Getting Acquainted...

 

....with our new girl.

 

Meanwhile, two months have passed since my last post and I need to get everyone (or no one) up to speed on all that I have missed while being absent in my blogging. Talk about pure laziness on my part. But I enjoy jotting this all down so I don't want to get out of practice.. so lets keep this train going! And here I go....

 

Catch up #1

 

Of course prior to Easter the weeks were pretty busy getting acquainted with my Alison and getting the hang of having two kids in the house. I am so happy to say that the second child is a hundred times easier than all the experiences and trials that come with your first. Holy cow. I jumped back into things pretty quickly and felt myself right away which I was very pleased about. With Rose I didn't feel normal till at least 6 weeks after.... just cause you are getting used to new things, a new baby, a new routine and a whole new life as a mom. God knows what He is doing and so do our bodies the second time around.

 

Real quick: Alison is a sweet heart. She is 12 weeks on Sunday and a cute little peanut weighing in at 10.5 lbs, so beautiful and just the sweetest thing ever. She immediately looked and felt familiar to me, as if I had already known her for years...partly because she resembles Rose (to me) and partly because she is my daughter and I feel like life was never without her. Strange how that happens. She is a great eater, peaceful, sleeps through the night, smiles and has the most interesting conversations with her mom while she is in her arms. Those moments never get old. Rose is a great big sister, very caring and very helpful... more so than I ever expected her to be. She wakes each morning and one of the first things she asks is "where is Alison? Alison? Where is she??" I know they will become best friends and will be close sisters. I did not have a sister close in age to me and I always wished I did and now I get to watch my girls have that very thing.

 

{Rose: "I luf you"}



{Mommy's laundry and Rose's "laundry"}

{My beautiful sweetheart, Alison}



{Checking in on her little sister}

 

 Now back to filling in the absent weeks:)

 

Easter 2013

 

{Rose}

{Alison}

{Easter Brunch for our family of four}

 

{We didn't want to make the egg hunt too challenging for Rose}

{She did awesome for it being her first egg hunt ever}

 

{Family Picture Easter 2013}

 Easter dinner was at the Klocek's again this year and the entire family including Grammy made it to the feast. Aunt Rebbecca provided more than a hundred fake eggs with sweet treats inside and if you were lucky you would find the lucky egg that had a $10 bill inside. The eggs were hidden all over the front yard and the kids sprinted across the lawn, around and under bushes, and up trees. It was a sight. It was another beautiful Easter.

 

See you at Catch up #2 (coming soon...)

 

- Clara