Cousins

These 4 = trouble  fun!

Cabinet Fun

A cabinet....

What is so special about this cabinet- why the contents of course!

Adelyn is loving playing in this cabinet and most days she can get Katelyn to join her in the fun. 

Why is she screaming?  She's not- this is her most excited smily face.... Yay for cabinet fun!

Adelyn- 18 Months Old

That's right, 18 months old! I am in shock that my precious baby girl is a year and a half old already! Adelyn is such a sweet, active, into everything silly little girl.  As of yesterday she has started to make this sweet, hilarious face when I tell her to smile.  Oh, she melts my heart! 

Here she is 'smiling' for the camera with Katelyn- her best buddy.  She looks like she might be in pain from Katelyn's arm around her neck, but she wasn't- don't worry!  Katelyn and Adelyn love to play together, read together, take toys from each other, etc. 

When Nanny and PawPaw where here we had a little backyard water party.  Adelyn thought it was such fun to drink from the water faucet, of course she must have drank a ton of water that night because she leaked through her diaper early in the night which rarely happens...

This is Adelyn's #1, favorite spot to play.  The tupperware cabinet.  I let Katelyn play here when she was Adelyn's age, but she wasn't as infatuated like Adelyn is.  I am actually thinking of emptying the tupperware out of this cabinet because there is always tupperware on the floor.  It doesn't matter if I clean it 20 times a day, she always empties it so she can crawl on in!

Adelyn's hair is growing in typical Hughes' mullet fashion (and some static help in this picture).  I think next month Adelyn may get her first haircut.  Although I think I said that last month too!

Adelyn is still my little eater.  She went for her 18 month well check today and she weights a healthy 26.2 pounds. Katelyn (who just turned 4), weights 33 pounds.  That's less than a six pound difference and they are 2 1/2 yrs apart!  The doctor was teasing her with all her precious leg rolls.  Adelyn will pretty much clear her plate during every meal.  She has started using a fork and spoon with some success. 

Adelyn loves to play with babies, push the stroller, vacuum the floor, crawl on any and all chairs, play in tents, read books, facetime with family, and her new favorite, watch cars drive by. 

Adelyn'v vocabulary these last few weeks has really picked up.  She signs please, help, more very often.  She says baby, momma, daddy, amen (ammmm), yes m'am (aaaa mmmm), Bubba, JoJo (oooo), please (pssss)... That is all I can think of for now. 

Well, another month has flown by and Adelyn is still as sweet as ever.  She went through a short phase of crying when going into the nursery at church, but this month she has overcome that!  She is becoming more vocal and will compete with Katelyn to see who can be the loudest.  She isn't a pushover and will fight for what she wants.  She has had her first experience in time-out and it actually seems to work.  She has been getting in trouble for climbing on things (like the table and ladder on the play set) and a time-out seems to do the trick.  Grateful for a wonderful year and a half with this sweet little lady!

Happy 4th birthday Katelyn!

Today is Katelyn's 4th Birthday, I can hardly believe it has already been 4 years! Katelyn is a joy and a blessing. Her imagination is running wild and she keeps us laughing all the time. She has started telling jokes (only funny to her of course). She loves to play with Adelyn and is eagerly anticipating having a little brother in February. If you ask her what if it's a girl she will just tell you it's a boy and we'll have another girl later. She would like to have 10 brothers and sisters- not gonna happen!

 Katelyn loves any and all dress up.  She has her own ideas on what she wants to wear (and usually on what her sister should wear).  Luckily she understands that Mommy still makes the final decision on what is to be worn.  She is a total shoe girl and loves anything with sparkles. 

 It usually takes Katelyn a while to wind down when she goes to bed.  However, once she is out- SHE IS OUT!  You can come into her room, move her around, pick her up, whatever, and she won't wake up. 

 This is one crafty girl.  She loves to color, draw, paint, cut, glue, use glitter, etc.  Today I went to get her from her class at Bible study.  All the other kids where running around playing and what was Katelyn doing?  Sitting at the craft table coloring a second 'project'.

 I love how Katelyn will get so excited over the small things.  This juice bottle for example; JoJo bought one for each of the girls when we came to visit a few weeks ago.  You would have thought JoJo bought her a new car!  She still loves the bottle and asks to use it almost daily!  She also got very excited that everyone called to sing her happy birthday.  I wish everyone could have seen the huge smile that went across her face as they began to sing! 

For her birthday, Katelyn wanted to have a princess party.  This Snow White dress was her big gift from us.  She literally wore it for 3 days straight!  More party pictures to come in the next few days. 

Here is a little Q&A with Katelyn on 9/8/11- (these are her words)

1. What is your name? Katelyn Grace Hughes
2. How old are you? I'm four

3. What is your favorite toy? I don't know... ummmm... my spelling wand
4. What is your favorite food? I can't tell you....It's a secret
5. Who is your best friend? Everybody
6. What do you want to be when you grow up? a princess
7. What is your favorite thing to do? go to the splash park
8. What does Daddy do at work? he works for us really hard
9. Where do you live? In Austin, Texas
10. What is your favorite book? Pinkalicious
11. What is your favorite color? pink and red
12. What do you think Adelyn likes to do? I don't know
13. What do you think Daddy likes to do? being silly
14. What do you think Mommy likes to do? ummm, play in the sprinkler
15. Where is your favorite place to go? to a splash park
16. What is your favorite thing to do with Adelyn? I just like to play with her
 
17. Tell me a joke- It's too silly for a billy (cracks up)... that's a joke
 
18. What is your favorite TV show? Dinosaur Train and I got a dinosaur paint book
 
19. What's growing in Mommy's tummy? A baby
 
20. What kind of baby? a boy baby
 
21. What if it's a girl? ummm, it's not
 
Jared just walked in and asked me how I feel about Katelyn being 1/4 of the way to being able to drive.  Ummmmm, I think I'm going to cry! My baby girl is growing up so fast!  Happy Birthday Gracie-Lou-Who!

