My Little Girls

I LOVE my little girls! They are growing up so fast! This week Emma has decided that she is a big girl and is no longer wearing diapers!!! We bought her Dora big girl panties and princess big girl panties. She loves them! We went out as a family last night to Costco and Target and Emma didn't have any accidents. I am so happy! I thought this day would never come and now that it's here it seems like it happened too fast. She's in a pull-up at night but hopefully she won't need those much longer.

Emma also is in love with her baby sister Linnea. She reads to her, lays next to her, and I've even caught her singing to her. Such a good big sister. Emma is also a big helper when I need a diaper for Linnea or her pacifier. When Linnea is upset Emma will go over and comfort her. I can tell that she's been paying attention to how I calm Linnea down because she will sit next to her and stroke her head and tell her "it's alright, it's alright, just calm down". So cute!!

Linnea is getting big! Not too big though. I still consider her small and fragile. What's funny is with Emma I was rough housing her and I'm afraid to do that to Linnea. Linnea is trying to sit up! I'm not ready for that! She's also teething. I can see her two bottom teeth trying to come through. Emma got her first tooth just after she turned 3 months and it looks like Linnea will be following suit. I've been trying to discourage thumb sucking with her and just when I think it's working I walk into a room and see her like this...(she does have 5 fingers... not sure where her pointer finger is in the picture. Probably in her mouth too). Despite my efforts, she still slips her thumb in her mouth. I think it's really cute but you can't take the thumb away.

Jacob and I are going out to eat tonight with people from his company. We are going to Carmine's. It's a new local Italian restaurant that just opened up. I'm excited! We are leaving Emma at her friend Niev's and taking Linnea with us. It's not that I don't want to leave her, it's just that I can't right now if you know what I mean.

We are all headed to my parents next weekend to can some more blackberries. I can't get enough of them! I think we are going to need to make more jam and then we are also going to be doing syrup and juice. I love love love blackberry season!!

Jacob and I are doing good. He's busy working (thankfully) and doing scouting stuff and I'm busy with the girls. We've been so blessed and are thankful everyday for those blessings.