Big Girl Molly

We're potty training Molly this week. Sophie potty trained a month ago using the 3daypottytraining.com method. It worked perfect for Soph and she got it right away. Molly of course wants to be just like big sister so we decided to try it out. Believe me I would be ok with being a diaper free household. So first step was putting Little Miss in her big girl bed last night. She needs to be able to come get us when she has to go. Here is a cute video of her last night trying out her bed! Don't worry, I put a railing up before she went to bed. Safety first!!

Molly's New Bed from Emily Miersma on Vimeo.

For Grandma

This is my Grandma aka "gweat- gwamma jan"

My Grandma Jan (Hi Grandma) is the Queen of all things yarn and knitting needles. I remember going over to her house when I was little and looking at all her skeins of yarn, she always had beautiful colors. She taught me to knit years ago, but unfortunately it never really stuck. Someday we'll have to do another lesson! :)

She made each of my girls a beautiful blanket when they were babies. Gorgeous blankies!! Molly is particularly fond of hers and sleeps with it all the time.

This morning she was in a mood and when Molly's in a mood, you had better watch out. Apparently the only thing that she felt like doing was sitting.

Just sitting with her binky and favorite blankie. Normally there's a bear in the equation but this morning he didn't make the cut.

Notice the little tear by her eye, she's wasn't too happy with me.

So I just let her sit.

Sit until she decided she liked me again and wanted to eat breakfast.

"juice pease!"

Oh my Molly girl, mommy's not ready for you to grow up!

And Grandma,

Molly says "thank cou!"

Freezer Jam Goodness

Oh man! It's strawberry season in Michigan and do you know what that means? It's freezer jam time!! Woo-hoo!! We go through this stuff like water over here (or actually juice would be a better example at our house).

Strawberry season in Michigan is only about two weeks long and it's really a guessing game as to when the berries will be ready. Lucky for me my mommy just happened to be at the local farmers market by our house last weekend and found some GORGEOUS berries!

See, aren't they just beautiful! My mom picked up two flats for me so Saturday evening at the Miersma house turned into a freezer jam making extravaganza! Well, at least for me it did...the girlies went to bed and Ryan watched a movie...thrilling, people, thrilling!

So you start with this

and many hours later you end up with this (that's 36 jars baby!)

for this

I don't ask questions, I just take pictures when they do goofy stuff

"Let's get physical, physical, I wanna get physicaaaaaal....."

The End

Nothin' New

Okay y'all (sorry I couldn't resist), so at this point no news is good news, but at the same time no news is frustrating. Did any of that just make sense? It did? Okay, good then. We have yet to receive an official date as to when we will be making the big move down to Houston. We're still waiting to hear on when Ryan will be pulled from his current project to work mainly in Houston. The account team for this project wants to keep him there but his boss in Houston would like him to start working in Houston. I like to think that his VMWare peeps are fighting over him, which they kind of are. Heehee!

Not much to say today but I hadn't posted in a month, shocking, I know. So I thought I'd give you a little update. We had a killer garage sale on Saturday and got rid of a bunch of stuff. It felt good to purge a few items. I did spend part of the day today finding things that I had forgotten to put in the sale or wish I had (think millions of puzzle pieces I cleaned up today).

I'll leave you with a few pics just for fun! The girls are growing like crazy!! Sophie surprises us every day with her imagination. She is so smart and keeps us on our toes. Molly is Miss Attitude with a capital A! She knows what she wants and will make sure she gets it. They are just a blast and I enjoy every moment I have with them! :)

Checkin' out Grandma's baby chicks that hatched in her preschool room

Molly posing with the baby chick

 Molly kept blowing on them, it was the funniest thing!

Easter

Many of you who have graciously followed me for a while now (thank you) may remember my Easter post from last year about selecting the perfect dress for my girls. I talked about how my mom aka wonder woman would make my sisters and I beautiful dresses for Easter. Well, this year I decided I wanted even more to be like my fantastic mother and, wait for it, yes, I actually made Sophie and Molly's Easter dresses myself...

Okay, now that we're over the shock, let's view a few pictures, shall we? I had hoped to document more of the process of making the dresses but I plain just forgot to take pictures. I hope you enjoy some pics of the finished products on Easter Sunday!

Ta-da!

Girl has a mean "cheeeeeeeese" face and willingly shows it off every time she sees a camera.

These two are inseparable!

Sophie and Grandma

Sophie and Aunt Sarah,

not sure what's going on with the tongue here

After having just spent an hour in the nursery, 

baby girl just wanted her daddy

Happy Easter from Ryan, Emily, Sophie and Molly