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End of the Year School Party

Ansley's last day of school was on Wednesday :(  Ansley had such great teacher's this past year and she really enjoyed going to school. I don't think she really understands that Ms. Sherry & Ms. Christi will no longer be her teachers and that school is over for the summer... But we will definitely stop by their classroom next year to say Hi!

Ansley's class had their end of the year school party on Monday, it was a luau theme. The kids all had a great time! I do not think Ansley was very happy that Aly was there with me. She knew I was coming but I think she had hoped it was only going to be me. She was kind of in a funk for the first 5 minutes I was there. The teacher's said she just got like that when I arrived, it broke my heart! Once I gave her a lot of attention she was happy and playing with the other kids. They played limbo with a pool noodle (the kids loved it), played with beach balls, had a scavenger hunt for squirt-water sea creatures, and lunch! The teacher's also gave us photo books of our kids. Ms. Sherry is a great photographer and took the absolute best pictures of Ansley throughout the school year. This is something I will cherish ... I love looking at it and seeing how much she has changed over the past 9 months!

So another year down, we are sad to leave Ms. Sherry & Ms. Christi at the 2's but looking for to moving up to the 3's in the fall :)

Here are pics from Ansley's end of the year school party!

Ms. Christi, Ansley & Ms. Sherry

Ansley was in a complete daze when I got there

Loved the Limbo...

this & that

I really can't tell you what we have been up to these past couple of weeks. I am still trying to adjust to having two kids and feel like I am going non-stop. By the end of the day, all I want to do is go to bed!!! But we are all doing well and Aly is growing so much. She is really filling out and on most days she sports the double-chin :)

We went home for a quick weekend visit a couple of weeks ago. Unfortunately, I was without Rob so I was usually holding Aly or playing with Ansley so I didn't take but only 1 picture! While we were home we had lunch with Jen P., visited Candice & Beau, and Sarah, Emma Kate & Jim came to my mom's house to visit us. We had a great time seeing everyone; but again, it felt like the weekend went by way too fast and we didn't get to see all the people we wanted to.

Here is the only pic I took while home (Emma Kate was in love with Aly)

Mother's Day

I had a wonderful Mother's Day spent with my two favorite babies and husband! It started with both Aly and Ansley sleeping in, YAY!!! When the girls woke up, I opened my cards and my gift which I am very excited about.... Rob got me a maid service to come in and do a deep clean on my whole house :) I can't wait to set this up! My house really needs it.

Once we got up and moving, we packed lunch and had a picnic at one of the state parks. It was a beautiful day, a little cooler but still perfect weather to be outside. After our picnic, we took Ansley to play miniature golf. She LOVED it! She didn't want to play by the rules and would just put her ball a couple of feet from the hole and then hit it in. I think Rob was into it more then Ansley...but they both had a good time while Aly and I watched :) After we got back home, we had a nice dinner to end a wonderful day.

I feel extremely blessed to be a mother to my beautiful girls! I am enjoying every minute of motherhood (ofcourse I definitely have my difficult days) but couldn't imagine my life any other way!

I also want to wish my mom (Nana) and Rob's mom (Mimi) a very Happy Mother's Day! We are sorry we couldn't be with you on this special day but hope you know how much you mean to us. And we can't thank you enough for everything you did to help us with Aly and Ansley when we got home from the hospital. We love you very much!!!

Here are some pics from our Mother's Day outing..

I love this pic

Aly looks so big in this pic

Ansley showing enjoying one of the cupcakes she made with daddy for our special day

everytime she would hit the ball in the hole, Ansley would raise her arms and tell herself  "Good Shot!"

Ansley had some major plumber's butt going on...

Pop's 60th Surprise Birthday Party

Pop's turned 60 on April 29th and since this was such a big birthday, Mimi decided to throw him a surprise party at the Athens Country Club. In order to play along with everything, Pop's thought just Rob was coming into town with Matt to play golf with him for his birthday. He even called me to thank me for letting Rob come to Athens (he knows me too well and since Aly was only 4 weeks old, this would have been a big deal to leave me alone with the girls for the weekend after Rob just got back from being out of town due to work).

He played golf with his friend, Mr. McWhorter, and thought that Mimi and Mrs. McWhorter were just meeting them for dinner after his round of golf was over at the club. But little did he know that we were all waiting in a room Mimi had reserved. Mimi really pulled it off and we had a great dinner celebrating Pop's 60th Birthday.

Pop's walking into the room...

the decorations

 

Uncle Boo meeting Aly for the first time

soon to be Mr. & Mrs. Mautz (only 6 weeks to go)

Ansley taking pics of CC

Mrs. McWhorter loving on Aly

I love this one because you can see Matt's facial expression in the mirror on the door

Mimi & Aly

Mr. McWhorter & Aly

Ansley waited so patiently for the chocolate cake and was very happy once we cut into it!

Already 5 weeks...

I can't believe Aly is 5 weeks old! The time is flying by. We had her 4 week check-up appt last Monday and she is doing great! I knew she had gained weight and thought she was maybe just a little over 9 lbs (she was 8lbs 2 oz at her 2 week appt). Well, she definitely did not dissappoint and weighs 9lbs 15oz. I couldn't believe it!!! You can definitely tell in her face, it has gotten much more round and she is really filling out....

Here are her stats at 4 weeks:

Weight 9lbs 15oz (75% percentile)
Height 21 1/4 inches (75% percentile)
Head 14 1/2 inches (75% percentile)

And for comparison here are Ansley's at 4 weeks:

Weight 9lbs 1oz
Height 21 1/2 inches
Head 14 1/2 inches

It looks like Aly is measuring right around where Ansley was at the same age, except she has about 14 more ounces on her :)

I wanted to post some pics of Aly from the last 5 weeks, you will definitely be able to see how she has changed.

                                                                     1-2 weeks old

3 weeks

4 weeks

this one makes me laugh :)

i'm done...enough pictures mommy!

5 weeks

such sweetness!