.Alice, so far

Baby Alice has a striking resemblance to baby Ames… in fact, I often feel like I’m having deja vu when I’m holding her. Sometimes I forget to call her “her” or “she”. It’s like I am literally raising Ames over again.

But then again… Alice is very different from Ames too. Remember how Ames would refuse to drink a bottle? Alice refuses to not drink a bottle!? Meaning that I try nursing her and she usually cries and protests and then falls asleep, only to wake up a short while later crying because she’s still hungry. I’ve had to pump every few hours just to keep her fed, and to keep myself sane. I think the bottle has made her a lazy eater… it’s just so easy to let the bottle pour milk into her face, but when she’s nursing she has to really work for it. She wants it to come fast and easy.

So yeah, she takes after me.

Speaking of Alice taking after me! See if you can tell who is who in these pictures (below) ???

It’s gonna be really hard to tell  ↓↓↓

 

jkjkjkjk… but we do look similar right? Oh and um, this was Alice’s first bath at home and she fit so perfectly in this bathroom sink it’s ridiculous. She is already growing out of it, unfortunately.

She is so tiny in her carseat too…

↓↓↓And here she is at 4 weeks old… not much different haha↓↓↓

One of these days we’ll get a great picture of her smile too. It. Is. Beautiful.

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The following post is an attempt at getting my blog caught up to the modern day. These photos weren’t taken too long ago, but Alice wasn’t around yet—therefore, they’re out-dated. I think that’s how this works.

On Air’s Mom’s birthday we had fun taking pictures with the family (missing Jadey though)

↓↓↓All the girls (man does my hair color seem out of place haha)↓↓↓

 

↓↓↓Mom and the boys↓↓↓

↓↓↓I took this photo on my way to a presidency meeting. The fall leaves were so beautiful, I was really loving that season of my life//Ames likes to “text” people with his phone. He was busy “texting Tessa” that whole morning↓↓↓

 

↓↓↓A taste of Ames’s obsession with super heroes. Super-Bat Ames!//I loved my almost-daily naps towards the end of my pregnancy… brings a tear to my eye now↓↓↓

 

↓↓↓We loved General Conference last month and had so much fun with the family here for Priesthood Session. Girls night upstairs while the men watched Priesthood downstairs. Worked out perfectly↓↓↓

 

↓↓↓My sweet visiting teachers got me some Edible Arrangements strawberries for the last few days of my pregnancy. Awesome//I love this view at stores in October↓↓↓

 

↓↓↓Selfie with Daddy//The cutest photo ever (stolen from Aunt Chris) of my Grandma listening to Grandpa’s heartbeat. Grandpa had open heart surgery on Oct 22nd. It was a little scary, but luckily it seems to have gone well and he is recovering slowly. We sure love and miss Grandma and Grandpa Ellis!↓↓↓

 

↓↓↓The night before Alice was born we had the family over for FHE. They were so awesome to bring us some pumpkins to carve! Love those guys↓↓↓

 

↓↓↓Ames figured out the whole winking thing. He’s going pro↓↓↓

  

↓↓↓I carved batman and Tessa carved Cinderella↓↓↓

…aaaaand FINALLY she came. These are the hospital photos from Air’s phone.

↓↓↓First selfie with Daddy—done within the first hour of life↓↓↓

 

↓↓↓Baby girl’s second day on Earth//long locks in the back. Almost enough for a pony! I cannot wait to girl her up↓↓↓

 

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VIDEO TIME

↓↓↓Its a rare occasion that Ames will wear sunglasses for longer than a second before he wants to play with them. And hilarious when they are upside down↓↓↓

↓↓↓Have I mentioned how great Ames's aunts are with him? This kid is the luckiest!↓↓↓



↓↓↓Just a pretty normal morning in our kitchen↓↓↓



↓↓↓First video of our beautiful girl↓↓↓

.Halloween 2014

Ames was a pro at Halloween this year. Seriously. A genuine Halloween expert, this kid. Air and I were so proud of him telling everyone that he was going to be batman and wear a mask and go “knock knock trick or treat! and get candy”. Funny thing was, he kept refusing to try on the mask when we wanted to see it on him before Halloween. He hated wearing it—but as soon as the day came and we put on his costume he had no problem wearing that mask for the entire night… he didn’t want to take it off when the night was over!

I don’t know where it came from, but Ames has an obsession with super heroes. Each day he begs to wear either his spider man shirt, his super man jammies, his batman jammies, or his batman shirt. We went to the park on a very cold day this weekend and he refused to wear his coat because he couldn’t see his spider man shirt and he wanted to “be spider man!”. He ran around the park pretending to climb and fall and fly and fight bad guys. I finally convinced him to put his coat back on when he realized he was cold. Such a boy.

 

 

Alice must have forgotten it was Halloween because she was not prepared with a costume. She improvised and decided to be a ‘famous ballerina’… Good enough for me. She really pulled it off and looked stunning.

↓↓↓Air looks awesome in wigs↓↓↓

↓↓↓Jake was an adorable pirate↓↓↓

↓↓↓Tam and Tara gave themselves Day of the Dead facials↓↓↓

↓↓↓Ames is telling me that Tessa was a cat. Or was she a mouse?↓↓↓

↓↓↓Our house was decorated with spooky Halloween and pretty pink baby all at once↓↓↓

 

Ames was really lucky this year he got to go trick or treating with 6 adults! Thanks so much Mom, Tessa, Tara, Tom and Tam for coming and helping us out. Wish I could’ve gone too.