What would today be without...

a YEAR IN REVIEW post. So, here is the post you've all been waiting for. Michelle's 2008 Year in Review:

January: Gave birth to beautiful baby #2, barely making it to the hospital in time and traumatizing my 2 year old by making him watch the whole thing. (Poor kid, I think he has finally recovered.) Became a great Aunt and Mike and I celebrated our 3rd wedding anniversary.

February: Started off the month by ordering the blue light special for our obnoxious neighbors. Turned the big 30...I mean 25...again. Got a new calling and Jacob started to talk...finally.

March: Celebrated Jacob's 2nd birthday. Got a fish.

April: Celebrated Mike's 29th birthday, Blessed Lizzie, Survived my first month alone while Mike was away for a rotation, experienced some crazy, scary severe weather, and got rid of the fish.

May: Celebrated Memorial Day in style by bbqing some awesome kabobs, spent a lot of time outside at various parks, found out one of the obnoxious neighbors has a son who he doesn't watch very closely.

June: Finally (after 3 years) got things figured out with the army and got our back pay (after a year of having no income) and was held hostage by a bat.

July: Spent the month in Richfield partyin' it up on the 4th, doing a lot of yoga with Deb, catching up with family at the rose reunion (where I discovered Jacobs love for parking lots and got a sweet tan...I mean painful sunburn) while Mike spent the month alone...studying for boards. Mike started his 4th and final year of med school.

August: Spent the month in WA where Mike did a rotation at Madigan, ate a lot of Bon Bons and spent a lot of time in the pool and at parks and having loads of fun with the in-laws.

September: Started out the month with our loooooooong drive back to MO, during which we saw rain, sleet, snow and got rear ended by some punk teenagers who drove off...but eventually got busted cause they drove away slow enough for us to get their licence plate #. Watched Mike run a 5k and get a trophy, and switched my blog to blogger. :)

October: Spent another month alone w/o Mike while he did a rotation in Texas, Temple site announced in MO, had way to much fun dressing the kids up for Halloween and my little sister returned with honor.

November: Saw gas prices fall by about $3 a gallon, Spent Thanksgiving with wonderful friends, who I just realized never got posted about. How could I let that happen??? I'm such a bad friend!

December: Found out we will be moving to NC after graduation, spent most of the month making fun Christmas crafts and playing in the snow, came within 5 lbs of my wieght loss goal bringing my total loss this year to 25 lbs and 3 pant sizes, had a fun little family Christmas together, and are hoping to find something fun to do to bring in the new year.

Overall it's been a very eventful year full of excitement. I've met lots of new friends and hope to keep them all while making many more. Here's to an awesome 2008!! I hope you all have a fabulous and safe New Year!

Do I get a nap soon??

On Sunday, Mike set up his old laptop in Jacobs room and turned on some church movies for him during quiet time. Yesterday, I decided that since the laptop was already set up and he didn't have any problems watching movies on it before, I'd just use it again for quite time. So I put in a DVD and left. I checked on him a few times and he was sitting on his bed watching the movie. A while later I heard him at his door wanting to come out, but quite time was not over, so I just ignored him. About 20 minutes later I noticed he was being quiet again and decided to go check on him just in case. 'nough said! Thankfully, they just snap right back on.

All of us were sick Sunday and Monday, but Lizzie was the worst of us all. The rest of us are much better and only have the lingering sniffles. But poor Lizzie still has a fever. This has pretty much been her permanent position since Sunday. She rarely lets me put her down which means no house work, no cooking, no shower. I look like poo.

I took her to the Doctor today and after taking a urine sample they are pretty sure she has a UTI. We'll find out for sure when the culture results come back. Poor girly! Here's hoping the Rx they gave her will start making her feel better.

Two heads are not always better than one.

My parents gave us a gift certificate for Walmart for Christmas which we were so very excited about, because there were a few things we were wanting to get from there. One item being a shredder. We have been needing one forever! So the day after Christmas we loaded up and headed to Wally World. We found a shredder and still had money left over, so we perused the store and picked out a couple $5 movies and a couple little toys for the kids and headed for the check out. We paid for our stuff and left and as we were loading our stuff in the car Mike stops short and says "Crap!!" That can't be good..."What?" I ask. "We didn't use the gift card!!!", He says. Doh!! Since I was the one carrying the card I suppose it was mostly my fault. But I was distracted with the kids, and Mike just out of habit paid with his debit card. We both felt pretty dumb, but soon felt better when Mike pointed out that we would just do our grocery shopping there next month. haaahahaha. Here's hoping we don't forget to use it again.

