3 Months

I cannot believe the girls are 3 months!  Since they "turned" 3 months on October 21st I have found myself crying about the silliest things.  I know I know, I'm crazy!  I'm blaming my emotions on the fact that I'm still recovering from my surgery (also 10-21).  I first cried when I realized I can't hold and squeeze the girls (all four of my incisions are on the front of my stomach).  Then, when I was cleaning out the cupboard I came across their Enfamil Newborn formula (0-3 months) and left it out while I called around to see who could use our (pricey) left-overs.  While it has sat on the counter I have teared up several times while glancing at it--how can my girls already be outgrowing things??  I finally allowed myself to put their newborn clothes into storage.  I'm not ready for my girls to get bigger, I just gave birth to them for goodness sake!  While I attempt to pull myself together here is a trip down memory lane:

3 Month Stats:

Emma Rae

13 lbs 25.5 inches long

Olivia Marie

9.5 lbs 24 inches long

Halloween Fun

We have had to do our "Halloween Festivities" a little earlier than we originally planned because my gall bladder surgery is this Friday.  My surgery was originally scheduled for November 8th and that was a horrible date as the girls have tons of doctors appointments and we have lots of other events right around then.  So I'm thrilled they changed it but it also fast-tracked our Halloween activities (pictures, Lombardi Ranch, pumpkins, etc).  Below are some pictures we took for our Halloween cards we mailed out.  The girls were really good sports about the whole thing--no one cried and they let us continually try to shove them both into one pumpkin (clearly this did NOT end up working!).

Emma & Olivia

Olivia....going, going, gone....Emma!

Tonight we took the girls to Lombardi Ranch to pick out their pumpkins, walk the sunflower field, and look at the animals.  They did really well and only fell asleep at the very end!  We plan on carving their pumpkins for them in a week or two and I'll do a post then.  As a lil tidbit...we picked out their pumpkins tonight based on how WE see the girls...we are weird like that :-)  These are some pictures from our adventure at Lombardi's.

We can make this work right?

Good enough!

Such a thoughtful one she is

Done & Done

Just Keep Swimming...

Yesterday (since it was over 100*) we took the girls in the pool for the first time!  I think it was pretty successful considering no one cried or went to the bathroom in the pool.  They both didn't seem to mind that it was colder than bath water but they were pretty unhappy when we got out and went in the chilly house.  It was pretty funny trying to get Emma into her swimsuit...it was a bit...ahem...snug shall we say?  We joked because it gave her back fat that looked like cleavage and it also gave her a little cleavage in the front, dad was beside himself!

October 13, 2011

Emma Bear

This picture makes me smile--our little family of bathing suits