high chair

I was cleaning the kitchen today and wanted Everett to be in there with me, off the back of his head, but up so he could see me and hear me talking to him. Bright idea, the high chair. Here he is in it for the first time ever. He looks so small in it. I gave him a few toys to play with after I took these pics. He seemed to love it. Sooooooo crazy bc it was not very long since I was strapping Camille in it. As much as I hate the ugly thing and how much room it takes up that high chair will be out of my life forever way too soon. Makes me want to cry.

my 3 cute, runny nose kids

almost 4 months

Everett is back to loving his paci. We will see how long it lasts. He is not as obsessed with his hands so maybe that's why the paci is back in the picture. I have to admit I'm happy the hand obsession or should I say the thumb sucking is starting taper off. His cute little thumb in his mouth is very adorable but not something I want to become a habit. He's starting to really use his hands for what they are meant for. Playing and grabbing things.

Sleep all the sudden has taken a huge turn for the worse though. He sleeps till 1 and then is up every 2 hours after that. Not even to eat. I hear him in there playing and he is totally out of the swaddle. When I go in there I can see him trying to go back to sleep but he needs my help for that. I know when he is trying to put himself to sleep bc he throws his head back and forth looking for his source of something to suck. He wants his paci and to be swaddled back up. So I do and out he is again. What I don't understand is why he is waking every 2 hours or so to begin with. Either way it's time to get rid of the swaddle. He has become dependent on that to go to sleep and that's not good. So sometime soon when I can muster up a night to suffer through we will throw out the swaddle blanket. This is how I found him this morning though. Out of the blanket. Maybe he falls asleep that way but moves and works his way out and that eventually wakes him up. He still had his paci in his mouth from when I gave it to him at 7. This pic was taken at 8:30. Pretty funny he still had it. Notice the paci is purple. It's Camille's old one. It stays in his bed and is only used there.

He is still just the sweetest cutest baby ever. Does not cause any problems. He naps when he wants to where he wants to and the sleep at night does not matter on the day time sleep. He's just easy. Way easier than the other 2 are now or were then.

He is a very sensitive little boy. He scares easily. Noises scare him or make him jump. He gets that really sad look on his face when his sisters are sad.

I know I say this ALL the time but I can't believe he is already 4 months. He is my baby and he is growing way too fast. I HATE it. The other night John was playing bball and the girls were in bed and Everett and I did kangaroo care for the first time in a long long time. It was so sweet and I just cherished every minute of it. I held him so tight and told him how much I loved him. We both enjoyed it so much!!!

tough girl

Camille is a tough cookie. She is so crazy strong, determined, smart and pretty bratty. She knows exactly what bugs people and does it just to bug them. Specifically her sister and Stella. She is really good friends with Max. They play amazing together. She is kind of a tom-boy. Loves balls and rough-housing. I think that's why they get along so well. They are not even in school together but really like each other. She is tough but the one thing she hates or scares her A LOT is being upside down. She hates when John or I try to carry her upside down just for something fun to do. It's pretty funny and to tease her we like to do it. heheheh maybe that's where she gets her love of bugging people.

bad bad 2 year old

While I am making my muffins and thinking I am the mother of the year Camille in the matter of 10 minutes managed to purposely kick over a lamp shattering it to pieces and then bit her sister. Oh my maybe I do want to work and send her to school full time. The thousands of glass pieces and the lamp landed on Everett's bumbo that he had been sitting in this morning. Thankfully he was not in it or we would have had a nice afternoon in the ER. After sending her to her room and cleaning up the mess she came down and started fighting with Avery over a necklace and bit her when she didn't get her way. Back to her room she went. I am not sure what I am going to do with that one.

SAHM

Stay at home mom.....I'm embracing my new stay at home mom status. (it's not definite that I'm staying home but as my job is moving to Cleveland and I'm not, and since no one can afford the luxury of having me do their work anymore at GE it looks like it's my fate. Plus between the 3 kids and everything I need to do around here and all the therapy I take Av too I really only have 12 hours a week that both girls are in school that I could work.) John is starting to get used to it and like it. I have time to do the errands he usually has to try to fit in like oil changes, registering the cars and lots of little odds and ends neither of us have had time for. The laundry is always caught up now and put away. I have been cooking. Last night I made a potato soup (that was really easy, don't tell him though) and he was impressed. I was partly hurt (but not really) that he didn't put much stake in my cooking skills and very proud that he loved it. As did I and the eater Camille. Today I used browning bananas and made whole wheat from scratch muffins that both girls gobbled up. Maybe this will not be so bad. Time will only tell.

Everett has a peanut

Is Camille's new saying. She means penis. heheheh I was changing his diaper the other day and she said, "what is that Everett has?" As I was trying to explain it to her she moved on and started playing with a toy. Guess she was very interested. But every so often now she out of the blue states "Everett has a peanut" or "daddy has a peanut." heheheh