It's a.....

GIRL! Hooray for girls! When we had the ultrasound today, there was NO question if it was a boy or girl. We are very excited to be having another little girl for Adeline to play with!

Crazy, Crazy

You've probably heard that from me before, right? I feel like that's how it has been for all my posts. I get behind because things are so crazy and I don't even know what to update about.

First of all, last weekend we went camping by Ceaser Creek lake with our friends. It is always so much work to go camping, but so fun. That night we all went boating and then came back to cook our hobo dinners. My only complaint: too many skunks and raccoons! The raccoons were literally surrounding us and stealing garbage by our feet. They were not scared at all! Luckily our dog Chloe was already put away because they were bigger than her and aren't the nicest animals alive. I think the little girls were a little scared as well. Here are a couple pictures from our camping trip.







Other than that, I feel like I have been running around with my head cut off. Pretty busy with photography it seems and trying to get ready for my 3 week long Utah trip next week. Adeline has just been her wild little self and is so much fun right now. Even though this age is a little challenging, it is so fun!


The other day I did a little photo shoot of Adeline for her 2 yr old pictures. I think they turned out really cute. If you want to see more you can go to my photography blog: nicolebarkerphotography.blogspot.com

slings & big girl bed

Last week my friend Shelby came over during our kids nap times and we had a little "craft day" if you will. She is pretty much a pro at making slings and I have been wanting her to teach me how to make them for awhile. And with a baby on the way... perfect timing. I really liked how it turned out. I even tried it with Adeline in it :)



Not sure if I mentioned this about my california trip, but Adeline decided that she was not going to stay in her crib while we were there. Needless to say, she ended up crawling out every night and falling asleep by the crack of the door ( that is after I held the door shut for a couple hours so she couldn't get out... until Mason was smart enough to tie her door shut). Anyway, since we have been home, she has not tried climbing out of her crib, but has climbed into it a couple of times. SO, we have decided to start making the transition into a big girl bed. We took the side off of her crib and she has done very well so far. This is about the 5th or 6th day doing this. She has still even taken her 2-3 hour naps everyday which makes me really happy. We did have to turn her door handle around so we can lock her in her room every night. I feel bad, but what are we supposed to do?


Hopefully our next milestone will be potty training. She know how to do it and could be 100% if she wants, but she is just too independent right now. It makes it hard because I put up a fight with her every time I go to put on a diaper. She says "No diaper!! I want big girl panties". Then she will escape from me and come back wearing big girl panties. That is FINE, if she would just go in the potty. So we are working on that right now. Hopefully the incentive to be able to wear her panties if she keeps her diaper dry will work. If anyone has any suggestions, please let me know! I feel like she is too young to be so independent right now. She has to pick out her bows, clothes, cups, plates, forks... your name it!

4th Of July

We were invited to Indiana by our friends the Huber's for the weekend. So we packed up our camping gear and headed to Indiana! Unfortunately I totally forgot my camera at home, so no pictures :( On the 4th of July, it rained from about 9am to 9pm... total bummer. Luckily we were camping down by a river that was behind Brooke's Aunts house. So we ditched the tents for the day and hung out at their house with the rest of her family. The original plan was that we were going to float down the river, but it was rained out. We still wanted to go though, so us, the Hubers, and two of her cousins decided to go anyway. It was raining SO hard and was pretty cold. We are a little bit crazy. It was fun though... I was just worried the little girls were going to get sick. We played some games, had a BBQ & they had the best Firework show in their backyard. It's nice that Fireworks are Legal in Indiana!! Brooke posted some pictures on her blog if you want to see some of our weekend.

Abe trying to clean the tent & put it away when we got home.... she kind of makes it hard



We got home on Sunday from our vacation, but decided on Monday that we should do something fun again. The Huber's were going boating at the lake, so we decided to tag along as well. I was watching my friend's little boy Sol who is the same age as Adeline. All I can say is it would be hard to have twins! I put a lifejacket on him most of the time because he is pretty fearless and would run straight into the water.

All the kiddos (minus the two babies)

Sol & Adeline


All in all, it was a good weekend!

Just on a side note... here is adeline in one of her choice outfits. Her favorite thing is to go up in her room and pick out her own clothes. She has to put them on all by herself too (hence the backwards and inside out swimsuit). If I try to help her put it on correctly, she says, "no, me do it". She is very independent right now. Also, a couple weeks ago she started calling Abe "Abe", instead of "daddy". She doesn't do it all the time, but quite frequently. It is hilarious..."ABE, NO!!"