Clothes and Updates

We have been having such nice weather here, my only bummer is that I don't have any clothes that fit for summer.  But I hope to remedy that in 2 ways soon.  Losing baby weight and some hand me downs.  K and I went on our first date on Thursday night.  We went to the Cheesecake Factory and Grandma had all 3 kiddos.  Ironically enough, we went to CF on our 1st date after we had Aaron, except in SD.  Totally didn't plan it! It was delish!

 Sweet Sarah.

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 I LOVE this dress my Nana and Papadaddy sent Grace off of Zulilly.  I love the colors and the paisley's.  I have been thinking about how to incorporated paisleys into the girls room when I redo it.

 Red and blue outfit for Aaron, so sweet!

 And then pink and blue for Sarah.  I love how these 3 outfits kind of go together.  The blues all go together and I wish I could put Sarah's in her right now, but I think it might still be a bit big for now.

 She always looks so grumpy...well maybe she is because I am not holding her.  She is proving to be a baby who likes to be held.  Even right after she gets fed and burped.  Which makes getting things done hard.  I really need to practice more with my Moby Wrap, 

 This little sleep sack came today and its the first one we own that has long sleeves.  All of our sleep sacks are sleeveless.

Some Grace and Aaron updates:  Grace has been sleeping in panties for just about a week now and doing great.  No accidents and no problems, she is such a big girl.  Her dance classes are over now, but I am wanting to get her into some swim lessons I think.  Just need to find a class that is a good starting time. 
Aaron has been talking up a storm the last couple of weeks.  His favorite word right now is No and he says it so sweetly that I chuckle most of the time.  His other big thing within the last couple of days has been screaming like a banshee when he gets really mad for whatever reason.  That I do NOT chuckle at, and point in fact send him straight to his room.  But this morning he asked for eggs for breakfast and chowed them down.  He still is a very picky eater, but he is becoming my big boy and has been wanting to eat at the table with us. 
Sarah is sleeping good and if I let her sleep with me then we both sleep better.  I try to re bundled her and put her back in her bassinet but that only works 50% of the time. 
She is asleep right now on my chest while I type this, so hopefully I can lay her down and she won't wake and they will all nap together!

Mother's Day 2012

I was going to do a blog post tonight, but I just got Sarah to sleep and I have been on Mommy duty all day.  So I will upload new pictures tomorrow.  (Just had to stop typing to run downstairs and gave

 Sarah to Daddy so I could go in and comfort Grace, who woke up from a bad dream)  I took these pictures yesterday with my phone and sent them to my email, so I was able to upload them with one hand while I nursed Sarah.  Nana and Papadaddy sent these outfits for the kids, Grace new Big Sister shirt and Aaron's Elmo outfit.  Which I didn't know he knew who Elmo was until I showed him this shirt and he started saying Elmo! 

 Totally flashin a cheesy grin on purpose! The shorts are kinda long on him, but they look really long in this picture because of the angle. 

Today I graduated Sarah up to a size 1 diaper and went threw and separated some of her newborn clothes out.  No more NB size for her!  I am hoping for a good nights sleep tonight, I got the big kids down to bed at 8 and then nursed Sarah but she was fussy afterwards and just finally fell asleep at 9:40pm.  So I am going to go back and get her and bundle her up and then read my book a bit before hitting the hay myself.
Hope everyone had a nice Sunday and Mother's Day...I personally get a re-do later on once K is back on his feet.

What We have been Doing

It has been really nice weather this week in the mid 70's and 80 today, so we have been enjoying the summer like weather.  Took this picture of Sarah on Monday.

Grace and Aaron were making mud pies or mud something on Monday and I washed them several times during the day before and after nap, but they napped really good and had a blast so I was cool with it.

Aaron looks so skinny here, so serious, so loved!

You can't tell, but she was almost as dirty, I think Aaron had help getting himself that dirty.

Took this picture of Sarah today of her cute little brown dress.  I put a brown and white onesie under it because when we left this morning it was still a little cold out I figured for just tiny straps.

It probably would look cuter without the onesie, but oh well!

So I decided to head over to Wal Mart to check out their water tables, since we are having such nice weather.  I thought it would be better for the kids to be playing with water outside instead of digging in the dirt. (On a side note...why is it my children like to dig in the hard packed dirt, when we have a pile of dark compost dirt that in my estimation would be much easier to dig in??)

The water table was a huge success, although it took me much longer to put it together that I thought, despite only having 8 screws and most everything snapped easily together.  Lesson learned, screwing screws into plastic is a lot harder than it looks.  Also putting a water table together, nursing a baby, and making lunch for your toddlers is a balancing act...what do you do first?? Feed them.

So I thought that Grace's bathing suit from last summer (3T) would still somewhat fit her until I got her a new one.  However that is not the case it is really too small and she was fussing and crying that it was too tight.  And I could see that it was.  Aaron however still fit into his 12 month board shorts and his 18 month wet suit-ish shirt fit as well, so his bathing suit needs are not so desperate.

I let the kids play until 1:30pm today since they were having so much fun and everyone had such great naps.  Grace and Aaron until almost 4pm and I had to wake Sarah up at 3:00pm to nurse her.  Although she went down for her 'nap' earlier.  :) 

I think K and I are going to have a date tomorrow night.  Grandma is scheduled to babysit around 6pm and I am trying to decide if I want to bring Sarah with us to dinner or leave her with Grandma.  Not sure yet.  Looking forward to another nice day tomorrow! Happy Hump Day!

