All I want for Christmas is sleep...

I have so much to do before Santa comes, and so little time. Yet I still procrastinate. Therefore I will be up late every night between now and Christmas, I'm sure. And will then crash after. Merry Christmas to me:/

Tell me lies...

I keep saying that I'm actually going to blog a little more often, and I keep telling lies...life is just too busy!
Shaun and I celebrated 7 years of marriage this past Saturday, amazing that it's been that long! Of course, I had to work, and it was a crazy day! We went out Sunday night, and had a fabulous meal, thanks to anniversary money from Jon & Ruby, Gram & Papa, and Mom & Dad. Thanks guys!

I started keeping a "love" book for the girls, just a simple journal so I can tell them all the cute things I love about them! The thought of them not knowing all those things that make my heart smile...it would be soo sad!

On a side note, business is booming...I get at least two new orders a day for hats...get those orders in!

Polly want a Cracker?

Finley today: "I found a cracker!"
Me: "Finn, that's old and it's on the floor!"
Finn: "I have to eat it!"
And eat it she did. Yum.

What's Going On?

For some reason, I am awake at 6:45, with a Four Non Blondes song stuck in my head. (Well, I am still up from getting the girls off to school.) I guess because I got up and stepped outside? And I took a deep breath, but that's where the similarities end. (Sorry, no getting high and screaming, "What's going on?" Just not my style.) Why I started singing that song is beyond me. Who knows?

However, I did realize that my baby isn't a baby anymore. Finley is no longer a toddler, but now very much a preschooler. :'(  Stuff that she talks about blows my mind. She knows what she wants and what to say to get it. She is growing up, and it makes me sad. And makes me want another baby :) Thank goodness Hadley still looks like an infant instead of a toddler, cause Shaun would be in trouble. ;)

Easter bow special...

The Easter bow special was such a big hit that I may not get much sleep between now and Sat night! Good thing my girls are well behaved! (At least most of the time...)
Finn had an appt today with the Ear, Nose, and Throat Dr. and they determined that she needs tubes. Her hearing has been affected by all the fluid trapped, so the Dr. wanted to take care of it before it affected her speech! She did good for the most part, just got hungry and sleepy towards the end, and wasn't too keen on cooperating. When will I ever learn to schedule dr. appointments early in the morning?

Beetles on tha Wall!

We went to Gatlinburg this weekend with some friends to relax and get away. We stayed in a fabulous resort with indoor waterpark, which was great. Except for the ants. Or beetles, as Finn called them. She would hunt and hunt and then scream, "Beetles, Daddy, more beetles!" Shaun would wipe them up, and she would be off to hunt more. We had a great time in the waterpark, Finn and Hadley both looked so cute in their "bayling soup" as Finn calls it. I didn't get to make a single hat or bow, and I'm okay with that. Tomorrow, however, is another story :)

Friday Funny...

Since Finn likes to get up at the crack of dawn on my days off, she often showers with me. She is very talkative, and likes to point out things that are hers. One of our last showers together went as follows:
Finn: "This my poo. It for my hair."
Me: "Yes, that's your shampoo."
Finn: "This my soap. It to wash my booty. I wash my bum with it."
Me: "Yes, that's your body wash."
Finn: "What this soap for, mommy?"
Me: "That's my body wash. I use it to wash my booty."
Finn: "And you bum. You got a biiiigg bum."
She then proceeds to pat my big bum a few times for good measure.

Kids. So good for your self esteem.

Knitted Sweater...

My little Hadley is modeling a sweater knitted by Nana, can be made in any color and size! Custom made per order, can take up to 3 weeks depending on volume. Email us at tickledp@rocketmail.com to order!

Life Combined...

Instead of occaisionally posting on this blog and the original Tickled Pink blog, I decided to just combine the two! So now you get to see new products, updates on the girls, and my crazy life in general all at the same time!! Lucky you!!

Where does the time go?