Picture Overload

I love taking pictures and feel like I have to capture every moment. I took over 100 pictures. Don't worry, I didn't post them all. :)

One of our Christmas traditions is gingerbread house building. In passed years I have done real gingerbread and added a gingerbread train. But this year I had no motivation to do either. So we went with graham crackers. Mike constructed the house and I decorated it. Now tell me, isn't this the COOLEST graham cracker, gingerbread house EVER?!?! I think he did a pretty stinkin' good job building this thing. Seriously...have you ever tried making the gable (triangle)part out of graham cracker before? I have, and it's not easy. And he made 4 perfect gables. Too bad I got the doors off center under that gable. hahaha.

Here are our stockings hanging on our awesome train stocking hooks. (Thanks Heidi!) Another tradition we have, which started the first Christmas Mike and I were married, is to hit the dollar store Christmas Eve, split up and pick out fun, crazy, weird, etc stocking stuffers for each other. We always get pretty interesting things for each other. lol.

And this is the tree right before we headed to bed. We left the gingerbread house down where the kids could see and pick at it. haha. Jacob was the first to wake up. Here he is with his typical breakfast banana, checking out his stocking. Once he figured out there was cool stuff in his stocking he abandoned his banana and forgot about it. We let Jacob open his gift first. He doesn't really get the concept of unwrapping things yet. He just looked at it like, "okay, it's a colored box...what do I do with this??" Lizzie figured it out though and started ripping paper off for him. After that he decided to help unwrap it.

I have been dying to give him this since I ordered it a few months ago. He LOVES my vacuum. But it's too big for him to push around. Still he is always begging me to get it out so he can play with it. So, as you can imagine, as soon as he got it out of the box he was pushing it around non stop. I wish it really worked (supposedly it does, but you can imagine how well a toy vacuum would work with 3 c cell batteries) cause if it did, we would not have one speck of dirt on the carpet anywhere in the house. He loves it.

I think Lizzie's favorite toy is this stuffed bear that she got in her stocking.

She wasn't real interested in unwrapping her own gift. She played with the bow for a bit then...

made a bee-line for the gingerbread house. Unfortunately, she couldn't get any candy off. It was stuck on pretty good. So she decided to go back to her present.

This time Daddy helped her a little bit.

So did the boy.

Then the boy discovered the gingerbread house. He was able to get some candy off and thought it was pretty cool.

And Lizzie found Jacobs abandoned banana. Yummy!

I've been trying to talk Mike into getting a minivan before we move, and the other day he mentioned that he wanted a foosball table. Soooo...

Voila. Minivan for me...

foosball table for Mike. Both from the dollar store. Who'da thunk?! Don't we both look awesome first thing in the morning. haaaaaa.

Mary was so nice and sent us a couple fun gifts. This one was my favorite though. It's a book called Mud Pie Annie and it is the CUTEST book!! I love it. I'd never read it before. I can see it becoming a favorite for the kids. Here are Lizzie and Jacob playing with their stocking stuffers. Lizzie got some little bracelets. She thought the were pretty cool. But she kept trying to put them on her head. Jacob got a punching balloon that he loved almost as much as his vacuum. Unfortunately he kept hitting it into the tree despite our repetitive warnings and it met its demise rather loudly.

Their big combined gift was a little table and chairs. Here's Mike trying out a chair.
Jacob decided to have a tea party on it. Mike decided he wanted to join in on the fun, English accent and all. He said he felt like he had joined "the finer things club". hahaha. (That's from 'The Office' in case you were wondering.)

We spent the rest of the day watching Christmas movies, calling family, and just hanging out. We had a nice family dinner together which consisted of fettuccine alfredo, an awesome salad that was as good as Olive garden's salad, bread sticks and apple-pomegranate sparkling cider. It was so good, we decided that it would be our traditional Christmas dinner from here on out. :)

Jacob had so much fun, he was tuckered out by the time we finished eating. He was in bed, asleep by 7:30pm. All that vacuuming would wear anyone out. :)

It was a fun day. Thanks everyone who sent us gifts and helped to make our little family Christmas special and fun. I hope everyone had a excellent Christmas. BRING ON THE NEW YEAR!!

