Zoey at 2.5 months

Zoey is growing up so quickly! At her two month check up she was already at 12 lbs. It seems like a lot but she's right on track with where Izzy was at her age.

Zoey is getting better and better at night. There has been a couple of nights where she has slept through from 7pm to 6am the next day. Those are the best nights! Now she just wakes up once a night and sleeping for 5 hours plus stretches. She still needs to be swaddled though and I don't know what I'm going to do when she grows out of her swaddle. It's really helping her sleep at night and I don't want to sleep train her if the swaddle is helping.

I'm madly in love with Zoey! She can coo and laugh with me now. She's so interactive and just a sweet, sweet girl. If she is our last child, I would just be sad because I want to remember all her little noises and expressions. There are days when I'm just communicating with her and it melts my heart, almost to a point where I want to have more babies just to get more of these moments! We'll see! If we even think that, it won't happen for at least 3-4 more years.

Gilroy Gardens

Last Saturday Izzy and I had a mommy and daughter day and went to Gilroy Gardens. I had been wanting to take her for some time so I dropped Zoey with my parents on the way down and spent the morning with Izzy at the theme park. It's a super cute little amusement park and all the rides are age appropriate for toddlers. Since I'm only home for one more month, I really want to take as much time as I can bringing Izzy to new places and exposing her to different things. I'm constantly looking for places to take her. What I love about being a mom is just watching her reactions to new things and finding out what she likes/dislikes.

Izzy takes some time to warm up to new things and for awhile she was super pissed off looking. I don't think she was mad but she acted grumpy. She actually went on a ride with another little girl and had a good time so I think it was because she was alone that made it not so fun. She definitely needs a friend/buddy to hang out with.

I'm planning on going again in a few weeks with another family so Izzy can have a friend to go on the rides with. We had a playdate this past Wednesday and she had so much fun with the kids at our house. She is much more social with kids her own age.

Top off the day with soft serve ice cream. She wanted ice cream so badly and she literally ate the whole thing. It was lunch time so that was probably why she killed the whole thing. We ended the day at the playground and then spent some time with the grandparents in Morgan Hill.

Chuck E Cheese

Our second time at Chuck E Cheese. Easy and cheap place to take the kids to. We normally meet up with some other little kids and just have a blast. It's safe and just fun for them.

Izzy gets better and better at putting the coins into the machines. This time she actually played a few games and won some tickets.

Rare smiling pictures...

More Birthday Pics!

We took so many cute photos of all the kids just hanging out... here's just a few...

Popsicle time!

Lexy and Bell Bell (Lexy's nickname for Izzy) having cupcakes together.

This was the mild bounce house pic... It get's MUCH crazier... I'm surprised the house didn't pop.

Happy 2nd Birthday Isabel!

Okay... so I let the excitement of celebrating Izzy's 2nd birthday get the best of me. Wow, it was a lot of work (and money!) to throw a toddler birthday party. I would highly recommend NOT doing it if I were you... Although it was amazing and super fun, I couldn't believe that it took SOOOO much work. I even had Ben, Cindy, Catherine and Angela helping out 4 hours BEFORE the event even started! There was no way I could have pulled it off without their help.

I hired a petting zoo to come to the party which was so great for the kids. It was definitely worth the money. So yea, I completely blown the budget that Ben set for the party... Let me just say that it could have bought me a nice Louis Vuitton if I had not thrown this shindig. So next year and for the rest of the years after that, I'm purse shopping instead.

No cake, just cupcakes for the party which Izzy didn't even care about anyway. She just had fun hanging out with all her friends.

Cuteness Overload! Isabel Recites the Alphabet

OMG - So our fabulous super duper camera proved its worth by showing off my dear daughter at her best. I had NO idea that she could recite the complete alphabet. I knew she could do segments but to actually have the attention span to sit there and do it was amazing. Well after all, we did just come off of a fun play date at our house where she wolfed down like 4 chocolate chip cookies. The energy was still there at 9pm, way past her bed time. Izzy absolutely adores her daddy and for like 30 minutes, her and Ben are in the kitchen having a conversation. I could watch this video a million times!!! Yes I'm a proud mama!

A New Big Girl Bed!

So based on how many times Izzy has fallen out of her toddler bed, we were finally convinced that maybe the bed was just too small for her after all. She sleeps in such weird positions and flips all over the place at night that eventually she ends up on the floor. We walked through Ikea a few weekends ago and found the perfect bed for her. It's actually a reversible bed that flips over and becomes a bunk bed so when Zoey gets older, they can share a room together.

The bed is actually navy but I had to customize it. I hand sewed the drapes and bought the canopy from Ikea. Isabel LOVES her bed. She plays in it and reads books in it too. I ended up buying her a new duvet set and a new goose down blanket too. She has not fallen out of her bed once since we've gotten it.

Last weekend we spent a day in San Leandro with our cousins and it was actually the first time we took both the girls out for the entire day. We had not planned on staying the entire day but ended up doing so which meant emergency run to the grocery store for formula and diapers!

Zoey makes the strangest faces! She constantly makes odd faces when she's awake. She has grown so much the last 6 weeks. We haven't weighed her yet but she's at least over 10 pounds now.