Hadley will be one in just a few days. Seriously? Wasn't it just yesterday that I was on bedrest? And then in labor? This year has flown by, and the girls seem to age overnight. Finley has such a cute personality, and even though I am a biased mommy, I think she is one of the smartest little girls that I have ever met! She knows all of her alphabet, upper and lower case, all of her colors, and most of her numbers. She loves to pretend that she is reading and will call out letters in a word just as fast as she can, and then blurt out a word! Even though it usually isn't the right word, she still will stop and really think when you tell get what the word really is. It wouldn't surprise me if she starts reading soon!
Hadley still is just a little peanut, looking more like a six month old than a one year old, but she is so beautiful, if I do say so myself!
Well it's birthday party weekend, so it will be quite busy...please say a prayer for my sanity!

Published with Blogger-droid v1.6.5

So, it's been awhile...

So sorry, it's been quite some time since my last post. There had been lots going on; Hadley is ten months old today, and even though she's just a peanut, (she looks like she is about six months old) she is a feisty little thing! She is pulling up on everything, and likes to stand by herself for a few minutes. Finn is now potty trained, and is such a big girl! I have started making hairbows to sell (I have been making them for the girls for quite some time) and I have a current obsession with crochet. I guess you could say I am a part time "hooker!"

More to come soon, like pics of the girls and such...I promise:)

Published with Blogger-droid v1.6.5

Car, Me!!!

Finley's vocabulary has grown so much over the past couple of weeks. She is all about ownership; she wants to make sure that we know that the drink is daddy's and the seat is Sissy's. But, now she has started labeling things that are hers or that she wants. So, she now says "juice, me, please!" or "book, me" when she wants us to read a book to her. Finn has even picked out her new car, too. Tonight as we were walking into gymnastics she said "Car, me!" as she pointed to a minivan. I asked her if she liked that car and she shook her head yes and said "uh, huuuh!" No sports car for Miss Finn, I guess!

DVR for Dummies...

We have DVR and we love it. I love being able to record a show and watch it later without commercials. And we have a bunch of Finn's shows recorded so she can watch them late in the afternoon when no kid shows are on.

However, I believe we have created a monster.

Now, she will bring me the remote and tell me what she wants to watch. Mickey mouse is her favorite right now, so she hands it to me and says "E E Ouse, please" or "wod wowd" for Word World. She knows how to work it and she's not even two.
I guess world domination is on her ten year plan.

Just call me Martha Stewart...

One of my friends, Melinda, is really Miss Suzie Homemaker and makes all of her little boy's baby food. In my head, I saw this as a difficult feat, as something to be slaved over for hours. Then someone I work with mentioned that her mother had made some baby food for her nephew, and it was super easy. So I decided to make some yesterday.

I have created a monster.

I had some zucchini in the fridge that either needed to be cooked or tossed in a few days, and I knew we had plans for dinner the rest of the week, so I decided to make Hadley some baby food. I have microwave steam bags, so I steamed the zuc until it was almost mush, pureed it and then portioned it out. So easy, and so cheap! The $2 spent on the zucchini made 10 portions of baby food, which is way better than 50 cents a jar and there aren't any preservatives or additives!

I have searched the house today looking for something else I can make. Do you think Hadley would enjoy some steamed hot dogs with cookies? Cause that's about all we have in the house! :)

Sticks and Stones...

I went to the Urologist today, and it seems that I have several kidney stones. And I have an oddly shaped kidney. And I have to go for further testing to discover why I have had blood in my urine. At least I am close to meeting my max out of pocket expenses for insurance, so it won't be a pain in my pocket as well as a pain in my back!

Finley was given a hand-me-down play kitchen from her cousin Parker, and she is having so much fun! She "pours" us a drink and pretends to sip her own. She has a little apron that she wears, and cooks us stuff on her stove. I love this age!

How to Speak "Finnish"

Finn is talking so much now, but it's pretty hard to understand what she's saying. So, here is a mom's guide to toddler speak:
"Bow-buff": pacifier
"Booose": juice
"Bee-bees": pee pee
"Bea-pees": air planes
"Ma-mum": mommy
"Na-Nan": Nana
"By-pa": diaper
"I-ite": night - night
"Boooooon": moon
"Fly-flaff": flower (and then, she *sniff* sniff*... "Ahhh")

I'm sure it's funny to an outsider to hear Finn talk, because it sounds like you have pee pees in the sky and a moose in your cup. And she must sniff every flower on every wall, in every pot, and in every picture. It's precious the first twenty times a day she does it. After that, not so much.

