recent pictures

Well being the mother of two keeps me very busy. The days when I am actually trying to accomplish anything other then feeding and bathing my children are all filled up. I love having my two little ones but it does make things more complicated, at home, let alone when we go out. William is still doing well with his sister. I would say our biggest struggle is sharing his things. This seems to be something he is going through in general not just with Allie. Specifically with her when he doesn't want her to ride in his stroller. These lessons are so good for him and I am thankful he has a little sister to help him deal with his selfishness! He really does love her though and wants to hold her all the time... (You can see where this is going) he, obviously, isn't allowed to hold her by himself but the other day she was laying on the floor and he decided to hold her. In all fairness he did a good job. She never cried and when i got to her he was supporting her head well and everything. He was however strictly warned never to do it again. They are cute together. On that note here are some pictures I took the other day. I can't choose which ones to post so I am going to post them all. They are just to sweet and cute to my mothering heart to omit any.

My sweet sweet babies...
such blue eyes big girl!

Silly face

All three of these are very very much so William faces.

So big!

These pictures may have you thinking, if you are an astute observer or haven't heard, that William is missing his front tooth. He had been complaining about his tooth hurting him back in July so we took him to the dentist on July 12th and it was infected so he had to have it pulled. Fortunately it was a Saturday so Nick was able to come and hold him down during the shots to get it numbed. It was far to much for my pregnant hormones to handle and I had to wait in the car and wipe away the tears. When he was finished he couldn't have his pacifier and so we just walked around and cried together. It makes me laugh now but the dental assistant felt pretty bad for me. She has never been pregnant so I informed her that I was fine I was just a little hormonal :)

giving hugs

Here is proof for all of those sceptics that Allie does open her eyes, which are currently still blue, here's hoping! Actually Allie has gotten a lot more alert the last two weeks. She loves to interact and tries to talk and smile at people. She and daddy shared a special Saturday morning together where she told him all about life while mom and Wills slept in :) And she and Aunt Rachel had a long talk while mommy and Wills washed daddy's dirty car. It is really special and fun to have a sweet little baby around again.
i love theses pictures of my doll!

William insisted on wearing his new pajamas I just bought him. He looks pretty cute in them and I let him wear them to bed but I put my foot down about wearing them outside when it is 100 degrees out. Silly boy!

Look at the camera Allie

Wills loves zippers

Who says my kids look alike?

Do we have to take more pictures mom
Oh I just love that sweet smile!!
Aren't they precious!!!!

Sweet baby!

Well that's all. I hope it wasn't that bad. I just love those two little babies!

William's Birthday

William turned two on July 29th. We waited to celebrate his bday because it was a busy busy weekend for us after his birthday and plus if we waited his grandpa and grandma Moulton could come to his party. He had a good time hanging out with his cousins and eating cake and candy. I have so much family close by that we just invited family and we still have 20 plus people there. It was really fun.

Eating cupcakes mmmmm...

Opening his gifts. It was pretty funny he just pulled everything out so fast!

Riding his "big" bike

Playing a little soccer game. William and Kate actually both did really well at the game.

Happy Birthday William we love you!

what we have been doing

Well as I mentioned in the previous post we have had a busy couple weeks. Starting Friday August 1st we celebrated Dan's 30th birthday that same night Joce celebrated her 18th. The next day I had a morning thing then that night we had a small family going away party for Dave. Monday we went to dinner with Dave before he headed off to the Master's College for soccer camp before he starts school there. Then on Wednesday Nick's parents flew out from Georgia for a visit.

We had a great visit with Grandpa and Grandma Moulton. Wednesday we had dinner and went to Nick's soccer game. Thursday we went to downtown Sacramento and that night we celebrated Williams 2nd birthday with all of the family. We missed having Uncle Dave:( Friday we went for a hike in Tahoe, which was beautiful. Then on Sunday we went down to Nick's great Aunt's 80th birthday party. Great Aunt Marie looks fabulous she even did an impressive jig! We enjoyed seeing a lot of extended family. It was the first time William, Allie, and I were able to meet most of Nick's extended family. Nick's mom is from a big family (she is one of nine, oddly enough so is my mom) so there were a lot of people there. We said goodbye to Nick's parents and headed home. Tuesday we had the pleasure of going to dinner with Grandpa Roundsville and Uncle Victor. I forgot that I had a small mostly family baby shower for Allie that night so we left right after dinner and headed up to Grandma's house. My Aunt Lisa from Hawaii is visiting so we planned Allie's little shower of love while she was going to be visiting. Yesterday William had a dentist appointment so we went there and then we went up to go swimming with Aunt Lisa the kids and Grandma. Soooooo we have been busy. Add watching the Olympics every night in there and we have been busy busy. We are enjoying our summer however, and I am all to aware that it is flying by, and that Nick will be starting school to soon.

During all this time Allie has been getting big. She is such a cute little baby. Her face has filled out and she is looking more and more like William. Even I finally agree that she looks a lot like Wills, however, Marie told me last night she looks more like me then Wills does and I still see my sister in her. She doesn't have Nick's eyes which William clearly does. William is still doing well. He loves to hug and kiss Allie. I love having two babies and I am excited to watch them grow together. It will be so fun when they can play and interact a little more. I am enjoying having an infant again and it is sad, but good, that they grow so fast.

hanging out at
Eagle Lake with Grandma

William jumping off every rock with Grandpa's help.

He was excited that Grandpa had a hat on as well.
Playing at lunch in Old Town Sacramento





I will add his birthday pictures when I get some more time.