The girls, sporting their library backpacks made by their Auntie Stephanie. :) So cute!

Some pictures of the girls

Amy and Esther are a delight, and always up to craziness -- Esther decided Amy's undies made a good hat, and Amy decided to join her in the fun.

Captain Underpants
Esther is such a cutie... she makes me laugh daily.
This is her "I can't walk and drink at the same time" stance...
Amy in the middle of singing a song...

A bit about Esther-bester-boo

Esther LOVES the bike we bought Amy for Christmas and are trying to fix up. It was very Dora the Explorer and we are not so much, so we had to take off about 20 stickers. Esther can't wait for her legs to grow longer so she can touch the pedals.

We had lasagna tonight and the verdict: Esther LOVES it!

She is also obsessed with hair bows, although she has a bit less than even Amy had at this age, and being blonde, it means one can hardly see it, though she has a tuft in the back.

A view of what we're seeing

Sisters... sisters! :)












Esther likes to rest her head on her tray.














Prayer hands! :)
She doesn't hold them continuously, but she does do this off an on when we say prayers.

If a picture is worth a thousand words...

Essentially wordless...

I love Esther's blue eyes...














I love my girls, and my wonderful husband...


























I love Esther's new teethy grins (6 new teeth on top)

More pictures of our darling girls

I love my girls!









Amy loves her sister 'Etters' and wanted to read her a story today. She has this thing with talking high pitched about small things... a small fish is a "tiny wish" (in the highest voice imaginable).
Well, the story was exactly that way... Amy would tell Esther what was on each page: "Puppy, Baby! Robot, baby!" It was so cute!! Esther didn't know what to think about all the high pitched-ness and just cooed.







I can't imagine life without them, or without the help of my wonderful husband and best-friend! I feel very blessed.










"This is where to put the food, Mom."

It's an Esther-FEST!

This little girl is about as darling as they come... she's all smiles and cooing and squishable cheekness.










She likes it when you sing to her...













And probably doesn't particularly care for being dressed up and photographed, but Mom loves that. Mom has decided that bows do look cute on her head, so there's been a lot more of that (thanks for the supplies Shera)









She's a great little eater and so much fun to snuggle. She likes to snuggle and be held as much as possible.











Calling all grandmas out there -- don't you want to come visit this little sweetie-pie?

Update

So, I don't take very many photos, but I do take a few. But getting those photos uploaded and posted about sometimes (often) just does not happen. For those who take an interest in what goes on at the Weight household of late, I will enlighten you:

Hospital bills are turning me into a hippie -- we'll see how much damage is done. If they don't stop coming soon with crazy charges for things I didn't have Ryan and I might move to the midwest, buy a farm, bathe in Kefir, do a home-birth and home-school our kids whilst wearing leaves for clothes. (I was charged for, and what's harder to fight is the nurse wrote that I had a IV though I had a heplock, and that IV charge turned my labor level from a 1 to a 3 which is 3 times more expensive). I guess we'll just have to see which of those hippie-ish things stick around.

Amy continues to make us laugh, every day. Her best joke is: "Bye bye, ketchup" which she says with great delight and laughs about. She's potty training and is so excited when she goes I'm always in fear she'll actually get stuff on the ground because as soon as something starts she stands up, whirls around to check and announces so proud "Good job, Amy!!"

Esther and I are battling thrush this week, which is not fun for me... Esther so far doesn't seem more fussy than usual (she has a lot of gas, poor babe, which tends to make her fussy whenever she's trying to get it out or poop). Hopefully we'll be on the mend soon. She likes to eat often during the night especially... and she's very much a snuggler... so opposite from Amy at this age. She can sense when we leave the room. For the last few nights just to get her to pipe down, we've had her in bed with us which immediately shuts her up. When when I transfer her back to her pac-n-play, she announces within minutes how frustrated she is. I thought she could smell us on the sheets, or liked how cush our bed was... but no, it's US she can smell. This morning, I left her sleeping soundly on our bed and got up to do stuff... within 2 minutes she was fussing and then crying. I picked her up and brought her in here... and I'm not holding her, she's just laying beside me on the couch, and she's perfectly content.

Ryan continues to work super hard, and we look forward to the weekends where we can try to refuel him with Amy's jokes and lots of 'hide-n-seek'. Things are looking up though... his job should be a bit less stressful in January for him. We'll see. He continues studying every night and widdling away on his degree. I am more proud of him than I can express... in addition to doing all that he does there, he is a superb husband and father and makes me feel like royalty.

So, that's that here at the Weight household. If you can be patient for pictures, my Mom's visiting today and when she does she usually takes pictures and posts them to her blog, and then I steal them. :) So look forward to that.

Photos: Finally

Here is what you have all been waiting for. Drum Roll please..................................................................................................................................................................

Here is our very own little Esther Constance Weight. Isn't she cute. I will save the explanations and things for Christina once she has a little time away from feeding our little one.

Amy has also really been learning how to take care of her new little sister. She has been practicing with dolls. She thinks it is really cute that this one actually makes noises.

And last but not least, Mom and Baby. They are so beautiful.