Cait Turns 3!

Caitlin absolutely LOVES (and that's an understatement!) Word World so this year for her 3rd birthday we had a Word World themed party! And yes, we handmade the cake! It was quite a feat actually, Mandy held her phone's flashlight over the cake while I drew the DOG, we made a great team on this one!

We had several friends and family over for the party. I love being able to share Cait's day with them! She is learing about opening her own presents now. It was quite funny though, I'd read to her who brought the present and she would walk the present back to that person and say, "here ya go!" like she was supposed to give it to them! I hope that giving spirit continues on!

Emily is 4 months old...

Emily turned 4 months old  on December 2nd! She is a super chunk! We had her well check on the 8th and she weighed 15lbs 4oz (75%)and was 24" (40%) long! She is such a happy baby, always has a smile on her face!

This is how she naps when we get home from daycare while I'm cooking supper before her evening meal and then bedtime! Growing up will take it out of you!!

Halloween

For Halloween this year, Emily was the cutest ladybug and Caitling was a Renaissance Princess!

As you can tell it was very exhausting for Emily! By the end of the night she had fallen asleep on my arm!





















Here they are on their first Halloween together. I made Caitlin's head wreath so she could have a "crown" to wear for the night. She also got to go actual trick-or-treating in the neighborhood this year. Her very first house she knocked on the door and then proceeded to walk inside the house! Great story!

Catching Up...

It's been longer than I thought...

and now my computer is playing tricks on me so it'll be a little longer before I get more pictures up...sorry!

12 Weeks

Emily is 12 weeks old today! (She will be 3 months on November 2nd, but there have been 12 weeks of her life already!) She is growing fast!




















She is a wonderful little girl! She has started to really start smiling at us and lights up when we interact with her!

She still eats like a champ and, thus, sleeps like a champ too! She is usually asleep by 7:30pm and stays asleep until 2:30am or so (or just sleeps through the night!)




















On the mornings that Sean has worked the night before, it's just us girls! So, on those mornings, I get Emily up first, get her dressed and fed then we go in to get Cait up. Caitlin loves to see Emily when she wakes up and turns over imediately to give her kisses! If Cait happens to wake up first she rushes in to get me and then we have to rush in to get Emily becuase Caitlin wants to know where Emily is at ALL times!

These girls are so much fun! We are very lucky and blessed! Can't wait to see what they will do in the future!

Cait's Perfect Pumpkin

So, as of last post, Cait has picked out her perfect pumpkin and now it's time to paint it! *Like I'm going to let my 2 1/2 year old carve a pumpkin!*




















She also had a great time painting it! I put out globs of different colors for her to get into while painting and guess what color she wanted... yep, PINK! And only PINK! Such a girl!















And this is the finished product!

Cait's Perfect Pumpkin!

Pumpkin Patch

We decided this year that Cait was old enough to have a pumpkin of her own so we went to a friends church to pick one out at their Pumpkin Patch!

























Caitlin was very excited to walk through the patch and pick up every pumpkin she could get her hands on! In the end we decided on a small pumpkin that was just her size!





















Here she is proudly holding her perfect pumpkin!

Aggieland...

I get to be in a picture or two every now and then! Here, Cait, Emily and I were at the Corps Center at A&M. I was showing Cait the picture of me and her Aunt Michelle that was on one of the walls. She, as you can tell, was less than impressed and wanted to know where she was on the wall! I told her she'd have to wait a few more years and then she could be on the wall too!

This is the first picture I have of me and the girls...not the best but it's what we got!

Daddy's Girl...the Sequel!

Daddy's turn to take care of Emily!

How the time flies!

Emily is now 10 weeks old and I can't believe it! I'm WAY behind on pictures and updates so I hope this helps for a bit! She is doing so many things now, it's very exciting!

She has learned, that at least for a little bit, that she can be awake without eating and be happy! She has started smiling at us when we talk to her! She follows us around the room too! She is a very good baby! She is pretty consistent with her sleep patterns at night. She is usually asleep by 7:30pm and wakes up around 1:30am and then around 7am!

Emily's stats at her 2 month well check were: height: 21.5" (25%); weight: 11lbs 9oz (75%); and head circumference: 15.5" (75%). She's a very healthy baby!



