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Friday, August 2, 2013

Baby names....

So we've been working diligently on a name for the littlest snowflake - Daddy has read through the book of 100,000 names and narrowed it down to 25 of his favorite (and yes, he did read through ALL of them). I, personally, have it narrowed down to 2 or 3 but we really aren't ready to commit to anything yet. We'll ask Makenna all the time what she is going to name her brother and here is what she has come up with so far:

1) Marshmallow
2) Goggles
3) Rock
4) Brewer
5) and the one she goes to 99% of the time.... "a boy"

In the past week or so she has decided that there is a baby growing in her belly too. She likes to show me it and tell me that her name is Ariel. Silly girl!

Brave girl!!

I have to rewind a little bit to the story of the gray chair.... when we first switched her to her toddler bed, she INSISTED that we lay in her gray chair until she fall asleep. At the time, we were so thrilled that she would stay in her bed and go to sleep if we laid in her gray chair (and we were all SO overtired and just wanted her to sleep) that we obliged. Unfortunately, this has turned into a REALLY bad habit and she got to the point where if she woke up in the middle of the night she wouldn't go back to sleep until mommy or daddy got up and laid in her gray chair again. We tried to incentivize (i.e. bribe) her by telling her that if she was brave and stayed in there without us in the gray chair, we would take her to the Disney store and she could pick out a prize. While she likes the idea of earning her prize, she would tell us every night "soon I will be brave". She cracks me up;) I really wanted to break her of this before the baby comes so last night I decided it was finally time to just let her cry it out and be brave. So, Daddy and I tucked her in and said our good nights and shut the door. And she SCREAMED and SCREAMED and SCREAMED. Daddy went into the office with the door shut and music on so he couldn't hear her (which is probably a good thing because I'm sure he would have cracked when she started with the "Daaaaady, I need you! Daaaady, please come hold me!!". After an hour, she did finally fall asleep on her own AND she didn't wake us up all night!! YAY!! I will say that when she woke up she was so very proud of herself for being brave (even if it was forced bravery - ha ha!). The funniest part is that she has the bedtime rules so ingrained in her head that she can't get out of her bed that even with all the screaming, she never attempted to get out of her bed once. Good girl!

Here's to hoping for more bravery tonight!!

Thursday, August 1, 2013

First haircut . . . I blame Mulan

Someone decided to give herself her first haircut at school on Monday. I've been telling her for awhile now that her hair is getting so long we'll have to get it cut soon....not quite what I had in mind. Thankfully daddy picked her up from school because I'm pretty sure I would have started balling in front of her teacher. Ha! I did tear up when they told me at dinner. Makenna felt horrible and started crying a little too. Later that night she told me she was just cutting her hair like Mulan does with the sword. Sassy girl!

Sky gazing with daddy

Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Bestie Weekend

This weekend we had 8 little 3 year old legs running around our house:) That's right, Auntie Rachel came to visit with the triplets! It was so fun watching the kids all play together and so so so crazy to think that we have both been so abundantly blessed by the gift of embryo adoption!

The kids had a blast! It is always so sweet to see Makenna with "Auntie" Rachel. It doesn't matter how long it has been since she's seen her, she wraps her arms right around her and can't get enough of her.