Everyone Loves Somes Pictures

I love this picture so much.....now that I look at it, it doesn't look all that great but they way they were looking at each other was SO precious!

Braden has become obsessed with his feet and pulling his socks off

Poor little Alexa was so tired she fell asleep while reading in bed. A couple nights later she did the same thing except the book was laying over her face!

Braden just being his adorable self.

Alexa dancing like a princess, too busy to stop for a picture.

Mom's Hard Work Down the Drain

So I have been secretly working with Braden for the past several weeks on saying ma ma. I have to admit, it wasn't going so well and we hadn't made very much progress on it. I thought, Alexa said da da first, this time I am determined to get ma ma out of Braden. After all I deserved it, right? I am the one who was pregnant for 9 months, the one who has to give birth to these babies, the one up at night feeding them, the one who worries constantly day in and day out that everything is perfect for them and that they are as safe as possible.

This past week I could feel it coming I knew he was about to break out and just SAY SOMETHING already.

Well, he did, loud and clear....DA DA.

Not once or twice but basically that's all that has been coming out of his mouth for the last like 5 days.

How could this happen? I know Matt wasn't secretly working with him too, was he? Didn't he know how much I really wanted him to say ma ma first?

Then I realized that Matt deserved it just as much as I thought I did. He loves them just as much as I do and he is a wonderful daddy. Besides it sounds pretty dang cute when Braden says "da da da da" all day and it was cute how excited Matt was to hear it!

Wordless Wednesday

Building with Daddy

Alexa's busy Saturday morning started off with swimming, which she is always SO excited for. I think she would live in the water sometimes if she could, between swimming and baths and always telling us she wants to go back to Hawaii to swim there too! This week Grampa and Gramma came to watch and she was very happy to see them and show off all the new things she was doing. After that it was off to breakfast and then to Lowe's for some building. I FINALLY got there with them so I could get pictures. I'm not sure who has more fun, Alexa or Daddy....they are too cute!

And here's the finished product....a jewelry box!

Happy Valentine's Day!

Happy Valentine's Day to everyone!!

Here's Braden eating one of his cards...

...and the envelope. :)

Oh yeah...

When I got to work I opened my email and this is what I found....

Too cute, it made my day! Thanks Gramma! :)

Back to Work

My first week back to work went pretty well. I am SO happy that I am only back for 3 days a week because that was long enough! Tuesday and Wednesday the kids got to stay at our house with Gramma so that helped all of us out a lot, I got to call as much as I wanted and talk to them, which I did of course. Thursday was Braden's first day at daycare and it also went very well. He got to meet lots of new friends and play with lots of new stuff. I made sure to peek in on him as much as I could on the cameras and he always seemed to be rolling around doing something different. After 2 phones calls and hearing him talking in the background, I knew he was in good hands. I forgot how fun it was to end a work day and be able to go get them and have a best part of the day. I obviously love being home with them but the smiles and hugs you get when you pick them up after not seeing them all day is so great! Of course I get tons of kisses and hugs all day when I'm home which I miss on those days but picking up Alexa and hearing her say "My girl, I missed you!" and Braden grabbing my face and giving me huge smiles....it's the best! Being a stay at home mom as been wonderful but I am happy to have a little time away to miss them and appreciate them so much more!! And it's even better that I get to have nice long 4 days weekends!

Now I can get excited to come home to this.....

And this...

And this.
Oh, I love them so much!