moving on...

as you can tell i LOVE this outfit, its so cuddly, and of course she loves me! one is a NB and one is 6M size.

abby wanting to share a little love...

how cute is Isabella's face- she loves getting hugs!

loves her jumper-oo, and somebodys tickling her feet...

proof that i saw heidi and mary!

this was from our new years eve. we had all the jacobsons over to our place and had lots of food, fun and some games!

our entertainment...complete with song and dance and jumps.

she almost always has one arm in the jumper seat. its kind of funny because it seems so uncomfortable but no matter how many times we pull it out she puts it back...

we LOVE her smile. you'll figure that out as you scroll down;)

my SAFETY girl....

pesto asiago rolls. sorry its a phone pic...

 

around 16 pounds now!

she was trying to kiss him back. so sweet.

play us a song....he's the piano man...

they were entertaining themselves today before andrews preschool.

this is why i don't usually say anything like "show me your best smile"

another doozy...

her newest trick- its so cute when she does it.

So today its sort of settling in my stomach that i have a whole house to pack up and move this month. a new chapter in our lives is opening and one is closing. andrew has been displaying quite obviously that its settling in his stomach as well, mostly by acting out and being kind of out of control. apparently he isn't doing that at school. which is good. but it stresses me out, because its especially hard to start packing when he is causing problems and freaking out a lot...its no small task with 3 kids. just cooking, cleaning and taking care of the kids keeps me busy, so im a little overwhelmed right now thinking of also packing my house up in the next 2 weeks or so. we do have someone coming to look at our place saturday morning. so im hoping that it does get rented soon, it will save me a considerable amount of money... anyways, yes so i dont know if i have officially blogged about our upcoming adventure. dan is taking a job in NJ right outside NYC working for Vivint Solar. it should be interesting. i think once we can get going and back to normal life it will be nice. kind of stressed about switching states, careers, perhaps schools for andrew, and residences. plus my sequoia trunk up and decides it will not latch anymore, so we have to figure that out... i am excited about the new things we will see in another part of the country, that was always a plus when we moved growing up. seeing new things, exploring the areas we were in... its always hard to move away from family though. the kids have loved having aunt jen and their cousins within 10 or 20 minutes, and we love having a close relationship with our family here. that will be very much missed. but im going to take the attitude my parents did when we moved around- keep looking at the positive, be excited and enjoy what you have when its there. we had lots of practice moving, but i always remember them being positive and not complaining about leaving friends or family. it made everyone think positively about the experience and enjoy life much more. anyways, i have LOADS of pictures to upload. i usually dont get much of a chance to do pics on the computer because the kids tear up the basement any way they can when we come down here and i'm busy on the computer. tonight dan is at the Jazz game in a LUXURY box. i was pretty jealous, but such is life. the company he is starting to work for invited him, so what can i say? enjoy and take a picture for me. im definitely feeling much more used to 3 kids, its a juggling balance not in any way comparable to having 2. but its sort of working. the kids are all getting baths, fed, and usually dressed:) although abbys hair isn't done pretty every single day. sometimes it's leftover from the day before, and if im not going anywhere, i dont worry about it... abby is doing fairly well potty training, however it seems like when she is irritable (tired) or feeling a little rebellious she has "accidents" however i know perfectly well she didn't do anything on accident... that part is frustrating, but hopefully she'll get over it... she has days of perfect potty training, and bad days where i feel like she doesn't use the toilet at all... but we're not going back to diapers so she better get with it! i think im going to have to drop my morning workout class. i love it, but then i feel like i need a nap later, and i feel like it takes a lot of my energy. we'll see, tomorrow they are doing a yoga-ish class that i want to try so i'll go to it, but i think i need to direct my energy to boxes. seriously.