She has also been practicing tummy time, which she isn't a big fan of, and lying on her back and kicking her legs, which she is a big fan of! She has been holding her head up like a champ for a very long time now! She just gets cuter and cuter every day!

Sisterly Love

Caitlin absolutely LOVES her little sister!

Never Thought I'd See this Happen

I've been fighting with Cait at bathtime over getting her hair wet to wash it. Tonight, to my surprise, she just laid down in the tub to get her hair wet and to rinse it off! Yay! No fight!

Actually she's been asking to take a bath instead of fighting me to get out of it! Don't know what made the change but I'm loving it!!

Three Weeks Old...already!

Em is getting so big! I can't believe she is three weeks old already!

Emily's First Bath

Emily, much like her big sister, did not enjoy her first bath! She did enjoy the hoodie towel that dried her off and made her warm again!!

My First Reactions

Ok, when I was pregnant with Caitlin we decided to not find out the gender of the baby. That was a lot of fun not knowing! With Emily we decided to find out since we had a lot of girl stuff so we were prepared for another girl but if we were having a boy we needed to get the girl stuff out and get some boy stuff in! It was fun knowing we were having a girl the second time because we got to give her a name that we could call her all the time and paint her room and all that fun stuff!

So when Cait was born and we asked what we'd had and the doctor said "It's a girl!" My first reaction was "A girl?!?" Sean is the first son of a first son for something like 7 generations so for us to have a girl was very exciting!! My first reaction when Emily was born was "Oh my gosh, she looks just like Caitlin!" Even though she had 3 weeks and almost 2 pounds on her, Emily and Cait look very similar in their first few days! I can't wait to see what Emily will look like in a month or so!

Here are some pictures of the both of them on the day they were born and a couple days after!


Caitlin

Emily

Caitlin

Emily

Caitlin's Gotten So Big!

Cait has gotten so big and it's even more apparent now that Emily is here! I just keep thinking how did you get so big! She loves pretending to take pictures of everyone and also LOVES shoes. She walks better in my heels than I do... I've truely got a girly girl on my hands...HELP!! She's such a cutie and so sweet, I love watching her grow and learn and listen to her vocabulary develop!

Emily Claire

Emily Claire Forquer was born August 2, 2011 at around 2:30pm! She was 7lbs 6oz and 20.5in long! She had a follow up at 3 days old and weighed in at 6lbs 15oz! She is wonderful and we are all very excited to have her in our arms now! Caitlin loves being a helper and any time we go to change her she pulls her step stool in the room and helps keep Emily calm! It's absolutely adorable!!

Cait's New Ride

Cait has been going crazy lately every time she sees a bike so we went to Academy tonight and found this "old school" tricycle! She had a great time riding it tonight and Sean had fun trying to teach her how to pedal! I think more of the Word World episode where Sheep is learning to ride her bike is needed!!

33 Weeks and Counting...

I don't have many pictures of this pregnancy so I thought I'd have Sean take one tonight! I've just hit 33 weeks so we've got 7 or so more to go! Time has flown by! I thought I'd get to enjoy this one a little more and this has been a really easy pregnancy, some points better than with Caitlin, but time seems to have sped up. I can't believe we only have 7 weeks to go.

This baby is a mover and a shaker. She has been doing kartwheels, or something, in there for as long as I can remember. She gets a little testy when I flip over while lying down and I swear she's tried to claw her way out a couple times! I can't wait to meet her! She moves A LOT more than Cait ever did at any point!!

Everything seems to be going just fine. I've actually had some slight cramping with this one that started last week. I never had any of that with Caitlin, so yet, another difference! Nothing to cause any concern but just something I've noticed happening. I guess things have to get a start at some point right!!

Well, I'll try to keep this updated as August 6th gets closer!

Easter 2011

Gillian and Colin! Aren't they cute!!

Caitlin and Gillian...gimme a hug, friend!

Pretty girls in their Easter dresses!

Baking cookies

Finally had the chance to get some pictures up from our trip to Albuquerque for Easter and Colin's baptism. Here are the girls making sugar cookies that they got in one of the Easter baskets. They had a lot of fun!