Tuesday, September 27, 2011

All About My Girls


Well, Daisy has been with us for 7 weeks now, and I am thrilled to say that she is a total mommy's girl. I have to admit, I love that I am the only one who can get her to calm down and she cries when I leave the room. Alice was always a Daddy's girl--needing Daddy to rock her to sleep and calm her down. She's still a Daddy's girl, except now she says, "Mommy, I miss my Joe." She started saying this because my niece asked her one day if she missed her Joe, and it stuck. But Daddy is officially her "Joe," and I think I'm going to be Daisy's "Sarah."

I feel bad sometimes, because Joe gets frustrated when he doesn't have the magic touch he had with Alice, but I secretly love it...although I just posted it on a public blog, so it's not so secret anymore. At Daisy's last appointment, she weighed 10 lbs 12 oz, and was 22 inches long. I don't remember her head size, but I know she was in the 90% range across the board. She is getting super big and fatty--she's already in clothes Alice was wearing at 5 months.

Daisy smiles now and is starting to goo at me. She smiles the most when I'm changing her diaper. It's super cute, as if she is saying, "Ahhh, Mommy! My bum feels so good now!" She smiles when she's laying on the floor and I get down to look at her. She smiles at Daddy when he comes home, and she really smiles a lot for Grandma Jones. She only cries when she is hungry, has a dirty bum, or is tired. Which is most of the time. But at least she doesn't sit and cry for no reason--unless I'm gone. I am totally loving staying home with my girls.

I love cuddling Daisy and kissing her fatty cheeks and watching her smile. I love learning about Alice--she has a crazy imagination, that girl. The other day, we beat up monsters and then made cookies because they were crying. Another day we ran hid from dinosaur-shaped chicken nuggets and then bit their heads off. Yesterday she invited the horses that live in the pasture across the street to come in the house and eat ice cream. Alice loves to dance and she has come up with her own fancy dance pose--I'll have to get a picture of it and post it, because it is, to say the least, fancy. Alice loves, LOVES shoes and accessories--especially mine. She loves to be a helper and frequently tells me that she is pretty and a good big sister.


I love my girls.

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