Dec 1st! Wow, it's December already???

Well, I have posted lots of pictures on Facebook, but need to do some updating on what is going on with us these days.

Alexandra hit 5 weeks last Wednesday, 28 NOV and is weighing-in at 9lbs and 12 oz, 23 inches long. so yeah, in 5 weeks we have put on almost 2 lbs since birth and 2 inches....she is at the 59th percentile for her weight and 95th for her height...that is me made over, I was always tall and skinny for my age until about 9th grade...that was when I stopped growing and hit 5'6"....wish I would have gotten another inch or two but oh well...

 These are some cute pictures from Alexandra this week, 5 weeks old. She looks good in purple if you ask me...I remember Purple was my favorite color as a child. I always wanted purple nightgowns and purple tooth-brushes...most things I had were hand-downs from my older siblings and cousins but for some reason I usually got a new nightgown and well, I always got a new toothbrush...thank goodness I didn't have to get a hand-down on that :)
So I am glad to see my little girl looks so good in purple...b/c I plan to deck her out in as much cute little purple as possible!

 Here are some 1 month photos...again, she looks so much like Matthew when you take away the colors, and the bows on her head...hopefully her hair will grow in soon and help give her a more girly look....otherwise I think like Matthew I am going to get lots of posts that she looks just like Uncle Johnny....or maybe if I can get more baby pictures of me and Leone posted we can at least say she is the spitting image of her mom and Aunt Leone.

So today I forced everyone to Sears for family and holiday pictures...we had some pictures taken a few days ago in the park and there are some amazing pictures of Matthew, but of course the LSU football is in almost all the pictures and our family pictures are not my favorite nor did we get really any good pictures of the two kids together...so my hope was to get a family picture and kid together pictures....we were successful in we got pictures but Matthew was so focused on wanted to get the football and basketball in the studio that he was not wanting to smile and most of his pictures are of us taking the ball away and trying to get him to smile with bribery of you can have the ball back in a minute....didn't always work

 I love how her little leg is creeping up and about to be hidden in her dress! She was a relatively good sport. I wanted to do Mommy and kid pictures and then Daddy and kid pictures but Matt was at his limit and well it was super busy so it was probably in my best interest that we quit when we did b/c it took me an hour to get the holiday package ordered.

 Matt was more willing to do these pictures as he got to pet Alexandra's head, of course very quickly it turned into slapping and he did make her cry so that is why we only really got the one pose and 3 pictures

 He was watching the ball that Jay and I are spinning in front of him to try and get him to smile...it kinda worked...at least his had is not in his mouth as it was for some of our family pictures.

I never know what to get and there are sooo many options...I had the guy helping me save some images with these special effects/finishes so I can at least have them to print at a later date if anyone wants this type of  look...I really prefer the normal pictures, but that is just me.

So now I made a holiday card but of course or holiday package form Sear's included 10 cards so I have 10 cards to send to some folks and then our more personalized card that I typed a little message in for folks rather than just sending a picture....I love getting Christmas cards/Holiday cards, especially when I get insight into my friends and family and how their year went. It also helps to get the kids' names again as I am sorry to say I can't keep up and forget in many cases the names and genders of the kids...so our card has names so you can at least for a few days maybe remember I have Matthew, almost 2 and Alexandra, who is just a month old.

ok, I am off tonight to finally see Breaking Dawn, the Twilight movie!! YEAH! First, it is my first movie since moving to St. Louis and it is a girl's night out with my new St Louis friend Katie Hotard....Thanks to Jay for being willing to stick around and put Matt to bed and then deal with Alexandra...she has of course been sleeping most of today, which is great b/c I have gotten so much done on-line but it might be a really rough night for me...well, a small price to pay for a few hours of guilty pleasure and getting to eat popcorn while watching the final movie...now if only I can get someone to babysit both kids in 2 week so Jay and I can do the Hobbit together????

We haven't gotten our Christmas Tree yet, waiting for the weekend of the 14th so that way if Matthew is bent on playing in it similar to how he has to play in the plant, we only have to deal with that for 2-3 weeks.
More to come, I know, Santa pictures are next, maybe next weekend I can take the kids to the mall and do that chore.