Merry Christmas

While it may be Boxing Day now, hope you all had a very Merry Christmas. These two definitely did. Three days of travel to see family was well worth it. We took Christmas day to stay cozy in our jammies (thank you to Grandma K for the matching duds) and be together for our first Christmas as four. More photos to come!

Happy Holidays!

It's been quiet on the blog but am hoping that with the start of the New Year we can get caught up with Flickr photos and go gangbusters on some fun posts from the last few months. And even better - post more regularly going forward.

Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas. Rob and I feel so thankful for these little but mighty people in our lives. Mac is an ever-present funny, sensitive and active boy and Waverly is a complete lovebug. Her personality is coming through more and more each day. She's the sweetest of sweet and is starting to let us know that while she's definitely up for going with the flow, there's times when the flow no goes:).

Sweet dreams are made of these

Does it get any cuter?

Giggles McGee

Almost every night Macadam has Waverly laughing. Without even trying. She thinks he is so funny, even when he's having a meltdown (he's not such a fan of those giggles).  Anyway, here's some great belly laughs from earlier this evening while we were on the phone with Rob.

The new bath time

Combining routines is becoming easier as Waverly gets a little bigger. The shot below is from earlier tonight. Planning a major attack on blogging here soon with a full arsenal of the hundreds, if not thousands of photos we have of the last almost five months. Yes, Wavy turns five months this week! Hard to believe and she is the sweetest of sweet. Her big brother is pretty fantastic too. Can't wait to share the recent, and not so recent, antics of both.

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"The new bath time"

Yes, we're alive - I swear

Things have been less than lively on the blog which means that things have been rather too lively in real life. Really hope to update soon - can you handle a summer's worth of posts all in a row? I think I might just do that:).

As always when I have slacked on the blog by taking care of bizness in life, here's a teaser of our greatest loves - Waves (running the show at Mommy's office) and Mac (going to school).

Summer sight

If this doesn't capture summer, I don't know what does. Can't believe our little man turns three on Saturday!

Two months!

Can hardly believe the little lady is two months already. She's cooing and smiling a ton which is making her quite the party girl. We went to her eight week appointment and she's topped 10 pounds now. The doctor made the nurse measure her twice since she couldn't believe she was 24 inches long. She was right, she's 24.5":). Long, string bean to the core!

Signature move

Appropriately enough Waverly's signature move is lifting her left arm to wave.

Catching up

Due traveling, work, kids and some technical difficulties, where we haven't been able to upload photos from our computer to any other program we are definitely behind on updates. Actually, it appears I have to email photos versus upload them to Blogger.

It's hard to believe that Waverly is almost six weeks. As we try to catch up, here's a recent shot from our trip up to Orcas Island for our friends' wedding, which was so much fun - both the big event and having a family getaway.

Macadam is definitely a growing little boy with plenty of rambunctious times and opinions, and man, he loves his little sister.

Watermelon two ways

Eating it

and wearing it

Night owl

Some nights Waverly likes to party more than go back to sleep.

Happy little lady

While the smiles are all sleepy, gassy ones coming from Waverly these first two weeks, she is probably one of the most mellow babies I've met. It makes me feel grateful that she's our to boot. She may decide to change her tune in the coming weeks but for now, we'll take all she sends our way.

Life continues to move at lightening speed most often for us but it has slowed down at least a notch or two since welcoming this baby girl. More updates and photos soon but here's one of her daily activities below.

Father's Day

Rob's Father's Day was certainly extra special this year. I mean, I did make sure one of the best gifts of all was delivered on time:). All kidding aside, I can't imagine having children or sharing a life with anyone else. He's an amazing father and I've loved watching him as we've both grown as parents with Macadam. Now we have this beautiful little girl and she'll be so lucky to have a dad who will love and support her as only Rob can. 

We had a great time celebrating Rob with early morning presents and family cuddle time followed by breakfast with friends and fun at the farmer's market. 

Big brother

All of our roles have changed around here and probably the biggest shift is for Macadam. It's still early and we're rather sure that his ideas about Waverly will change, but it's been so wonderful to watch him embrace being a big brother. Throughout my labor, I was really emotional about our little man and what the arrival of our sweet little lady would mean for him. It's been much smoother thus far than I think we imagined or could have hoped and there's been so many heartwarming moments.

As he did on her second day, Mac's been loving having her lie with him and read books as well as his most recent request to hold her.

Four days old

Unknowingly I dressed both Macadam and Waverly in the same onesie at four days old. Looking back at pictures of Mac, I discovered the coincidence and it's really rather cute to see how much they look alike, not just in that curled up newborn way but in many of their features.

The photo above is from when Wavy and I caught a great game of baseball between Mac and Rob. Macadam's obsession with all sports continues but the current game to love is baseball. He's getting so good, we can't really play inside anymore. Also, the third photo below is how high Mac got before we made him come down. Had.no.idea.he.could.climb.that.high!!!

Scenes from the hospital

In the short life that is Waverly's, it seems like so much has happened over the last 11 days. Being in the hospital seems like forever ago but really not even two weeks!
Friends and family made their way to greet Waverly in her early hours. Rob and I also got some quality time alone and with her, which was oh so wonderful.

Two days in

We're just two days in and so far, we're loving every minute of being four. I hope to update with some more pictures of Waverly meeting her grandparents and a few friends.

For now, here are a couple of shots of her before leaving the hospital on Friday and then probably one of the most heartwarming moments (thus far) of Rob and my parental careers. Big brother and little sister cuddling and reading a book tonight.

Introducing...

Waverly Marguerite
June 16, 2011 4:48 p.m.
6 lbs, 11 ounces
18.5 inches (discovered at the doctor's that she's actually 21 inches:))

Healthy, adorable and ready to meet her big brother.

We're so in love, again.