It has been a busy couple of weeks with birthdays in our family. Cole turned five 2 1/2 weeks ago, Emily turned one 9 days ago, and Chris is turning 30 tomorrow! I can't believe our youngest baby is now a year old! Em had her 12 month checkup and here are her current stats:
Weight: 23 lb 10 oz (85th percentile)
Height: 30 1/4 inches (85th percentile)
Poor girl had to get her TB test, a finger prick to check her iron levels and do a lead test, plus all her vaccinations. She was doing so good until the needles came out, and then she was traumatized! Thankfully, we get our 3 month reprieve until she has to go back for her 15 month checkup.
In other news, only 12 days until Christmas! How did that happen!? Luckily, I am done with all my Christmas shopping so I can actually relax and enjoy the holidays now. We are celebrating with my family this weekend and then we are heading back to Ohio next weekend to celebrate with Chris' family. I can't wait to see the looks on the kid's faces when they open all their presents! It is my favorite part of the whole day. So life is good and will try to get on the ball with updating more often after the new year. Happy Holidays!
Friday, December 13, 2013
Friday, September 6, 2013
Emily's 9 Month Checkup
Miss Em had her 9 month checkup this week. Here are her current stats:
Weight: 22 lb 13 oz (95th percentile)
Height: 28 1/4 in (75th percentile)
Overall, she is doing great and is on target developmentally. However, she is in the midst of stranger/separation anxiety and screamed throughout the entire appointment! Thank goodness Chris stayed home with Eve and Cole because we were both a mess by the time we got out of there! No vaccinations were due but I did opt to get her flu shot while we were already there. I also noticed this week that Emily's first tooth has finally popped through! We are taking off for Florida next month (for a loooong overdue vacation) and I will be sure to update again then!
Weight: 22 lb 13 oz (95th percentile)
Height: 28 1/4 in (75th percentile)
Overall, she is doing great and is on target developmentally. However, she is in the midst of stranger/separation anxiety and screamed throughout the entire appointment! Thank goodness Chris stayed home with Eve and Cole because we were both a mess by the time we got out of there! No vaccinations were due but I did opt to get her flu shot while we were already there. I also noticed this week that Emily's first tooth has finally popped through! We are taking off for Florida next month (for a loooong overdue vacation) and I will be sure to update again then!
Thursday, August 15, 2013
School, potty training, and life!
So I haven't been posting nearly as much as I'd like lately because my daily life is a whirlwind! Now that Emily is 8 months old and so much more active, I do not stop from the hours of 5:30 am (Em's current wakeup time...help me!) until all the kids are in bed sleeping at 8 pm. At that time, I spend some time with Chris before falling asleep around 10 pm. Not that I'm complaining...I love it! Emily is hitting a fun age and it is so amazing watching her grow and change. The girl does not want to sit still ever! She is not only an expert roller, but is also starting to rock back and forth on all fours. It looks like she may bust out crawling any day now...eek! Not so sure I'm ready for that! She still has no teeth and is not all that interested in solids yet. She will go in for her 9 month checkup next month and I'll update with her stats then.
In other huge news, my main man Cole is FINALLY potty trained!! OMG I seriously thought this day might never come. With Cole's speech and developmental delays, potty training has been quite a challenge. I have tried a few times over the last year and each time, both Cole and I were left completely defeated. Something finally clicked though, and dude has finally got it! We are in regular underwear full-time and it is such a relief to only have Em's diapers to change now. So, so proud of Cole! He has had a big leap in his development lately and it is thrilling to see. He is talking so much more clearly and communicating so much more effectively.
Some more big news is that Eve has started 1st grade! For those that don't know, we have decided to homeschool her this year. And it is going even better than I could have imagined. I loooove teaching her, and she is such a smart cookie that she makes it easy on me. I am loving the freedom that homeschooling is providing us...allowing the kids to actually be well rested in the mornings, doing school in our pajamas if we so please, no longer dealing with bullying, adding devotions and bible time into our studies, spending more time as a family....I could go on and on. For now, we are just taking it year by year. But I would so love it if this is the path we continue to take for the rest of the kids' school years. We will see what happens. But for now, we truly feel that this is what God is calling us to do...and I am loving it!
In other huge news, my main man Cole is FINALLY potty trained!! OMG I seriously thought this day might never come. With Cole's speech and developmental delays, potty training has been quite a challenge. I have tried a few times over the last year and each time, both Cole and I were left completely defeated. Something finally clicked though, and dude has finally got it! We are in regular underwear full-time and it is such a relief to only have Em's diapers to change now. So, so proud of Cole! He has had a big leap in his development lately and it is thrilling to see. He is talking so much more clearly and communicating so much more effectively.
