Owaya's Room

Olivia's BF Blaine calls Olivia "Owaya", I think it was easier for her to say when she first started talking and it has just stuck. It is one of Olivia's nicknames, we always joke (we meaning Holman's and Radder's) that the girls we be 13 and having slumber parties with Blaine still saying Owaya!

Anyway I am going to be playing some catch up over the next little bit, this post being one of them. At the end of July Marcus painted the front bedroom and transformed it from the storage and random stuff room to a girlie girl room. It turned out so great and Olivia loves it. We now have all of her books in that room and all the toys are now in the jungle room (her old room). The first week of her being in it was a little rough, she would forget where she was when she would wake up and it would scare her. Plus when we would say "go put this in your room" she would go to the jungle room and then we would have to clarify "no, your NEW room!". It has since become HER room and she loves to go in there, turn the lights off and on and pick out her favorite books to read.

I love the color of the paint. It's a pretty light lilac color with a dark purple band going around the top. Then we did white curtains on the windows. Marcus covered up the electrical panel with a cork board that has pictures of us on it. I still have other things that need to go on the wall, I blame the baby for that ;)

Just Hanging Out

Marcus took some pictures of the girls the other day. Olivia thinks when we say "cheese" that we are saying "teeth" so she always smiles and points to her teeth. It is almost impossible to get any pictures of her smiling without her pointing to her pearly whites!

I think Bianca looks more like me, or the Rose side of the family everyday. It looks like for sure she has inherited "the Rose Nose" as we call it in our family. Rose noses tend to be more on the... robust size. Don't worry, it is okay for me to call it this beings as I have the Rose nose myself. I like to think it allows me to have an incredible sense of smell, like a secret superpower or something. My only hope is that in addition to the shnoze she will also have my curly hair!

Olivia loves her more and more each day and I think my body is starting to figure out how to operate being sleep deprived. Bianca is getting better and better at sleeping which is awesome. Plus I totally scored a cheap cradle swing which she is in more often than not. Olivia is turning into a really big helper, throwing diapers in the trash, cleaning up her toys (when I sing the clean up song) and helping to burp baby sister.

Mostly we just hang out at the house, enjoying all the new shows that have started up again. I REALLY love my DVR!

Big Sister

I have to say that the first week of Marcus back at work went better than I expected. I really was bracing myself for the worst, not to say that there weren't a fair share of meltdowns (from all parties) but it was just less than I had anticipated. Olivia really loves Bianca, just as long as I am not holding her, which is slightly problematic as I am holding/feeding her quite a lot. We are working on that though! I'm sure it is not helping that Olivia is teething, so less sleep at night equals a fussy toddler at day.

As far as everything with the baby I feel awesome. I've done it before, I know the ropes and it has gone so smoothly. She sleeps pretty decent for being a newborn. She's on the gassier side (come on she is MY daughter after all!) but instead of crying about it she just grunts quietly to herself. She loves to cuddle and has already given me her version of hugs!

Instead I find myself more stressed with the toddler factor. I have not done the toddler thing before and as such it has been difficult for me to know if I am handling things as best as I should. I have been praying a lot to be a good mom to my babies and as such have been inspired A LOT as to how to handle different situations. I know that eventually I/we will get it all figured out and fall into a new routine. I just hope I still have my sanity when we reach that point!

PS~ I always find I am exhausted at like 6 or 7 and could totally pass out, but then once the girls are down I get a second wind and can't fall asleep until midnight! Does anyone else have this problem, if so how do you help yourself got to sleep earlier?