Random Thoughts

I haven't posted in a while and have had lots going through my mind lately. So I decided to do a random thoughts post. Cause you know, those are always fun. :)

I have been slacking off a lot on my blog stalking. So, I apologize to all you out there who I have been neglecting. My blog surfing has been replaced by looking at houses to rent or buy, cause we haven't quite made up our minds on what we want to do. It is so tempting to buy, because we could get a nice size house for a very good price. But as we've been looking we've noticed that there are a BAZILLION houses for sale. Which makes us wonder if we would have a hard time selling in three years, assuming we do move that is. Renting would be easier, but we both REALLY want our own house. I have heard what a pain it is to buy and own a house, cause you have to do everything yourself, but on the flip side, I hate that I have no say in the color of my walls or my carpet. And I hate that I can't get rid of the disgusting carpet we are currently dealing with and I hate that I have to call and ask permission for things like hanging curtains.

Remember the cockroaches in the garage. Well as of last week they were still alive. Some of them had been cannibalized, but most of them were alive and well. Mike cleaned out the garage and got rid of them though. So that put an end to my little experiment. But they lived for about 5 months in that pan. Disgusting bugs!

One of my worst fears is losing teeth. In high school I used to have nightmares about my teeth slowly falling out one by one. (that and rows of empty toilets tipping over or giant flooding toilets, but that's a topic for another day.) So when I went to the dentist and he informed me that the root of one of my front teeth was disintegrating and that tooth would one day break off, I was a little disturbed. (He says it's common when a tooth has been through trauma, and both of my front teeth have been through A LOT of trauma.) He told me he gives it no longer than 3 years before it breaks off, but since I was going to have better insurance when Mike starts residency he thought I would be fine waiting and getting it taken care of then since it is a pretty expensive fix. That was about 6 months ago. A few days ago I noticed that tooth starting to hurt off and on and now it constantly throbs and is feeling a bit wobbly. So...looks like I'll be forking out the money to get a temporary fix. AKA a retainer with a tooth attached. Hopefully I can get in before it really does break off and I have to face the humiliation of walking around toothless. I have been praying really hard that that does not happen.

I can't believe Christmas is almost here. I've decided that most of the fun of Christmas is the month long preparation and fun activities leading up to the actual day. All the crafts, decorating and baking and stuff. So much fun. One thing Mike and I decided when we got married was that we would not go over board with the gifts, for each other or for our kids. Growing up in my family we got 2 gifts each. One from Mom and Dad and one from Santa. It was similar in Mikes family. I never had a problem with that. I knew all my friends got a lot more than that, but for some reason it never bothered me. I have always been grateful for my parents for that. I hope to be able to teach my children that the presents are fun, but not the main deal. However, I find it really hard to stick to that. There are so many fun things I would like to get for them. But I stayed strong!! This year they are getting one combined gift from Santa and one gift each from me and Mike. I'm very proud of myself. :) Here's hoping they don't grow up resenting us for it. haha.

Okay folks. That's all we have time for today. Laters!

And the winner is...

Mike woke me up this morning by flipping on the light and handing me a peice of paper. It took me a minute in my half asleep state to realize he had just handed me his residency match results. We both felt a mixture of emotions as we read the results. First, disappointment, then relief, then excitement. Sooo....
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Sorry, I wanted to give him the honors. :)

Felt Garlands

I know I already posted, but I wanted to do a separate post for these pictures. I finished my garlands and have them hung up in the living room. Here is the end result. I think the mittens are my favorite.

I just posted this last one cause I thought the paper snowflake shadows looked cool. haha.

Let it SNOW!!

This isn't actually the first snow of the season, but it is definitely the first snow worth playing in. So we all got bundled up and went outside. Lizzie's coveralls and coat are still way to big for her as you can see..

Here she is lying on the floor completely unable to move, and not at all happy about it. So, I had to improvise. I took out the liner of her coat and put it over her fleece jacket. I left the snow bib on and closed off the foot holes with rubber bands so snow couldn't get in.

She was toasty warm, but still couldn't move very well. She didn't really have that much fun...at all!! She just started getting mad after a while. In fact she is still mad at me 2 hours later. I took her inside and took all her snow clothes off and gave her a snack. She was okay but would have these random outbursts. "I am so mad at you Mom. How could you be so mean to me?"Jacob on the other hand had a great time. This is the first year he's really appreciated the snow. In the past he's pretty much had the same response as Lizzie. He sure liked it this year though. He kept saying, "cold, cold" every time he picked some up.He originally had mittens on, but they kept falling off. He was really cold after that. We are gonna have to find some better ones before we take him out again.

