Happy Birthday Abuelita! Love, Haley and Emily

Today was Abuelita's Birthday!  We were sad to not be with her on her Birthday but we look forward to visiting her in Michigan sometime soon this summer.  I'm hoping for a visit in June, David is still working on getting some time off.  Anyways, Happy Birthday Abuelita, we miss you!

Abuelita giving Haley a bath in Mexico

Haley and Abuelita in Mexico.  We visited Mexico for Christmas in 2011

Haley and Abuelita playing piano at Christmas just this past year

A squeeze for Emily at Christmas

This was taken when Abuelita, Abuelito, and Chris came to our house for Thanksgiving this past year.  It was so fun to have them and it was our first Thanksgiving to stay in Texas.  We really appreciate them coming!

Haley and Abuelita at Thanksgiving

Putting Emily to sleep at Thanksgiving

Hanging out with Haley at Thanksgiving

She has not lost her touch!

 Sunday was such a relaxing day after our busy Friday and Saturday.  For whatever reason, Haley was up and at 'em by 7:30.  Emily woke up around 8 and I fed them right away.  David had to leave early for church because he was helping lead worship so I was on my own to get everyone ready on time.  They were both pretty gross after their waffles so I put them in the tub while I showered and then I filled it up and let them play in there while I got ready for church.  Then I pulled them out and got them ready and we headed out.  Haley was being super helpful when we were getting ready to go.  I asked her to put a couple things in the diaper bag and give Emy her paci and she did everything right away.

The goodness must have worn off when we got to church though.  David was playing up front so I had Haley next to me and held Emily.  For whatever reason, Haley really wanted to be held.  She kept trying to climb up me and at one point started half throwing a fit and kicking when I wouldn't.  I put Emily down and took her to the back bathroom and gave her a spanking.  I felt like she just needed a spanking and that would knock it out of her.  Well, it actually made her all weepy and clingy and almost worse so I sat for a lot of the worship part so I could hold Emily and cuddle Haley at the same time.  Fail.

Haley was still a little clingy when it was time to go to her class but I dropped her off and left right away and she did fine.  Maybe she was just tired of me and didn't know it.  Emily contributed her fair share of mayhem by booing in her diaper...twice.  After church Haley ate an entire donut and wanted another one but there was only like one left and she had just eaten one so I told her no and she was sad.  I think her whole attitude may have been partly because she was hungry (and yet entirely because she is sinful!) because when we got home she ate an entire grilled cheese sandwich and some of a quesadilla.  Then we put Emily and Haley to bed and they went right to sleep.  They both slept almost three hours and then Emily woke up crying and Haley woke up from that.

We played with the girls for a while and then I got started on dinner because we had invited the Caldwells over.  David went out and grabbed some tortillas and chips and I made Mexican rice and put the meat in the oven.  They arrived around 5:30 and we ate shortly after.  Haley, Evelyn, and Lucy played so nicely together for most of the evening.  We had to break them up maybe two or three times.  The Caldwells had just been yardsaling on Saturday and had bought one of those four-wheeler things that you can ride on and they brought that along.  Haley was not too impressed and was so bad at driving it.  She kept running into stuff, she definitely could not understand the concept of turning.  It was a bleak look into our future of her as a sixteen year old.

After dinner we went outside and talked while the kids played and took turns riding the four wheeler.  Then I got out some ice cream for dessert and we ate that and talked some more.  The Caldwells didn't end up heading out until nine so I feel like it was definitely a successful evening.  We put the girls in their jammies, gave them a snack, and then put them to bed and they both went down right away.  I've noticed that when Emy has a snack before bed she sleeps twelve hours through instead of waking up at 5 or 6.  It prolongs bedtime a couple minutes but it is so worth it.

Haleyism:
If David is playing rough with Emy Haley will scold him and say things like, "don't do that Daddy, she doesn't like it!"  or "be careful daddy!"  It's really cute.

Emilyism:
Emily is not crawling but she can propel herself forward in a kind of army crawl thing.  David calls it crawling and I call it creeping.  He took a video of her below:

 I feel like this is more like a creep than a crawl