friday friday!

i love friday afternoons! the laundry is done, both girls are napping, and the prospect of a fun weekend is on the horizon! tonight is pool, pizza & movie night. lucy's been asking to watch frozen for the past few days, so we figured we might as well make a fun event of it :)

i snapped this picture as i read to the girls on the deck the other morning. i hope eloise turns out to be the bookworm her sister is! lucy LOVES books more than any toy. so fun to see her love of books increase the older she gets :)

we walked 2 miles [each way!] to the ice cream shoppe one night this past week- eloise in the moby, lucy in her "pink car" & charlie by our side. we've been super spoiled by this amazing august weather! 

in eloise news, she still isn't having the bottle. i talked to a feeding therapist at work [well, my old job now...], who is also a lactation consultant to get some bottle hints. my mom's been helping me research, too, but like me- she doesn't know much about bottles. she nursed all 3 of us, never used a bottle, and was a la leche league leader back in the 1980's when she was living in alabama & breastfeeding certainly wasn't trendy or popular. she's served as my own personal lactation consultant for the past 2 years! we have 2 new types of bottles that we're trying, designed specifically for nursing babies, so i'm hopeful :) feeling much less anxious about it though. the only foreseeable times i'll be away from eloise are lucy's ballet classes, where eloise will be in the lobby with either my mom or jon, so really no worries there, and my best friend's [lucy's Godmother's] wedding in november. i'll still be able to nurse her throughout that day- there will just be a couple of hours during the ceremony & pictures where my mom will have her with a bottle on hand. 

in all of lucy's 22.5 months, i've been away from her overnight twice- once when i was hospitalized during my eloise pregnancy for kidney stones [horror], and once when i delivered her sister. i just don't like leaving my babies :) this precious season of my life is so fleeting, and i'm very grateful to have such a supportive husband [who doesn't make me feel crazy for "attachment parenting" the way that feels right to me, but rather, shares in this parenting style]. whatever style a couple parents in, i've definitely felt first-hand the importance of being on the same page. knowing that jon is my teammate is what gets me through many of the messy days i've experienced this summer as a mom to a new baby & a new toddler!

sweet lucy jane 

me & my minis :)

xoxo,

-ivy