m's birthday::three

this little miss turned three!

 

 

she is such a sassy little girl with a whole heck of a lot of attitude.

we are so in trouble when she's a teenager.

 

she loves to do things by herself. it drives me crazy some days because of how independent she is.

other days she decides that she can't do anything by herself and needs help with everything.

 

she loves all things dora, diego and "mermaid" [as in the little mermaid]

 

her favorite color most days is purple.  when it's not purple, it's pink that she wants.

 

i periodically try to convince her that she's still my baby but she insists that she's my big girl--not my baby.

 

she loves her big sister and her baby brother, but only when it's convenient for her.

 

we sure love this little girl - even with all the spunk that comes with her!

happy birthday baby girl!

three months

at three months this little guy:

-has found his hands.  it's so fun to watch a baby when they realize they have hands!

-will sleep in his crib at night.  for about an hour.  then he realizes he doesn't have a warm body next to him and gets cranky.

-also will not sleep more than 4 hours at a time.  this little man thinks that food is the most important thing in life.  who needs sleep?

-loves, loves, loves the bumbo.  his aunt brought it up for us to borrow and he would spend all day in there.  if he's fussy, but not time to eat or sleep, put him in the bumbo and he'll spend a good hour in it before he decides he's had enough.

-is such a good baby.  i really can't complain about him (other than his sleeping habits)  he's so good natured and is almost always happy.

 

we sure can't get enough of this little man!

decorating the tree

this year, the girls had fun decorating the christmas tree with us.  i let my control freak perfectionist self {mostly} go out the window and didn't move all of the ornaments around.

 

the girls added the balloons as ornaments too.

they didn't stay on too long before they had to come off :)

little man slept through the whole thing...

i was just in the process of getting the birth story up for little man but i ran out of photo room.

so i'll probably just start a new blog since i was going to have to change the name of it anyway -

you know, since the mister doesn't farm and all anymore.

 

ideas on names anyone?

 

and i promise, i'll get it all fixed soon.

i have tons to blog about - little man is almost 3 months old!

post edit: nevermind.
my awesome sister-in-law saved the day!
see her comment on the post if you're having the same issue as i was.

now i guess it's back to getting that birth story up...

potty training

after m started waking up dry in the mornings, we decided that it was finally time to potty train.  we'd tried before, but the stubborn little miss wouldn't have anything to do with it.

 

we got her day trained in about a week and she basically trained herself at night.  we kept her in pull-ups at night for about a week, but she never had any accidents!

 

so glad that hurdle is over and done with.

[love] only having one in diapers.

november

when we were at my parent's for little man's baby blessing, b got a couple towels from my grandma and part of my grandpa's scriptures.  she carried them around all weekend (and then at our house for at least the next week.  she also thought it would be fun to try on grandma's glasses :)

 



b snuggling with little man.  she has a natural mothering instinct in her.  it's very cute to watch her with him.



m loves dora

m loves her some dora and diego.

i get asked a million a hundred times a day if she can watch more dora.

i'm pretty sure b is tired of watching it with her.

 

although we're all sick of it, she loves it and gets way into the show.  when dora says, "[say it] louder!", watch out cause m will knock your socks off.

that girl can yell.

it is pretty cute when she gets into it though.  i especially love it when she tries to say all the spanish words.  she's actually getting pretty good.

 

yesterday, m was upstairs playing, when i hear her yelling, "ayudame! ayudame!" [help me! help me!]

 

we just might have to cut back a little more on dora and diego.  i don't think too many of us are going to be super bummed about it.

 

oh, and she was just playing.  i'm not even sure that she knows what ayudame means.

 

two months

little man is two months old!

 

at two months he:

-is 23.8 inches long and weighs 13 lbs, 5 oz.  if we were comparing him to the girls, he's a chunk!  but compared to himself, he's very proportionate.  the doctor did say he could go on a bit of a "diet."  that is only because he spits up a lot after eating, so he's not getting when he should stop eating.

-still hates his crib.  loves the ottoman for the couch.  lets just say the couch is where we start our nights at.  sometimes it is also where we finish our nights off.  i miss my bed.

-eats every 4 hours.  he doesn't miss a beat.  i thought that maybe he would start sleeping through the night since he's slept a couple of longer stretches for me.  nope.  that was a fluke.

-smiles like crazy.  he is such a happy baby!

-still loves to sleep on your chest.  it is still his preferred spot.

-loves, loves, loves to be on his tummy.

-takes a bottle like a champ.  i started back to work again at the beginning of the month, so the mister gets the kids all afternoon.  he takes for.ev.er. to eat the bottle, but doesn't hate that it's a bottle.

-loves to coo at his toys.  i love to watch him coo at his toys.  best. thing. ever.

-loves his paci - but only to go to sleep with.  perhaps this is a good thing in the making.  should be an easy thing to break later.

-and again, did i mention he still hates his crib?

