The Rundown

I am so amazed at how fast time goes by!! Elsie will be 6 weeks old on Saturday and I'm not quite sure where all the time has gone. With Maia, David and I were always so excited for the next phase....the smiles, cooing, rolling over, eating real food, etc, etc. But this time around I have found myself not wanting Elsie to grow up, knowing that it just happens too fast!! And in trying to keep up with life, blogging has definitely taken the back-burner....sooooo here is the quick rundown on what we've been up to the past few weeks... I guess I'll start with Easter--on Saturday before Easter we had a little Easter Egg Hunt for Maia in our backyard. As you can see from the pictures, she absolutely LOVED it. If any of you know me very well, you know that Maia doesn't get candy hardly at all, so when she opened up the first egg and saw what was inside, she was completely elated...I think the picture does a good job of capturing her feelings!!
Then on Sunday, we did church and then got together with our good friends the Evan's, Shaw's and Shaheen's for a delicious Easter dinner and some fun games. I would post pictures of our fun night, but I think it's a little too after-the-fact and I don't want to get too overwhelming with my marathon posts! Anyway, here are the girls in their matching Easter dresses...not the best pictures, but what can you expect trying to get a newborn and a 2 year old to cooperate?!Then last week we some warm weather and decided to take Maia to the Zoo on Friday afternoon. We went with our friends, the Fox's, and had a great time there. Here is Sean with the kids...
And Elsie was a jewel (like she usually is:) and did this the entire time:
Saturday (the 18th) was mine and David's 6 year anniversary...I can't believe we've been married for 6 years!! Time really does go by too fast! We didn't get to do much because there was a baptism in our ward that David spoke at and then he had a ton of school work to do and was in the lab until about 1am. But that's okay, it doesn't change the way we feel about each other and we know that someday we will be able to celebrate our anniversaries in a killer way (exotic vacations, etc. right?) I am so thankful to be married to such a great man and feel like the luckiest gal in the world! He works so hard for our family and he loves his "3 girls" so much....speaking of which, I can't think of a sweeter thing than seeing a dad interact with his daughters. It is seriously one of the most precious things ever!
Okay, continuing on...somewhere in the mix of the last week or so, I took Elsie in for her 1 month check-up. Here are her stats:
Weight: 10 lbs. 9 oz. (up from her 8 lb. 6 oz. birth weight)
Length: 22 1/4 inches (up from her 21 inch birth length)
So she is definitely growing up and filling out. Her cheeks are getting bigger and bigger and her legs are getting more rolls on them--I love it! Here are a couple of recent pictures of her: (sorry about the red, kind of goopy eyes...she has still been struggling with clogged tear ducts and some days her eyes are so bad!)
She has started smiling and cooing at us in the last week...it is so cute and Maia loves it when she talks to her!
And of course I have to throw in a couple of cute pictures of Maia...she is getting so big too! This first one below has a funny story behind it...on Sunday when we were getting ready for church I told Maia I wanted to take her picture. She said "No, only Megan takes my picture!" and then was mad at me for trying and refused to smile at me. Pathetic that Megan really does take her pictures probably more than me lately!!

Then yesterday was Megan's birthday so the girlfriends got together to go to lunch. We were quite the site to see at the restaurant!! I have to remember that we are not in Utah anymore and people aren't used to seeing so many kids in one place. People kept asking us if we were part of a mom's group or what the big occasion was. They couldn't believe that we were just all friends with that many kids getting together to do lunch!
Last night we continued the party for Megan with a little American Idol and dessert at my house with more girlfriends (most of our husband's were once again in the lab working on projects...it really never ends!). Speaking of Idol...who's it going to be this year? I say Adam will take it, but you never know. He is super good, but super gay, so he kind of bugs.
Anyway, I guess that brings us to today where I am quite tired and ready for bed!! I really should try to keep up with the blog better so I don't have to do these enormously long posts, but don't count on it...garage sale season is coming up you know, so life is just going to get busier!