Some more Sarah

I am so bad about uploading my pictures the day I take them.  I took these last week. 

 Here she is doing her little frown.

 On Friday we went to Grace's dentist appointment and then headed over to Lactation Station and got me some nursing bras which I really needed.  It's so nice to have a nice newly fitted bra.  I also splurged and bought a nursing pillow called My Brest Friend.  I didn't get one with Aaron but I figured I am going to be nursing for awhile so I might as well be comfortable.  They cost more money than a Boppy, but totally worth it, in my opinion. 

After Lactation Station we got some lunch and because Grace had no cavities at her dentist appointment, and Aaron actually ate a good lunch for once, we got the kids ice cream cones.  Apparently it was Aaron's first ice cream cone and he was so cute eating it. He just kind of sucked on it!

 Big bite!

 Hubby having a root beer float.

 Yummy ice cream, huh Grace??

Saturday K mowed the lawn and got it looking pretty while it was cool.  The weekend was nice but it wasn't warm, so I am looking forward to this week of warm 70 degree weather.  Today I am going to try to do some banking and then maybe take a walk with the kiddos.  Also try to get some house cleaning done! Hope you have a good week!

Dance Recital and Checkups

We had Grace's first dance recital last Saturday and she was so precious.  I ordered a video so I can't wait to watch it!  I can't believe how grown up she looks!

 Cheesin with Pepaw!

 After the recital they put on a little tea for the girls and the families, Grace really wanted to have some tea and she did and liked it! You can see her little glass tea cup there next to her punch.  Aaron was getting cleaned up because he was covered in something I am sure.

 We got Grace purple flowers.  She LOVED them.  She has been all about the flowers this spring and her favorite color is purple.  Any choice she makes if she could choose purple, she does.

 Memaw helping me with her hair! I was inexperienced in dance recital hair!

 Sweet Sarah slept through the whole performance of course, how thoughtful she was!

 And of course the sweetest boy I know..Air Bear.

I took the kids to the pediatrician's today.  It was my first time out with all 3 kids by myself and it was good, but kind of crazy.  Our appointment was at 11:45 which I wouldn't normally schedule, but since they were able to do Aaron's 18 month check up with Sarah's 2 week check up I figured I would roll with it. 
Sarah is doing great, she is up to 9 pounds and the 73%  and nursing on her schedule still.  When she wants to sleep she wants to sleep.  Hey I don't blame her...I enjoy sleeping very much as well!  Her length is 21.6 inches and 90%, so she is doing great!  In fact she was the quietest of the three of them at the appointment.  She had to get her heal pricked again for the newborn screening they do, poor little baby foot, but she was a champ right after.  Also her umbilical cord scab fell of yesterday so that's nice.
Aaron is 22.8 pounds and in the 10% and his length is 33.3 inches and in the 73%. The doc says 'lean'...I say yep that's my skinny boy! Too bad he is such a picky eater sometimes, because he could stand to gain a few pounds.  I am hoping that when his other molar finally pops through we won't have such teething issues.  I can see one of them and its mostly out but not the other.  It feels like we have been waiting for those molars for months and months now!! Aaron got a vaccination and he was quite sad about it.
Grace also got a vaccination at the doc's office and she had a hard time being the first one.  She was kind of sad for a bit, but then I let her dig around in the diaper bag for my lip gloss and it made everything better real quick!
We finally left the pediatrician's office (after nursing poor starving Sarah real quick) at 1:35 and ran through and got the kids something to eat before heading home for some late naps.  Aaron took a short one, Grace may or may not have taken one, hard to say and Sarah definitely took a long one! And I took one on the couch and it was great until Aaron woke up whining! LOL!
All in all it was a good day and now its time to hit the hay! Night!

Sarah, Grace and Aaron

So I finally am downloading the pictures I have of Sarah and the kids meeting and from after we got home.  This first one is of Sarah at the hospital Day 2.

Grace meeting Sarah for the first time, I don't think she knew what to think.

 Aaron  checking out his baby sister...he is such a love.

 Opening gifts 'from' Sarah...Grace got a new umbrella stroller for her babies.

 Aaron got a puzzle, although he thought the stroller was fun to drive as well.

 Sarah all ready to go home that night...she wasn't so thrilled.

 My girls! Big sister LOVES holding Sarah, even when she is fussing. 

 Love this picture because I have an identical one of Grace, making that same face!  If I find it I will post it.

 Sweet sleepy girl.

Sarah is such a good baby, she is so easy, she hardly ever fusses.  Of course I will write that and then we will have a fussy night tonight! Ha! Hopefully not! No, she really is a good baby.  She fussed for a little bit last night and then fell asleep about 9:30pm and slept until about 2am. We went to sleep early around 10pm so I got a nice bit of sleep.  She snacked on and off until 630ish today when we got up and nursed.  I was feeling decent so I decided to jump in the shower and Aaron didn't wake until 745 I think. Then Sarah was awake until about 10am and then she slept hard until 1:20 when I 'tried' to wake her to nurse.  She wasn't having it and only snacked then she nursed good around 3:30pm.  And then she snacked off and on during dinner and bath time tonight.  She finally fell asleep around 8:30pm tonight.  Now I just have to make a point of going to bed at a decent time and hope for another long sleep!
Tomorrow is her 2 week check up and Aaron's 18 month check up.  Grace is also going to get a shot, so we will hopefully have a smooth visit.  It will also be the first time I take the 3 of them anywhere by myself!
Time to go switch the laundry-love you all!
Night Night!!