The holiday's are coming!

With Christmas coming up so soon I've had a lot on my mind. I've been browsing online things that we could look into getting for the girls. Lauren is only going to be two months so we're probably going to have one or two very small things under the tree for her, and because Kaitlyn is older we're really going to try to focus on her. So far I've found some really cool things for her. She's starting to tell me what she wants so it helps that I've got some help now. Most of the things we got for her last year she's just starting to get into. Brandon and I are looking at a learning game system for her, I think it's called a VTech Motion? It helps kids learn counting and their ABC's and other things and incorperates moving and jumping - so they're not just sitting in front of a tv screen working their fingers. I'm hoping that my stepdad will find more odd jobs around his body shop for me to do to earn some extra money too. I'd like to be able to get Brandon gifts with money I've earned instead of using "his" money. We'll see how that goes.

Lauren is getting so big! She's eating anywhere from 4 to 5 ounces of formula now, she's much more aware of her surroundings as well. Kaitlyn will zoom past her and Lauren will try to follow her as fast as she can. A week ago she rolled over from her belly to her back too. It's still pretty much the same schedule. She sleeps anywhere from 3 to 5 hours, she'll wake up to eat and get a diaper change, maybe stay up for an hour or so and then it's back to sleep! I'm so happy with how well she's doing too. With Kaitlyn it was so hard, especially for first time parents to have a newborn who screamed 24/7. I have thought that maybe the fact that we used powder formula could have been the problem. We only tried that once with Lauren and she was gassy and fussy, so we've stuck with the liquid kind. The only thing I don't like about that is that we're buying it more than we would with a can, but it really has helped.

Kaitlyn is also starting to show more interst in her little sister. She wants to hold her more, (not for that long though!) and wants to feed her. And when I've got Lauren laying on a blanket for back or tummy time, Kaitlyn lays next to her and plays with her. I know it's still hard on her because she's wanting me to play with her but I'm busy and Brandon's off at work all day. If we were able to I'd let her go to daycare for a day or two a week. Maybe after I find some sort of stay at home job we can manage that.

When we were at the hospital I had hoped that they still offered the birth announcements and first photo - but found out that they had taken that away. I was a little disappointed because the announcements were so cute with Kaitlyn and I had really wanted to do the same for Lauren! Well, I've been looking around at places to see the prices of announcements and finally found somewhere to get some made for Lauren! So we will have those sent out soon! (I apologize for how long it took!) I've mentioned to Brandon that I want to go have family pictures made of the four of us. We've never had a nice, professional picture of our family, and with the holiday's and now with Lauren here I would really like to finally do that.

Here are some recent pictures I've taken. I'm still trying to balance out everything so I'm able to post here. It's starting to get a little better, but I've still got my off days!