it was bound to happen

Ansley is breastfeeding her baby, ha! Luckly, she thinks I feed Aly from my tummy and we are just going to leave it at that :)

Some Mommy & Daddy Time ... & Ansley holds Aly for the 1st time

During the first week of being home from the hospital, Rob and I wanted to make sure we spent some time with Ansley... just the three of us. So we asked Ansley where she wanted to go, and she said the "Pirate Ship" park. It is a great park on the lake with a pirate ship to play in. We usually play for a while and then throw rocks into the lake.

It was really good to get out of the house and spend some time with Ansley. Thanks to my mom, we left Aly with her :)

collecting our rocks to throw into the lake

so happy!

here ducky ducky...

I think we have a future soccer player on our hands

Later that day, Ansley decided she wanted to hold her baby sister for the first time :) I was so excited for this moment. Ansley did GREAT, and enjoyed every minute of it...

giving her sissy kisses

lets see if she wants the paci

Practicing

Ansley was definitely scared to hold her baby sister when we were in the hospital and pretty much for the first couple of days we were home. But once her cousins left to go back home :( she decided she needed to practice. But before she actually did it, she practiced with her baby doll. It was too cute! And she felt very proud at the same time :)

some more outside fun & Aly pics with the "Willson" family

We took Maddie, Hailey and Ansley to the park a lot while they were here. Anything to keep them busy and to wear them out was best! Thankfully, they all LOVE to be outside :)

enjoying some yogurt pops by the lake

Aunt Kelly and Aly

                          

                                                                Pop Pop, Nana & Aly

Slip n' Slide

While my sister, mom, and the girls were here we had the little girls outside as much as possible. Since it was so HOT, my mom bought a slip n' slide for the backyard. This was definitely the best purchase, the girls absolutely LOVED it!!!

PRICELESS!!! Hailey had so much fun

surfing down the slip n' slide

washing off before going back down the slip n' slide to get dirty all over again :)

Hailey really wanted to climb into the water table ... caught her in the act

taking a break to enjoy some freezer pops

Aly also enjoyed the warm weather... soaking in some Vitamin D (she was very jaundice so we had her outside a little each day)

Aly's 1st Bath

(I am so behind on posts and going to try and catch up this week...so look for a lot of new posts! )

The day after we got home from the hospital we decided it was time to give Aly her first bath, well her first sponge bath. Her umbilical cord still hasn't fallen off so we can't give her her first official bath until that is long gone. As for how Aly did, well, she did pretty good considering (definitely better then Ansley did with her first bath). It was so nice to have her spelling clean and not like milk! Plus, her hair was beginning to look a little greasy.

Here are some pics Kelly took while Rob and I were bathing Aly... (Please excuse the dead tulips on our countertop)

not really loving the cold air

can you believe all that hair?

all cozy & warm

Happy Easter

After we got settled in at home, the Easter bunny made a visit to our house. Ansley, Maddie, and Hailey loved all the goodies the Easter bunny left for them (thankfully I had already put Ansley's basket together before having Aly... I just had a feeling I was going to be in the hospital that weekend). We gave the girls time to check it all out, eat some candy, look at books and play with their new things... but then it was time to go up for naps so we could get all dressed up afterwards and have our Easter Egg hunt in the backyard :)

Kelly and I filled all the eggs up while the girls were napping, we had a ridiculous amount of eggs which = A LOT OF CANDY!!! But we did put some coins in a good amount of eggs. We knew the girls really didn't need the candy, plus it would mean I would eat a lot of it! ... Kelly and Pop Pop put the eggs in the backyard, I think Pop Pop really got into putting them in good hiding places.

Once we got the girls out of their rooms, we got them dress in their pretty Easter dresses and let them hunt for all the eggs. They had an absolute BLAST! Maddie would shake every egg to see if there was anything good in it, and then she wanted to open them one at a time. Ansley was all about filling up her Easter bags (notice, I said bags...Yes, she filled up two bags of eggs). And Hailey, well she just had fun running around the backyard and falling down.

Getting to come home from the hospital with Aly was great; but, not missing out on Ansley's Easter was even better! We truly had a wonderful Easter, one we will never forget.

Ansley checking out her goodies

Ansley's new favorite...mini cadberry eggs, YUM!

Hailey was the only one who would wear her bunny mask... and ofcourse Rob joined in on the fun!

The only pic I could get of all three of the girls (hopefully Aunt Kelly got a good one)

LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this picture of Ansley

What's in the egg Pop Pop?on a mission ...

this shot of Hailey cracks me up...