weekend

Friday night I went out with some girlfriends to celebrate baby #3 for Marci. While I was gone J had a great time with the girls. They were being so good he had a hard time putting them to bed by 9. They were in Av's bed reading stories together. They were also playing school. Camille would hold up a flash card and say, "what is this Avery?" Av would answer naming the animal. Av also spent a lot of time this weekend sorting her vday loot. She got a lot of it!! The pictures are of Everett showing off his skills with his hands, Camille "reading stories" and Av sorting her loot.

skinny tall dude

Looks like E is going to be a skinny tall dude. If his newborn checkups mean anything that's the path he's on. He is 25.5 inches long and 14lbs. That puts him above 75% for height and right at 25% for weight. Both of the girls were 13 lbs and 3 ounces and 24 inches long. He is growing out of his 3-6 month stuff. it is just long enough and will not last much longer. His check up went great though. The doctor thought his eyes were going to stay blue too. He's a happy little boy wanting to smile and "talk" to the doctor. He has regressed a little on sleeping. He has been up twice a night for about 5 nights now. Not exactly what I want but I am dealing. The doctor thought it was either bc he is congested or bc of teeth which he did see the starts of coming in. Hopefully soon we will all get rid of this cold and sleep much much better!

pretend birthday

Sunday I was sitting with Av working on her letters. She was doing great. Camille was running around having pretend birthdays. At one point Camille said it was Avery's bday. We both kind of ignored her. A few minutes later Av decided she was done. After we cleaned up she turned to Camille and said, "is it still my birthday?" It was pretty darn cute.

life with Camille

Things have been a little rough with Camille again. She just makes me want to pull my hair out (or really something way worse). On Friday she decided in the middle of the hallway of Av's school she didn't want to walk any more. I was carrying Everett in his car seat and just couldn't carry both. No amount of talking, bribery or punishment was working. What was I to do? I had to get Avery to her classroom and I couldn't and wouldn't at that point carry her. No way I was giving in. I told her I was going to leave her there and walked down the hallway. She didn't care and didn't move. I stood at the corner and watched Camille stand there blocking everyone's way and watched Avery the other way take herself to her classroom. I must say that everyone could see that I was having a very bad morning and no one offered to help. I really wanted to leave Camille there at that point. Monday she didn't want to take Avery to school so she was just sitting there and not at all letting me get her out of the house. Again what could I do? I have to get Av to school and Camille has to come. Can't leave her here but oh how I wish I could. I end up yelling and then I hate myself afterwards for it. I am just at a loss on how to deal with her and I get very stressed in time crunches getting the 3 of them out of the house. It's hard. Very hard. Life is hard and I know how lucky I am trying to remember that. I know yelling is not good so I try so hard to hold it together with her. She just pushes and pushes until I can't hold it together any longer. So lately I have been measuring how my day has been on a yelling scale. Today was a great morning she didn't push even once so the yelling mommy monster didn't even have to be stifled. She can be so sweet and cute though too. She loves and needs to be cuddled every morning. Love that time with her. She talks in her little voice and in her 2 year old speech and it's just so cute the words and sounds she uses. After dinner last night we got ice cream. She ate every drop of the ice cream to the point that she used a spoon to get the ice cream out of the cone and then tipped her head back to have the last few drops run into her mouth. Nothing like a 2 year old on a sugar high. So cute. She pointed to her cone and said, "no like that!" This was after she ate 2 cup fulls of green beans. She loves green beans. Hopefully her teachers at school got that diaper. Ok I know I am all over the place with this post. I just want her to know someday how difficult she was and how much she drove me crazy but how much I love her for it. She really challenges me.

grasshopper

The girls and I were doing puzzles and a grasshopper was one of the pieces. Camille piped up and said it was a grasshopper and I was surprised she knew that. I asked how she did and Av said, "bc it looks like a grasshopper." Like I was the silliest person in the world. I asked how she knew it was a grasshopper and Av said, "bc of Abby's Flying Fairy school." So funny. For those of you that are not regular Sesame Street watchers that is a segment on SS.

swaddle free

Well one night anyway! It went great. He actually slept better last night than he has in about 2 weeks. Only ate once at 4. He was up at 530 too but I just popped the paci in and he was quiet again until 830. Camille slept through too. It was a great night. Feels so good to only be up 1.5 times. I think in the swaddle he was cold (so sad it took me this long to figure out). I used to tuck a blanket under the swaddle too but then one night I found it too close to covering his head so I took it away. I think that was the last good night of sleep. Last night he slept in a sleeping blanket and I think he was warm and cozy all night. Hope we are on to something!

dance party

Av has become obsessed with dancing. I could not love this new obsession more. As soon as John walks in the door every night she asks for a dance party. (his iphone is used as the source music a lot of times) Just the girls dance a lot too though. She loves her CDs being played in her room or the Just Dance Party on the Wii. Boy is it a great workout so I am always on board for it. She puts on her tutu (that Shelly got her years ago and she would not touch it forever) and calls it her ballerina. She is too cute. I plan to sign the girls up for dance this fall and I hope Av will actually do it.