Christmas playdate

One of my awesome neighbors, Bobbie, hosted a little Christmas playdate for some neighbor kids (Lucy, Mason, Capri, & Garrett).  We got together, had lunch, let the kids play while the adults chatted, and made little Christmas trees out of ice cream cones.  Needless to say, most of the frosting and sprinkles made it to Lucy's mouth before the cone, but what else would I expect from her. :)

Gingerbread men

Lucy and I were really needing something to keep us busy during the afternoons so I bought this little gingerbread man kit.  Lucy had so much fun doing it, which made it really fun for me too!  Anything with candy can make this girl happy.  Like mother, like daughter.

Best friends

Some good news

• Claire has been sleeping from 8pm until 8am and only waking up once at about 5:30am to eat.  Amazing!  I didn't even know this was possible at 2 months!
• Claire is still on meds, which make it so you can't even tell she has reflux (unlike Lucy where you still knew she had it).  She even had a cold when Lucy did and her reflux didn't flare up too much.  I'm hoping this means that she will grow out of it in a few months.
• Lucy just had two colds with only a few days break in between and she still slept at night!  Sure she woke up a time or two, but she went back to sleep easily and considering that in the past she's usually up every waking minute of the night, this was awesome!
• Lucy is totally off her reflux meds and has had no reflux for a week or two now, even when she was sick.  I think she's finally grown out of this reflux stuff!

Claire: Two months

Claire turned two months on December 3rd.  We love our little girlie.  She really is so sweet.  This last month she has switched from week-to-week being fussy or content.  But I sure do love when she chooses content!  Here's a little about Claire at two-months:

Height: 95th percentile!
Weight: 13.7 lbs. (90th %!)

• As you can see by her stats, she's a big girl!  She has awesome chunky thighs and chubby cheeks.
• She started really smiling a lot when you interact with her.  It's super cute!
• Really a great sleeper for this age!  She sleeps from about 8pm until 8am and gets up about twice a night, and since I started changing her diaper before she eats (instead of after), she will go right back to sleep.  She also does a great job of putting herself to sleep.  After letting her cry-it-out for 15ish minutes about twice, she now usually only cries for a minute or two, if at all.  
• Speaking of sleep, she only sleeps on her belly, which I am positive is why she sleeps so well.  We use the Angel Care monitor with her, so I feel comfortable sleeping her that way as it would let us know if she stopped breathing.
• She sleeps in her crib in her own room and we all sleep better that way.
• She's really trying hard to make intentional noises and sometimes she surprises herself and us with a little squeak here and there.
• Loves her baths.  She gets so relaxed when she hears the bath water start to run because she knows what's coming.  And then, when she gets in her little tub, its like her own relaxing spa.
• While she is a pretty content baby, relatively speaking, she has to be moved every 5 or so minutes or she gets fussy (bouncer to swing to up on my shoulder, to being held facing out, etc.)

Lucy's new sentences

As I previously mentioned, Lucy's talking skills are not very advanced yet for her age.  Something in particular we were told to work on with her are two-word sentences (i.e. "drink water," "read book," "yummy food" etc.).  She has actually been doing pretty well lately, and had two funny sentences the other day:

Lucy: "eat momma."
Me: "you mean, momma eat?"
Lucy: shook her head no and repeated "eat momma" and then pretended to eat my arm and laugh at what she just did. haha!

Later on that day she tooted really loud.  She looked at me with big eyes and a huge smile and gasped and said: "mama toot!" And then started cracking up.  When I said, "no, Lucy tooted!" She just kept shaking her head and saying "momma toot!"  She did the same thing today again and blamed it on Ryan.  Silly girl.

Just some pictures of my favorite people

This picture cracks me up.  Looks like she's trying to take a selfie.

Love these pictures of Claire looking at Ryan.  She was totally staring at him and giving him big smiles for a few minutes.

She must have been seriously exhausted to fall asleep while eating a sucker.

She always has the sweetest expressions on her face.  And chunky cheeks.  Love it!

I caught this funny girl putting all of the headbands on her head the wrong way.