I managed to get him to stop playing long enough to snap a quick picture with me. I tried to take a couple more but he wasn't having it. He really wanted to get back to playing. He coulda stayed out a lot longer but Lizzie had had enough and was not gonna spend another second out there. So I had to drag him back inside. It's times like this that I really wish I had a fenced in back yard.

Yes to D8

I couldn't resist posting this. (Thanks Deb) Too funny!

Another discount code...

for www.denimskirts.com. The code is DE25MAS and it's for 25% off. It is good through December 19th. Happy shopping. :D

Who's Judy??

My son was looking at me and Mikes engagement pictures just now and I said, "Is that Mommy and Daddy?" He says, "Daddy? Daddy? Daddy?" I said, "Yep that's Daddy, is this Mommy?" And he starts saying, "Daddy, Judy, Daddy, Judy, Daddy, Judy!"

Now, I don't know who Judy is, but evidently Jacob knows her and she looks a lot like me. So I ask Mike, "Um...hun, who is Judy? Is there something I should know?" This was his response. "Don't worry hun, I would never date anyone named Judy." HAAAAHAHAHA!

Thanks hun. That's very reassuring!

(My apologies to all Judys out there who may read my blog.)

Too Quiet...

As you all know, that is NEVER a good thing when there are toddlers around. I was in the kitchen feeding Lizzie and enjoying the peace and quiet,when all the sudden panic hit me..."Why is it so quiet????"

Oh, THAT'S why...

Don't they look like they are having the time of their lives?! All at the expense of my poor tree.
Yes, those are all the bead candy canes I made, now completely dismantled. They sure had fun doing it though. Amare' would pull all the beads off and Jacob would gather them up and throw them into the air. "Wee...it's raining pretty beads." They were put right in time out (after I got pictures of course) and both received stern lectures about not touching the tree, which I am sure they totally understood. I could tell by the blank stares on their faces as they followed my moving lips. "It's like she's trying to speak to me, I know it!" I could almost hear their little, silent, toddler conversation, "what the heck is she talking about?" "I don't know. She's crazy. Just let her have her shpill so we can get back to our path of destruction."

Earlier today I found Lizzie playing with the water in her sippy cup. I still can't figure out how she got the lid off without spilling it. She's tricky.
It's days like this that if you don't laugh, you will cry...or scream....and pull your hair out...and bang your head against the wall until sweet, sweet unconsciousness sets in and you don't have to worry about anything until the neighbors find your children running around in the street with no shoes or coats on and then find you laying on the floor, delirious and muttering to yourself and the psych ward comes to pick you up....ahhhhh. I prefer to laugh. :)

Random Ramblings

I got a new steam cleaner today. I am soooo excited. Our friends have the same one and it seems to work really well. We were considering getting a new couch, but decided to hold off for a little while longer. But I can handle it now that I have something to clean the very old, used, disgustingly, grimy couch we currently own with. Seriously, you can see the black all over it. I sit on it and cringe. In the mornings when I have to get up at the butt crack of dawn with the kids and I want to lay down and go back to sleep on the couch while they play in the living room, I have to lay a blanket down first. I refuse to lay directly on it.

Our floors are even more disgusting. I hate to think of all the toddler poop ground into it, and puke. Not to mention all the mulberry juice from our tree last summer. It's seriously gross!! So, yay for a steam cleaner!!

Jacob and Lizzie were both weighed and measured yesterday. Not much has changed with Jakers. He is still in the 75th percentile for both weight and height. But Lizzie...she's in the 5th percentile for both. She was in the 15th at her last dr. appt. So, she's shrinking. hahaha. Okay not really, but she will be turning 1 next month and she is probably the size of a 6 or 7 month old. I don't get it. She has the double chin, the squishy cheeks, the wrist creases and fat rolls. Granted not nearly as many as Jacob had, but she does have some chub. She's just a little'n. We refer to her as "petite". People used to see her at the grocery store sitting up in the cart and say to me, "She doesn't look old enough to be doing that!" Well guess what...she is. lol. She sure is cute! I ordered her a size 12 month coat and snow pants. We tried them on her and she reminded me of the kid on A Christmas Story after his mom had him all bundled up. "I can't put my arms down!" She should fit into them perfectly by next summer. :)

Well, I was intending this to be a longer post. But it turns out I've got more important things to do. Dang it. I hate it when that happens. :)

One more thing to add. We find out on the 17th where we will be going for residency. Oh the SUSPENSE!

