Don't blink...

I always knew looking back on the tears would make me laugh, but I never knew looking back on the laughs would make me cry.

My 2 year old Baby Girl

It seems like I was just sitting down at the computer last year saying, "I can't believe my baby girl is turning 2", and here I am one year later saying the same words but another year later, and now it is 3. I can use the words of, "where does the time go?"...but I simply don't know, but these 2 years and 11 months I am so grateful and blessed to have shared so many wonderful times with Her.

I have laughed till I've cried, I have repeated myself till I was blue in the face, I've went to bed thinking all I've done is get on to her all day long, I have cried when I've punished Her... but no matter what, they forget how you punish them and only respect you more... and still give you hugs and kisses after all.

Legs crossed... too funny!! This is one of the first times she has wore shoes that fit between her toes.. notice her toes on the right.. ha ha ha ha!!!

It's the small things that excite princess...

going to the library and seeing the turtle, going for a walk, giving her a pop cicle right before bed time, letting Boots the cat in to play, letting her help change a diaper and her FAVORITE - sleeping with Mommy and Daddy :) ahhhh.... ;)

I wanted to make sure I wrote down some things that She says, to most it will mean nothing, to me, in years to come it will mean everything. I have decided since writing a daily diary is a thing of the past, blogging is my diary. :)

By Elizabeth:

"that's how we dos it!"

"God is great, God is good, let us dank him for our food, by his hands we are fed, div us dord our daily bread, amen."

"sit wite here"

"her want to"

"Mama will you marry me?"

"I'm buzzzzzz light year!"

"that frustrates me"

"let's get evvbri-dang"

"dats my baby brodder"

"It's a wooonderful day"

"twintle, twintle wittle tar how I wonder what you are"

Since baby Jackson has came along she has taken on new roles, mothering everything, from babies to sticks outside. Has invisible friends and even talks to acorns. She is learning to share the love with Mommy and Daddy. What a good sport she has been, she asked me the other night, "why we keeping Jackson?" :) maybe she thought he was only staying for a little while?

;)

Speaking of baby Jackson, some one just looked at me with those big blue eyes and gerber baby curl and melted my heart. He was on his tummy a couple weeks back and lifted his head up and looked at me. I once again, as like every day.. melted. :)

Happy 3 Months Love!!!

I am so blessed with two wonderful kids, I know every parent says the same words , but parenting is an awesome thing.

I will cherish each day with my babies.

Don't Blink...

..and 2 months later

JWS

Hello World, my name is Jackson William...and I am not happy, I was perfectly fine where I was!!! :)

Dec 21, 2010 at 7:02pm was the day our blonde hair, blue eyed baby boy was born. 7 pounds, 7 ounces and 20 inches long. Everything I knew about being a Mommy to an infant came back to me the second I held him (I thought I forgot it all remember?) I wasn't sure how it was going to be to love two, all I can say now is my love is endless to two sweet babies. :)

...and then we're four :)

Daddy got his boy :) For some of you who don't know, when I was pregnant with Elizabeth we didn't find out the sex and the WHOLE time Dustin just knew it was a boy :) ha..

God gave us a healthy and perfect little guy.

Princess holding Jackson at only an hour old :)

Our first "big" outing with E and Jackson :) He's hiding ;)

AH! Big sister is a kitty cat!! Look at those eyes.. don't they just melt your heart?

They do mine :)

..that blonde hair <<>>

...and again those eyes :)

At 5 weeks old :o where does the time go?? I just had you!

6 1/2 weeks old - looking like Daddy!

Today bud you are 2 months old, the smiles and tears you have already brought me!

Totally in Love with you, can only image how the next two months are going to be....

I Love you more than yesterday! Love Mommy

Just 3 more days..

I am 3 days away from birthing my second child, this could be my last or it may be only the start... will see right? I am trying to get everything in place and perfect before the big day, will that happen? No, because i have a precious 2 year old who likes to mess it all up over again, but I don't mind. Thats what being a Mommy is all about. :)

Princess is very excited about Baby Jackson coming. I told her she gets to change his diaper when she meets him for the first time, she reminds me often that she is going to do this.

I feel like I may have forgot a few things...but some how I'm sure I will remember.

Wish me luck! Can't wait to do the first blog about us 4 !

I am excited about holding another little Elizabeth again...

I am even more excited about becoming a Mommy to two wonderful babies :)

Happy Birthday to the MAN I LOVE!

Little did i know, at this point, the first time our heads touched, our first picture together, that 7 years later i would be writing a Happy Birthday blog to this man!

13 months later we were married.

We had a year of marriage under our belt, feeding each other our wedding cake, life was good!

This my dear friend is hottt, his first purchase after we were married.

We drove everywhere in this truck:)

I love you for that half smile you always do.

Thank you for taking me to San Diego that year.

For being ab normal......

.....always

There's that little smile again, of course he has that smirk, we were at the doctors office, we just found out we were going to be parents :)

Life as we knew it, had changed... forever

...and it did.

For being the BEST Daddy a Princess could ask for.

For sharing those special times together..

For giving his daughter a wonderful life :)

Happy Birthday to a wonderful hubby and Daddy!!!

More than ever do i appreciate YOU!

I love you for everything you are!

Love,

E & Me

You're never fully dressed without a SMILE!!!!

I can't help but think back 2 years ago, my little angel was a princess pumpkin.

Only 6 months old!

