CeCe is 5 months!!

i haven't had a chance to break out the big camera to get our monthly shots yet. but i totally missed month four while we were gone on our west coast trip. so i'm posting without that one special 5 month photo in the pink diaper on the special back drop. i'll get to that soon;)

hey! cece is five motnhs now! 23 weeks today. shes doing very well. just a few weeks ago, she weighed 14lbs 6oz, and was 24 inches tall. she's our growing girl!

our smiley girl is happy most all of the time. she cries the most when we leave the room, or if she accidentally becomes over hungry. 

she is sleeping through the night still, but wakes VERY early. how did we get a morning baby? hadley sure isn't.

this babe enjoys her excersaucer, and loves to slap at the little piano keys to make music. cece also mastered rolling over both front to back and back to front. however, she can only do this in one direction, and enjoys rolling from one side of the room to the other. then i turn her around and she goes back!

she just picked up on the rolling around all day thing this week. here she is!

cece enjoys baseball, long walks, rice cereal and her sister. she thinks she enjoys coffee like mama, but don't worry, she wound't actually know!

see? this is cece hoping for a drink of my white mocha right now.

and there you have it. cece in a nut shell. she's awesome. stayed tuned for more awesomeness on the blog soon.

xoxo, al

fossil fest!

one of the greatest things about toledo is that it is also a metro area made out of a lot of amazing communities. or, you know, small towns. just like the one i grew up in. 20,000 residents, a main street with an adorable downtown, and really neat local businesses. and in these adorable little towns are adorable little markets and festivals happening all the time. 

well, not all the time. i'll be real with you. it's freaking cold here in the winter. so when i say all the time, i mean between like may and october. you can count the rest of the year out and stay home sipping tea and watching netflix.

anyway. 

today was fossil fest in sylvania, which is just down the road from us. it's all about fossils, as you can guess. there is a sweet hidden little historical area in downtown that is home to this fun activity. people bring amazing fossils and rocks to share or sell, volunteers run great games for kids, and best of all, KIDS CAN DIG UP THEIR OWN FOSSILS! there is literally a pile of fossils in the parking lot, just waiting for kids to dig in, chip away, brush of and clean up these finds.

 

so, moral of the story is, don't pass up the opportunities to get out and explore and get to know your community. it probably rocks, even if it's not toledo;)

xoxo, al

 

three weeks in

we've officially made it through three weeks of preschool 2. it's pretty anticlimactic, honestly. i feel like a normal, real, tired, worn out mom. oh my gosh, never in my life have i lived for fridays. 

you see, i grew up with a nurse mom, and the weekend was often days long, and during the week. then, as an adult, i also found myself working 12 hour shifts in the hospital, with days off whenever as well! 

then when we moved to ohio, and i quit my job, hadley and i kinda did the same thing every day. joseph worked every other saturday, so we didn't have a set schedule, monday through friday. even last year, when hadley started presschool, she was in three days a week. and so just three days a week we had to be presentable early in the day.

so. it's been a shocker for us. we are not early morning people. not a single one of us. we stay up late, and sleep to the very last minute in the morning. i'm hoping this will get easier for us. it better. or it's going to be a very long 18 years. 

anyway, hadley is loving school, and asks to go back every afternoon. she wishes she were an all day student. i say enjoy this while you can, kid. 

then there's CeCe. she's awesome too. the last few weeks, we've spent our mornings together having a blast. or napping. depending on who you ask. we usually come home and enjoy breakfast, a few snuggles and a little peace to get things done around the house. we also enjoy grocery shopping, target shopping, costco shopping, shopping...and once we had coffee with a friend! gosh i forgot how much you can get done when out and about with just a peanut in an infant seat. she's five months, a bunch of pounds and adorable as ever. and if you stayed tuned for a blog in the next couple days, i'll fill you in on all her awesomeness then!

oh, and we were incredibly happy to be reunited with our toledo BFF's, the kellehers, after our long west coast trip. and more on that soon too! (now that i am finally getting in the swing of things back at home!)

xoxo, al

back to school!

xoxo, al

ps, i can't wait to blog about our awesome august! stay tuned for our exciting adventures...