sisters - Five Blondes

Brianna- 4 Months!

November 13, 2011 By Kate 3 Comments

Seriously now, seriously, 4 months ALREADY?! How does time go even faster with the 2nd one? Not fair.I feel like 6 months old is right around the corner and pretty much the next 6 months will fly by and I will be back at work. It scares me how fast time goes.

Weight – 15lbs 4.5 oz

Length – 24.5 inches

Diapers – Size 2 and also using our cloth diapers when we are at home. Size 3 diapers at night so we don’t get pee blowouts.

Clothes – Size 3-6 and some 6-12 because I get bored of our clothes quickly.

Feedings – Every 3 or 3.5 hours. I’m getting pretty easygoing about it, she’s very into her routine now.

Nighttime – I’m scared to write it…. but for the past week she’s been sleeping 7pm – 6:30am with a dream feed at 9:30pm. LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT

Personality – Does the best belly laughs when she is happy. Still gets fussy when she is with anyone but me for the most part.

Development

Sleeping (about 11 hours 6:30am feed and back down for another 1 or 2 hours)

Napping! (usually 1.5 or 2 hour naps)

Really good at tummy time

Loves sitting up (with help of course)

Is learning how to grab at toys, everything goes to her mouth.

Loves

Still loves Hailey and me

Tummy time

Hates

The nursing cover still

Getting bonked on the head from her big sister

Funny story from the other day: Hailey loves to cheer Brianna on during tummy time, she lays down in front and says “Go Briaaananna go Briaaaannnaa” while clapping. So I went to get the camera to video it. I came around the corner and there is Hailey flat out laying on Brianna’s back. Omigosh. Crazy toddlers, where do they come up with this stuff?! She also started trying to sit on Brianna’s belly saying “Horsie” over and over.

(no babies were harmed as a result of the above photo) Life with a big sister can be crazy but Brianna still loves her!

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Cute sisters

November 2, 2011 By Kate 4 Comments

The girls and I did a mini 10 min photoshoot today and the photos were all so adorable. I couldn’t pick just a couple, so enjoy lots!

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We Get Our Sister Back

July 28, 2010 By Kate 6 Comments

I know Leah is really sad to be leaving Calgary. But speaking for my sisters, I know we are all SO EXCITED to have her back. I miss being able to take sister pics and having everyone in them.

For example this photo taken at Lara‘s wedding reception: No Leah.

Doesn’t this one look much more complete? Taken at Erica’s wedding.

And once again, Leah is MIA at Mic’s birthday celebration downtown London.

And once again the complete family, during Leah’s most recent visit. Her LAST visit! Because she is moving home! EMKLL will be complete once again.

Safe travels Leah and Tim!

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It's like we have espn or something.

April 26, 2010 By Micaela 9 Comments

I love when things happen that make me feel like my sisters and I are still totally on the same wavelength and as interconnected and inseparable as we were as kids even though I’m two hours away from home, Lauren was seven hours away the whole school year, and Leah is on the other side of the country.

1. Last week Katelyn asked me to help her remember a blog on Twitter that she hadn’t read for years:

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I knew exactly what she was talking about even though we have read a LOT of blogs over the years and you might agree that that description describes a lot of bloggers out there:

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2. a few hours later that day, I was sitting at Chapters and Leah was texting me about her day. I suddenly thought about a blog she had introduced me to that last time she was home. The blogger had taken a break from writing in it soon after and we hadn’t talked about this blog in probably two months but I had a sudden urge to ask Leah if it was up and running again. I decided to wait for a minute to ask because really, talking about more than one thing while texting gets complicated. Then out of nowhere, before I even asked her Leah writes: “___________ (name withheld to protect the innocent…) is blogging again and she is as crazy as ever!”

If that isn’t proof of sister “ESPN,” I don’t know what is!

3. Sometimes growing up together means you have the same sense of humour. Lauren and I definitely do. Yesterday the two of us were sitting together in the choir at our church which faces everyone in the church who isn’t in the choir. My husband Kent walked into church and stood in the back row during the last song because he had thought that Hailey’s baptism was right after mass (it wasn’t until later in the day.) Laur and I saw him and laughed at him for coming in so ridiculously late, then later in the song looked for him again and realized that he had moved to a different seat to make us laugh. It worked. He did the same thing again in the song, this time moving to a seat along the side of the church near the front close to us. When we saw him standing there we were both hysterically laughing, slightly embarrassing since everyone in the church could see us if they were watching. After mass my friend’s dad came up to us and asked, “Okay, what was so funny???” Oops! Of course, mom was turning around from her seat and glaring at us for being too loud just like when we were kids. Between mass and the baptism Lauren and I spent two and a half hours in that church yesterday. So I think God forgave us for being silly.