The end

IT'S DECEMBER!!!

Which means...Up goes the tree and out comes all the other Christmas decor. Which also means it's time for all the fun Christmas arts and crafts that I LOVE doing. These are the bead candy canes we made for the tree this year.

And this is going to be a garland for the wall...That will hopefully end up looking close to this...

(Other views found here. You'll notice it costs $35 for one garland. No thanks.)

I haven't started on the mittens yet. Those will be next. The trees were fun to make though.

In nursery, Jacob got an advent calendar that has different things to do each day. Today we are making paper snow flakes to hang in the window. I will be posting the daily activities on my one for the kids blog. (assuming anyone even looks at it any more. haha)

I have fallen in love...

With this hat...


We went shopping for winter clothes for Lizzie the other day and I found this hat. I put it on her and knew I had to get it for her. I mean seriously...
Does she not look adorable in it?! The boy liked it too though. He might not ever let her wear it. Every time I get it out he has to put it on and the mittens that came with it.

The problem we ran into was finding a coat it didn't clash with. Seriously, WHAT is UP with ALL the PINK?!? Don't get me wrong, I like pink, but I don't want ALL of her clothes that color. Evidently they only make baby girl coats in pink and sometimes purple, unless you want to pay a lot more. Mike wanted me to get a different hat that would go with the coats they had there (we were at walmart) but the only one that didn't have Dora on it or some other obnoxious character was a horrid pepto pink color. It was actually a really cute hat, I just couldn't get passed the color. And I just loved the red one soooooooo much. Mike was like, "I can tell right now that we're not getting out of the store without that hat." No way Jose!! I had to HAVE IT! I did finally find a coat that went okay with it that I could afford, after searching the internet for a few hours...and it STILL had some pink on it. Oh well. If I'd been willing to spend $10 more I could have gotten the perfect coat, but I just couldn't do it since I was already spending more than planned.

Speaking of being able to afford things, we were listening to talk radio last night on our way home from dinner and they were talking about Christmas shopping on a tight budget. I got a kick out of the supposed poor unemployed nursing student who was living off of loans who was on a "tight budget" and could only allot $45 per person. I was like, holy moly. 45 bucks?? That's tight?? They are talking to the WRONG person. They need to come talk to someone like me who can't even allot that much to each of my own children. In fact, that's just under what I spent on both of them put together! A tight budget to me would be like $15-$20 per family member (maybe splurging a little more on your kids) and cookies for all others and not eating out or going to movies, etc to save up. HAHA. We got a good laugh out of that one.

Thanksgiving Tag

This is a Thanksgiving tag. I am to write about 5 things I am grateful for, then tag two other people to do the same. Relatively easy task since there is so much for which to be thankful. (Actually, that's what makes it so difficult. :))

1. My family. Both my little family(hubby and 2 kids) and my BIG family(my parents and 14 siblings, their spouses and adorable kids). Hopefully I too will be able to have many children of my own so they will have the blessing of growing up with lots of brothers and sisters. I know some of my siblings resented being in such a large family growing up (I am sure they are over it now, haha) but I have always LOVED it. I am even more grateful for them now that we (most of us) are adults. No matter what is going on in my life I have someone to call and there is always someone who can empathize with me. I love them all! Every single one of them has blessed my life in one way or another.

I have the best, most thoughtful husband in the world. I realize every day how lucky I am to have found him. No one else would be as patient with me as he is. He puts up with a lot and continues to stick around. He must really love me. haha. I also happen to think I have the cutest, funnest kids in the world as well. They make me happy every day. Some days more than others, but there hasn't been a day since I had them that they haven't brought me joy and I have never regretted having them in my life. I don't know what I'd do without my husband or my children and I can't wait to have lots more kids.

2. The Internet, especially blogs. :) Without the Internet I wouldn't feel nearly as in touch with my family and friends and would probably still be single. lol. And it has made it possible for me to find old friends that I had long since lost touch with and make new friends that I hope to one day meet in real life. It also contains a wealth of information that would take me years to look up at a library. haha. It has saved me many pointless trips to the Dr. office (of course there have been times when it has made me WANT to go to the Dr, and caused paranoia...but we won't get into that. haaaaahaha)and just made my life easier in many ways. I could go on and on.