Some more big news is that Eve has started 1st grade! For those that don't know, we have decided to homeschool her this year. And it is going even better than I could have imagined. I loooove teaching her, and she is such a smart cookie that she makes it easy on me. I am loving the freedom that homeschooling is providing us...allowing the kids to actually be well rested in the mornings, doing school in our pajamas if we so please, no longer dealing with bullying, adding devotions and bible time into our studies, spending more time as a family....I could go on and on. For now, we are just taking it year by year. But I would so love it if this is the path we continue to take for the rest of the kids' school years. We will see what happens. But for now, we truly feel that this is what God is calling us to do...and I am loving it!
Monday, June 17, 2013
Emily's 6 Month Checkup
Baby girl had her 6 month checkup last week and is doing fabulously! Here are her current stats :
Weight: 18 lb 11 oz (95th percentile)
Height 27 1/2 in. (75th percentile)
She also got 3 shots...ugh! She screamed her head off, but thankfully was back to happy self within a few hours! Emily is on the verge of hitting several milestones right now. She is sooooo close to rolling over and sitting up independently. She has also finally started to show more interest in solid food and has at least tried every stage 1 fruit and veggie. To be honest, she is much more interested in what we are eating than her baby mush. Who could blame her!? We will probably move to table foods pretty early. All in all, everything is great! Eve and Cole are both ecstatic to be on summer break, and we are taking full advantage of our lazy summer days!
Weight: 18 lb 11 oz (95th percentile)
Height 27 1/2 in. (75th percentile)
She also got 3 shots...ugh! She screamed her head off, but thankfully was back to happy self within a few hours! Emily is on the verge of hitting several milestones right now. She is sooooo close to rolling over and sitting up independently. She has also finally started to show more interest in solid food and has at least tried every stage 1 fruit and veggie. To be honest, she is much more interested in what we are eating than her baby mush. Who could blame her!? We will probably move to table foods pretty early. All in all, everything is great! Eve and Cole are both ecstatic to be on summer break, and we are taking full advantage of our lazy summer days!
Monday, April 15, 2013
Emily's 4 Month Checkup
So last Thursday morning, Miss Em had her 4 month checkup. I had been dreading this visit for awhile since Emily had a week of extreme fussiness related to her vaccines after her 2 month checkup. Thankfully, this time the fussiness only lasted 4 days instead of an entire week. It still sucks though! Here are baby girl's current stats:
Height: 25 1/4 inches (85th percentile)
Weight: 16 lbs. (95th percentile)
Everything checked out great and she is right where she should be developmentally. The only thing she doesn't do yet is roll over, but our pediatrician let us know that rolling over is not even considered a true milestone anymore and they don't really worry about it. So since she is right on track with everything else, we are not concerned. Emily is such a good baby and we are so blessed to have her. I remember being so worried about how I would juggle 3 kids, but everything has just fallen into place. That's not to say I don't still want to pull my hair out on some of our more chaotic days, but overall its been pretty breezy.
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Our Crazy Life
My goal is to update this blog at least 2-3 times a month, but that has just not been happening due to this crazy thing called life! Wow, my days are pretty nutty and hectic now that we have 3 little ones, but I'm still loving all the chaos. I truly do. Although I will say that on most days I collapse onto the couch at 8:00 pm when all the kids are finally asleep, and I wonder where the heck the day even went! I thought I'd post our typical daily schedule so I can look back and remember one day when things settle down.
6 am- My alarms goes off...get up, get dressed and ready for the day, pack Chris and Eve's lunches, chug a cup (sometimes two) of coffee
6:30 am- Get Emily up, change her diaper and give her bottle, spend a few minutes playing
7 am- Get Eve and Cole up, change clothes and fix hair, feed breakfast
7:40 am- Out the door to drop Eve and Cole off at school, Emily falls asleep while in the car for her first nap of the day...this is when I run any errands I have to do for the day (groceries, etc)
9:00 am- Get home from errands, spend a few minutes if Em is still sleeping to start load of laundry and load dishwasher
9:30 am- Change Emily and give her bottle, try to do some tummy time while watching the news
10:30 am- Pick up Cole from school, Emily falls asleep for second nap of the day, come home and give Cole snack, try to spend some one-on-one time with Cole while Em sleeps
11:30 am- Em wakes up from nap, change diaper and usually clothes (girlfriend spits up alot and goes through at least a couple clothing changes a day)
Noon- Give Emily her third bottle of the day and feed Cole lunch, do some more cleaning around the house while Cole entertains Em
1 pm- Put Emily down for her 3rd nap of the day (she averages four 45 minute-1 hour long naps a day currently)
2:20 pm- Head out to pick Eve up from school
2:50 pm- Get home and feed Em her fourth bottle and change her diaper, make Eve and Cole a snack, do more laundry (either starting another load or folding clothes...the laundry never stops!)
