Ashton is sitting! Well...

Okay okay, she's not sitting very steadily - but she can sit unassisted for like 30 seconds or more, that's something isn't it? :) She gets pretty proud of herself when she does it too. It's just amazing at how fast they grow up and all the changes that happen to them in this first year of life. And Ashton's milestones are SOOO different than the ones we are experiencing with Alyssa. With Alyssa, I could say "she's learned how to mock her Mom & Dad and back talk to us!" Ohhh, how proud we are of her. Ashton smiles when we walk into her room to get her up - Alyssa has hand written signs on her door stating "no boys allowed" and growls at me when I try to wake her up in the morning for school. Ohhh, the joys of parenting - gotta love it! Relish the happy little things like your 4-month old sitting up. ;)

From Snow to Sand...and back again

Alyssa went from building snowmen and snow castles one day...and the very next day was building sand castles on the Charley Young beach in Maui...then just a few hours after getting back home, she had more snow to play in. Talk about your extreme weather changes! What a lucky girl to have had a both a White and Warm Christmas, eh?

Maui Wowie!

We all had a fabulous Christmas and New Year's in Maui. Luckily, Santa found us in Maui and Alyssa was pleased - "Santa got me EVERYTHING I asked for, he must think I've been a very very very very very good girl." (Santa's a softy, if you ask me). The weather, sand and waves were perfect. Alyssa is fearless of the ocean and enjoyed boogie boarding and building sand castles with her cousins and friends she met. She also wants to take Hula lessons now, instead of ballet. Ashton thoroughly enjoyed just chilling out on the beach with us (thank goodness!).

We are SO sad we missed the "white out" over here - NOT! But Mother Nature greeted us with a few more inches of snow just hours after we landed - so we had to quickly adjust from 80 degrees, back down to freezing! Brrrr...