mustache

If you want to laugh, and laugh hard, simply draw a handle bar mustache on your 20 month old-diaper clad-bink sucker-daughter.

Honestly, I have been laughing all morning.

Side note, my kids may wake up well before the sun does but Eden sleeps through the night (what?! shes only a month) and Lily literally puts herself down for naps (reads a book, cuddles with me then walks into her room, climbs in to bed and says "nigh nigh"). I am still baffled by them both. I will gladly wake up at 5 every morning for that!

|ps- I swear I didn't copy NIE! I posted first....we apparently have the same sense of humor:)|

5:35 am conversation

Lily: Mommy! Mommy!

Me: Yeah hun?

Lily: Mommy!

Me:What love?

Lily: Mommy.

Me: Yeah?

Lily: Mommy, where Daddy?

Lily:Wuk. (work)

(this is common for her to answer her own questions)

Me:No, daddy's not at work, hes asleep.

Lily: Oh gosh!

these shoes were made for

Running. And that's just what we do.

Up to four miles now.

Lately we have been going to Minto Brown park, but today we went to Bush for a shorter run.

I want you to notice three things in this picture:

1)bink

2)painted finger nails

3)bebe

-The bink. She doesn't want one unless she sees one, she has always been that way. And now that Eden has one...she wants one. I love it actually, cause grocery shopping or on a run it keeps her good. Thanks to you bink we hear a lot less yelling and "out?!?!"

-She and I painted our toes and fingers this morning at 5:45. She loves it. Its very "pee" (pretty).

-This is the scary baby we got for free at the dry cleaners. She adores it though, one of those babies only a mother could love.

Then it was swing time.

She and I like it when I push really hard and she goes so high she looks like she is going to fall out. You should hear how hard she laughs, its the sweetest music I will ever hear. Notice bebe being held on for dear life? Motherly instincts.

Then we came home and had oatmeal again. I added gingerbread coffee creamer this time...oooh baby its love.

one month

{Eden, during a run}

well its official folks. As of today, I have a one month old. Can you believe it? One month ago I was doing THIS.

I love my baby Eden. I love her little squeaky noises, her panting she does when she is hungry, her constant mohawk, the rolls, her smell, her littleness, how much she sleeps, how well she eats and I love the sweet spirit she has. I am a lucky mom. Keep it up kid.

For Great-Grandma Dolly:

Thank you so much for all the fun stuff you send us! Like your lady bug dress on her? This is the best picture of it on her we could get with out holding her down:)

morning

Call me crazy, but my favorite time of day is the morning, for some, its a pretty early morning.

Our house is up and about by 6am (lately is been 5)....everyday....no matter what time a certain little girl goes to bed.

Chad will make us ladies a blueberry-strawberry-apple-tofu-spinach-banana smoothie and then we (the parents) get our running stuff on.

Lily climbs in our bed and pretends to go 'nigh nigh' and demands Eden to join, and they will cuddle, sometimes daddy joins in. Probably one of my favorite things to see.

We load up the gang:

fishies. check

juice. check

fruit snacks.check

toy cars. check

bundled babies.check

bink.check

Then we come home, and Chad starts to study.

Gets some help from the ladies.

Sometimes Chad will make omelets, but today it was my turn for making steal cut oats. The trick is to add cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, vanilla and hazelnut coffee creamer (adds more flavor with out adding a ton of sugar) while its cooking along with flax and bran. Then when its done, add some milk, little bit of brown sugar and apples=Rachel's apple pie oatmeal!

I love mornings.

sisters

Lily is loving her 'bebe'. She is so gentle and sweet to little Eden I love it.

"Eyes."

She typically wants Eden to be part of the fun during the day. Today she came up to me: "bebe rocken?" meaning she wants baby to get on the rocking horse and join the party. So Lily got on the big rocking horse and I held Eden on the little one, Lilster would laugh and say "bebe rocken!" and then may have got really mad when I took her off.

I am so excited to see them play together and become best friends.

I love having two little girls!

monday's to do list:

1.)clothe the kitty. (yup, 3rd day in a row.)

2.)actually do my hair. maybe. i have a severe pony tail mark from today's run.

3.)pick up the table (notice?)

4.)take the head set cords out of the kitty's mouth

5.)feed my 4 week old (!!!!)

6.)make apple pie

7.)grocery store: spinach, cottage cheese, apples, romaine.

8.)call Chad a bunch of times and tell him random stuff and probably ask when he is coming home 10 times even after he has told me 11 times. like i do everyday.