August and everything after...

I promise I had a darling baby girl in August. We love her so much! So much that I'm just now getting around to posting because I've been spending all of my time with these two crazy kids.  Van loves her(most of the time).  She's the sweetest thing I've ever laid eyes on. 

Van's been full of saying funny, slightly inappropriate things to his wee sis.  She's fascinated by him, and about 2 months ago, she was staring at him, bright eyed and bushy tailed.  Van looked over at her and said, "What are you looking at, fat boy?"  I've been laughing about that for, oh, about two months. 
Elsie is the best baby.  I used to hate when people said that about their babies because Van was NOT a 'best baby.'  In fact, I feel like he cried solid for the first two months of his life.  I didn't realize how exhausting that was until I had Elsie.  And now I realize, hey! I can shower!  I can make meals!  I can go grocery shopping with her!  All of these little life functions end up being a pretty big deal. 

Since I've missed the first 3 months of her life in this blog, I'll catch ya up in pictures.  These are in the hospital on the day we went home.  Hooray!  She was born August 5 via c-section because she was laying like a rainbow in my belly.  Funny enough, in the hospital she started flipping on her side!  She still does this and I'm convinced it's because she was sideways inside the womb. 




She has also been a professional thumb sucker from the get go.  I'm hoping she grows out of this!  But I have to admit, it's nice she can soothe herself.  (3 days old)






Here are her angry eyes aka Carson eyes.  For those of you who know my brother Carson, this is a look he perfected, and somehow, both of my kids do it!  She's about 4 weeks old in this.

Elsie is about 6 weeks old in this picture.  Yes, I put a bow in her hair.  Yes, it felt weird, but I did it anyway.  Yes, I guess I will have to figure out this girl thing, one hair bow at a time.

This picture was a spontaneous nose picking by Van.  Which lets me know that Van is right on the big brother track.  Elsie is about 2 months old in this one.

How could you not love this one?  Elsie is almost 3 months old in this picture and obviously loves being held by Van.  And in case you didn't notice, she's gotten CHUBBY.  I love chubby babies!  I really, really do.  I'm so glad both of them have been chunks. 

This is the picture taken a few days before I went back to work.  Her smile melts my heart! Lucky for me, I'm only working part time now, she her smile can melt my heart more often than not.