Picture Overload and update on the girls

I really wanted updated pictures of the girls to print for their room before the baby comes. Our good friend Caitlin with Caitlin Nicole Photography captured some beautiful pictures that really capture their personalities. With getting ready for Baby C and blogging for Motherhood in the Major Leagues,  I have neglected our family blog a little. I am really good at instagraming though. It is so easy since I always have my phone on me and there is a company that I can print my entire instagram history into a book along with all my captions, so that makes me feel better. I love it because I get a record of the "every day" things that may seem insignificant, but that are fun to look back on. However, with new pictures of the girls I do want to take a minute and record a few things about each of them that we don't want to forget.

Our Harper

sweet

cuddly

 scrunches up her eyebrows (love that expression of hers)

obsessed with her blankie; it comes everywhere with us

likes to play baby dolls

says "thank you" all day long

very helpful

happy, but hard to capture her smiles

tends to be more serious

brave/fearless

loves dogs

likes to play on the phone and ipad to see pictures and watch videos

copies everything her sister does

likes to dance

hides behind the curtains when it's time for bed

great sleeper

loves babies- we have a feeling she is going to smother Baby C with too much love

Sage Bug

sweet and oh so sassy

phrase we hear most often from her, "You're not going to be my best friend!"

when she doesn't get what she wants, "That's rude!"

loves being a big sister

loves going to school

loves dance class

loves going to story time and zumba at the library

her teachers say she is very "mothering" and a "leader"

She is always worried and concerned about others

likes to dance and sing

loves her baby dolls and playing "mom and dad" with her friends

loves her friends

very affectionate- needs lots of hugs and gets really sad if her friends won't give her one

independent 

misses her dad every day when he is at work- she always asks what time he'll be home

We love our girls.

I love my girls

Easter- Take 2!

If you read my previous post you will see that Sage and the camera were not friends the other day... I dressed them back into their Easter outfits and tried again this morning and they're friends again! For today anyways... 

Our Girls

These two girls have our hearts! We are all adjusting and almost 6 weeks later I can finally say it is getting easier each day. We all have our moments, but do I dare and say it's fun? We are so in love with these girls. 

Our girls

We told ourselves we would avoid comparing our kids against each other and against other kids, but for the record and just for the fun of it here are both our girls, both at almost 5 weeks. So for those who ask if Harper looks like Sage and for those that think she does... they look nothing alike. Both are beautiful and we couldn't be any more in love with either of them, but they are very different. 

Meeting Harper

We have been so excited for Sage to become a big sister. We knew it would be an adjustment, but with her surgery scheduled just 9 days before Harper's arrival and the difficult recovery she was experiencing we knew her world was going to be turned upside down. She has done pretty well, but has definitely been acting out with lots of tantrums. She has also been waking in the night hysterical. She screams so hard she makes herself throw up. One night we changed her jammies and bedding 3 times. We have been up several hours a night with her. The past couple nights haven't be great but have been significantly better. Jeanne came to stay with Sage and brought her to the hospital to meet her sister. Their meeting did not go as expected. Sage was still in a lot of pain and was due for another dose of Lortab, so when she got there and saw me hooked up to the IV and with the hospital gown on, she wanted nothing to do with me. After getting some medicine and sitting with her daddy, she came around a little. We had a present for her to open from Harper, which included a Best Big Sister book, Big Sister jammies and a new baby doll.  We also planned for Jeanne to pick up a cupcake from the Sweet Tooth Fairy. We had practiced singing happy birthday to Harper for weeks. Jeanne also took her to pick up a few balloons. The nurse bathed her in the room so Sage could help. By the end of her visit Harper got her fair share of kisses and has since been smothered with kisses every chance Sage gets.