5 hours!!!

The night before last Angelina slept for 5 hours straight!! Yeah!!
She went down at 11 pm and woke up at 3:56 AM (OK 4 minutes shy, but it still counts!).
Last night she did 3.5 and 3, which is more normally what she is doing but a 5 hour night was great!
K

Skinny dog....

So last week when we went to this Kids Fair we saw Greyhound rescue dogs, but they are so big. So we decided to get a smaller version!!

But seriously, we brought the dogs in to get groomed, as they both give Don such a hard time cutting their nails. We decided to get Phoebe shaved down for the summer, as her coat was so thick!! Now she is a skinny little dog that looks like a smaller version of a Greyhound! It looks like we took her head and stuck in on another dog. Too funny!

The kids

Mom multi-tasking!! Angelina gets her bath while Bell is playing in the tub.

Isabella is very territorial and did not want any of us touching Angelina while she was holding her!! My Red head, Blond and Brunette.

Austin had his friend JD sleep over one night and Bell loves to jump on the air mattress. She also likes to think she is playing Austins games with him. You give her the controller and she intently pushes the buttons and watches the TV, just like her big brother.

daddy and our beautiful little Angelina! Don't they look great together.

A close up of our beautiful sleeping baby at three weeks old. She has not lost any of that hair!

Another fun day!

Austin and JD took Bell into the pool this afternoon. She LOVES climbing the ladder, so everyone has been instructed (AKA: warned by me!!) that the ladder MUST be put up after each use or the pool will be closed. Hopefully we will be able to get to building a small deck onto the pool this summer with a locked gate.






Aust came with us to Tumble Time at teh Y today. Bell loves the slide and is great on the balance beam! At the end of each class Ms. Missy uses the bubble machine and the kids have a great time trying to catch bubbles! We will be doing this class again next session, and then the making music class after that. By that point I will be able to put Angelina in the Kids Zone, as the Making Mussic class is more participation by the parents.

Angelina had a very happy tub bath last night until it came to her hair. Then she cried!!

The girls, the birds and SUNSHINE!

Sisters taking a nap on the couch. Bell just wants to be near Angelina whenever she can. As soon as Angelina cries, Bell says "Oh NO, baby crying". She is so cute!!
Austin got some pictures of the first sighting of the yellow finches this year. They live in the trees behind the house, but he spotted them out on the front lawn the other day.
Tuesday was such beautiful weather, we had Bell's playgroup here in the yard. Here friends Emma, Justin and Jocylin came to play in the little pool.
Sunshine!!! The weather has been sunny this week, but so has my fridge!! Our Mothers and More group has a Sunshine club where other moms make meals for you when baby arrives. Well the meals started this week and it is great!! Monday night was pasta, salad and garlic bread, tonight is Lemon Poppy Chicken and rice. It is great to have a break from cooking and to get to try some new meals. It is a really wonderful group of moms!

Whats been going on...

Angelina getting a sponge bath last week before her cord fell off. Now she gets real baths and so far does not srceam TO much!


The before (right) and after (left) pics of how great teh power washer is working on the deck! It is going to look brand new when done, we can't wait!! Of course it needs to be stained first - ugh!!

Yesterday Bell was being very quiet, so I went in serch of her and there she was, tucked under the blanket on Austin's couch, eating goldfish and sharing with Phoebe!! Of course the goldfiish were left out on her brothers floor just waiting for her to get into.

The new game is to take all the shoes off the shoe try by the side door and try them on one pair at a time. First she did Austins sandals, but seemed to like dads work shoes better!!

Finally a few minutes to post....

Life with a newborn and 19 month old is busy!! And seeing as Don is going back to work tomorrow, I expect it will get busier. We are stilll on a borrowed camera, so I need to get onto the other computer to put up some pics.
We are all doing great here, finally!! Bell had a stomach virus for a few days, and it seems Don caught some of what she had, so both were under the weather - but are doing well now.
Austin has been making good use of the pool and his last day of school is this Friday!! Of course this week is a carnival day, class trip to the waterpark down at the beach, and half days. Friday he is having a few friends over for a "last day of school" get together. Then he is ALL MINE for the summer, boy do I have plans to keep him busy!!
Don got a new TOY last week, a pressure washer. We have been talking about it, and truthfully really needing one for awhile now. He started doing the deck on Saturday and it looks GREAT!!! It is going to look like a new deck when it is done and stained, and since we have totally neglected it for the past two years, it really needs it.
Bell is loving the new baby, and is such an empathetic little girl, always has been. She hears Angelina cry and she comes right to me. "Baby Lina crying" she says and then pats her back, or whatever part of her she can reach and says "it OK". She loves to give her kisses on the head and just be close to her all of the time.
Angelina is our little Angel. She is such a great baby!! Nursing wonderfully and sleeping great as well (OK, that probably just jinxed me to an all nighter tonight!!). But really she knows night from day it seems and is doing her longer sleeps at night. We went to church this morning and she slept straight through in the pouch on mom, and then got ooohed and ahhhed over by everyone after Mass. That is one of hte great things we love about our Parish, everyone knows you. And I don't remember if I posted about Don and the Knights. The powers that be have decided to split off a new Knights of Columbus council for our church (our church is a mission church of Saint Johns, and technially we are only one parish for both churches). So guess who was elected Grand Knight (the highest position within the council) - yes, Don!!
So this coming year should be a full one, with him taking on that poition (three big boxes showed up with all his "paperwork" this week!), and I am staying on a Treasurer for Austins schools PTSO and also will be co-leader this year of the Mothers and More group, which I am very active in.
Well, that's it for now, I need to go type a letter for Don before both of us getting to bed for what I'm sure will be a full Monday for both of us.
More to come soon...
Karen