Birthdays, Babysitters, and Babies!

A couple of weekends ago we headed up north to sweet Emmett's first birthday party!  He really is such a sweet, smiley boy and he really enjoyed his party.  Gabi had fun too, but she doesn't have the concept that it's not her party every time she sees presents.  Haha...we did our best, but Gabi "helped" Emmett unwrap a few things too :)

Emmett is almost exactly two months younger than Gabrielle, but he is several inches and pounds bigger.

Gabi didn't sleep the entire way up (a two hour drive), so she was pretty beat about a half hour into the party :/  Stubborn little thing.

He was such a happy little birthday boy!

Gabrielle has pretty much given up on all of her toys as of late.  She has no interest in them.....she will still look at her books, but other than that she just wants to run around and get into trouble with things around the house.  To go along with that, however, she has started having outlandish tantrums over silly things.  If I don't let her get on the couch, for example, it results in a tantrum so dramatic that I just have to lay her on the ground and let it subside.  Drama.  That is our life right now.  She is very personable, sweet, and energetic most of the time but she really is getting dramatic with these fits.  There is a lot you can do to help a 14 month old be a  reasonable little person....but you can't make them perfect. 

Her "schedule" has been a bit messed up as I have started back with work again.  She was consistently sleeping from 8:00 to about 8:00 everyday.  Now she's waking up at 5:45, 6:00, 6:30, 7:30....who knows.  The first day back with her babysitter was a bit rough.  She didn't eat anything except for her little yogurt cup and only wanted to sit in her car seat in the middle of the living room floor.  Getting her out of the car seat and intog her jacket to go home took both me and the babysitter.  Nuf said.  She definitely wasn't bad for the sitter....just not quite herself.  She was much better the next day and was very good for my parents this past weekend.  Nick, Jason, Corinne, and I went to Bittersweet skiing on Saturday and had a blast!  We dropped Gabs off on our way out and she spent the day with Grandma and Grandpa.  Nick has skiied since he was a little boy and he wants to start Gabi in ski school with she is four or five.  I figured I needed to get my skills up and running before Gabi starts!  Haha! 

Sunday we went to church again - our second time....we missed last week because Gabi decided to wake up at 5:45am that day and then was back down for a nap by 8:30am.  She was the only tot in daycare this week at church but did very well.  She doesn't have any problem leaving us - she's just a social little girl! 

And here is a picture of Gabs with faux-hawk :) 

Her hair is still pretty sparse, but a few strands she has are getting long!

It's also getting to be baby time again!  Haha - no, not for us!!  For our friends!  Two of my good friends from college are expecting babies.  Jess is having a little girl in June and Becky is having a "surprise" in about a month from now (her husband's family didn't want to know what it is, so they have told a select few people [I know!] but it's definitely not public knowledge).  Love it!