Splish, splash...

Kiss, kiss...

All Dailey wanted to do was give her 'Sky Ray' a kiss... Skylee did whatever she could to get away...
Even tried to jab Dailey in the eye for getting too close... Then Dailey got her down & finally got one!

A look at the last 7 months

Wordless Wednesday...

Wonderful weekend...

This has started out to be a great weekend already, and it's still Saturday morning!!

Yesterday my sister called & asked if they girls could stay with her for the night. This is nothing new for Dailey, she spends a lot of time there, but it's new for Skylee. She has stayed with my sister before, but only when we've gone out of town for the night...never 'just because'. When I told Justin he was super excited & told me he didn't know what we were going to do, but we would be doing something fun. We ended up going to dinner & bowling with some friends. I'm not much of a bowler, but it was fun to do something different.

It was so nice to get to sleep in this morning (7:30!) and have a few quiet minutes to myself. Justin got up early & has been in the shop working on his truck while one of his friends & one of his employees/friend are working on their vehicles as well. Before the girls came home I was even able to make a few batches of baby food for Skylee. She is eating like a champ lately & now I have a weeks worth of food in the fridge & freezer for her.

The girls are both sleepy today...that was to be expected from having a night at Auntie's house! Dailey likes to stay up late to watch a movie & eat popcorn when she is there, or do all of the other things that she only gets away with when she is there. When she brought the girls home this morning I asked her what time Dailey went to bed and she said "Oh, you know." then walked in the other room & changed the subject! Haha, like I would even think they would be in bed at 8. She finally gave in & said that Dailey just wouldn't calm down & she finally went to sleep about 11. Dailey turns into a night owl when she is there, just like her Auntie is.

Dailey heard my sister say that she was going to Kody's baseball game today & she ran in the kitchen to ask me if she could go with her. I told her that maybe we could go later after she takes a really good nap. She didn't say anything to me, she just turned around & walked away, but I heard her tell my sister in a really sad voice "Mommy said I can't go with you to Kody's game." I felt bad, but having a good nap today will keep her from being a nightmare later today.

While Skylee has been taking a nap (she's been down about 2 hours) Dailey & I have been quietly painting, coloring, writing with chalk on the back porch & making a fort with all of the pillows & blankets that she could get her hands on. She thought she hit the jackpot when I changed all the bedding on our bed - she hand more pillows & blankets then she knew what to do with! She looked pretty cute trying to pull a king size comforter down the hall by herself...she was grunting & growning the whole time!

When Skylee wakes up we'll have lunch, play outside while the weather is still nice, then hopefully Justin will be home so we can take Dailey fishing. We got her a new fishing pole a few weeks ago & she asked me right away this morning if we can go fishing at Grandma's house today. Justin's parents have a pond at their house & she is has been asking us if she can go fishing, but until today, we haven't had weekend that the weather has been nice. I honestly think she would be terrified if she caught a fish (the fish in their pond are really big) but she will have fun just having her line in the water.

Ocean Shores...

I'm trying to play catch-up from the last month...

A couple of weeks ago Justin & I decided to take the girls on a little trip this weekend, so on Thursday afternoon I packed our suitcases, Justin came home early & we were off to Ocean Shores! With Dailey being newly potty trained & the 4 1/2 hour drive I had to come up with something to avoid putting a diaper on her, so I up her little potty chair in the back of the car & we were off! She made it about 3 hours before saying that she needed to go, so when she said she had to go Justin pulled into the nearest parking lot for her...

It was a beautiful day on Friday so we were able to enjoy playing on the beach & both of the girls loved it! At that point Skylee wasn't quite sitting by herself yet, so I made a little chair for her in the sand & she was so happy. We enjoyed lots of time swimming in the pool & most of all, we enjoyed spending time as a family!

Three Ring Circus.

