Growing Girls!

This past month has been quite eventful with Molly turning 3 and maturing right before our eyes to Reesy getting her new glasses!  Reese’s right eye was pulling inward, so we took her to the eye doctor.  She has a few different eye issues (normal to downs children) – both eyes pull inward, but she favors using her left eye, so the right eye was losing sight already.  For that we had to start patching her good eye, so she would use the weaker one and strengthen it.  After only a few days of patching we noticed a difference, so hopefully it continues to work.  Then she was examined further and she is VERY farsighted (she see’s well far away not up close), so she needed glasses!  They make those for babies was my first thought – yes, they do!  So ridiculously cute!  When we got the glasses and the lady put them on her, the lady said her eyes got real big and she smiled while looking at her, probably because Reese could actually see the lady’s face.  I turned her around to look at her and she just starred at me and touched my face – so precious (the eye doctor had said that she probably touched our faces a lot because she couldn’t see us well, but now she can!)  She’s doing well with them and Molly is such a great help to her.  Here are some priceless pictures.

Reesey with her eye patch!

Mommy’s favorite outfit EVER!  They don’t make cords anymore, let alone in purple!

Reese in her new glasses – love it!

Graceful Molly(I couldn’t resist sharing) what a goofball!

Rockin’ her cool new outfit that matches her doll from Aunt Kathy!

Such a ham – love her!

Molly’s “Tangled” 3rd Birthday!

We had a “Tangled” birthday party by request of Molly.  She had 9 little girls over to watch Tangled while their parents went on a date.  It was a blast!  Everyone arrived around 4 and picked out their choice of dress up.  Then they all got hand crafted (by Katie) Tangled hair, braided with a rose and ribbon hair pretty.  Then they did some dancing before we all sat down for Molly’s favorite meal – mac n’ cheese and grapes!  After that we snuggled up for the movie, with popcorn and M&M’s of course.  About halfway through the movie we paused to have cake.  Molly was so shy knowing everyone was singing for her, she felt so special.  After cake we all went outside and held hands in a circle and said “happy birthday Molly” and Molly let go 3 gold balloons with LED lights in them (like they do in the movie) it was AWESOME!  The girls all loved it and we stood out there and watched them until we couldn’t see them anymore.  Then it was in to finish the movie.  What a fun time and so wonderful to see Molly enjoy her party.  Here are some fun pictures from the night.

Molly being a goof and Reesey all dressed up for her big sister’s party!

Tangled Molly ready for her party (outfit and hair thanks to Grandma Nelle and Granddad Al)

Molly’s reaction to her birthday cake when Daddy brought it out – so happy!

One of our friends, Sarah, made this cake as a gift for Molly.  It was beautiful!

Papa and YaYa came out for the party.

This is where one of the girls said “this is the best party EVER!'”  I think it was the mac n’ cheese that swayed them

We made lanterns and put them all around the family room so it would be like we were in the movie.

Molly’s new doll from Aunt Kathy (Terri’s sister).  It looked just like her and comes with matching clothes for Molly – she was VERY excited!

Reese is 9 Months!!!

Well our little sweet one is 9 months old already! She is such a joy and growing soooo well. We went for her check up and she was 16 lbs 1 oz!!! I couldn’t believe it and was so thankful for answered prayer in her gaining weight. She’s almost sitting up by herself and we’re working on getting her used to the crawling, but I think we have awhile for that. Here are her 9 month pictures – it was her first time in the swing out back, she LOVED it! Also, I put in her 8 month picture since I’ve been behind on posting things. Enjoy!

I LOVE this! It looks like she’s cracking up and can’t breath

Reesey at 8 months!

Disneyland 2012!

Well, it’s been about 3 months since I’ve done a blog post because life has been crazy and my computer was sooooooooooo slow, but now . . .  I got a NEW computer with all these fun tools to help me with picture stuff!  We are all doing well at our new home, it’s craziness as usual but we love all the fun.  Molly is coming up on her 3rd birthday, Reese is going to be 9 months and John and I are well let’s face it we’re tired (haha).  We recently went to Disneyland with John’s family.  It was so great to see the kids enjoy the magic of Disneyland.  Here are a few pictures from that day, hope you all enjoy and there will be more to come!

Reesey's first trip to Disneyland!

Molly LOVED the parade and Ariel blew a kiss to her!

Reesey in her fancy hat from Auntie Kim and Uncle John!

Molly in her hat from Auntie Kim and Uncle John, enjoying It’s a Small World.

Reese is 6th months old!!! And other stuff :)

Reese is 6 months old!! She's doing great-gaining weight and growing like a weed (11 lbs 1 oz and 25.5 in). I forgot to post her 5 month picture, so it's right below the 6th month. Over the past month we've celebrated Johnny's birthday, enjoyed Halloween and watched the girls grow and grow. Here are some pictures to enjoy. Reese at 6 months old! She's doing so well holding her head up and smiles ALL THE TIME!! :)

Shocked :)

SistersReese at 5 months old (sorry time got away from me)

Miss Tinkerbell at Grammie's churches Halloween carnival.

The tattoo artist and his sweet letter man jacket wearing honey.

Reesey as a bear :)

Mommy and her girls - I love them!

First round of costumes at the church carnival - reese was Snow White here and a bear on Halloween. That is Molly's costume from her first Halloween :)

Mom's group Halloween party!

Mema and Molly at the Ronald Reagan Library for Johnny's birthday!

She was soooooooo excited to give daddy his homemade cake!