Tooter is 7 Months & Sis Chopped Her Hair Off

Happy Birthday to Luke.


7 months old today.


Nicknames: Lukey, Luker-Pooper, Lukey-Lou, Luker-Tooter, Butter, Butter-McButterton

Teeth: 2 on the bottom

Favorite Food: anything but green beans, wants whatever we are having and usually gets it

Favorite Song: Patty-cake

Favorite Baby Yoga Move: North Pole, South Pole

Words: Da-da, Hey, Hi

Special Talents: Rolling, Smiling at random strangers and making their day

Baby Sign Language Skills: More Food!

Weight: 20 lbs.

Fills up: Half the crib

Luke is bigger than his 7 year old sister.
It was fun to celebrate Luke's 7m birthday with a Lullaby Concert for the Doula Foundation. I got to hold my baby in a beautiful stain-glass filled sanctuary while talented singers belted out the most gorgeous lullabies you have ever heard. Every Mom should have this privilege!

We had another big moment today. There comes a time in every mother's "motherhood" where the decision of "who gets to choose the hairstyle" must be relinquished from Mom to Daughter. I have always been good about letting Elle fix her own hair, which I'm sure is why we got a letter home from Kindergarten last year asking if our family would like to be considered for a Christmas Basket. I fix it when the occasion is important enough and let her make most of the hair related decisions. She has been BEGGING to have it cut for months and I've worn myself out fighting this battle. She is old enough to remember long time spent by the pool trying to yank tangles out and she is over it! It's her hair, so I finally broke down and let her chop it.

Bye Bye Gorgeous Hair!





Hello Gorgeous Girl!!






She has been twirling around and singing songs from Annie ever since.

Kids Day 2010

My good friend Gina told me about her Mom's good friend who used to do this for her kids. Each year on the day after the last day of school, the children wake up to balloons filling their rooms, candy for breakfast, and the kids get to set the agenda for the day. I have been dreaming about the last day of school ever since so I could do this with my kids. Last year, the day after Ellie finished Kindergarten, I had to WORK. Boo. This is the first Douglas Family "Kids Day" and I hope to make it a yearly family tradition.

It was so fun to fill the kids rooms with balloons last night. I was so nervous one would pop and jolt them out of a dead sleep. All was calm as the balloons floated over my sleeping babies, until the tornado sirens started blaring and the kids ran to the basement so fast they didn't even see the balloons through the terror!

After ducking and covering, we came upstairs to enjoy the party atmosphere and found 2 little baby guinea pigs in Millie's cage. Our friend Carey was right, Millie WAS giving Vanilli "piggyback rides" while she was g.pig-sitting for us during our trip to Florida. Two baby mini-Millies are a great start to Kids Day. I've already talked to Pet Land and apparently there is a "guinea pig shortage" and they will be thrilled to take them off of our hands if none of our friends do, so we're good. We celebrated the twins birth...

Then had a dance party in the basement. Obviously. It's Kids Day!

Here is a yard sign I picked up at the Party Store while wandering the isles waiting on the balloons. I'm such a sucker for Party supplies. I thought it would be cool to take the kids picture every year with this sign to see how much they have grown from the first day of school.

First Day of School - August 2009

We had to add Luke to our Kids Day shot since he was in my belly on the first day of school!

After a game of Apples to Apples (so we could celebrate that they can both READ), a little outdoor time, and an Italian cream soda for Mom (fill a glass with ice, add 1 shot of Torani Raspberry syrup, 1 shot of heavy cream, fill with club soda... from my High School job at the Coffee & Tea Company. Yum.) we were off to see "How to Train Your Dragon".

Which lasted 5 minutes. I knew Luke might not handle it, so I gave the kids a big pep-talk about Mommy bouncing the baby in the hallway if they could sit by themselves, blah, blah. We were the ONLY ones in the theater - SCORE - I thought, "I can nurse! Brilliant!" until Ross started crying 5 min. into the movie. My boy who has seen Avatar twice could not handle the fire-blowing and the gnashing of the teeth dragon movie. We got our 30 bucks back and got to keep these awesome 3D glasses...

A little Dip&Dots and an arcade game later, we were all good.

We landed at the library and got some good books. The kids took great joy asking the librarian (Ross) "Excuse me, 'mam, could you please show me where the FIRST grade books are?" So proud. Also proud that Luke laughed and giggled the whole time I was reading to him.

It's going to be a fun summer.