6 Months :(

Alivia is now half a year and I'm sooo sad! She is getting busier and busier. She can sit up unassisted and play forever, which is nice. She is also trying to crawl!! She gets up on all fours and rocks. She can get her legs moving but not sure what to do with her arms. She scoots backwards and such. She has 3.5 teeth now, one top is in and the other should be through tomorrow. She is just changing too fast these days! She really gets going in her exersaucer now, much more than Alaina ever did. We went for her 6 month appt. yesterday and the Dr. was impressed with her strength and hand-eye coordination. Said we have an athlete here :P She weighed 14.07 lbs and 24.75" long. She's still an inch shorter and a pound heavier than her sister at this age, but I can still use all the same clothes, huge bonus! I'm looking forward to when she does crawl just too see what she will do with Alaina now, but worried about what Alaina will do with her then!!! LOL We went to our old neighbours on Sunday and had family pictures done. Way too many good ones to choose from, but here's a few, bunch :P

Western Fair

So we decided to take the girls to the Western Fair in London and visit Auntie Bailee for her 21st birthday. Alaina was in heaven! She ran from ride to ride to ride. She loved all of them, with me and by herself. It made the expensive tickets worth it, just wish we had more time there. I just got the good pictures from Bailee to post, better a month late then never :)

Photo Shoot

We had a photo shoot on grammy's bed for Alivia's 6 month photos. I got alot of cute ones, of course I had to take a few of Alaina too :) By the time I got Alivia's purple dress on to match her sister and get some fully clothed pics, they both had had enough :P

Girls will be Girls

Both girls personalities are changing right before us. Alaina is turning into a teenager already and Alivia is getting closer and closer to becoming a toddler. Alaina has been going through about 6 outfits a day the last week. She can undress and dress herself, if she get a small spot of water or food gets on her clothes now she has to change! She suppose to be napping and I hear all her drawers opening and closing and sometimes it wakes Alivia as you can imagine how a two year old would close a drawer! And of course all the clothes end up in her hamper and they aren't even dirty so I was constantly sorting through it! Well the one day an hour into what was suppose to be nap time, I had it, so I went in and emptied all her drawers (which wasn't hard since she had every drawer already open for me :P ) except her socks and carried the huge pile out. She cried for a minute and went to sleep! Now nap time is much better lol It gave me the opportunity to go through her clothes and sort through what she outgrew and for the change of season :) Well it's been 3 days now and I still have them in the laundry basket in the living room and I'm trying to decide where to put them LOL I think some major reorganizing in her room is in order for this weekend :P She is remembering things from weeks before and saying some really hilarious things. She was on the potty the one day and says to Brandon, "I have an idea" and stuck her finger up. Brandon says 'oh yeah, what's that?" And she says "three, you're too old for birthday cake" lol and then did it again. And on Bailee's birthday she told her she was too old for birthday cake and had to have a cupcake lol, where she gets this from I don't know! Last night at bath time (she seems to say all the weird things at bath time with brandon) I heard her say to Brandon she was a crocodile. She told me at lunch she wanted to go to the gym to exercise with Grammy but Grammy has sore muscles lol Then she's sitting there and goes, "I'm taking a break, oooo" as she stretches. "ok, that's better" and kept eating. What a kid!! When they say kids say the darnedest things, it's soo true and I have proof!

Alivia has both bottom teeth now, the second one came a few days after the first. She loves to sit in the nursing pillow and play with her toys. I put the playmat infront of her with the dangling toys. She can sit like that for 30mins. I'm going to see how she does on her own later today. She gets a bit excited still so she may topple alot. She is getting pretty good a jumping too. She seems to prefer to jump in her hop n'pop rather than her jolly jumper, she spins more in that. I swear I've heard her say mom 4 times but I was in another room. Well here's some pics ;o

Saying "Superstar!"

Trying on a halloween costume for this year, too small though!

Dance Class

Alaina went to her first dance class at the Czech hall on Sept. 10th. It was a little touch and go. I had to wake her to go (late nap) then she didn't want to go since I woke her. I convinced her a car ride would be nice lol. As soon as we parked she says, 'no dance class mom'. I said 'well, let's just go see who's here.' Then we sat on the stage and watched the kids get ready. Then I was able to sit her in the circle with me behind her to get warmed up. And when the kids stood in a line to start learning some dance moves, I had to stand behind her and she would turn around and tell me to do it too! lol Then I ran off outside and watched through the doors a bit. Her teacher said she did really well. Which I was happy about since it's normally for age 3 and up! She was excited about her dance sticker book she got and said she wanted to go again to get another sticker :) There was only one other kid that didn't have any dance attire on. vSo this week we had almost all her dance attire and got some last minute pictures. They aren't the best but soo cute! I had no problems taking her this week, I was able to just drop her off and pick her up later with no problems! Such a big girl!

Before, with no tap shoes, these pink ones had to do!

Bag with her ballet shoes and sticker book :)

After, Proud of her second sticker!

Apple Orchard

We decided to take a trip to the Heinz factory in Leamington to stock up on some food for Alivia. Since we didn't want to just drive all the way for that we were thinking of what else we could do with the kids. I remembered Brandon's sister talking about an apple orchard that had wagon rides and stuff for kids. So we looked into that and headed there on Sept 6th. We had so much fun and it was the perfect day. They had a little play area and a small fair was set up, I'm guessing since we went to the first day of the season the fair was there. Grandpa Tom joined us for the trip as well. Oh and Alaina has a fascination with sticks, whenever we are outside she has to pick one up and carry it with her, here was no exception lol

Playing with a random boy

We had to wait for the entertainer to finish his show to go on the wagon, Alaina couldn't wait to go on the wagon so she watched from there!

Picking her first apple!