Hadley's Growing, too...

I feel like I always have stories about Finn, and that may be because she is growing up so fast and I constanly see her personality coming out. But, Hadley is growing fast, too, so I figured I needed to fill you guys in on everything she is doing!

Hadley is such a happy girl. She smiles all the time, and wakes up with a grin on her face. She sleeps all night long, and she LOVES her big sister. She likes to watch Finn play and run around, and she will laugh so hard when Finn entertains her. Haddie also loves to be on her belly. Once I lay her down, she immediately rolls to her belly. She sleeps on her belly, and plays on her belly. She gets to sleep in the bed with us for a couple of hours in the wee morning when she wakes up to nurse, and she usually plays for a while before she will go back to sleep! This morning, Haddie woke up to nurse at about 5:45 and Shaun brought her in the bedroom. She nursed, then rolled over and started singing to her Daddy. It was so precious! Finally, she rolled to her belly and went back to sleep.

Hadley is a little peanut of a girl. She just now is starting to fill out her 3 to 6 months size clothes, and she is over 5 months old! She can still wear some of her 0 to 3 months clothes, especially her pj's. She weighs 14 pounds, which is around 30th percentile for her age, and is 23inches long, which is in the 18th percentile. So, maybe she will be my petite one, since Finn is over 70th percentile for weight and height!

Both girls are quite different from each other, and as they grow, I see more and more of those differences. I am so excited to see their personalities develop!

The Passi Snatcher Part Deux...

Sometimes it amazes me how Finn can be so smart and sneaky at only twenty two months.
Hadley was playing on the floor the other day, and her passi had fallen out of her mouth. It was underneath her, and when she rolled to her side, Finn spotted it.

You could see the wheels turning. She formed a plan in that little head of hers.

Finn grabbed a small "lovie", a little blanket with a bear head attached. She pretended to be playing with Haddie, and tickled her with it for just a minute. Then she slowly reached toward the passi with the lovie in hand. She grabbed the passi, covered it up with the lovie and slowly backed away, disguising the gesture with another tickle on the way out.

She thought she had pulled it off, and started walking away with a pleased grin on her face.

She looked like the cat that had caught the canary.

Shaun almost didn't have the heart to ask her what she had in her hand. When he did, she turned around, pulled back the lovie and knew she had been caught.

The look on her face was one of extreme disappointment. She hung her head, and gave the passi back to Haddie.

I'm sure she is already plotting her next plan.

The Passi Snatcher

Finn has thoroughly enjoyed her passi since birth, and since she will be two in a couple of months, we are trying to phase the passi out. She only gets it at naptime and bedtime, and she's usually good with that. However, now Hadley has decided that she also enjoys a passi, so she is allowed to have hers whenever she wants it. And Finn isn't too fond of that. She tries to steal it all the time, and she will pretend to be hugging Hadley when she is actually feeling beside her to find a passi.
When I get Haddie from her bouncy seat, Finn checks to see if I have left a passi behind.
In the car, Finn will pull the passi off of Hadley's clip.
She climbs in Hadley's crib to get the passi.
She is obssessed.
Any tips on how I can make Finley understand that hadley gets a passi because she is a baby and Finley doesn't because she's a big girl?
Help. Please.

Boone camping in June...

As I posted earlier, we went camping over Father's Day weekend. We had a great time, and we are looking forward to going back!

Finn eating some apples on arrival to the cabin...

Cousin Wyatt...

Lovin on her baby doll...

My sweet hubbby and I...

Building birdhouses...

Dad and Mitch...

Mine!

Shaun working on his...

We call her "Miz Hollywood..."

At Mast General Store with App hats on...

We are already planning our next trip to Boone! Visiting makes me miss the college years...