeth together, discussing wardrobe options and occasionally Nora will even give Emmy big bear hugs.

I try to hold on to those sweet times, but it is so hard when they are so overwhelmingly outnumbered by the difficult times.

iPhone Friday 12/14/2012

I just noticed that every single picture is of the girls in jammies.  What can I say?  We like to do some serious relaxing at our house.....HAH.  Did you catch any of that sarcasm???  Who am I kidding.  We are all up at 630am on EVERY day of the week.  The girls seriously need to learn the art of sleeping in on Saturday  morning ;).

Happy Friday

iPhone friday 12/07/2012

L to R, Top to Bottom
1.  Visiting uncle Greggy in Rogers
2. "Turning head sideways"…Nora's newest infatuation
3.  Story time
4. We have started giving Emmy 5 minutes each night to read books before it's lights out.
5.  Yes, that is a piece of dairy free brownie on her face.  She and I both deserve treats like this every once in awhile for having our dietary restriction
6.  Ummmm, who knows.
7.  And yes, we have joined in on the big lie, meet our elf Sally.

iPhone friday 11/30/12

(top to bottom and L to R)
1.  Just hanging out on tummy time, still not very interested in this whole rolling business
2. Emmy reading books w/ cousin Boyd and Papa
3. Target dollar bin finds!
4. Sweet sister
5. Emmy has figured out how to use the front camera on the iPhone!

iPhone Friday 11/09/2012

iphone friday 11/02/2012

The Emmy Collection:

The Nora Collection:

iphone friday 10/26/2012

iphone friday time!  This past week has flown by, both a good thing and a bad thing.  Fall has finally hit and it is going to get below freezing this weekend.  My cousin and her hubby are on their way to visit us from KS and tomorrow we meet with a sleep coach about Nora's sleep.  She sleeps at least 9 hours in one stretch at night, but when she falls asleep at 7am...that can mean a 4am wakeup...not cool! Some mornings she wakes at 5, some mornings at 630. We are hoping to come out of this consultation with a way to make her sleep more consistent.

So onto our past week:

1.  I caught Nora sucking her thumb one morning.  Man, wouldn't that be nice if she took to her thumb so we didn't have to go do 430am paci reinsertions.

2.  She loves chewing on hats (and paper, and bottle nipples, and spoons and.....)

3.  My little helper

4. Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory, let me personally welcome you to downtown.

5.  Emmy and Jackson playing either a) beauty shop or b) doctor

6.  Took Emmy with me to the post office to mail a gift, decided to weigh her there.  35#3oz

7.  Nora rockin my new earwarmer/headband

8. Cousin fun at the "thunder up" game last Friday.

Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!

iphone friday 10/19/2012

I'm actually writing this early, it's Thursday night and I just realized that my baby girl is going to be 7 months old tomorrow!

She still doesn't roll, pretty much sits up straight, is making new sounds and looks scared whenever Emmy charges towards her.

Emmy's new trick this week is starting every response with, "but, but, but....."

L-R
1. She's covering herself up while "pumping"
2. She had to do what sister did
3. Playing dress up at school
4. "Skip to my Lou" at gymnastics

L-R
1. I only got 3 toes in before I threw in the towel.  Toes were too squirmy
2. She absolutely loved the sink bath
3. Getting in the Halloween spirit
4. Witchy Nora ;)

Happy friday friends!

iphone Friday 10/05/2012

I dedicate this post to my cousin Gina, who called me out on my lack of posting.

First up, the Nora collage:

I am still not able to capture a whole lot of smiles from our babe, but she is getting to be so much fun. Apparently she rolls (only at daycare, not at home), she is sitting up taller, really tries to communicate, tried a chunk of honeydew melon this week and still refuses to sleep through the night. Which reminds me to take the following note to self: never again brag about your 5 week old daughter who sleeps through the night, she will use it against you at 8 weeks old and continue to do so well after her 6th month:


Annnd moving on to our eldest:

she is trying to learn how to kick a soccer ball- but when one sometimes still falls while running, then one also has a hard time doing more advanced skills, she attended a parade in Tahlequah today courtesy of Aaron and Alex (what would we do without you all, you ring out the absolute sweetest side of our girl), she is using her imagination and creating her own balance beams, and she continues to just be really cute. She comes by it very naturally. She is learning Spanish at school, yoga and sign language. I am amazed by her progress and potential.

