2 months old

Anna is now baptised! I will add pictures when I receive some from my friend Joyce who came to the baptism. Annalise was quiet the whole time, maybe I should say she was reverent. Grandma and Grandpa Horner, Mary and Ted, Unlce Ron and Joyce were all present for the baptism. Mary and Ted are the Godparents.

Annalise had her shots on Monday which went relatively well. She calmed down really quickly. She is 11 pounds 8 ounces, which is the 75th percentile. She is 22.5 inches tall, which is the 50th percentile. Her head circumference is in the 75th percentile too. All of the percentiles are the same as her 2 week check up so that means she's consistent and right on track. Maddie cried when Anna got her shots; I guess she didn't like seeing her sister get hurt. It was pretty cute.

Just about 4 more weeks until I return to work. I am looking forward to the routine. I will go to Anna's school and nurse her during the day so I will see her a lot. Anna is going almost 5 hours between one of the night feedings now. She's obviously a chub-chub.

Maddie, while going a little stir crazy at home with me, is happy to be home all day long. She misses school a little, but not enough to want to go back full time.

The Christmas cards are sent, the decorations up and the Christmas lights are shining. Tis the season!

Olde German Christmas

We had fun at Olde German Christmas in Papillion again this year. Madeline and Annalise sat on Santa's lap and received a Hershey's chocolate bar. Maddie wants to save Anna's until next year when she'll be able to eat it. Maddie told Santa she'd like an Arial costume for Christmas. We went to storytime where she heard a couple of books. Cookie Count was a great one. Next we headed over to City Park where there was a bonfire and the Mayor lit the holiday lights. Mary and Ted met us there. Mary roasted a couple of "mallows" before we headed over to the carraige for a ride. It was a long wait, but worth it. Overall it was a lot of fun again!

Pictures of the girls

More smiles from Annalise and introducing... Captain Underpanties!

8 weeks and Happy Black Friday!

Today is one of the most anticipated days of the entire year. Ryan headed out this morning at 4:30 to hit the Black Friday sales. This is my second year out. I told Ryan that next year I am going and we'll have a sitter come over. We did not have a big list of things to get, so it was a quick trip. The other BIG event for today is getting our Christmas tree. I can't wait! We are going to visit my mom too, since we didn't get to do that yesterday.

We had a cozy Thanksgiving meal at home with the 4 of us. We made most of the trimmings and Maddie was very good about trying everything. The only thing she didn't like was the stuffing. Ryan put up the Christmas lights and it looks great.

Anna is 8 weeks old today which means shots are imminent. Monday is her visit to the pediatrician where she will be given 4 shots. She is pretty sensitive to pain, so the visit will be full of tears. Anna is no longer getting bottles at night which means I am no longer pumping. It is nice to be "off the pump" but I am a little more tired since she gets up for an additional feeding. She has a least one 4 hour long stint between feedings and the rest are usually 3 hours. I am sure she will be sleeping longer pretty soon. She is sleeping in her crib. I hope that she will be able to use the co-sleeper soon, but she's not on board with that yet. :)

Maddie is sleeping in until 9 nearly everyday and having a lot of fun staying home. Yesterday she did say that "if we didn't have a baby: you and dad could sleep more and we wouldn't have to listen to crying". After covering all of the good points of having a sister she decided that it was better having her around than not. Since Anna is getting more alert, smiling and cooing Maddie is enjoys her more. Ahh, the joys of adjustment.

7 weeks old!

We (Me, Madeline and Anna) survived a day without dad (barely!). I was a nervous wreck all day while he was flying through severe weather down south. He had a series of delays and I was worried that he wouldn't make it back on the same day he was scheduled to return. But alas he did and we're all happy that he's back. We kept busy all day and Grandma JoLene came over to help me. That was my saving grace. I counted down the hours until she arrived. It was so nice to have her here and Maddie enjoyed Grandma.

Annalise is cooing and talking a lot more. She smiles a lot more easily. We visit Milkworks this Saturday so I will have a weight update then. She has pretty strong neck muscles and does well during tummy time. She is not a huge fan but handles it well. We are now on the "laugh" lookout since she should be doing that soon. Ryan is such a ham, it could happen anyday. Although his jokes would first have to be funny. :) Just kidding. He's teaching her lines from "The Princess Bride" already so she will know never to start a land war in Asia or challenge a Sicililan when death is on the line.

Madeline had fun playing with Aunt Mary Wednesday morning before Tumblebus. We went to storytime at the library again today. Tomorrow we have a Thanksgiving lunch at Maddie's montessori school. She is looking forward to seeing her friends again. This week Madeline has been doing a lot of clothing changes daily (including underwear). I guess she has so many favorite pairs of undies that she needs to wear a few each day. She's also into layering. Today she layered a summer outfit over a winter one. I will post that picture. Dance class was tonight and she did a great job following her teachers directions. She seems to have the dance down pretty well now.

We are just gearing up for Thanksgiving now. Annalise's baptism is November 26th so we plan to celebrate Thanksgiving the afternoon after her baptism. Grandma Linda will be coming up for it (we will bring her here from the nursing home in Nebraska City).

Happy November!

I wanted to start a blog so our family and friends could stay up to date on the Horners (mostly Madeline and Annalise).

Annalise is 6 weeks old today! She's just beautiful and I snapped up some really cute smiling pictures today. She started smiling a few days ago but it was the first time I've been able to catch her smiles on camera to share with you. Her first smiles were just big open mouths and bright eyes but she's graduated into the full fledged full faced smiles and we are so in love.

Madeline is excited that her sister is getting older and just waits for the day to play with her. Maddie has been home with us now for 10 days and I can't believe we've survived this long. :) This week we've gone to Tumble Bus, visited the library twice, park twice, had a playdate, and gone to storytime. We also visited my work so I could do a couple of things but that wasn't what Maddie would call "fun". Aunt Mary came over a couple times last week to help me so we really enjoyed that.

This weekend Madeline has a birthday party at My Gym and Aunt Mary is coming over to play. We will also be accepted into our church as official new members (even though we've been in the church directory for a year now lol).

Nothing exciting going on for Ryan this week. Next week he flies off to Virginia to work on a project in Newport News. Grandma JoLene will be helping me that day (thank goodness!!)