That is what I feel like our nights have been lately - a circus! We have gone from having 2 little angels that sleep all night (Dailey is almost 2 1/2, obviously she sleeps all night, but Skylee was sleeping almost every night until between 4am & 6am, then eating & going to back to sleep) to having 2 little girls that don't want to sleep in their beds past about 1am. From about 1am on we have been ending up with BOTH of them in our bed & it's crazy! :) Skylee goes back to sleep if you cuddle her, but Dailey is like sleeping with a fish out of water. She flops, kicks, flings her arms, rolls around & sleeps sideways in the bed, preventing anyone else from sleeping. I get up in the mornings exhausted & literally sore from either being kicked all night, or from being so tense because I've had to hang on to the covers all night to prevent her from kicking me off the bed. You are probably asking yourself why we allow her to get out of her bed & into ours...she is having bad dreams. She wakes up crying & yelling for both Justin & I. When I got her the other night she was flinging her arms around & crying "No monkey, no!" I don't know if she has caught a glimpse of the news lately about the chimp attacking that lady, or what is going on, but its terrible. I will admit though, when everyone is sleeping & not flopping around...I love to have them in bed with us. I lay awake & just look at them & realize how lucky I really am to have Dailey kicking me in the ribs all night & Skylee waking up still. Yes, it's a little crazy, but I love it!

Skylee has cut 2 teeth in the last week and that has caused chaos with her sleep schedule as well. She wakes up & wants to suck or chew on something & hasn't figured out how to put herself back to sleep yet. Sometimes I can get away with running in her room as soon as I hear her stirring & putting her pacifier in her mouth, but if one of us doesn't get in there fast enough then she is wide awake & wants to eat. Either she wants to eat, or we use it as the easiest way to get her back to sleep...it depends on how you look at it! :) Either way, a little bit of food gets her right back to sleep!

Speaking of food...Skylee has decided that she loves 'big' girl food! I tried rice cereal a couple of weeks ago & she thought it was terrible. Dailey never liked baby food, so I thought that maybe she wasn't going to be interested either...I was wrong! I mashed up some banana & mixed it with rice cereal for her while Dailey & I were eating breakfast the other day & she thought it was alright, but didn't love it. Later that day I tried some sweet potatos & she loved it! She ate the whole bowl!! She reminded me of my brother Logan when he first starting eating solids, he was slurping it from the spoon! Since then she has decided that she likes bananas without the rice cereal mixed in, too. I'm going to stick sweet potatoes & bananas for the next week or so, then add in something new.

My other exciting news is that Dailey has decided that she is ready to use the potty! I've tried for the last couple of months & she hasn't really shown any interest...remember this post? I've still been putting her in undies when we are home though & cleaning up messes off the floor because I wasn't ready to completely give up. I've also left her little potty chair in rooms that she often plays, so that she would see it & hopefully show some interest in it. The interest part wasn't working so hot though, the only thing she had been using it for was a stool to get into everything! :) So today started off like any other day, we took her diaper off & put undies on her & she ran around all morning. I was in the play room (where her little potty sits) when she ran in, opened the lid, sat down & went!!!!! I couldn't believe my eyes, she peed in the potty all on her own! We celebrated, I told her what a good girl she was, she helped me empty the pee into the toilet, I cleaned the potty chair with a disinfecting wipe, put it back where she used it & she went on her way back to her toys. I know, totally weird that she used the potty in the play room & even weirder that I put it back in the play room for her to use again, but whatever works for her at this point, works for me! I didn't get my hopes up that she would continue (I'm lying, I totally did!) but she did!! The rest of the day, except for 1 little accident, she would run to her potty, pull down her undies & go! I'm SO proud of her. She is turning into such a big girl lately, I love her so much!!

Don't get me wrong though...she is still our crazy little girl who loves to do silly things. I walked into the play room the other day to find this...

...she had taken all of her books out of the basket & was playing in it. The picture makes her look like she was being serious, or upset, but she was laughing & thought it was so fun to be in the basket.

Here is another pictures of our cute, youngest daughter.

She had just got done eating her sweet potatoes & was so happy!