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I had the opportunity to photography Olivia again. The last time we had a photo shoot for her was when she was 6 weeks old. Now at 9 months old, she is such a big girl.

She obviously has changed a lot. She is an absolute doll baby. She always has the biggest smile on her face. Abel has been spending lots of time with little miss Olivia lately. On Saturday night her mommy and daddy were gracious enough to babysit Abel so last minute. Thank you Troy and Tara! Here are some of my favs. Enjoy this little sunshine!

Look at her yummy lips!

And this perfect smile!

Usually, I don’t bring Abel along with me on jobs, but since Tara is a dear friend I did. Tara tried to keep him entertained while I was snapping away pictures of Olivia. He was usually running around like this and trying to jump on Olivia. Olivia on the other had was not amused with Abel’s antics.

You see Ava pictures all the time on this blog, but I realized Ava’s mama (also known as one of my best friends on this earth) and I haven’t had a picture of us taken together in forever. We get so caught up in the babies pictures that we forgot about ourselves.

We have known each other for 25+ years. We literally grew up together since we lived right across the street from each other. So you can only imagine our joy of being able to be pregnant at the same time. (And NO it was not planned. Abel was a surprise baby for those of you who didn’t know that.) We keep telling each other we have to be pregnant together again for the next one. It makes the pregnancy so much more bearable when you have someone close to you going through the same thing as you.

Me: Hey Linny, I’m having these weird pains on my right side
Linny: me too

Linny: I pee 3 times a night now and can’t sleep
Me: me too

Me: I have REALLY swollen ankles
Linny: me too

and so on and so on…..yada, yada, yada…If you are pregnant and don’t have a pregnant buddy, go find on.

And of course, it isn’t a visit without getting the kids pictures together.

Ava actually passed up Abel in weight. He use to be twice her size, but since Ava is too good for crawling she is packing it on and probably has the best baby thighs EVER!

Here they are as tiny infants: In this picture, Ava is 1 month and Abel is 2 months. My child was 13lb by 2 months. (Aww, I can’t believe how much they have grown. Makes me miss the tiny little infant stage…but not enough to have another just yet!)

She also could care less about Abel. She screams bloody murder if he even dare look at her.

Take Abel out of the picture and she is fine. She does, however, LOVE Seth. She lights up when he is in the room and gives him big smiles. She is a beauty, that is for sure.

Last night I decided to get back into my nightly workouts. After being in a swimsuit a lot these days, I’m realizing my abs are definitely not like they used to be. Even though I have lost all my weight and then some…my tummy just isn’t as tight.

I’ll admit, I got a little lazy since the weight just kept dropping off and so the workouts slowly stopped. I do my best workouts while watching TV. I realized I haven’t really watched TV in awhile which is also maybe why I haven’t worked out lately. I mean, don’t get me wrong I am still doing some form of exercising, but it is stuff like walks with Abel, chasing him ALL OVER and swimming around with him.

TLC was showing old episodes of Jon & Kate plus 8…and they showed the one where Kate shows her “post sixtuplets” stomach. That was even MORE motivation to keep doing my crunches. Thank God she did show it because it got her a FREE tummy tuck.

As Seth and I were getting into bed last night, I told him if I got pregnant in the next 6 months or so I would really need him to be my source of strength because I am just not ready right now. I guess between watching Jon & Kate and talking about pregnancy right before bed, I had a dream last night that I was 12 weeks pregnant and already looked 7 months plus pregnant and my stomach was covered in red stretch marks and my belly button was over by my hip. (I learned during my REAL pregnancy that my belly button is a little off centered so I guess that is why that was thrown in the dream.) People kept telling me in my dream, that since this is my second pregnancy I would show more and get more stretch marks. It was so depressing! I woke up in a panic, but was brought back to reality by this bundle of JOY at roughly (and boy it is rough) at 5:30am.


Why 5:30 am is his new wake up time for the last month is beyond me! I will never get used to 5:30am so he better change this schedule.

We’re eating breakfast by 6:30am and lunch by 10:30/11ish.

Dinner by 4:30pm.

(And yes, he prefers to eat his apple and corn whole….no small pieces for Abel…scares me to death, but it is the only way I can get him to eat certain food.)

Even though I can barely keep my eyes open when he gets up, I do enjoy our mornings together. I make a big pot of coffee (that is usually cold by the time Seth gets to it) and we turn on the kiddie shows and play with cars. I love watching him hold his cars watching a little morning tv in his snugly pjs.