Beautiful dress

They just don't come from the store the same way that they do by hand...

This dress is one from my aunt that my cousins wore. It is just so sweet and so pretty. Kaitlyn wore it to church on Sunday and I had to get a picture of it.

My mom's (and aunt's) 1st cousin, Nancy, made it. Sure do wish I was close enough to Rock Hill to either learn or persuade Nancy to make a few for me. I love it!!

just some cute pictures

Had a good time with the camera earlier this week.

Here are some pictures...

My sweet husband - wish this one had been in focus for Kait

My Adorable little ones

Ryan's "purse" full of cars

He told me, "I'm off to Gigi and Pop's" He really says the funniest things

This is standard Kaitlyn pose these days. She found those toes and just hasn't let go!!

Laughing at Daddy - he is SO WRAPPED!!

Sweet Girl

18 weeks and 19 weeks

18 weeks

19 weeks

Not too much going on around here. Mike has been super busy with the Holiday Season gearing up. I have been trying to get some things done around the house. I feel like everything in my life right now is in a perpetual state of chaos. Nothing seems to get completed and I am not really sure how to change this. Any suggestions on this too would be appreciated... (see below post -- I am in need of lots of suggestions these days!)

Kaitlyn had her 4 month checkup on Sept. 27. (at 16 weeks old)

• She was 15.3 lbs
• 24 in tall

That was about 75-80% for both. Kaitlyn is meeting ALL of her milestones brilliantly. She is trying to sit up like crazy. Any time she can, she is pulling herself to a sitting position. (then she promptly falls over face first!) She is loving toys -- cannot get enough of them and gets really frustrated when she repeatedly drops them. She is spending a lot of time in her bumbo. She seems to really like this - way more than Ryan did. Of course, he was only able to fit into the thing for about 3 weeks. Then his legs were just entirely TOO BIG to fit. She is doing a little better in that category.

She still has the acid reflux. Though, I am thinking that this is fading a bit. I weighed her this week at 19 weeks and she is right at 16 lbs. She is looking at herself in the mirror and just giggling. It is so cute. Within the last week she has started to get somewhat consistent with her naps. She sleeps about 30 min (maybe twice) in the morning -- and then I put her down at 1:30ish when Ryan goes down and she has been sleeping between 2-3 hours. AWESOME!! Then, around 5ish she goes down again for 45min-1 hour. She has stretched out her feeding also. She usually has about 5 feedings every 24 hours. They are 4 hours apart during the day and she is still waking up once at night about 3am. I don't know why she is doing this because she has slept through the night before. She just doesn't seem to want to. She woke up numerous times last night, but I just kept giving her her pacifier and she ended up lasting until 6:30am this morning before eating. That is 10.5 hours. (not bad)

She is really happy and loves to be in the middle of things. Ryan seems to be a constant source of entertainment for her. Very cute to watch.

Quebec City

The Happy Couple

Caci, Andrea, Me, Kylie, Amanda

Green top is the castle we stayed in the first 2 nights

View from our room the last 2 nights

My first trip to Canada...woohoo. Went up for Kylie's wedding and it was beautiful...the wedding and the city. Mike and I flew up on Thursday and came back on Monday. Quite a long time to be away from your kiddos. We definitely enjoyed some relaxation, but were quite ready to get home and assume the roles of Mom and Dad. :)

We had the wedding Friday night and a dinner on Saturday. Unfortunately I didn't get any pictures from the wedding. I can't believe I didn't. What was a I thinking? I can't wait to see the photographers pics. Everything was so amazing that I know the pictures will be unreal. Here are some pics from Saturday night and our trips around the town. Quebec is a walking city. We stayed at a castle for 2 nights and a hotel outside of the city walls for 2 nights. Very cool!!

Before we left for Quebec, I got the stomach bug. I was sick for at least a week and then couldn't eat for about three more days after that. It was a rough couple of days here in Birmingham caring for the munchkins while BOTH of us were handling stomach bug symptoms. Mike's immune system must be WAY better than mine(not saying that much there) because he only had it for about 24-36 hours. I got it the Wednesday (a week) before we left and was still feeling under the weather when our plane departed. Unfortunately, the kids(who never exhibited symptoms) took the bug home to my parents while they were keeping them. Mom came down with the bug on Saturday night and still had to keep them all day Sunday. Priscilla came in for some reinforcements on Sunday night and kept them Monday and then came down with the bug herself. This is one tough virus. I just hope we don't see it again anytime soon!!

I seem to catch EVERYTHING. Any other moms out there have any suggestions. I don't think I have ever been this slow to recover from things as I have since getting pregnant with Kaitlyn. I am now taking a multivitamin and fish oil. Any other suggestions on how you stay well with little "carrier monkeys" running around.