Rose is 20 months already… where does the time go!?!  We are learning more and more about who Rose is everyday, and we are loving every minute of it!  She LOVES shoes (surprised she doesn’t have them on in this pic).  Going to her shoe drawer to try on shoes is probably her #1 favorite thing to do!  If she doesn’t have shoes on, she will come to me and say, “I want sho, Mama!” and then when we go pick them out and put them on together.  She always says, “Thank you!”  Thank you is probably the clearest words she says.  She yells it out to waiters, grocery clerks, anyone who interacts with us.  They are surprised to hear a baby talk so well, and she is just grinning from all the attention.  She’s SO sweet and kind! 

She loves to stack bracelets and rubber bands, and she will wear them stacked and keep them on if we go out. If you ask her any question that sounds fun, such as, “Who wants dessert?” she will yell “ME!!!” every time in the sweetest little voice you have ever heard. She keeps on headbands (and clip-on earrings!) and if she doesn’t have anything in her hair, she will come to me and say, “I want a-bow, Mama!” and pat her head.

When she’s excited, she runs with her elbows out. When she’s tickled, she’ll do a husky chuckle like Anna Kate. Her only flaw is her short fuse when something goes wrong. If she doesn’t like something (mostly food), she will throw it… sometimes she will shock herself. She’s now old enough for time-outs and understands what they mean. Today she threw her food, and after her time-out, she said, “Sorry,” which sounded more like “Sor!” She’s got a sweet disposition and is usually very happy (that sounds funny after that story, but she’s 99% of the time perfect, truly). 

When we put her down for a nap or bedtime, she never fuses and sleeps so good! She is a picky eater like Anna Kate, but when she loves something, she does her little “happy dance” and the whole family joins in. She sings all the time!  Her favorite song is “Bayou Baby” and she really hears the melody.  I think she may be a good singer.  She loves to dance and twirl around too!  She does life full out and doesn’t miss a beat.  She loves to mumble gibberish sentences.  She’s our only baby to do that.  We love carrying on conversations with her in gibberish.  She’ll go high and low with her voice and her inflections are priceless.  She’s so animated!  Her happiness is contagious, and she doesn’t know a stranger. She will hold her arms up/out to anyone that looks nice in public (mostly older ladies), which of course, makes their day brighter, which in turn, makes me so happy because that’s what it’s all about at the end of the day! It’s so much fun getting to know Rose… she makes the world a better place! I can’t wait to spend the rest of my life getting to know her more and more. She’s great!!!

Anna Kate decided she wanted to go for a run with Daddy on Sunday just like sissy did for her race at school.  She told Mike, “I want to run just like Noelle.”  So that’s what they did.  She insisted on wearing sun glasses, which was really cute because she never wears sunglasses.  She’s just as cute and sweet as they come!

*Sadie, Anna Kate’s wearing your BFF necklace!  She’s so proud of it… thanks for her sweet gift!

Getting ready to fly… (isn’t it so cute they are doing the same thing with their arms)!?

I love these pictures!!!  Anna Kate was so excited to be spending quality time with her Daddy… the best Daddy in the world for these beautiful little girls!

We had a great weekend relaxing and recovering from several of us being sick last week.  Rose brought her boots to Mike and asked him to put them on her, and then she proudly walked/ran/strutted around the house in them with her diaper/panties on before we could get her dressed (we have to put something over her diaper or she will take it off, lol).  She was so proud of her new hand-me-down boots!  Noelle and Anna Kate were all smiles too… weekends are the best!!!

Rose was so proud to be found in Anna Kate’s toddler bed… you can see it in her eyes!

She was pretending to be asleep and then laughing with me… she did this over and over… I had so much fun playing with her in this moment!

About one minute after this picture was taken, she was out.  What a sweet, happy baby Rose is! 

I think this is truly the first time I’ve ever walked in on Anna Kate and Rose interacting with each other.  They both entertain themselves so well that they are usually in their own little worlds.  I loved watching them dance together! 

I found Anna Kate exercising on my desk yesterday just like this!  I just busted out laughing.  She ALWAYS keeps me laughing!!!

The Fun Run is Noelle’s school’s biggest fund raiser of the year that helps pay for their amazing field trips and other great programs for the kids.  I was sick the day of the race, but Mike was there to cheer our girl on!  He said she started out strong, and then had fun walking and talking with her friends, lol!

Here’s Noelle’s little cheerleader.  Mike said every time she came around the corner, Anna Kate would yell, “It’s Noelle!  There’s Noelle!”  So cute… which reminds me of Anna Kate’s new nickname, “Cutie Kate!”  We seriously can’t stop calling her that (cause it’s so true) and she loves it!

This is about as athletic as our Noelle is going to get!  I told her she probably shouldn’t wear all of the bracelets because it will be hard for her to keep them on when she runs, so this is after we put some back in her drawer, lol!  We let Noelle be Noelle… she’s bold, she’s different, she wears things that no other six year old would, and we embrace that about her!  She’s just being Noelle, whether that’s wearing jewelry to a race or hand nets to the park… that’s who she is, and we love it!

I love this pic Mike took of Anna Kate.  She looks 3D!

This is Anna Kate and Noelle after the race, and the next picture is of Noelle and Lesleigh right after Noelle got off the bus.  It’s so crazy to think Noelle will be a freshman when Lesleigh is a senior in high school.  They look so much further apart at this age!

Noelle is going to be in the November issue of the Ft. Worth Star Telegram’s Indulge magazine modeling for Ella Bella!  Look for them on newsstands soon!  Yay, Noelle!

*These are just pretty pictures from the park.  She will be wearing the cutest fall outfit that is out right now by Giggle Moon.

I found Rose in Anna Kate’s old toddler bed (that we are saving for Rose, just not yet!!!) before naps today!  She was so proud!  After I let her and Anna Kate have a little fun with the prospect, I took her to her room to the confines of her deep pack n play, where she can’t escape and is super safe… Rose is trying to grow up way too fast, and I’m just not ready for this yet!

The big girls went ribbon shopping with me this week, and Noelle wanted to check out the fabrics.  When we got there, each girl found their favorite color section of fabrics and posed with them… they were so giddy!  We weren’t in a hurry and were just having fun!  An older couple stopped to watch them play.  I heard the wife say, “Look, there’s a purple girl too!”  It was cute.

I love my babies!!!

Look at this cute picture I got of “Cutie Kate” pretending to read a chapter book like her big sissy Sunday night at La Madeleine!

This child was covered from head to toe with raspberry jam and as happy as she could be!

Sitting by the fire, with a warm bowl of tomato soup… perfect for a cold fall dinner!

When we got home, we watched TV, played games, and stayed up late!  I love lazy weekends and the changing of seasons… so much to anticipate!  I added some Halloween fun to our table for under $5 thanks to Target’s dollar spot… yeah!

*See what I mean about Rose -always- having shoes on, whether they’re hers or not, lol!?!