Annie's 2 month appt.

So Annie had her 2 month checkup yesterday. She is in the 56% for length and 77% in weight. She is 12lbs now- wow! Just so different from Maddie who was always so tall and thin ;) The MD said that she has a really high arch in the roof of her mouth....I hope she doesn't have the same speech impediment that I did. She also has really large ridges where the head plates come together. The shape of her head is good, and head circumference was OK (1/4 an inch small, still 50%) but they are going to recheck in a month just to make sure. I'm glad she's a girl so her hair will cover the ridges.
When we got back from the office Maddie took a nap and when she woke up she was running a fever: 103. She didn't have any symptoms, just tired and cranky and didn't want to eat anything (but she never does). So I gave her tylenol and she seemed to feel better. We had a large storm last night. I think the lightening and thunder kept hitting our backyard it was so loud. So between both girls fevers (Annie did start running a small one: 100.1) and the storm nobody was getting any sleep last night. Hopefully they will take a good nap today. They both still have alittle temp. but it's better and the tylenol is helping.....
Well, I sent out the invites to Maddie's 2nd bday. It's sesame street themed and balloons themed. Basically, I found sesame street items at the Dollar Store and any decorations I couldn't find in sesame street I got with balloons themed. I hope Maddie will be able to blow out her candles this year.....we may have to practice first..... I really can't wait for Christmas this year since Maddie will be able to participate more. I really hope we can go caroling and start some of our own traditions this year.
Ugh, I can't believe I'm already thinking about christmas. This year has gone by incredibly too fast!

I love my house!

I'm loving my house more and more. We got new wood blinds put up, and it looks great! I love the paint color, and when we finish the fireplace project it will be fantastic! Then when we get everything just the way we like it, we'll have to move......boo. Oh well, in the meantime I can just dance in my house of love ;)

Funny story (family with gmail already heard this story):
Maddie started 'breastfeeding' her dolls. She kept wanting to take off her shirt and I couldn't figure out why. Finally, I heard her saying to her doll "hungie (hungry) baby? hungie?" So she took off her shirt and put her dolls mouth up to her belly button- lol! I laughed so hard, then I said "Are you going to burp her, Maddie?" so she patted the dolls back and made the doll say "A-choo!" I had to laugh again;) so I guess she thinks sneezing is burping, and the baby eats from my belly button ;) After I could stop snickering, I showed her how to breastfeed and really burp a baby, so now she is doing it more correctly....... Kids are so funny!

Annie has slept through the night every night this past week! Yay! She is such a good baby! She goes down about 9 or 10pm, and wakes up about 6 or 7am. She is really happy and is always smiling- I'm so proud ;)

Work started back up this last Sunday. It went OK, I floated to a tele. floor but I knew the charge on that floor (he just had twins) so he was super nice to me. I'm excited to be back on my floor this weekend- It'll be nice to catch up with all the girls ;)

What a crazy weekend!

Wow, so this past weekend was very busy. First the painters finally showed up, but instead of it taking only 1 day like they said, it took 3 days for them to finish painting the house (Thurs.-Sat.) I'm so thankful to have my internet again now- lol! I also had to take Maddie and Annie out while they were painting, so thank you so much Grandma and Grandpa Dollar and Grandma and Grandpa Wells for putting us up for awhile ;)

Saturday I had my 10 year HS reunion. It went OK, most of the people I want to keep up with I do via facebook and myspace (and twitter and blogger, etc....) I wonder if reunions will start to disappear now that social networking via the internet is more popular. I had to laugh, one classmate came up to me and said "Carrie Dollar! Who can forget Carrie Dollar!" lol- My name is Corrie, lady!

Sunday was Annabelle's baptism. It went really well. Beth (Jake's sister) and her fiancee Barry (wedding in October) are the Godparents. I'm really excited that they accepted and I know they will be wonderful Godparents for Annie. We just invited family this time because we know how busy our friends are with their lives at this moment, and didn't want them to feel pressured to make it. I really hope everyone will be able to make it to Maddie's birthday party on Labor day though ;) We are hoping to have the fireplace project completed by then (we'll see.....) ;)

Poor Jake looks so tired after such a busy weekend :) Still a cute one of him and his girls though.

