Her new trick at 5 months is to stick out her tongue at you. It's very cute.  I'll stick out my tongue and then she does it and then we both laugh.  I love being a Mommy!

Emily's Pumpkin

We went to visit my Mom this weekend.  She was missing both the girls and so we did a girls trip and went up there and left Tony home alone. He also happened to have a nasty cold, so it worked out well. He stayed home and coughed up his lungs, and we went out and played without all his yucky germs around. win win. 

It's nice to get away some times, let me tell you!  The best part is that Mom will take on the night shift with Colleen and I can get about 6 hours of sleep IN A ROW.  That's the longest I can go without my boobs feeling like they will explode, (TMI??) but I don't get to do it very often. Colleen isn't anywhere close to sleeping thru the night yet. And although she takes a bottle just fine, I still need to get up with her for my own comfort at least once a night.   We've made it 5 months breastfeeding, and I'm super proud of that, but honestly, I'm tired people. Like really really REALLY tired.  I'm not sure how much longer I can keep doing this.  So yes, it was good to get away. I can't worry about doing the laundry, cleaning the kitchen sorting thru Emily's clothes to take out what she's out grown if I'm not actually at the house to do it, ya know?  So it was a good break. 

 

Mom got the girls each their own tiny pumpkin and she and Emily decorated them both with faces from the Dollar Tree.  Emily loves gluing things and cutting things so this was right up her alley!  Doesn't she look happy? 

Colleen 5 Months

 

Colleen at 5 Months

 

My Big Girl

Here is Emily all dressed for school yesterday morning.  She keeps telling me "it's NOT school Mommy. It's kindergarten!"  OK then.   Anyways, she is really loving it. Her class is small about 6 kids, all girls.  She adores her teacher, which is great in my book.  And in addition to reading and writing she's also doing some very basic math (add the apples up etc) and computer skills and Spanish once a week.  Emily seems inordinately freaked out when I speak Spanish to her. "how did you know that Mommy? Who told you?"  She doesn't seem to grasp that Mommy could have learned something not in her presence.  And since I'm close to fluent in Spanish, this has her very perplexed.  HA!  Still, I'm very impressed with the work she is doing and I'm just thrilled that she loves school.  I think that's half the battle right there.  

 

Tonight we are going out for special Mommy & Emily time. I'm taking her to see the Disney Princesses on Ice "Dare to Dream"   She is beyond stoked.  Hopefully it's not too painful for me to sit thru.  I'd do anything for my girls, but it helps when they don't bore me to tears.  Tony took her to the last one, and he said he'd rather poke his eyes out than do that again.  I think he took her to Toy Story.  Anyways, here's hoping it goes ok!