Whirlwind

These last couple of weeks have been a whirlwind to say the least. We've been adjusting to the balance of having two children, Michael has been crazy busy at work and we've been trying to get ready for the holidays.

I can't believe that Emma is already going to be a month old next Monday (in 3 days) - it just seems impossible. She's doing really well. She's awake a lot more now during the day and doing pretty good sleeping at night. She is beginning to make eye contact with whoever is holding her, and wants to be in the same room that the action is in! She's getting so big already...she's almost 8 lbs. now.

Ava is doing well also. These last few weeks her "yeah's" have turned into "yes!" That seems to be her new word at the moment. She is doing great with baby sister, she's just regressed to a new baby in the home. She's getting a little back to normal every day...hopefully she'll be back on track before we go to Texas for the holidays. We've been having fun while we've been home...going to the park, on walks, to see the Christmas lights at the zoo and painting! It's been great to be able to give her a break from the preschool - and I think she is enjoying it as well! She's now talking in two or three word sentences...and starting to become a lot more clear with her needs and wants. It's fascinating how much she can recall just by seeing something. For example, last week we were grocery shopping in Fry's...she saw PowerZero (the powerade drinks) on an endcap and pointed to them and said, "Daddy's juice!" We weren't talking about it, we weren't even getting any, but she recognized those drinks as her daddy's juice! She's really starting to pay attention a lot more now to her environment and what's going on around her...

We're very excited to return to Dallas for Christmas (actually the day after!) for a week this year. There's lots of friends and family that haven't seen Ava since March and have yet to meet Emma - so it surely will be a jam packed visit - but I'm sure it will be lots of fun.

By the way this picture (taken by the amazing Carrie Fay) very accurately summarizes what we are all missing a little right at the moment...sleep! Seems the only one actually getting it is Emma!!! Guess that's just par for the course!