3. Digital photography. I have about 10 undeveloped rolls of film from who knows where or when. And half of those pictures are probably blurry or otherwise just look bad. Now I can click a picture, look at it and if it's no good take it again until I get exactly what I want. No surprises. I am able to get priceless pictures of my loved ones and remember special events with no regrets of pictures not turning out right. I'm also grateful for my external hard drive that I can save them on so that if my computer dies or something else bad happens I will still have all my precious memories stored safely away. :)

4. The gospel. I hate to think what my life would be like without the knowledge of eternal families or the atonement. It's comforting to know that we have a loving father in heaven who cares for us and is watching out for us and loves us enough to send his own son to suffer and die for us all. I don't know if I will ever fully understand it, but being a parent puts it a little more into perspective how much he must really love us.

5. My health. I rarely get sick (knock on wood) even when everyone else in my family gets sick. I am grateful I am (almost) always able to care for my family and carry out my daily responsibilities. I am grateful that I am able to see, hear, speak, walk, etc. and rarely in need of medical intervention. Hopefully that will never change until I get old and no one needs me any more. :)

Well, since it is after 10pm on the Eve of Thanksgiving I highly doubt many people will be reading this until after their turkey comas have worn off. So, I tag anyone who reads this and has time to do it between baking, visiting with family, eating, napping or watching football.

If you could burn water...

I'd probably be the one to do it. I have become an okay cook since getting married, but there are still some things that I have yet to master. Bread making is one of them. I'm not talking get out a big bowl, mix it all together, kneed it, let it rise, kneed it again, put it into pans and bake it, I'm talking throw all the stuff into a bread maker and push the button. Yes, I struggle even with that. It's like a 50/50 chance that it's gonna turn out edible every time I attempt. Seriously, I think at least half of my attempts have failed miserably. Here is last nights failed attempt. I made some really good cheesy cream of broccoli soup to go with it and was all excited for warm homemade bread and soup...and this is what I got.

I dug into the middle to see if it was even remotely edible...bleck!! Not even close. Such a disappointment. Oh well, better luck next time. I have the same problem with grilled cheese sandwiches. I have a 50% success rating. But it's taken me a while to improve even that much. Struggles!!

On a happier note, this is my month for sharing time. Yesterday I tried to tie something Thanksgivingish into the topic. So I found this fun little activity where each kid gets a feather and they write something on it that makes them who they are. This was the end result

The younger kids pretty much just colored their feather, but the older kids actually wrote something. There were some cute ones. "I RED The sKiSPRs", "I have bug hows name is Kona", "I am 7 years old. I have brown here". But my favorite one was, "I love Tom's diner" with little musical notes around it. hahaha. Maybe I should go check out Tom's Diner.

Read it and weep.

This...is what we paid for gas today. I keep thinking it can't possibly get any lower and then it does. I never thought I'd see gas prices this low ever again. One silver lining of the struggling economy I guess. :)

We went to the mall today to let Jacob play on the play ground there, which was swarming with overly hyperactive children, many of which were too big to be playing on a playground which was built for smaller children. Not 10 year olds. I couldn't put Lizzie down or she'd get trampled, and all the play equipment looked like flies on poop there were so many kids climbing all over them. So Jacob just ran around in circles. At one point he happily ran up and down the ramp that leads down to the play ground. He was having a great time.

Eventually kids started leaving and he was able to play on the bridge a little before it was time for us to leave.
While we were there I ran into a friend of mine who had just had a baby. While we were standing there talking a man pushing a baby in a stroller walked over and asked me if Lizzie was 4 or 5 months old. I kinda chuckled and told him that she was actually 10 months old. I think he felt kind of dumb. He told me that his baby was just a few months old and they were about the same size. Maybe I should have lied and told him that she was 5 months old. I did however assure him that she is small for her age...at least that's what I'm told. lol. It kind of reminded me of when I was pregnant with Jacob and some guy asked me when "she" was due. I looked at him confused and said, "she?" He says, "yes, you look like your carrying a girl." I laughed and said, "oh believe me...there was no mistaking the little boy equipment we saw on the u/s." Haaahaha. Anyhoo.....

Here's a very fuzzy picture of me holding Lizzie so she doesn't get clobbered by all the spastic children.