Playing together

With Abby out of school this week, she and Lilly have been able to play, play, play together and it's so cute to watch!  Abby continues to be a sweet, sweet jie jie which makes Bryce and I such happy parents.  ♥  We are really excited about Thanksgiving coming up and being able to spend time with family.  I love this time of year!

I was trying to take a picture of them playing together but Abby said "Me first!  Take a picture of me first!"

A great example of SHARING!!  Hooray!

Bryce was out raking the roof and the rest of us girls were playing in the front yard.  We busted out the PNP for mei mei to hang out in.  This is my new favorite picture of her with her cute little hat on!  ♥

Daddy's little helper!  She was trying so hard to reach the roof too!

Just noticed how odd it looks that I'm in a tank top and mei mei is all bundled up.  But she wasn't moving around like I was so she needed it!

Antlers!

Abby's first french braid!  I was a little out of practice.  I did it tighter the second time.  It brought back so many memories of doing Ruby's hair and my doll's hair.  :)

Playing together.  ♥

This little monster gets into EVERYTHING.  We'll actually have to child proof our house now.  Abby is just not a curious cat so we never had to baby proof much.

This is her pouty face.  She didn't want me to put her hair behind her ears.  Toddler problems.

Look Ma!  One hand!

French braid, take two!  Much better!

Now that Mei Mei is crawling, I was putting away the comforter on the floor but they got to it first and turned it into a sleeping bag.  Looks like fun to me!

Here is Mei Mei be-bopping down the hall.  Abby never even knew we had a hallway until she was over 1 year old.  We never had to worry about Abby crawling down the hall, into the kitchen, into our room, etc.  She was perfectly content in the living room.  They are so different - it's fun to watch!

My little explorer!

My crawler standing and my walker crawling.

Ruby: This reminds me of the pics of us on the a/c vent in the Pasadena house.  :)

We have a crawler, UT ME Reunion

Lilly has been army crawling or half crawling (up on all fours but lunges forward onto belly and repeat) for months now but last night she is officially a bonafide crawler!  She's up on all fours and getting into places like a baby on a mission!  Yay Lilly!  We are all so proud of you!

Sorry Mei Mei!  I might have been squeezing/hugging you too hard.  Get used to it!  ♥

I had a blast yesterday at Texadelphia.  For the past few years, I had been wanting to host an unofficial UT ME reunion since so many of us live in and around the Houston area and it finally came to fruition yesterday! So many of us have kids now and it's hard to get together with everyone so I thought, why not have ONE HUGE PLAY DATE?  I had grand intentions of decorating and hiring a face painter for the kids but with both girls being sick this past week and Bryce being out of town Thursday and Friday, none of that happened.  And it didn't matter anyhow!  The great company was all we needed to have a great time.  And it was SO awesome to see all of the 2nd generation future Longhorns playing so well together.  In typical Rosa fashion, I was terrible about taking pictures but luckily Mike took them for me so I'm waiting to get them from him.  I can't wait to share them with everyone!  I especially appreciate everyone that drove in to attend the event and we need to do this again!  The only picture I have is our group shot.  Look at all those future engineers!  {wink}

Hook'em!

Abby was fast asleep after our reunion so Lilly got to play with Minnie without any interruption.  :)

This is what a usual no-napper looks like when she actually naps.  She BLACKS OUT.  She slept right through a birthday party!

Monkey see, monkey do.  Abby was the horse for ONCE!  Lilly had sooo much fun!  Watching the 2 of them play together never gets old.  ♥

Abby:  "Mommy, I found my favorite seat!"

Bryce (thinking):  "Get these feet out of my face!"

When the cat's away the mice will play

...or in our case, when Abby is at school, Lilly finally gets to play with anything she wants!  She went to town and we cleaned up before Jie Jie came home.  No one was the wiser.  :)

Unfortunately both girls have been battling stuffy, runny noses that have now progressed into coughs for the past week but we still manage to have fun in between all the snot!  We also got to celebrate Bryce's 34th birthday and Abby and I got to do some fun art work one day.

I love her smile!  :)

This one is our little explorer.  She's already getting into stuff that Abby didn't discover until she was much older.  We're going to have to keep a close eye on this little girl - and she's fast too!

Bryce's mom made him a delicious chocolate cake for his birthday.  We had to improvise with the candles.  No, Bryce did not turn 5,251 years old.  It's 5-2 which =3 and 5-1 which =4, hence 34 years old.  Get it?  No, didn't think so.  :P

Abby absolutely loves this chair and now Lilly loves it too.  Just look at the joy in her face!

This is how the two of them have been playing lately.  They are in their matching "I ♥ MY DADDY' pajamas  since it was his birthday.

I was painting a quick Christmas art project and Abby wanted to paint too.  :)

This is what a stuffed up baby looks like mouth-breathing and trying to catch up on much needed sleep.  My poor babies...

And lastly, my super quick Christmas decoration.

My sweet Lilly

Two bottom teeth

Love this onesie - it's got both my favorite Care Bear Love-a-Lot Bear AND Ruby's favorite Cheer Bear so I just had to get it.  And it's vintage Care Bear too, not the crappy digitalized one now.  My little thumb sucker and her chubby cankles.  ♥

This might as well be MY baby picture.  From her neck down, Lilly is a mini-Mommy.  I recognize those feet anywhere.  She's got A LOT of shoes coming her way.  And I mean, A LOT.  Lucky girl.  :)

She looks extra chubbed out with that face.

 I was messing with the camera settings again and took several pictures that I liked.  This is what we do when Abby is at school.

This is blurry but super cute.

I couldn't narrow down which pictures to post so I'm just posting all the ones I like.  :)

Oooohh.....  ♥

Elbow dimples!!

Happy baby!!

Twinkies!

It's never too late for matching glow-in-the-dark skeleton pajamas!!  They both had so much fun dancing and glowing in the dark.  :)

Just me and my girls, Tooth #2

Abby's great grandmother gave her the Melissa and Doug Make-a-Face sticker pad a while back and when we ran out of faces to put stickers on, we started putting them on our own faces.  I guess I inadvertently channeled my inner Jacky O.  I highly recommend this sticker pad.  It is HOURS of entertainment.

Lilly was standing so well for quite a while so I was taking picture after picture like a mamarazzi.  I couldn't decide on my favorite so here are a couple.  My little girl has 2 bottom teeth now!  The 2nd one came in 4 days after the 1st one.

Man, I love those chubby legs!

Something sure was funny!  :D

Happy Halloween!

We had yet another super fun Halloween trick-or-treating again.  :)  Abby went as Snow White which she has been looking forward to for a looong time.  A little girl was Snow White last year and lo and behold, she asked back then if she could be Snow White next year so here we are.  Promise kept!

We were running late before trick-or-treating so this is an 'after' picture but still good!

Mei Mei was a super trooper too!  I was able to feed her her last bottle, burp her AND change her diaper all in that stroller.  Go me!

Mei Mei is getting really good at grabbing and pulling up on things.  I remember being pretty strict with Abby about only letting her play with age appropriate toys but all that has gone out the window now.  Just as long as she can't swallow it, it's OK.  :)

This is what happens when I try to take a picture of Lilly.  Gotta love the effort.  ♥

"Mommy, I'm cute too!  Look at me!"

This face says "Are you still taking pictures of Mei Mei??"  Oh, the perils of being the first child.

And lastly, look how well my little chub chub can sit!!  She watches Abby play on the laptop and she kept reaching for the mouse.  She'll be on the computer waaay earlier than Abby.