Hadley is 3 and a half!

Our spunky little monkey is now closer to four than three - SLOW DOWN, FATHER TIME - seriously!  I get a bit teary just thinking about how she's already been enrolled for preschool three days a week in the fall.

Since our last update, Haddy has had a few more milestones...she's finally broken the 30 pound barrier (I think she's around 33 pounds now) and is around 39" tall.  She wears mostly 3T & 4T clothing now.

 She received her first haircut in May and did an awesome job! She was so excited when Angelena put sparkles in her hair, too!

 

Haddy has been taking swim lessons for a while now - she's becoming quite a little fish!  In addition to the ones that she went to with Grammy at the Y, she also took a session of Little Bears at Ursinus College (her teachers were Mr. Brett and Miss Allison) and loved it! Her favorite part was jumping off of the starting block!

We also recently visited a little farm near MumMum & Pops's house - Haddy LOVED feeding the goats, cows, and fish!

More than anything, Hadley still loves Nemo (at least that's what she'll tell you if you ask her who her favorite character is).  She loves to play dollhouse, hair salon, and pretend to take Carlie to swim lessons.  She loves to be a helper and to do things independently (getting dressed and undressed, doing puzzles, etc.).  Haddy loves to write notes with pictures to give to people and she is awesome at signing her name (H-a-d-d-y - NOT the one with the "l-e" in it, she'll tell you!).

 

Haddy's also quite the little conversationalist (she doesn't get that from her parents, that's for sure!).  She'll talk to almost anyone (though she does seem to have a good sense of who is a friendly person to talk to and who is not!) and loves to make new "buddies" wherever she goes.  I hope that she's able to continue to be so bubbly and personable all through her life!

Carlie is TWO!

 

Our sweet, little Carlie is really two years old! I know I say this with each update, but it just never seems possible that so much time has passed in our lives! There really is SO much truth to what they say that kids just grow up so fast!

At her two-year well visit, Carlie was awesome!  She climbed right up on the big kid scale and only cried at the very end for her shot.  She weighed 27 pounds and measured 33.75" with a head circumference of 19", which put her in the 50th, 50th, and 75th percentiles, respectively (right in line with what she has been all along).  If we can go by the algorithm to predict their final adult height, Carlie could end up being about 5'6"!  That's pretty good for her genes!

Carlie is really a mover and a shaker these days!  She can be very mischievous and is into just about everything (which I'm sure, at least in part, is due to attempting to keep up with her sister!), but she is also a little lovey who loves to snuggle and cuddle and rock in the chair in her room at the end of the day.  She has been giving us some issues when it comes time for going to sleep, though, which is a new development with her!  Carlie still sleeps great, but she has learned some tricks from Haddy about how to avoid the dreaded bedtime!  She's also shown her true colors a few times with some epic tantrums - luckily they're still few and far between!

Currently, Carlie wears size 4 diapers, size 5 shoes, & size 2t clothes.  She loves to kick, throw, and catch balls and balloons.  She loves to go to the playground to swing on the swings and climb up the slides (probably more than sliding down them!)!  Carlie loves to go on stroller walks in the "pink stroller" and pick fuzzy dandelions to pull apart!  Now that the weather is warming up, Carlie can't get enough of playing at the water table and in the sprinkler with Haddy.

Carlie went to a practice dance class with Haddy!

 But more than anything, Carlie loves cats (or rawr-rawrs)!  She even had two kitty birthday cakes to celebrate!