Tonight daddy is taking "Nora duty" and I am sleeping upstairs. I know what's going to happen: some spinoff amended version of Murphy's law: Nora is going to sleep all through the night. But in the event that she doesn't, he has a thermos full of hot water and a bottle in an ice pack right next to his bed. The monitor is turned up much louder than normal and all doors are cracked for extra passage of sound waves. Goodnight blog land. I'm off to enjoy 6+ hours of consecutive sleep. (Really hope I don't wake up as a result of habit)

iPhone Friday 09/14/2012

This has been a good week.  I need to do a "life update"...but there's so much to write that my mind shuts down just thinking about it!  So instead of words, here are some pictures.  We've had a good week: nice seasonal weather, new Five Guys in Tulsa, making lots of puppy chow, and enjoying time as a family.

iphone friday 09/07/2012

1. My, we have come a long way since last summer in regards to the diving board
2. Emmy and her cousin Avery had SO much fun playing together.
3. Seesters
4. Good morning God, nice to see you
5. Bed hog
6. Emmy receiving raspberries from Nora!!!

iPhone Friday 08/31/12

LtoR, Top to to Btm
1. Bubble bath fans, Nora may or may not have ingested some
2. xray's at the dentist to make sure her very last molar was on its way
3. dr's appt the same day, all went well.
4. Emmy built and took a picture of mrs. tater head
5. happy girl

1. Another pic of tater head, oops.  I guess I'm just proud of my budding photographer
2. Emmy's stats
3. Morning snuggles with my girls
4. Getting checked out by dr wan
5. on monday I tripped on a dang sweet gum tree ball and rolled my ankle while running.

iPhone Friday 08/24/2012

Just following trend and posting this a day late!  I can't get enough of these girls, they are my light.

iPhone Friday 08/17/2012

1.  tricksters.  Without cousin Jackson, Emmy wouldn't know how to climb like a monkey.
2. Most nights we eat at the table, but sometimes it's nice to change it up.
3.  Nice parking job
4. Cool temps in August?  Yes please
5. Hoping she figures out how to hold her bottle reliably soon!
6. Sad Nora
7. Squeaky clean sisters
8. Nora had a trial day at her new daycare today, all the kids LOVED her!
9.  This is the best I could get, it's so hard to get a good shot with both girls looking and smiling!

iPhone Friday 08/10/2012

the post is a day late...what's new! hah.

1.  eating at pei wei and cheesing it up
2. my little sailor girl
3. decorating her bday cake
4.  eat the cow, eat the cow, eat the cow
5. jogging while pushing a total of 70# is definitely a workout

1.  stretching before gymnastics
2. emmy's new ride from mimi and papa ensley
3. seester
4. happy girl
5. so intrigued by the exersaucer lately

iPhone Friday 07/13/2012

Three weeks wrapped into one. I'm such a slacker.
My model. Our one and only zucchini and squash before the squash bugs attacked the plants. Bedtime story with neighbors. Doesn't get much cuter or sweeter.

Bath time with bonzos. Painting pottery (aka therapy for mama). Nora talking to her carseat toy. Removing about 6 cactus quills from Emmys hand.

My pillow thief. Emmy living the life. Nora's top half of her bikini. Sisters.

That is an excited face. That is my little model. Telling secrets already, maybe planning a coup? The girls playing "handies". I had the best video of this and them accidentally deleted it. Absolutely. Makes. Me. Sick.

There you go, our life the past 3 weeks. It doesn't get much better than this.
-jordan

iPhone Friday 06/22/2012

I am a terrible wife and did not get a picture of Chris with the girls ON fathers day. This one was taken just a few days before, so it will just have to be the official picture this year.




Emmy had fun riding go karts at Jackson's birthday this past Sunday. She waved hi everytime they made this turn.




Our littlest princess turned 3 months old this past week.




Fake/forced smile.....so it begins




The girls hanging out and watching baby Einstein.




Nora's first Driller's game while Emmy sort the night in claremore. We didn't stay long, about the top of the 4th. Nora did great!

iPhone Friday 06/15/2012

The girls and their great , I think the rest of the pictures are pretty self explanatory.















Happy Friday!

-jordan

iPhone Friday 06/08/2012

This past week has FLOWN by!  I can't believe it's already been a full 7 days since some of my Indiana family was here.  Where has time gone?

My happy girls!  So thankful that our wonderful nanny, Alex, got this shot of the girls!  Oh the things that I miss out on while I'm at work.  Nora is just cranky by the time I get home.

Elyse and Emmy picking out their Hello Kitty donuts last Saturday.  They were a hot commodity.

Strumming the guitar at Elote's stand at the Cherry Street Farmer's Market.

Sweet Halle giving Nora bottle.  She's a bit more gentle than Emmy is with Nora!

Goodbye long hair! There's something about having a newborn that makes a person want to get rid of 11" of hair.

Hello new do!  And thank you Kendal (at Justus & Co 18th/Boston), you rock!

My sweet puffer cheeks. Wondering if she's going to be a hand/thumb sucker?

I'll say it again.  This week flew by way too fast!  I don't like how fast Nora is growing up.  In 11 days she will be 3 months old, how can that be?

Happy weekend to everyone.  We have a full plate.  Saturday include a trip to the farmer's market, going to see some baby moo cows, the Samson picnic at Driller's stadium.  If we survive Saturday then we have church, naps, swimming and Home Night on Sunday.  Phew.  I'm tired already just thinking about it.