Mesmerized by the mobile

Now that Zoey is in her own room I can actually have all these baby things around and use them. I have the changing table set up, the rocking chair is getting used and now her mobile is attached to the crib again. The music box has been used by Isla this whole time but for now I'll let Zoey have it. She loves talking to it!

I'm starting to look forward to checking on Isla before I go to bed

She is always in a different spot! Tonight she stripped naked and put her pillow at the foot of her bed. I guess whatever works right? but she will get cold eventually!

Squeaky clean

Zoey is really loving bathtime lately. I just put her in with big sisters and they like to help wash her. I snapped these the other day. Pretty sure I have something similar of the other girls too... I should find them and compare :)

My sleeping beauties

As Zoey is about to turn 4 months old I realize she is hitting a lot of the same milestones Maja did at her age. Thank goodness for this blog and now more then ever I wish I had blog regularly with Isla :(.
Lately she has been sleeping a ton including going down for the night around 5pm. The other day she took a 3 hr nap in the after noon, stayed awake for about 45 minutes and went down again for what I thought was another nap except she wouldn't wake up! I put her down around 5pm and finally I had to go in and get her at midnight because I really needed her to nurse already!
Another day before that she went from 7:15 to 3:15 and I was so surprised that in the morning I seriously wondered whether I just slept through her being awake or sleepwalked into her room and fed her.
She is also doing great at falling asleep on her own. Recently she had an episode of 25 minutes getting angry at me and I couldn't figure out what her problem was. i knew she was tired and I was trying really hard to get her to fall asleep but nothing was working. I finally put her down and walked away and lo and behold she stopped, put her thumb in her mouth and dozed of. I guess she was just really tired of me and my lame attempts. Strangely enough I wrote a similar story about Maja way back when!!

Isla on the other hand finally moved into Maja's room and I'm finding her in all kind of hilarious places when I check on them at night. Also, it's super cute to hear them giggle and talk at bedtime (sometimes they fight and argue!) I started out by going in and making them get back in bed but lately I've come to the realization that part of a great childhood while room sharing with a sibling is just that... being silly when you're supposed to be sleeping so I've been letting them get away with it and as long as nobody is screaming in pain, using naughty words/voices or coming out of the room I'm good.
She has also been napping really early lately... she actually asks to go to bed around 10:30am and sleeps for about 3 hrs everyday! that makes for a nice and early bedtime at night too even if they still get up around 6:30-7am

Maja is 3.5 now and because Isla is in her room and naps there, I decided that she can stop taking naps now. I will occasionally put her in her bed after isla falls asleep if she is having a particularly crabby day but normally I just let her stay up and play or watch a movie on the Nook

They sure do like to ham it up for me

They work for free these days :). They used to require a piece of candy in exchange for their time but I think they are really starting to like getting their picture taken. They always tell me to go get the camera and photograph whatever it is that they are doing or wearing (yes, wearing!!)

I'm su bummed I took this with my phone :(. I wish it had been my big camera cause this would have been awesome to print. Oh well...

Here they are testing out their new outfits I bought for our family pictures next week. I think they all came together really nicely and I love how you can totally see their personalities here... crazy Isla, cheesy Maja and cool Zoey, lol

Majaisms

"When I'm bigger I can have the tall princess dress and Daddy can be the prince. And I can have eyebryes and earrings" - Maja (not sure what eyebryes are, lol)


Maja: "Wanna play fight Isla?"
Mommy: "Nooo!"
Maja: "Oh maaan" mumbles under her breath "but I want to fight things"


She cracks me up! 

Future hairdresser?

Maja has been into doing her own hair lately... maybe she is onto the next big fashion statement? I hope not :)

Ballerina

We signed Maja up for ballet and boy does she enjoy it! They do a few minutes of tap in the beginning and it's adorable when she calls her tapping shoes "clapping shoes". Isla wants a pair so badly and she found a pair of dark mary janes so she puts them on and goes on the tile and stomps her feet all happy. It works for her :)

Anyhoo... Maja is really into her class. She is pretty good at falling directions and I hope this turns into a long term thing... something she makes me think she was made for this:

Zoey's first white dress

And it's that time again... we need to start thinking about getting Zoey baptized so I tried on the gown that we made out of my wedding dress and both Maja and Isla wore as well. She is the same age as Maja when she wore it but her head is definitely bigger... the bonnet barely fits!

She looks adorable, doesn't she? (cell phone pictures)

Backyard fun

I always wanted a nice swingset for the kids. When we bought the Green Bay house, there was a really crappy, totally unsafe play structure in the back which we promptly ripped out. Maja was young so we decided to wait. Then we moved here and by the time we got settled in the house Costco sold out of these awesome sets so as soon as a friend told me they were back in stock this year we run out and bought it (just for future reference, Jeff also got a new TV that day... a little bribe to convince him since he wasn't so fond of the idea plus pre payment for the labor, lol)
Grandma drove all the way from Oregon to help and the girls couldn't be happier! I love that I can let them out there and there is plenty to do and I can still keep an eye out on them while being inside with napping Zoey or making dinner or anything else.

These photos were taken before the slide went up