Saryn Update

Here is my blue eyed Saryn Kate. She is now 13 months old! Here is her attacking her birthday cake on her actual birthday. She is TOTALLY bald and her features are so different than Carys. She has blondish hair in the front and it gets darker the further back you go.. Carys is all brown hair. Saryn obviously has the blue eyes and Carys has hazel. Saryn has a lighter complexion like her daddy and Carys is more olive like me. Opposites. But they 100% love each other!

Saryn is a super DIVA. She has learned that by crying she can get Carys in trouble even if she isn't around her. Okay that is our faults as parents, but still.. She is a MOMMY'S GIRL!!! YAY! Carys LOVES her daddy way more than her mommy. I know that. I have no shame in it. But Saryn, she's all about her mommy!

Saryn is tiny. She looks like a 9 month old and is even in 9 month clothing! Shes like this little tiny person but stuck in a super small infant body. At her 1 year check up she was in the 5th percentile for her weight and only 15th for her height! Good thing she's so darn cute!

The girls love to play together. Carys is usually in charge and doesn't want to share her toys, but everyonce in a while they get in their giggle moods and it melts my heart to watch them together. As I said about Carys earlier, she loves to cook with her kitchen toys. So she has all these fake kitchen utensils. One of which is a can opener. Saryn was crying hysterically one day and when Carys appeared before me and I asked why Saryn was upset she held up the can opener and said so nonchalantly, "I'm just cuttin' baby sisters toes off." I froze and said, "Excuse me?" To which she replied, "Just cuttin' her toes off." At that same moment Saryn came crawling in and I looked at her toes. Indeed, Carys was trying to cut her toes off with her plastic play can opener. Every single one of Saryn's toes was RED in the middle because of Carys' surgical brilliance. She has even put Saryn under a laundry basket and sat on top of the laundry basket so she couldn't get out and "choke and die" by playing with her littlest pet shop toys, which Rob and I have explained are not allowed to be played with by Saryn because she is too small. They keep me on my toes for sure! I love these girls!

I am SURE that Saryn will be the handful, NOT Carys. Carys is a bit bratty here and there, just like a three year old anywhere would be from time to time. She is mainly pretty calm and easily entertained. Saryn.... Different story. Always moving, always into everything, always crying, always wanting up then down then up then down... Accident prone and fearless! I can't wait to see how things go over the next few years and see how the girls develop into their own personalities! So exciting! And... Draining :D

Carys Update

Its been about a year or so since I have posted any pictures of the girls, so let me start with Carys. She started Pre-School this year! She is my big three year old and she is such a helper. She goes to the same pre-school that Rob went to when he was a little kid so its special for him. She loves going every week and always tells me she is going to go see "all the kids that are my friends." I'm happy that she enjoys going and spending time with other kids her age while learning!

She also started taking Dance this year! She LOVES to dance and always shows me her "super spins." I am sure that she didn't learn super spins from dance but from her former favorite TV show, Little Einsteins. The Little Einsteins have been replaced by Tom and Jerry. I'm totally okay with it because I'd watch Tom and Jerry ANY DAY over the crap they play on TV now!

She really reminds me of my friend who passed away while I was pregnant with Saryn, Meghan Veronie. Sometimes I look at her and swear that she could have been Meg's kiddo. I'm blessed that she is my baby girl and brings so much joy and love to my life. However, when it comes to dance, she has the SHORTEST attention span of any kid in her class. I was able to go and sit in on one of the classes and most of the time I couldn't even tell you what she was looking at or thinking about. At least she loves to dance!

She is such a happy girl! She loves being a big sister and every time she sees Saryn she is all smiles. I will say, having two has its downs, but I am so happy that the ups out-weigh them! After dance one day I caught her trying to show Saryn how to walk on her tip-toes like in dance class. She was not very happy when Saryn sat on her bum and looked at her crazy!

One of my favorite new things that Carys LOVES to do is cook. She will play with her kitchen and play kitchen toys ALL DAY LONG! I bought this super cute apron from Swiss Days this year and didn't know she would like it as much as she does. For the first few days she would keep it on constantly. I would have to pry it off of her before bed time! She loves to make real food with me any time I'm in the kitchen and loves it when she gets to bring food to the table for the family. She is so wonderful! I can't wait until she can make all the dinners...