Sleeping, Swimming & Landscaping......

Yay!!! Annie slept for 6 straight hours last night!!! I have so much energy today- surprising how much good a few more hours of sleep can do for you ;) Now, if she'll just do it again tonight......



I took Madelynn swimming at the community pool yesterday. She had a blast! All day today she keeps saying "swimming? swimming? swimming?" There is a small splash park there too. After being in the pool, coming out with the wind made it very chilly. She was shivering and sliding down the turtle slide and refusing to stop to warm up in a towel. I'm glad she likes the water so much, she's sure to be a good swimmer with her big feet (gets it from her momma.) She's already in a size 7 shoe now- good grief. Hopefully, she will be tall too (it would look funny if she was short with big feet-lol!)



Oh yea, Madelynn finally peed in the potty! She told Jake "potty" so he took her to the potty and she peed in it! We tried it again last night, but she just sat there without doing anything. I really wasn't going to potty train her until next summer, but she's been taking off her diaper and if she's ready then I guess we'll go ahead with it. I'm not pushing it though, we'll probably take it slow......until she starts undressing in public, then we may have to speed it up a bit- lol!

So Oncor decided that our neighbors need a new electric line and the line goes through the middle of our front yard. They have the large digging truck out digging a huge hole (a man is in it up to his waist.) They said a landscaping company will replace everything, but I'm sure it'll be winter before that happens. They better not break a sprinkler head with their trucks....... The only good thing is that we were going to replace our yard eventually with St. Augustine grass so I'm hoping the landscaping will be with St. Augustine grass on the majority of the yard and we can fill in the holes with our own grass patches. I guess we'll see this winter........ *insert nervous laugh/eye roll combination* ;) I hope they are done with everything today. Maddie can't take a good nap with all the noise outside her window and I don't have the nerves for 2 napless days.

Ugh, 2 more weeks until I start work again......booooooooooo!!!!!!!! I better buy a lotto ticket tonight....... ;)

One for the Girls

Just to end the day with a smile ;)

One for the girls
Now I lay me down to sleep
I pray the Lord my shape to keep.
Please no wrinkles, Please no bags
And please lift my butt before it sags.
Please no age spots, Please no gray
And as for my belly, Please take it away
Please keep me healthy, Please keep me young,
And thank you Dear Lord, For all that you've done.

Homeschooling

This pic is brought to you by the colors blue and brown; and by the number one:




So Madelynn and I started our homeschooling. She really likes it- it gives her special individualized time, and she loves the arts and crafts. I'm using A Beka Books right now, may look into seatan (sp?) catholic books more later. We are learning colors right now- 2 colors a day. I also started on numbers- 1 number a week. Some of the lessons are still alittle over her head (prob. more for 2 1/2 or 3 year olds) like reciting a poem, and understanding that colors come from God. But it's good to go over and I can review it again as she gets older. She still gets alittle confused on colors, but they seem to really stick when we eat the color for lunch. For example, today were colors blue and brown; so we had blueberries and brown peanut butter sandwiches for lunch. After that she seemed to get the colors better. Tomorrow is green and black, so we're going to go outside and find green and black objects (prob. just leaves, grass, and dirt.) Hopefully, it won't be too hot ;) I'm thinking kiwi and raisins for lunch too.....

Superheroes!

Maddie and I played superheroes for a day. It was lots of fun making the masks and running around the house (Madelynn kept saying "ready, set, GO!") lol! We start school today, I'll let you know how that goes. I'm really excited! It'll probably take awhile before we get a set schedule, I'm hoping we'll have one before I go back to work though.... I had thought about waiting until the real school year starts, then start our schooling with them; but I'm too excited about playing teacher- lol! Enjoy our superhero pics ;)