Her first trip to Biloxi, MS to see the family.

I did the usual as a Mommy of a 6 month old would do, dressed her up, took her from store to store trick or treating (me saying, "trick or treat from the pumpkin in the stroller") and even got her candy! Why candy?.. for me... ;) She was passssed out, but we had fun!

Don't ask.

At 18 months she had completely stolen my heart away. I was at this point in my life so in love with this little girl, i thought how could i POSSIBLY love her any more.

Who couldn't resist giving candy to this little princess Elmo.

All this candy, and she would only eat bubble gum and lollipops!

In 2 1/2 years an angel who has totally flipped our world upside down into the most perfect way! A little girl who has so much life! Who is full of personality and all smiles.

Today was "Halloween Day" at her school. She was Orphan Annie. She knows every song on the movie and all the characters by heart. I woke her up at 7am and starting rolling her hair! It was priceless when she saw herself for the first time as ANNIE:)

Little Ms. Orphan Annie

"You're never fully dressed, though you may wear the best,

You're never fully dressed with out a SMILE! :)

School Parade (gotta love the little rope).

She let loose and came running to Daddy and Mommy:)

Only my child would be SO, SUPER excited about the itty, bitty potty that she used it 5 times back to back just to prove to me she could do it all by herself ;) I honestly think she liked using the potty more than she did eating cake pops that took me and Nana 3 hours to make, but thats what makes little Ms. Princess Elizabeth so wonderful!!!

I thought they turned out pretty darn cute!

Pumpkin Cake Pops!!

Today, being my birthday and being able to spend it with E has been the best birthday gift that you could have given me. I look back on years past and remembered I could hardly wait to open presents on that special day. Man do things change!

Having the best husband and daughter in my life is my birthday present!!!! I love y'all so much! Only a couple years left in my twenty's better enjoy them while i can!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)

I think I'm going to go eat a cake pop!

Happy Birthday to ME!

The Joy of being a Mom

My favorite time of the day is early morning before Elizabeth wakes, i tip toe out of bed and quietly make coffee and then i sit in my chair and start cruising the internet. I can usually do it for about 20 minutes until she wakes but it sure is some good therapy. Speaking of that my coffee is ready now!

So, i tried potty training, for a day and I failed miserably, or maybe that was her. Well no, she thought she was doing the right thing. She would potty in her new princess panties and say, "Mommy, i get new ones!!!!" YAY!! ....What? You get new ones, no, these are the only ones you get today kiddo! She clearly didn't get it. ..... that has been 2 weeks ago. She is doing better now. I'm just scared to "release" her in the new almighty princess panties on a daily bases. I put them on her during the week when i feel like cleaning up potty all day. :) I took her for a ride in my truck the other day and she rode in the front seat, and then she said, "uh oh!" Yes, she sprinkled my seats!!! Now with just the right amount of sun light they should grow thicker! :)

Gotta love the little hiny cheek hanging out ;)

Parenting is so much fun, really. When your going through all the different phases that kids go through you begin to wonder why your brain is still attached to your head, and then realize its not that bad and your really not going to lose it. I wouldn't say i miss little princess crys from 1 day old till 18 months, when she would wail through the middle of the night, not just 1 time folks, at least 3 times! (Thank you my sweet darling i now have permanent puffy eyes!) I would get up, i would plea, i would pray, i would cry and hope when i lay her back on those warm, fuzzy sheets she would close her eyes. I usually lost, yes, i gave in, i was one of "those parents" ..but i have learned, THAT I HAVE! ... well.. maybe not;)

Dear baby Jackson in my belly, love ya, buy Mommy will lay you down when its time to go to sleep, and you will be okay, and when you cry you are okay! That was the hardest concept for me to understand as a parent. I still have not totally embraced that, i just pretend i do :)Now i totally get the understanding of the "2nd" child syndrome. "You learn from your first one" thats what my Mom has always said, and i feel that is true, but i hope some things i do better at. :) I promise this day that i WILL take as many pictures of my little man as i did of Elizabeth. I think i ranked up in the numbers of OVER 900 pictures in delivery! Ha.. that is sad. No, what's sad is I'm the 2nd child and there are approximately 2 pictures of me when i was a baby, maybe 3 but I've tried to erase that 3rd one clearly out of my mind (it was the picture of me looking like a seal on my belly with the blanket over my head!!) Every baby had that picture back then, what was that all about? Or maybe that was my brother in the picture, he was the first born so I'm sure he was privileged enough to get the blanket picture:)

I stumbled across some pictures that i had taken of things little princess had done, they are priceless. Look what your missing if your not a Mom!

This to her was the ultimate, you have to understand she is in love with this cat. From the moment she wakes up she has this kitty in her hands and cries every night when its time for him to go outside. She was able to push him in the stroller for a few minutes and he stayed!

Don't you wish you knew how their brain thought? I guess she realized she had

to have something in every slot :)

I heard the small little trash can opening and closing the other day, she told me she was throwing trash away.. my orange bowl, her little doll, her garden gloves and a baby's blanket?

I would like to see what gets thrown away when I don't hear the little trash can open and shut.

Or how about this one, so sweet... there is a story behind this. We were in Hobby Lobby one day and as soon as she saw this little scarecrow she called him it her baby brodder and just had to have him :)

I found him the other day laying in the crib with a bottle :)

There's no way i did things this cute as a kid. Or did I Mom?