Our Little Man at 19 and 20 months!

I have just been absolutely horrible about taking my camera out and taking pictures of both kiddos. I tend to take quite a few pictures with my iphone, but don't do a great job of posting even those pictures.  Not too much has changed between month 19 and 20, aside from using more sentences, but here are a couple things that I definitely wanted to remember!

General Stats

• You wear 24 month clothes and size 4 diapers. Your 24 month one piece outfits (aside from the smocked clothes) are too small now, though. Makes me sad because I just love the one piece outfits! You're growing up sooo fast!
• You LOVE water. You put your head under, jump, do just about anything to stay immersed. 
• You've gotten to be a bit pickier with eating - sometimes you hardly touch anything other than milk and other times you eat all the time.
• You still adore your big sister and follow her everywhere!

Month 19

• Two days after you turned 18 months old, you started using some two word sentences. The first two were "drop it" and "get it." Now you are also using "hold you," "eat it," "open it," and several more.
• My absolute favorite this month is when you want me to hold your hand. You stick your hand out and say "hann?" And as soon as I put my hand out you grab my fingers. Talk about melting my heart! You are such a sweetheart!!!

Month 20

• You are a Momma's boy through and through! I absolutely adore it, but I know sometimes it might be hard on Daddy when you just want Mommy. Luckily, that's mainly at bedtime - as soon as Daddy comes home from work it's all about him... until it's time for bed... ;)

Our Trip to Turks and Caicos (part 1)

We had a blast at the beach with my parents! I highly recommend the beach we were at (which I can't remember the name of for the life of me) if you have small children! It was so shallow for so far! The kids could venture pretty far out and still be able to touch - amazing! We had a lot of fun swimming, eating, and playing at the villa we stayed at. The kids were hit or miss with the ocean/sand, but as a whole, I would say they enjoyed it a lot! We pretty much just hung out around the villa/beach most of the day, but went out for dinner - my kind of vacation! Alan and I went out to dinner one evening while my parents and Aunt "Shelle stayed home, and another evening they went out while Alan and I stayed home with the kids. I didn't take a ton of pictures with my camera, but here are the ones I did take... 

The beautiful view from our villa

Elizabeth got this little puppy on one of our shopping trips and it never leaves her side... She named her Gracie II (after our dog Gracie) and still loves that dog to pieces.

Throwback Thursday

Today I turn 28. In honor of my birthday, here are the pictures from my last 3 birthdays.

2013

Elizabeth was 2 and David was 7 months old

2012

Giving the monkey a kiss. (14 m.o. E)

I was about 3-4 months pregnant
with David.

2011

Elizabeth was 2 months old

Wordless Wednesday

Elizabeth's 3 year and David's 18 month check-up!

We headed to the doctor April 15 for both kiddos well-child check-ups. I took them by themselves, and they did very well!

Elizabeth
At 3 years old, Elizabeth weighed 28 pounds 4 ounces (23%) and was 2 feet 11.25 inches (11%).

David
At 18 months, David weight 25 pounds 4 ounces (66%) and was 2 feet 9.75 inches (90%)

So, to sum it up, David is only 3 pounds less and 1 1/2 inches shorter than Elizabeth. I have a feeling he might catch up to her sooner rather than later!

Unfortunately for everyone, both David and Elizabeth had to get shots. They both cried, but sweet Elizabeth was so confused why the nurse hurt her. She kept saying, "she hurt me," and "why did she hurt me?" over and over again.

I decided to take the kiddos to DoubleDave's after shots and while there I talked by text to my mom. When Elizabeth asked who/why I was talking to someone I told her Gammie was checking up on her. She immediately started crying and asking why the nurse hurt her again. She finally calmed down and I thought we were done with the drama. Not so much...

Thirty minutes before Alan got home Miss E was running around playing outside. Well, as soon as Daddy came home, she sat on the couch and started complaining about the nurse that hurt her and with the fact that her leg hurt. She said she couldn't walk and started limping around. Elizabeth even went so far as to say she couldn't walk to the dinner table. Daddy, however, picked her up and carried her. She continued to limp throughout the evening (with sporadic normal walking thrown in) and being dramatic. Elizabeth sure keeps us laughing and on our toes!!

Wordless Wednesday - Water and Playing

Happy Easter!

Alan had Good Friday off, so we headed to Texarkana Thursday evening to spend Easter weekend with my parents and grandparents. We didn't get in until about 11:30, and the kids didn't go to bed until 1-1:30... Gotta love getting a second wind after sleeping in the car. :)

Friday, David got his first "big boy" hair cut, and we went to lunch and out shopping for some meat. Unfortunately, the weekend before our freezer thawed out while we were out of town... It was still locked but for some reason it didn't seal well so we lost EVERYTHING in the freezer. I was soooo upset! Luckily my parents got us some meat so we can slowly begin stocking our freezer again.

Saturday, Alan and my dad headed out to do some work on some land, and Mom, the kids, and I went shopping for Easter shoes! We found some precious ones, and Miss E didn't want to take hers off! My grandparents came over for a yummy steak dinner and we all got ready for Easter morning.

We woke up bright and early Easter morning! We got the kids ready for church then headed to see what the Easter bunny brought the kids.

After church (we went to the early service), we came home, got lunch in the oven, then went to hunt the eggs the Easter bunny left. David's basket is almost as big as he is! ;) They both loved finding the eggs! I wish I could have recorded David's reactions when he found eggs. He made this adorable noise and would start shaking the eggs right away! After a while, instead of putting them in the basket, he'd open them to see what goodies were inside. Elizabeth was a true pro and found so many eggs! Next year will be even more fun when we can really hide them. 

After we hunted eggs outside, we went inside to find a special egg that my grandparents filled! It took a bit more time for the kids to find these, but once they did, they were so excited!

We headed back to College Station after we ate lunch, and the kids napped more than halfway home! Elizabeth woke up once, said something really random, then passed back out again for about 45 minutes. This never happens! All in all, we had a great weekend and look forward to seeing everyone again soon!