4 pm- Em takes her last nap of the day, spend time with the older kids
5 pm- Feed Eve and Cole dinner, Emily wakes up
5:45 pm- Change Em's clothes and diaper, give her last bottle of the day
6:30 pm- Chris gets home from work (typically, though this changes depending on how busy he is), put Emily down to sleep for the night (she has slept 12 hours straight through the night since 12 weeks old...yes I am extremely lucky!!), give Eve and Cole their baths and change into pajamas, relax for a bit before bed
7:00 pm- Brush Eve and Cole's teeth, read bedtime story, say prayers, and they are in bed by 7:30 pm usually...though they will call us in their rooms about 10 times before finally falling asleep for the night around 8 pm
8:00 pm- Collapse on the couch, catch up with Chris and watch TV
10-11 pm- I'm in bed and fast asleep!
Phew!! That looks a lot crazier than it feels most days. We are in such a groove that our days run pretty smoothly most of the time. I am so thankful for my amazing kids and husband and love my life.
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Emily's 2 Month Checkup
Totally forgot to update when I said I would, but better late than never! Here are Miss Em's 2 month stats:
Height: 23 1/2 inches (75th percentile)
Weight: 13 lb. 3 oz (95th percentile)
As you can see, she is a big girl! Even through her being sick all last month, girlfriend never lost her appetite! The appointment went well and Emily is healthy as can be. She did scream during her vaccinations, which is to be expected. I gave her tylenol the rest of the day to keep her comfortable and she was a bit extra fussy that evening. However, she was back to her normal self by the next day. Her pediatrician did put her on Zantac for her acid reflux. We started it yesterday morning and have already seen good results! She is much happier after eating and she is spitting up a little less often. So long as Miss Emily stays healthy, we are clear now until her 4 month checkup. More updates to come!
Monday, February 11, 2013
Life
Time seems to be going even faster than I thought possible now that we have 3 kids. I usually do not stop moving from 6:30 am when the kids wake up until 7:30 pm when Eve and Cole go to bed, and only then can I can sit down and take a breather with Miss Emily until she goes to bed around 10:00 pm. But I love it and would not change it for the world! My heart feels so completely full now that our family is complete.
Thought it was time to do an update on how all the kids are doing. I'll start with my baby girl Eve (who will always be my baby no matter how old she is!). Girlfriend is turning 6 in two weeks...ack! She has grown up so much in the last several months since starting kindergarten. She recently learned to count to 100 and is actually now reading...craziness! She is so artistic and is always drawing and creating things. She is also a perfectionist and extremely competitive, just like Chris. This has its good sides and its bad sides! On the plus side, she is very motivated and does great in school. But she also beats herself up for the tiniest mistakes and gets upset if she doesn't live up to her own standards. It is hard to watch, but overall she is such a bright, happy girl. Current loves include: Monster High dolls, Spiderman, sparkly clothes, popsicles, chik fil a chicken nuggets, and sleeping on the top bunk of her and Cole's new bunkbeds!
Onto my little guy Cole. Or should I say big guy? Despite being 2 years younger than Eve, he is nearly as tall as her and actually weighs 2 lbs more than her! Cole has also changed so much since he started his second year of preschool. He is talking all the time now, though we still have problems with articulation and pronunciation. He can now write his name and has met all of the goals that his teachers and I set for him back in September! Our biggest issue that we are working on is that Cole seems to have auditory processing disorder, which is a common side issue with autism. Basically it means that although he hears us, he doesn't really process what we are saying alot of the time. We have to make an effort to keep questions short and to the point because otherwise we lose him after the first couple words. He is still my little cuddly guy and almost always has a smile on his face. Current loves include: Spiderman, Sonic the Hedgehog, video games, cheeze-its, suckers, and following Eve all over the place.
Last but not least is my sweet baby girl, Emily. I cannot wrap my head around the fact that she is already 10 weeks old! We actually go in for her 2 month checkup and shots today so I'll update with her size stats later this evening. Poor Em has had a rough go of it up until about a week or two ago. She spent the entire month of January very sick and miserable. What started as a bad cold actually ended up turning into pneumonia. She would have these terrible choking fits several times a day where she would actually turn blue around her mouth and stop breathing for a few seconds. It was some of the most scary and stressful weeks of my life. In fact, I'm pretty sure I aged 10 years in those few weeks! After finally going on a very strong antibiotic, things started to clear up and she is finally a happy and healthy baby again. Praise God! Emily is also already sleeping through the night! Eve and Cole did not sleep through the night until they were nearly a year old, so this is just amazing to me. She goes to bed around 10 pm and then I actually have to wake her up around 6:30 am. We will eventually move her bedtime earlier, but for now I'm not messing with a good thing!