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Saving the day.

December 4, 2009 By Micaela 1 Comment

Erica, Katelyn, and I were at the One of a Kind craft show and our aunt’s house for dinner today, and came back to my apartment to no blog post for today.

So we are saving the day with a few photos from the day.

Katelyn and Laura and their bambinos at the craft show:

Me, Kate, and Erica at home:

Kate and Razzle after a long day:

Levi in the Christmas tree:

There was some great stuff at the craft show. Here are some of our favourite things.

Kate thought this would be cute in the baby room:

This memory game that Raspberry would LOVE (and everything else at this shop):

We liked the snowboarding baby shirt at this booth, and the guy said he had one with skiers too “to make mom and dad happy” which is exactly right since Kate is a snowboarder and Mr. Kate is a skier. I should also had that Kate and I loved his accent.

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Sisterly connections and unbirthdays.

August 10, 2009 By Micaela 12 Comments

Thing number one:

While the premise of our blog is us as sisters, I’ve noticed that we write about our individual lives, which naturally include each other as our lives intersect and we see each other often, but never about our relationships with each other specifically. I imagine that people might find it hard to believe that we are actually friends and don’t all secretly dislike each other, because I’m sure I’d be thinking the same thing - five girls? How can they actually all get along?

Well, as any sister to a sister knows well, the sister connection goes much deeper than things like “getting along.” We do, and we don’t, and then we forget that we ever didn’t.

Sometimes, there are moments that make me appreciate the sister connection that much more, and this is one of them:

Leah was visiting Toronto today, and while I was at work she texted me saying:

“I am at the one size fits all store!” (this is a clothing store I was telling her about last week, saying nothing about it except everything in it was one size.)

I texted back: “There was only one thing I really liked there, a shirt with a big flower on the front.”

Leah shows up at my door wearing the shirt she bought, before I texted her saying that I liked it:

Yes, we can go shopping in the biggest city in Canada, wind up in the same store, and fall in love with the same shirt. If that isn’t a sisterly connection, well then I don’t know what is!

Thing number two:

I walked into my living room after work today (while giving Leah a tour) to see this:

I actually had to read the card that came with it in order to remember what the occasion was – turns out, it’s my unbirthday!

The summer Kent and I started dating, we worked at a camp and I wrote down my birthdate wrong on some form at some point- I wrote 08/11 instead of 11/08. So on August 11, everyone at the camp was wishing me a happy birthday and I was so confused! Kent even had the camp baker bake me a little cake and gave it to me, after which I had to explain to him that it wasn’t my birthday at all.

You can’t really tell from this picture of a picture, but it was actually a little four layer cake. Impressive!:

Funnily enough, all summer long we had been randomly singing the song from Alice in Wonderland: “A very merry unbirthday, to you, to you… etc.” So we were excited to actually be able to sing the song in context after determining that it must be my unbirthday.

Good job Kent, for remembering this little holiday.

And, the best part of the present? A little pre-emptive, but adorable nonetheless:

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Five Years, One Post

January 1, 2009 By Micaela 15 Comments

2009 will definitely be an eventful year for the five blondes. With mine and Erica’s weddings in August and May respectively, a super wonderful amazing top secret surprise on the horizon from Leah (details to come… hopefully!), babies from Katelyn (that’s my plan anyways, not sure if it’s hers), and Lauren living her wild and crazy university life, our lives will definitely not lack for excitement or fun.

We have all answered a few questions in a New Years survey about our past year and the new year that lies ahead. It’s quite long so it’s going behind the break. Click, read, enjoy!

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Four Blondes Photoshoot.

December 30, 2008 By Micaela 5 Comments

We share a lot of the same friends and more often than not, end up at parties together. On Saturday our friends Dennis and Yvonne had a Mexican themed Christmas party that all of us minus Erica attended. Since it was Leah’s last night in the province, we had a little photoshoot and the pictures ended up being pretty cute! Thanks to our friend Laura for being the photographer.

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Left to right is Katelyn, me (Micaela), Lauren, and Leah.

