Happy New Year!

We hope all our friends and family enjoyed ringing in 2014! It seems like 2013 went by really quickly.  In true new-parent style we rang in the new year by dragging ourselves to bed at 10:30pm.  Actually that is pretty late for us, but we tried to squeeze in a little work before bed.  A decision we almost immediately regretted when both kids were up by 4 AM.  Eleanor needed to be fed around 3:15 and just as Jeremy was getting her settled back to sleep, Phoebe woke up needing to use the bathroom... or so she said.  Phoebe has caught on that saying she has to poop is pretty much a get-out-of-bed-free card. I'm not brave enough to call that bluff.

After she didn't poop, she crawled into bed with me promising to go right to sleep. You'd think I was born yesterday. Needless to say, there was no more sleeping. Well, I did drift off once, but woke up with Phoebe's hand in my mouth (she said she was "feeling my teeth").

Not the best ever start to a new year, but things perked up later when Phoebe's friends the twins came over. Aunt Laura and Uncle Adam sent Phoebe a stomp rocket for Christmas and we thought it was such a great present, we bought the exact same thing for the twins.  All three kids had an awesome time playing with the rockets and I think they will be toys that get used a lot in the coming months (although we may have to buy some replacement rockets - Phoebe is a tad rough on toys).  We also had pizza and cake to celebrate Phoebe's birthday AGAIN! The kiddo has gotten lots of birthday celebrations.

The afternoon and evening were a little rough - perhaps due to our 4AM wake up call but we all survived our first day of 2014.  This year will be pretty busy for us and it is both exciting and terrifying to think about how much will be changing!

Eleanor in a happier moment, sporting her "Happy New Year" onesie. This was actually a present from Jeremy's friend Chelsy when Phoebe was born. It has made it through two New Years with Gottlieb babies - now it is looking for a new home :)

Phoebe was very suspicious of her sparkling grape juice. When we said "cheers" she said "no thank you"