penelopeden: Twelve weeks later...

how has it been almost 3 months since we have added chloe to our lives?? it's as though we have always had her, i find it hard to remember life before her :)
so actually it's 11.5 weeks later, but here we are none the less. so aside from being super busy and giving anything to have one more hand let alone two more hands, we are doing well and have had some fun along the way. not that i need to give excuses as to why i haven't updated this blog but a big one is we are having a hard time putting pictures from our 10 different cameras (oy vey) on one computer (another oy-vey) we are in dire need of stream lining our situation :)

so the past few months have had some ups and downs- adjusting to life with 2 kids, being only 2 years apart has made for some fun moments! and by fun i mean challenging. i find myself praying for patience and mercy... mostly patience. there has been a lot of laughter and quite a few tears, by me, penelope and chloe! i haven't seen david break down and cry yet but i know he has wanted to :) but i have to say that we are blessed and both kids are great.(i mean really what else am i going to say?) penelope still LOVES her sister, even though my attention has been severely shifted, i think i miss pen and my time together more than she does :) and chloe is doing really well, she is very chill and although she has her demands, they aren't unreasonable. in this house we are learning about sacrifice, and it is a good lesson. having children really makes you realize how selfish we are. so it has been a journey, but it is good- and i am not just saying that for all of you who are about to have your second children- it is a process to re-learn life and re-learn priorities... and even though there are times i wish i could escape to a job, i am SO thankful for the abiltiy to stay home with them and i try to remember to cherish these times because it does go by so fast. so here are some of the things we have been up to the past few months...

Easter sunday
we celebrated easter at petco park this year, and penelope had her first trip on the train... she was so excited and it was quite the experience. her grandma (mavany), aunt lea, uncle brian, marc all joined us to take the train downtown to the park. it was a beautiful day and the padres won!

5 for $5 deal at the park- AMAZING!

chloe slept thru the experience

SO excited about the train!

ummm, too cute :)

Sunday afternoon at the beach
it was a glorious day so we packed up the kids and headed out to the beach... well we started out trying to go to church and then it was too late, so we went to the beach instead. oh and penny went in the water for the first time with out being afraid!

this kid used to hate sand...and water for that matter

david diggin a big hole, and penny making apple pie

chloe just chillin under the umbrella

penelope is offering moral support

$5 footlongs, fletcher cove and a sunset
we headed out to solana beach for a dinner time picnic and let penelope run around at the park. it started out nice and ended up SO cold, i had to bundle chloe up!

Just having some fun around the house
some pictures we have from hanging around the hosue...

penelope and avery were helping mindy and i get ready for the baby shower at our place for anjuli and stacey... they were a big help!