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Leah’s boyfriend Tim got in on things.

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Our friend Shawn decided that if Tim was in the pictures, then he should be too. Tim was randomly petting my head in the last couple, hence the laughing.

Hope you enjoyed them! We have a photoshoot that includes Erica and I believe it is on Katelyn’s camera so those pictures will probably be making their way on here shortly.

(break signifying passage of time…)

Here are some other pictures from Kate’s camera from that evening!

Tim won HULK gloves. Leah Loved them.

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Laura our photographer of the night.

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Four Blondes from a different angle. (Ala Stefan)

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Birthdays, vacations, straight A's, weddings, girl crushes, and other things that make life worth living.

November 6, 2008 By Micaela 13 Comments

I am so excited about my life right now. For many reasons:

1) It’s my birthday this weekend! And it’s on a Saturday! And I know that I’m getting to an age where this isn’t necessarily something to look forward to, but honestly, I’ve never had a bad birthday. They’ve all been quite fabulous. One of my best friends, Michelle, and I have birthdays in the same week and we always go out and celebrate together and it’s always so much fun. So far we have 21 people confirmed for our joint birthday party. We are going to a comedy club first then out to a bar, which is kind of random but I went to a comedy club once a couple years ago wth Kent and it was SO much fun. Leah told me that she went to one last night, funny enough, and had a really great time. So now I am even more satisfied with my decision because I had been meaning to ask for her advice on the matter. Three of my five blonde sisters are coming along, Erica, Katelyn and Lauren (as long as she can get her booty back from Toronto in time). Should be a great time!

2) I booked my flight to Calgary to visit Leah and Tim in February! I called Kent to tell him that I was booking it, for some reason I felt the need to tell him before I did it and it’s a good thing I did because our conversation went a little like this:

Micaela: So I’m booking my flight to Calgary tonight!

Kent: You never told me you were going to Calgary. We’re getting married, shouldn’t we talk about things like cross country vacations?

Micaela: I didn’t? Sorry… I’m going the first week of February. I found a really cheap flight!

Kent: I’ll come, Book me a flight too.

Me: YOU WILL!?!?!??!?!?!

Apparently our communication skills need some work, but now I’m even more excited to go because not only do I get to see my long lost sister and her long lost boyfriend, I actually get to spend a whole week with Kent which is unheard of. We don’t get to spend much time together at all right now since I moved three hours away and he has a nutso work schedule. Our friends Laura and Matt are going too which we are very excited about because they are lots of fun and fellow skiers/snowboarders so we can hit up the mountains with them.

I was talking on the phone with Leah today about the trip plans and life in general and she said that she is really excited for me to meet her friend Natalie. She said:

Leah: I told her you were just like me but more fun.

Micaela: I am definitely not more fun than you.

Leah: Well… I guess it’s true that I’m more likely to get drunk on work nights than you are.

3) School is definitely agreeing with me right now. I’ve gotten lots of assignments and tests back so far this year and the lowest mark I’ve gotten so far was an A-. I was feeling kind of lazy and unmotivated here for the first while but now that I have lots of assignments due and readings to do I’ve kind of found my groove. I dragged Jen to the library to study on Sunday because at Laurier the library was the place I studied best, and we spent a few hours there it was wonderful and I’m addicted to it.

4) Barack Obama won! Amazing, I tell ya. I am very excited for my neighbours in America and to see what will happen next. And I mean my neighbours in a very literal sense, because I can see the bridge to Detroit from my house. I think my roommates and I are going shopping in the States on Black Friday, so we will celebrate Barack’s win by spreading some of our (sad, student) wealth with America’s (equally sad) economy.

5) I am getting so many great ideas for the wedding and an amaaaazing idea (okay, it’s stolen but still) idea for Save the Date cards… there is still TONS we need to do but really, it can’t start until after this Sunday when we are meeting with the priest to talk to him and finalize a date. At 10am the morning after my birthday. Should be a good time…

6) My favourite girl on America’s Next Top Model, Analeigh, is doing pretty good! I think she has a really good shot at winning. I watched the show with my roommates tonight and I decided that she is the prettiest girl in the world. Her style is WORLDS better than anyone else on the show. Their styles just don’t seem to make sense or suit their personalities while Analeigh’s seems to suit her perfectly. She is just super sweet, and apparently my new girl crush. Even Nigel agrees with me, I can tell he loves her.