Two months already

I'm not sure what this look means. Surprise? Incredulity? I wish I knew! These were taken a few days before she turned two months.

There's a great smile! It is SO hard to snap a good picture of her smiling! She's got such a cute little grin, and she's using it more and more, but most of the time I can't seem to get a good picture. Sigh.

I love the tongue sticking out!

So curious!

My girls got sick not too long ago. They are both fine now, but here is a picture of Chelsea when she was sick, just smiling and happy! She didn't really slow down too much, but you can see from her face and her eyes that she didn't feel well. Poor kid inherited my dark circles, only hers look more pink with her super fair skin.

I had promised a picture of the finished Christmas tree. Well, this is as close as I've got still. After it was all done we decided it needed more color so we got some red tinsel garland and added it. Chelsea had fun "helping" me put it on.

These next two were taken on the 7th, when Brie officially turned two months old. She's filling out, but I wouldn't call her chubby...yet...I never thought Chelsea was too chubby either, but looking back, she really was, hehe.

She's got very expressive eyes and eyebrows. :)

Here is a picture of Chelsea from way back in the day...

...and here is Brienna around the same age. (Chelea is a little younger in that photo than Brie is here) People say they look nothing alike, like they aren't even siblings, but I disagree. I think Brie looks a lot like Chelsea did as a baby. Different, yes. But alike. It will be fun to see how they change as they grow up. Chelsea definitely started with more hair!

Daddy is so cute when he plays with his little girls!

"Hello, Beast. Talk. Bye bye!"

Is this a pro Daddy or what? Check out that multitasking action going on. He's so great!

Cuteness

Chelsea got this little pink bag as a gift when she was born (there was other stuff in it as well). She knows it's a bag, but she calls it her backpack and wears it as such. My Little Pony memory is also her favorite game right now. I thought she looked so cute just playing away.

During our last FHE this is Brie during the lesson. She woke up when it came to the activity. We put up Christmas decorations, so it was a little inconvenient to have her awake, but it worked out.

We had a lesson on the story of baby Jesus, of course. Nativity sets are great.

Talking about the wisemen here. Do you like our stable?

And this is the last photo of the evening, starting to put up the tree. I guess we will have to take some pictures of the finished product for you to see. The girls were pretty whiney by the end, (both getting sick, blah) so I wasn't too concerned with photos by then. (They are both improving with their stuffy noses today. Right now they are both sawing logs and it is really nice.)

Thanksgiving 2009

Here's our youngest two family members. Brienna and Kyri. They are second cousins.

Daddies are so cute with their kids, especially their little girls! It looks like they were interested in each other, too!

Rick is always a big hit with the kiddos. He's so much fun, and so good at wearing them out! Chelsea is in the middle spinning and everyone else is running laps around her taking turns chasing each other. I guess you could call the game "tag" or something.

It will be fun next year when Brie will most likely be running along with all the rest! Or at least toddling around. :)

Grandpa assigned himself dish duty. What a good helper! (Can you tell I have a two year old! Lots of praise for helping, hehe)

The games continue. Rick is only pretending to sleep. Tyjah is helping Chelsea climb up to give Daddy a kiss which will wake him up. Then he runs away and they all chase him. I believe they actually drug him around the floor as well...It was not a quiet afternoon, hehe.

The fun continued later at the Heit House. Yes, we have Brie just laying on the floor here. Oh well. It wasn't for very long, and she didn't get stepped on because she was under a table. No joke, she really was. :)

A song and dance from Chelsea. Such talent. I hope she inherits some of her Uncle's piano skills. I can only teach her so much myself. She's got the dancing down pat, in my opinion. ;)
We had a very lovely Thanksgiving Holiday and it was very nice to be able to spend at least a little bit of time with both sides of the family. I look forward to Christmas when we can do the same for a longer period of time with each side. Hooray for holidays and maternity leave!

Funny

Here are two pictures of Chelsea about a year ago. She's changed a lot, and not much at the same time.

And here she is a couple nights ago.

I can't get enough of the bath photos. She's grown SO much! Not long ago Chelsea's bath photos looked very much like Brienna's current ones. I can't wait till I can put them in the tub together.
It must be nice to be as bendy as this too. It's hard to tell, but she's really bending backward quite far, the goofy girl.

