Settling In!

We are starting to feel like we are getting settled in to our new life in Kansas. The girls love their school, Mark and I are being trusted more at work (aka we are way busy), we are loving seeing "old" friends more often, also loving meeting new friends, trying to spend as much time as possible outside before the Kansas summer hits and stalking real estate websites!

Mother's Day weekend was extra special as JuJu & Poppy were here for a long weekend on their drive back to Illinois!!! The girls were in hog heaven with our guests. We even bought a new guest bed before they arrived so hopefully that will help convince them to come back ;).

Juliet really likes to take off her diaper and all clothing. She also really loves to wear underwear. She just can't hasn't mastered what to do without a diaper so we have been cleaning up a lot of messes this past month. I feel like we have a puppy.

Juliet took her first class at the Art Center. There was a water table in the room and a playground out back so she was pretty uninterested in doing art.

Their first Raintree school pictures!  Sweet Juliet won't walk in her classroom, she will only run. She get so excited she has to run anywhere she goes. When I pick her up in that short time I'm there I hear her teachers calmly, "walk Juliet" at least five times. Well one day she was doing her normal run, tripped and hit her poor little face right on the corner of a book shelf. She didn't learn her lesson BUT she does occasionally walk and her teachers get SO excited.

I wasn't smart enough to figure out the sibling schedule for pictures and didn't realize Amelia was getting her picture taken the same day as Juliet. i thought she was getting hers the next day and had already talked ot her about picking out a cute outfit.  I suppose in the long run I will love this picture more as it is 100% Amelia with a mismatched all purple outfit on and a random hair accessory.

It only took us girls three days to eat this whole bag of popcorn :)

We knew we would love living buy my mom and sister. But we miss the Lang family a lot. I sure wish there was a way to get all our family to pick one town and all live in :).

On Mother's Day I actually got the girls to actually wear cute dresses. Since Mark was doing all the cooking/grilling I just got to play outside with the girls.  Juliet's dress lasted for about 10 minutes then she was back to herself. Given that we are still renting I do hope we don't get kicked out for naked girls outside our unit ALL the time (perhaps that is because we live in a college town). This would be totally fine in your own backyard but plenty of people walk by our unit. Most of the smile so hopefully that means they aren't complaining to management.

And Amelia was being SUPER cooperative and let me take her picture. Amelia especially is really loving Raintree. She plays school most of the time she is at home and constantly wants someone to write letters, sound out words, do simple math additions, talk about her friends, etc. I think she has officially outgrown naps which I candidly was dreading. It does make for a good buddy to run errands with. I have her now hooked on having to go by the coffee shop before we can do too many errands. She just sits in the back and chats the ENTIRE time. 

Our sweet girls really have such a good time together. For the most part they are so sweet to each other. Juliet adores Amelia and wants to do whatever she is doing (hence the matching pig tails). Amelia (most of the time) loves helping Juliet out and mothering (aka bossing) her. Amelia is very into mom right now and to say Juliet is into her daddy is a complete understatement. I can't even get her out of her crib in the morning as she will just lay back down and ask for Dada :(. The nights I put Juliet to bed and Mark puts Amelia to bed you would think we were torturing them with how much they both fight it. The torture is worth it so I can get Juliet snuggles and Mark can get Amelia snuggles.