Grace is 2 months-February 18th

 Grace was sooooo dreamy this morning and I remembered she was two months old, so I took a bajillion pictures. And she looks older than a tiny little un-eye-opened newborn and it is killing me. After snapping all those photos, I just sat and cooed and smiled with her for a long time because she is growing up in a blink and I just want it to last forever! 

At two months old Grace is a pretty great baby. She still loves laying on my chest above all other things. She loves to be HOT and sleeps best in several blankets or against a warm body. She is a pretty great sleeper, actually, but every 3-4 nights she has a night where she's fussy all evening and won't fall asleep til midnight-ish. So she's not incredibly consistent, but quite frequently she'll sleep from 9-1am and then gets up at 4 and 6am. That's a longer stretch than my other babies, who seemed to consistently eat every 3-4 hours for a looooong time. She does NOT like having a dirty diaper and immediately cries the moment it's not clean. She just barely started to coo and smile a lot, especially in the mornings, and I am so in love. She is still tiny. She still fits a lot of her newborn and some of the smaller 0-3 months. She loves being in a carrier (thanks Aleesha for sending me a comfortable newborn sized one!) and that makes walking to and from school and grocery shopping really easy. She hates the car seat. With a vengeance. She cries the entire time she is in it, although there are some rare times she'll fall asleep. 

The entire family still adores her completely and she brings a smile to everyone's face. Russ really doesn't like her car seat screaming, but he still loves her and wants to kiss and hold her afterwards. She does like to be held and that makes the days a little trickier. But since she is so tiny and likes the carrier so much--it's pretty easy to manage what I have to do and then it makes me stop and hold her more frequently, and I am so glad about that. I just want to enjoy her so much and it is so hard already to see her growing bigger. The newborn stage just goes so fast, I feel like time is slipping through my fingers. We couldn't ask for a sweeter, more wonderful baby and we love Grace SO much! Two months of perfect!

My Funny Valentine

Look at those smiles!

The day after his birthday. me and my 6 year old!

AHMAZING.

2nd Weekend of February

One Sunday the kids were all rolling around in blankets playing worms. It was hysterical and entertained the entire family for quite some time. HAHA!

Our awesome med school friends from here in Delray and from Miami--Brent and Janessa and Jeff and Diana---got together one weekend in February. Since we are all 4th years the amount of time our hubby's have actually been around this year was about zero, and the amount of time they've been home at the same time as each other is also zero. So we seized the weekend as possibly our last before the end of med school and partied hard. We had brisket made by Jeff (which was divinity) and ate a picnic outside while my kids pretty much ran wild with everyone, and then we put our kids to bed and played board games until late. IT WAS AMAZING. We had so much fun! We're going to miss these peeps!

We've been meaning to go to the Green Market in Delray since we moved in. It is a farmer's market they do every Saturday during the winter months. It was incredible--there was SOOO many cool foods there! The only thing we bought were mangoes. We could smell them as we walked past--and you just can't resist mangoes that smell that delicious. I have never bought mangoes from a store like you can get from markets in Florida. Amazing.

More of the Green Market. These pics are in crazy order. These cheese samples were so, so good.

That same weekend we also made it to the temple! When Sterling has a free Friday night and Saturday, we definitely take FULL advantage!

Where we got the mangoes.

All the worries, ha!

Russ working on Come Follow Me.

That same weekend our ward had a Valentine's Dance. This is Molly and her best friend Gwen.

That same weekend we ate at Steak 'n Shake. We haven't eaten out as a family for a really, really long time. I mean, Russ is hard enough at home, why would we take him anywhere, right? But we had been at the temple, we knew we were headed to the dance, we had a million things coming up for the rest of the weekend because our friends were coming over the next day and...a million things. ANYWAY I was craving burgers and Sterling said he had passed this sign that kids ate free. So we stopped in. I don't know if it's just that I haven't had a burger in so long or what, but it was AMAZING and our kids were SO GOOD. Sterling and I kept looking at each other like "Is this real life?" I could have memorized every single moment and I've already forgotten, which is so sad. The kids kept saying hilarious things and we were all laughing. Russ was making cheese faces and eating fries without throwing them. The baby slept the entire time. The kids were chatting away about some imaginary story they were cooking up. It was absolutely, absolutely magical. I almost felt like we should get in a car crash or something afterwards on our way to the church dance because that's how it works in movies, right?!?!?! HAHA. But it was such a wonderful breather. That entire weekend. Sterling has been so so nonexistent and when he had time off he had some major papers and other things he was studying. But this weekend we took completely off of med school. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. And it was sooo magical. Okay---Sterling and I had our moments of struggling actually being around each other, ha, just so I can keep it real here. We're not used to running a household together.  But we had so many moments that were so awesome. I am so thankful for that weekend!