Bathtime isn't so traumatic anymore. Brienna seems to almost enjoy it. That is, until the water gets too cool and her chin starts to quiver and shiver. Then the screaming begins. Lotion is still no fun, and neither is getting dressed. But it's getting better! Seven weeks old today! Time. It's a crazy thing.

Look at those cheeks! I wish I could read her mind to hear what she is thinking. I bet it would be really funny.

'Sup.

Hi Mom!

My Baby Beaver.

She smiled right after I snapped this. So of course I didn't get a picture of it. :S Oh well. At least she stopped crying for this shot. Short sleeves and November in North Dakota don't mix. The shirt didn't stay on long. :)

Blessing Day/One Month Old

The lovely baby in her beautiful blessing dress. This is the same dress that Chelsea wore for her blessing. Chelsea was also swimming in it, though she was bigger to start with and was about twice Brie's age when she wore it. So Brie is really swimming it in, but oh well. It made it really easy to get her in and out of it. :) Grandma Heit made the dress. Thanks Grandma!

I don't put too many pictures of myself up here, so here I am. You can also see the blanket Grandma Kelly made for Baby. Thanks Grandma!

A kiss for Baby Sister. Chelsea loves to give her hugs and kisses. You have to really watch her to make sure she doesn't love the baby TOO much, or too hard. Babies don't like to be squished and I don't think Chelsea realizes her strength.

Which camera are we looking at? Chelsea was very uncooperative while we tried to get a decent family photo. This is as close as we could get.

Random photo of Baby Brie asleep on my overnight changing station. I hate to risk waking Chelsea up during the nighttime changes just to use the changing table, so here's where we get cleaned up. Right in front of the entertainment center. Perfect spot. Meh. It works.

One month milestone! This is actually one month and one day old, but oh well. Close enough.

How cute is my baby? She's starting now to have pleasant expressions more often, and she even gave a little coo to me the other night. She's officially an infant now, no longer a newborn. Ah they grow up!

Halloween!

Halloween celebrations round one. Here we are all decked out for the ward Halloween party. I was a jailbird. Not too creative, I know, but oh well. Chelsea is Minnie Mouse (with Pluto) and Rick is Mickey Mouse and Brienna is a pink leopard! Aren't we just cute!?

She got the hang of these picture taking things at the zoo, but this one she just didn't understand that we wanted her to stick her face into the hole. Meh. Still cute!

What's with closing your eyes in all the pictures, Chels? If we had thought ahead, we could have put together a Disney costume for me too. Maybe I could have been Pluto or something. Or Brie and I could have had coordinating costumes. Oh well. Maybe we'll coordinate costumes ahead of time next year.

Trick or treating to some of the rooms at church. Good thing we had a pretty small basket. They had tons of candy to give away and told us to grab handfuls at each door. We don't want to have that much candy onhand. That just means it will get eaten by us who don't need it, or we will be pestered by Chelsea who would eat it all at once if allowed.

This is a funny picture to me. It looks like she's sticking her face way out like, look at me here I am! So cute! Brie didn't get to go the the party. She stayed home with Grandma Kelly while the rest of us went. She was just a little too young to take out yet. But we still dressed her up anyway. So worth it!

Full body shot. Good thing she can't really move yet. I didn't even notice that she's laying by the edge of the couch until after I took the picture! (We were in a hurry to get going. I had to feed this little one before we went to the party and we were running late because of it.)

Halloween celebrations round two. This is trick or treating at the mall. Chelsea loved it. Brie got to come along this time but she slept the whole time and didn't get any candy at all. She didn't seem to mind though. :)

My Minnie! Adorable, as always.

We stopped by a few select houses to trick or treat. Here we are with Great Grandma Heit. Chelsea got candy and Brie got a special gift too. (Blanket and some bibs, very nice) Mickey and the jailbird stayed home, but a pair of cloaked wizards came along.

Here at Grandma Heit's house the girls sat on the couch together. I love how their arms are positioned in the same way. Can't tell they are related, can you?

It was very cute of Chelsea to try to comfort her baby sister by holding her hand when she cried. It didn't do anything to calm Brienna down, but it was a nice gesture anyway.

Last stop of the evening was Grandma Kelly's. I took this picture mostly to show the cute little tail on her costume. Love it!