 

love this little man!

little man's blessing day



we blessed little man when he was about 6 weeks old.  we decided to meet in the middle and blessed him in my parent's ward, that way family wouldn't have to travel as far.  (thanks mom for hosting us!)

 

we decided to have the mister, grandpas, great-grandpas and uncles stand in the circle.

 

we feel so blessed to have such a sweet little boy in our home.  i have to admit, i was kinda scared to have a boy, but i can't imagine anyone but him.  he is such a sweet and calm baby and loves to snuggle.  i can't imagine loving him any more than i already do.

 

 

 

 

i couldn't find what i wanted in a blessing outfit (well, at least in an affordable price range) so i started shopping around to find what i wanted.  i found the button up shirt and shoes at children's place, the khaki corduroy's at old navy and made the tie myself.  i was so pleased with how the tie turned out, that i'm planning on making more for him. 

first smiles/the rest of october

october was an eventful month around our house.

i had my 2 week postpartum checkup as well as my 6 week.

c had his 2 week checkup where everything looked great.

i went in for weekly INR checks - boy were my numbers all over the place.  i don't think we once got them normal.  i had to keep switching my dose every week.  the gal at the front desk and i are on a first name basis.  the pharmacy may or may not recognize my car when i pull up to it.  thank goodness for drive through pharmacies when you have three kids.  whoever thought of that needs an award.

 the mister has been having some right side abdominal pain that won't go away.  it's not his appendix, which is what they all (this isn't our first go around with this) start to come too at first - "well, that sounds like your appendix.  it's too late in the day for us to do any tests here, so you should probably go to the emergency room.  you don't want that to rupture, because then you're going to have bigger problems."

after the last time we heard something similar (it could be your appendix - if it gets worse, you should go to the er), we opted to skip the er because we were fairly certain at this point that if it was his appendix it would get worse and we could face the hospital then.

so he went back to a different doctor after the weekend was over to see if they could figure anything else out.  so far, all they've come up with is that it is inflamed lymph nodes.   (like the last time)  thankfully, after another trip or two to the doctor because the pain won't go away, they've referred him to a specialist.  he had a colonoscopy done and we're just waiting to hear results at this point.  let me tell you though, the mister is hilarious coming off of those drugs.  i had a great laugh driving him back home.

little man loves to sleep on the mister's or my chest.  love that little guy.

it snowed and dumped about 8 inches of snow the other day.

this is what my backyard looked like:

the girls couldn't wait to get out there and play in it.

while they played out in the snow, this is what little man did for me.

one month

this little guy is one month old!  i can't believe it - time sure flies.

 

 

at one month he:

-smiles. for his dad.

-hates his crib

-has slept through the night. once.

-loves being on his tummy.  actually, he prefers it.

-is long and skinny.  we're hoping the length thing is here to stay.

-is a good nurser, although he sure takes his sweet time.

-did i mention he hates his crib?
-hates to be swaddled.  i can't wrap my head around this one.  the girls loved it!

we took him in to get circumcised at a week old.  both the mister and i decided we couldn't be in the room with him, so we sat out in the waiting room.  they brought him out a couple minutes later and little man wasn't even crying.  they said he didn't even whimper, let alone cry.  he is such a sweet boy and i can't get enough snuggles from him!

we sure love this little guy!



first real bath

little man's umbilical cord finally fell off, so he got his first real bath.

 

he didn't love it, but he didn't hate it either.



catching up

i realize i have a lot of catching up to do.

where did the last 7 months go?

 

so while i dilligently update the last 7 months of our life, please bear with me if you've seen/heard it all before.  i get that it's mostly old news.

and a lot of it, i've already written - just never hit "publish."

so here goes nothing.
hopefully, i'll have it all updated this week sometime!


more little man

love me some gassy/sleepy smiles 

i pushed my luck with the camera too far and woke him up 

meeting little man

my parents took the girls for us while we were in the hospital.  it was a good thing that they had already agreed to keep them the entire week, since we ended up staying in the hospital longer than anticipated.

 

we made it home about fifteen minutes before the girls arrived with grandma and grandpa.  they were more than a little thrilled to meet little man.

 

this picture melts my heart - that is where b looked over and saw that i was home too :)

m holding little man for the first time

b holding little man for the first time

checking out little man in his crib (which he doesn't like)

 

we were able to have lots of help during the first week we were home.  the mister's mom came up for a few days to help out with the girls (and brought up a ton of freezer meals that my sister in law organized!!), then my mom came back up for a few days to also help out.  we're so grateful for their willingness to help.  i'm sure it didn't hurt that there were 3 grandbabies to love on too.

my dad snuggling with little man.  he got little man to sleep when he was being difficult and wouldn't let the rest of us hear the end of it.

 

the girls love having a baby brother and try to smother snuggle him to pieces.  we've had to enforce some ground rules so no one gets hurt.  b especially loves having little man around.  this girl is a natural mommy.