Thatcher vesus Hadley

I've been wanting to compare pictures of these two for a while, so I am glad that a friend asked me to! What do you all think? I definitely see some similarities in them, and there are moments where Hadley will do something and I flash right back to Thatcher's newborn days!

Newborn pictures are by the always talented Erin Rachel.

No doubt that they are siblings right? The below pictures are Thatcher and Hadley right at a month. While I can tell them apart, I see a lot of similarities, too!

What's crazier to me is that I don't see Thatcher in his newborn pictures at all - he looks so different now!

Very quick catch up!

So I have been the world's worst blogger. I could make excuses about how both kids got RSV and we were at the ER on Christmas Eve, how 2 under 2 is non-stop and no joke or how I've been busy with contemplating whether to continue working full-time or not but I won't!

I've been trying to think about what I'd like to use this little area of the internet for since New Orleans Moms Blog keeps me so darn busy. I really like having certain things documented for my family's sake, but I don't have an abundance of time. I love the friends I've made blogging (and yes, I really have made legitimate and normal friends through this outlet), and I miss blogging when I'm not writing. I just need to figure out a balance of what I spend time on and when and honestly? Personal blogging was the first thing to go over the holidays and with the transition to 2.

We'll see how 2013 goes, but I do want to try to keep up with preserving family memories here! So on that note...

Thatcher is 23 months, and we're celebrating his second (insert sobs here) birthday next month with an Elmo Mardi Gras party at the playground. It combines most of the things he holds dear (Sesame Street, streetcars, playing outside and king cake); I couldn't figure out a way to tastefully integrate Cars to the theme!

And Hadley? Well she's already 7 weeks (insert mandatory "where does the time go" look here)! She had an exciting first month of life that included 3 trips to Children's Hospital (she is a-okay now; each of those visits is a post in and of itself), and she's enjoyed her first Christmas and New Year's. Just this week she started smiling and it melts my heart every time.

I have so many pictures to sort through and things I could blog about but for now I will consider it a success that I took, uploaded AND blogged pictures all in one day. I hope to be better and a more frequent reader of blogs soon!

toddler hands

"Enjoy the little things, for one day you will look back and realize they were the big things." 

-Robert Brault

Happy 22 months, T!

Even though life is beyond crazy right now, I was determined to keep up with the monthly updates because we love looking at them and remembering what our little man was up to at each stage. It's hard to believe that we're just two months away from his second birthday, but I have to say that Thatcher is more fun with each passing day.

Right now he's essentially a parrot and total ham. He will do absolutely anything for a laugh and has a variety of faces and "walks" to get his audience going. He's not so great at following directions, but I think that's to be expected. He's slowly but surely coming around to Hadley, though he's already realized that if she's crying she gets attention so he now has a fake cry that usually comes out when she's upset. He's a little too creative for his own good sometimes!

I absolutely adore this picture from Erin Rachel Photography (I added the text)!

He's talking so much right now that it's actually hard to remember all of the funny stuff he says over the course of a day. I think my favorite thing is that he talks in the third person constantly, and he's not shy about telling you what he wants, when and how. There's no shortage of entertainment around here, that's for sure!

Welcome, Hadley!

We are so thrilled to welcome Hadley Jayne to our family! She was born on Monday, November 26 at 9:22am after a very quick (as in I hardly got an epidural) labor. She is 6 pounds, 12 ounces of sweet newborn love.

Big brother Thatcher is having more "moments" than we expected. It's hard to see him struggle so much, but we know that it will pass. He is very excited about her in theory and yesterday spent a while showing her all of his Sesame Street stuff, but when a transition comes (meal, bedtime, heading to school), we end up with a very sad little boy. We know that eventually he will fall just as in love with her but right now he's not always so sure.