Disappointing my little girl

On Wednesday afternoon Katelyn requested that we cook something 'special'.  Since I haven't been very adventurous in the kitchen this pregnancy I decided to give in and bake some cookies with my precious 3 year old.  I didn't get any pictures, but Katelyn loved measuring, dumping, stirring, sampling the dough...  After they baked and cooled I let her have one, but since it was almost dinner time I told her she'd have to wait until after dinner to have another.  She turns, looks at me with a very serious face and says, "Mommy, you are really disappointing me."  Then stares at me, I'm assuming waiting for me to change my answer and give her more. No. Such. Luck.  

Adelyn- 16 and 17 Months

Shame on me, I completely missed Adelyn's 16 month post.  Hopefully she'll forgive me :)

Adelyn is still just as sweet as ever, maybe a little more clingy, but still sweet as pie!  She is growing up way too fast.  These past 2 months she is changing and learning new things every day.  She took her first bike ride with Jared on the front of his bike instead of in the trailer. 

 Adelyn has found the fun in the random things laying around like boxes and the rolling cart at a hotel.

 She loves the water and fully enjoyed her first trip to the beach.  She had no fear and was quite happy to just walk around in the shallow water or sit in the shallows. 

 Adelyn and Katelyn are good buddies!  Adelyn is really obsessed with Katelyn and wants to do whatever she is doing!  Katelyn likes to help her, boss her, and play with her.  They have started to want the toy that the other has, neither one of them is so laid back that they just give the toy up, strong-willed little girls!

 You can tell when Adelyn is tired because the thumb goes right in the mouth and she gets this dazed look on her face... see picture below-

 Adelyn also likes to have books read to her (so do her cousins, love this picture of them with JoJo)!

 Adelyn is ALL GIRL!  She is into accessories just like her sister.  Necklaces, bracelets, purses, cell phones, hats, you name it, she wants to wear it/carry it! 

 She is little miss independent when we are out in open spaces.  She has been quite clingy at places like HEB and church.  She typically cries when getting dropped off at childcare.  Hopefully it doesn't last too long!  At the end of the month she is flying with Nanny and PawPaw to Amarillo for a few days.  I'm thinking a few days away from Momma is going to be the medicine she needs to get over this clingy phase! 

Pointing and waving are 2 of her favorite things.  She loves to be asked where is Katelyn (or whoever else), then she'll search, find and point. 

Here she is riding the tractor with Bubba waving at us as they go by. 

She loves the water.  It can be the bath, little blow up pool at Bubba and JoJo's, the big community pool- any water, she is happy to play in it!  (which means, yes, we have to leave the bathroom doors closed at all times because toilet water is fun to play with for a 17 month old- gross!!!)

Adelyn is still my good little eater.  I actually usually have to stop her because she will keep eating, and eating, and eating!  She eats really fast (like her Daddy), which always scares me that she is going to choke.  She has 12 teeth, but I still have to cut most of her food because she doesn't stop to chew her food!  She still takes 2 naps a day, about an hour in the morning and then 2-3 in the afternoon.  I've tried to drop her morning nap, but she isn't wanting to give it up just yet!  Well, I think that covers the past 2 months!  Happy 17th month sweet girly!

She's a little Momma

Who Me?  Yes you little girl!  Katelyn is such a little Momma.  She would love to claim Adelyn as her own most days, and does all she can to 'help' me around the house.  Since this pregnancy has been pretty rough on me, Katelyn has decided to step up her mommy-ness a notch or ten!  One day, a particularly nauseous day, I was sitting on the couch looking up at the ceiling trying really hard to keep my lunch down.  Katelyn asked me what was wrong and I told her Mommy wasn't feeling well.  She went to the kitchen and came back about 2 minutes later with a glass of ice water in hand.  She said, "Mommy I got you some water to drink, and I put ice in it because you are REALLY special!"  Her face was full of pride at her act of kindness.  I, of course, thanked her, gave her a hug, thanked Jesus for such a sweet little girl and then cried because my heart was overflowing with love (and hormones). 

Another funny- One morning last week I was in the kitchen getting breakfast ready when, BAM, I had to run to the bathroom due to morning nausea.  Adelyn was very curious to see what was going on, so I was trying to be all acrobatic by holding Adelyn back with my leg while hugging the toilet.  Next thing I know, Katelyn steps between my leg and Adelyn and starts 'gaurding' the door saying in her sweetest mommy voice, "No, no Ada-girl.  Mommy is spitting up right, don't you worry, she'll be done in just a few minutes." 

Love this little momma and so thankful for her sweet heart!