I’ve arranged this post as follows, Anna Kate first and then Rose in the single pictures, and in the double pictures, Anna Kate is always on the left and Rose is always on the right… both age 1 1/2!  Enjoy!

My trick for happy pictures has stayed the same… smarties in my back pocket.  They dissolve quickly but keep them smiling for more, lol!

I hope the girls really enjoy these posts someday when they’re all grown-up best friends… they do take time and effort, but I love doing it! It’s so much fun for me to see how the girls look both alike and different at the same ages… and remember their little personalities, all so unique and special!

So happy I got to freeze this moment in time forever!  Mike is the best daddy in the world for our little girls!!!  They are so blessed beyond belief, and I’ll never stop singing his praises for loving his girls with everything that he has!

We walked all over the Arboretum to admire the Chihuly glass exhibit the day we went to the pumpkin patch with Kay Kay and Grandpapa! It made for a long day and we were really tired, but it was so worth it!

These are some of my favorite bumblebee memories that didn’t have a spot in the compare post… love all three of my precious little bumblebees… kind of ironic, my name Melissa means “Honeybee!”

Bailey and Noelle… friends forever!

This next group is Anna Kate!

Below are the rest of my favorites of Rose:

We took a family vote last night.  I sell most of the girls clothes… I asked the girls if they wanted to sell the bumblebee costume so other little kids could enjoy it and we could have more money to buy something new -or- save it in case one of them has a little girl who wants to wear it.  Noelle voted to save it, Anna Kate voted to sell it (lol), and Mike and I voted to keep it… so in a couple of decades, you may be seeing the return of the bumblebee! (We saved Froggy Pond, all of their first Halloween costumes too!)

First there was one, then there were two, and then there were three little bumblebees!

In all of the trio pics, the girls are in birth order, Noelle on the left, Anna Kate in the middle, and Rose on the right

The last 6 pictures are of Noelle and Rose, back and forth… they are so cute with their friends!  I didn’t have as many pictures from Anna Kate’s bumblebee year because we were in San Diego for Halloween, and it was easier to pack Cinderella costumes, lol!

This quote has meant a lot to me the past couple of weeks, so I thought I’d share it with you guys!