3 months old!

Where does the time go???

I love this age right now, she is so much fun and doing new things each week!

She "talks" a lot, likes to stare at her big brother doing crazy things. She rolled over for the first time last Wednesday. I kept putting on her tummy to see if she would do it again, thinking it might be a fluke. But it wasn't! She will roll. She almost made it all the way from back to front yesterday. Today she kept putting her feet under her belly and trying to scoot. Not sure if that was because she didn't want to be on her belly (not a HUGE fan of it) or if she was trying to go somewhere! 

So far this week I have been getting both kids down around 8:30-8:45. Gisele sleeps until 4 or 5 and X, well he sleeps in his bed all night about every other night. The other nights I get a midnight to 3 visitor. It is payback I guess! I can remember being scare of something and going to my parents room. I would just stand by my dad's head and wait for him to wake up. Usually he awoke with a startled sound! I almost always hear X before he makes it to our room but on occasion he startles me. Usually, he just climbs right in between me and Jake and snuggles in! I know its a bad habit, but as the song goes, "It won't be like this for long!" So I haven't put much of a stop to it. These days he sleeps pretty straight, every now and then he kicks Jake in the face (startles him, because he didn't even know X was in the bed!)

X goes to "school" once a week. It is a nice window for me to get things done and I think X is enjoying being with other other kids and in a different environment. The first few weeks he was pretty shy and quiet but the teachers said he opened up last week. I just said watch out, when he opens all the way up, you might want some of that shyness back! :) He loves his little sister and he definitely still loves his Mama!  He loves daddy too, just not in the morning sometimes! :)

Already October, Christmas will be here before we know it! I have tried to start my shopping.....wasn't too successful this past weekend though!

Happy Birthday Uncle Josh (today) and pre Happy Birthday Ashley! (thursday)

Visit from Uncle Josh

Uncle Josh came to visit a couple weeks ago for the PU vs ND game. He took the kids to the Children's Museum. ( I went as well in case anyone got out of hand!)

Chlo Bug with the hoola hoop

X getting his groove on!

Caden dressed up in a Beaver outfit playing in a log :)

Uncle Josh helping with a sailboat

Digging for Dinosaur bones!

Cheers!

 (they love to do this, one day they will be slugging down Miller Lites together!)

Uncle Josh with all his nieces and nephews! It was a challenge getting all the kids on the couch. I mean seriously, how come kids don't like to get their pictures taken?? Okay one of them will the others won't. Next time someone else will another won't!

Anyway, thanks Uncle Josh for coming to visit and taking us to the Museum! See you at Thanksgiving :)

end of September.....

Lil G sitting in her bumbo. She likes most of the time, unless she is upset and ready to eat!

Smiling for the camera. And of course G is not looking!

Believe it or not......Xavier took this picture!

And this one! Oops!

And this one too! I may have a budding photographer on my hands. He likes to see the camera and I gave in this day to let him see it and try! He was pretty good!

One more try......

and finally a phone pic later that day with both looking at the camera!

Chloe's 2!

Chloe and Xavier. This is X's new "face" he makes!

CW, up to no good!

Henry

The Toy Du Jour!

Xavier got into a "small" altercation with the neighbor boy over the JD ride on!

Lil G, just chillin on the mat

There's a smile!

He likes to sample her fingie's and piggies.

Looks like he is trying to pick his nose with her finger........

Happy 2nd Birthday Miss Chlo Bug! We love you!

2 Months

Hard to believe my little sweet pea is already 2 months old!

And in typical Indiana style, last week she was dressed in a sleeveless little number, this week she has been wearing a onesie with pants.......

We are doing pretty well, with an occasional bump in the road!

Yesterday X started throwing up some phlegm and bile when he woke up and he was pretty sleepy and didn't want to do anything. So, I knew something was definitely wrong. Off to Dr Jim we went! We have seen Dr Jim 3 weeks in a row now. First for X 2.5 year appointment and then Giseles 2 month appointment! Dr Jim actually thought he sounded decent and didn't find anything in his ears but with X's history this year of breathing issues and some bronchial stuff we got a Zpac to be on the safe side! And wow! He was totally back to himself by noon after 1 dose of mecicine as he calls it!

Today we had an allergist appointment (good thing we have $ in an FSA!) overall nothing earth shattering other than he decided we should do some blood work to determine the egg and peanut allergy level. So since we were doing blood work he also re-tested for wheat, soy, dairy and dog dander. Then checked for deficiency's in Vitamin D and Zinc. His poor skin has just been red, itchy, rashy for about 2 months if not longer. It wakes him up at night, which wakes me up! He has itched places on his body just raw and it is so hard to watch because I try to make it better for him it just isn't working. SO, today the allergist also suggested we take a bath tonight, put on his medicine on spots and vaseline over the rest of the body, followed by a pair of wet pajamas and socks topped with dry pajamas and socks. So today I bought him some new footed pj's from Target thinking oh, this will be okay. Yeah, not so much. He was NOT happy whatsoever with the wet pj's. We managed to keep him in them for maybe all of 10 minutes before I just couldn't take the painful crying by him. Then we went to put a star on his chart for taking a bath and he wanted the star in a different box. Then he wanted a second star and then he fell asleep on me. Poor thing is exhausted from not getting a good nights sleep and then worn out from wailing! I am hoping that I can still get some meds and vaseline on him for a couple nights with the footed jj's and that might help him not to itch his legs at least.

Gisele is pretty good. Night and day from Xavier. She eats about every 3 hours during the day and then goes down between 9 and 10 and sleeps until 3 or 4. So she usually gives me a nice 5-6 hours a night. She is changing daily, coo's and ahh's and smiles a lot. Let's just say she is going to be one tough cookie with Xavier as her brother........

Hope everyone had a good Labor Day weekend!

Forgotten Pics!

As I was uploading pics to shutterfly from my computer I found some that I forgot to put on my blog. C and C loved baby Gisele when she first came home! Not that they don't still like her but she is not as "cool" as she once was!

I about fell over when I looked over and saw Chloe "breastfeeding" her baby doll with her Nu-noops. I mean she even got baby a burp cloth!! Her Nanny Angela has an 8 month old so Chloe has seen lots of breastfeeding lately!

Mimi came to visit and meet Gisele. Xavier loves his Aunt Mimi too!

Random Tuesday Fun

C, C and X love to find and play with random things at my house. This particular afternoon Caden found some boots that don't quite fit yet, X found some sandals that he never before has wanted to wear and Chloe has a pair of winter crocs (thanks Jack! :)

X started dismantling his train table one day so I took the train pieces downstairs and C and C wanted to sit on top! (with their shoes)

C and C. Anxiously awaiting their 3rd C! Due to arrive in 3-4 weeks!

Official due date for Mr Carson is September 21. I have a feeling with all the work my sister has been doing that he will make an early appearance! We will find out tomorrow if there is any action!

Burp cloth for your head anyone? Yes we definitely had a major fight for who got which burp cloth......

I tried to get all 3 wearing their burp cloth hats but of course 1 moved, 1 turned around, etc!

I think our other major fight this afternoon was over 2 empty contact cases. Go figure!