Thought it was time to do an update on how all the kids are doing. I'll start with my baby girl Eve (who will always be my baby no matter how old she is!). Girlfriend is turning 6 in two weeks...ack! She has grown up so much in the last several months since starting kindergarten. She recently learned to count to 100 and is actually now reading...craziness! She is so artistic and is always drawing and creating things. She is also a perfectionist and extremely competitive, just like Chris. This has its good sides and its bad sides! On the plus side, she is very motivated and does great in school. But she also beats herself up for the tiniest mistakes and gets upset if she doesn't live up to her own standards. It is hard to watch, but overall she is such a bright, happy girl. Current loves include: Monster High dolls, Spiderman, sparkly clothes, popsicles, chik fil a chicken nuggets, and sleeping on the top bunk of her and Cole's new bunkbeds!
Onto my little guy Cole. Or should I say big guy? Despite being 2 years younger than Eve, he is nearly as tall as her and actually weighs 2 lbs more than her! Cole has also changed so much since he started his second year of preschool. He is talking all the time now, though we still have problems with articulation and pronunciation. He can now write his name and has met all of the goals that his teachers and I set for him back in September! Our biggest issue that we are working on is that Cole seems to have auditory processing disorder, which is a common side issue with autism. Basically it means that although he hears us, he doesn't really process what we are saying alot of the time. We have to make an effort to keep questions short and to the point because otherwise we lose him after the first couple words. He is still my little cuddly guy and almost always has a smile on his face. Current loves include: Spiderman, Sonic the Hedgehog, video games, cheeze-its, suckers, and following Eve all over the place.
Last but not least is my sweet baby girl, Emily. I cannot wrap my head around the fact that she is already 10 weeks old! We actually go in for her 2 month checkup and shots today so I'll update with her size stats later this evening. Poor Em has had a rough go of it up until about a week or two ago. She spent the entire month of January very sick and miserable. What started as a bad cold actually ended up turning into pneumonia. She would have these terrible choking fits several times a day where she would actually turn blue around her mouth and stop breathing for a few seconds. It was some of the most scary and stressful weeks of my life. In fact, I'm pretty sure I aged 10 years in those few weeks! After finally going on a very strong antibiotic, things started to clear up and she is finally a happy and healthy baby again. Praise God! Emily is also already sleeping through the night! Eve and Cole did not sleep through the night until they were nearly a year old, so this is just amazing to me. She goes to bed around 10 pm and then I actually have to wake her up around 6:30 am. We will eventually move her bedtime earlier, but for now I'm not messing with a good thing!
Friday, January 11, 2013
Emily's 1 month Checkup
I just got home from taking Miss Em to her one month checkup, though she is actually 5 1/2 weeks. She is doing great! Here are her current stats: Length: 22 inches (75th percentile) Weight: 10 lb. 9 oz (80th percentile) She will go back in another month for her 2 month checkup, which includes the dreaded first shots.
It has been a rough few weeks around here health-wise for our entire family, but thankfully we all seem to finally be on the upswing from it all. Starting at Christmas, Eve and Cole both got hit with bronchitis and double ear infections. Then Chris and I came down with bad colds. And poor Emily got an upper respiratory tract infection that left her just miserable. I have been back and forth to the kids' pediatrician more times than I can count in the last few weeks! But I am just so very thankful that everyone made it through it all okay and we all seem to be getting healthy once again. God is good!
I am so excited that it is a new year full of possibilities and I am looking forward to what is to come for our family. Emily has seamlessly fit right in and has made the transition from 2 to 3 kids so easy on me. She is such a good baby and is already on a great schedule. Eve and Cole are both happy to be back in school after the holiday break and are doing wonderful. Hard to believe Miss Eve will be turning 6 years old next month!! I am so thankful to have 3 amazing kids and an awesome husband, and am really counting my blessings! Here is to an amazing 2013!!
It has been a rough few weeks around here health-wise for our entire family, but thankfully we all seem to finally be on the upswing from it all. Starting at Christmas, Eve and Cole both got hit with bronchitis and double ear infections. Then Chris and I came down with bad colds. And poor Emily got an upper respiratory tract infection that left her just miserable. I have been back and forth to the kids' pediatrician more times than I can count in the last few weeks! But I am just so very thankful that everyone made it through it all okay and we all seem to be getting healthy once again. God is good!
I am so excited that it is a new year full of possibilities and I am looking forward to what is to come for our family. Emily has seamlessly fit right in and has made the transition from 2 to 3 kids so easy on me. She is such a good baby and is already on a great schedule. Eve and Cole are both happy to be back in school after the holiday break and are doing wonderful. Hard to believe Miss Eve will be turning 6 years old next month!! I am so thankful to have 3 amazing kids and an awesome husband, and am really counting my blessings! Here is to an amazing 2013!!
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