Grandma's girls

Things have gotten a little crazy busy with having two little girls and I really miss my hanging out with my mom and her help (she is such an amazing helper, I really don't know where i'd be if I didn't have her around). But she's gotten so busy with work, we barely get to see her anymore. I'm so grateful for the time she makes for me and the girls - especially the girls. Sadie gets so excited hearing her voice and seeing her. She is so close with her grandma that I only hope MC is like that as well... with both their grandma and nan.

Sisterly Love

Growing up, i've always wanted a little sister. I have two brothers and when it came down to it, I was always the one that was picked on. Sometimes it would be me and my older brother picking on our younger brother... but most of the time it would be me who was the victim. As much as I love my brothers, I'm sure having a sister would have been a ton of fun. But oh well, I was stuck being the only girl.

I'm actually happy with the outcome of having two girls. Something i've always wanted and now I'm able to give Sadie and Kenzie that experience of having a sister. Sadie has been such an awesome big sister. She always wants to hold her saying, "hugs hugs hugs" (that's her way of saying "I want to hold Kenzie"). And it melts my heart when I see her trying to comfort Mckenzie. When Mckenzie is crying, she'll ask me for her soother so she can put it in Mckenzie's mouth. And if that doesn't work, she'll pat Mckenzie saying "it's ok".

Mornings are the funniest. Mckenzie and I will be sitting on the couch (sometimes with Mike with us as well), and when Sadie wakes up, she'll come downstairs and walk towards us pointing at Mckenzie and say, "mommy, who's that?". I'll say, "it's Mckenzie." her response will be "right, Kenzie.... awwwe cuuuuute" lol Mike and I laugh everytime she does it.

I was so worried about how Sadie would act not being the baby in the house anymore but she has honestly been great. She has her days where she isn't pleasant to be with, but she's only young - she's slowly understanding.

I love my girls so much and i'm so thankful to have them in my life. I am excited to see them grow.

Mckenzie Angela Donahue

It's been a while since my last post... but she's here!

Mckenzie Angela Donahue is her name and she was born May 21st, 2011 at 10:34 a.m. Weighing at 8 lbs 1 oz and measuring 20 inches long.

1 Month later, she is doing great! She is more attentive now, always looking at everything around her. I love her so much, I've forgotten how small babies are. I'm excited to watch her grow.

Follow - up.

So last week I had an ultrasound just to see how baby was doing and my body as well. I've been in so much pain lately and as much as I love being pregnant - i'm looking forward to not going thru this pain anymore. Today was my follow up appt. and i'm glad that everything is fine and Mckenzie is doing great. So my maternity clinic that I go to is on the second floor in Superstore and Sadie absolutely loves when I have my doctors appointments just so she can look down onto the first floor. She could stand there for hours and just talk her baby talk pointing at all the things she can see. When we got home there was a jack rabbit hopping around in our backyard. Sadie got so excited and kept saying "bunny bunny" and whenever it hopped Sadie would come closer to me. Thinking about it, this is the first time Sadie's seen a rabbit in real life. She kept saying "hi bunny" and when the bunny hopped off, she'd say "bye bye bunny"... "oh no, where did bunny go?"

satisfied.

I've been craving for vietnamese food for the longest time and so for date night, Mike and I went to this vietnamese restaurant. We didn't know that they close early, so we ordered out and Mike had his first experience with vietnamese food (well he said he had a sub from some other vietnamese restaurant but it was just a normal sub). While we waited, I ordered bubble tea for us cause he's never heard of it before and he liked it! Didn't even mind the bubbles at all.

Sadie 24/7

So since i'm not working and just waiting for baby Mckenzie to come out, all my time is spent with Sadie and I LOVE it! She's definitely in her "terrible twos" phase (and i heard 3 is worse, just great :P) - a lot of attitude, a lot of talking back in baby talk and everything else you can imagine. Attitude or not, she still brightens up my day.

I'm trying to spend as much time with her as I can before Mckenzie comes because I know that all my attention won't be on her anymore, which kind of worries me.But Mike always reassures me that Sadie will learn to understand and that he's sure, every parent that brings home a second or third child goes thru the same thing.

What's new with Sadie?
- she knows how to count up to 13 - she can count up to 10 in spanish
- she's learning a lot of new spanish words, all thanks to Dora and Diego... who know kids actually learn from these shows.
- when she meets someone new she says "hi, my name is Sadie" then point at me and say "and this is mommy, say hi mommy" haha
- she is now sleeping thru the whole night! no more 3 am wake ups asking for milk. i'm so happy!

P.S - 7 weeks till the big day, will she come on time or not? that's the question.

Veggie Sadie

Just a few Sadie updates:

Earlier this month she went thru a phase of not eating anything AT ALL. Just a tiny bites here and there but would not sit down and eat a meal... well, that changed a couple weeks ago. I'm glad it did cause it got me worrying.
She's eating but is still very picky. She's picky, yes, but only picky between her meats, fruits and veggies. I mean, she LOVES her fruits and veggies and HATES her meats. Mike says she's going to be a vegetarian.... we'll see about that. I'm glad she's at least eating the healthy stuff. She loves apples, strawberries, bananas, oranges, broccoli, cucumbers, a little bit of tomatoes and carrots... those are her favorite. I have yet to try out new things with her. As for meat, she barely eats any... The only thing meaty she'll eat is chicken nuggets. We had chicken last night for dinner, she ate her rice and veggies but poked at the chicken. Not sure what to do to get her to eat meat!


When Sadie sleeps at my mom's, i'm gonna guess she's always with her Tita Feeya a.k.a "Ala" haha. This is her mitten that Sophia turned into a puppet. Sadie loves it and gets us to play with it all the time .

She is saying a lot of words and knows more than I thought she knew. The other day we were going thru her animals book and she listed almost half the animals that were in the book, I was surprised. The few she missed were hippo, panda bear etc. But she pretty much knew the basic animals.
Speaking of animals, she knows most of the noises the animals make. But when you ask her what a horse makes she says, "yeeehawww". She'll learn eventually.

She is getting to be quite the dancer and actress. She'll sometimes sit on the couch with me and we'll just make every face we can possibly make to each other. Her facial expressions are hilarious. She loves to dance like a ballerina which gets me so excited to put her into dance that much more! And she definitely knows how to wimper when things don't go her way. And when it doesn't, she'll walk away facing the ground with a pouty face and she'll shrug her shoulders. It's quite funny.