Colin is 2.5 Years Old

Colin is a two and a half year old as of Tuesday 2/17!  He is really a great kid, sweet, loving, and a funny boy.  Don't get me wrong he has his moments of being a "two year old."  Colin is really into construction sites which is any place with any type of construction vehicle.  He also likes to point out construction sites when we are driving around town.  His other favorite thing to do is play superheroes.  He is usually Ironman and he likes to play "Hulk Smash" which is where daddy has to play Hulk and is repeatedly escorted to bad guy jail.

Here is is protecting himself from the sun, ha!

Colin enjoys watching many different shows.  I can't pinpoint a favorite for him.  He likes Curious George, Wild Kratts, and Rescue Bots to name a few.  Colin has always been pretty good about playing by himself and enjoys entertaining himself.  He will look at books, put out pretend fires, play cars, but his favorite thing to do is pretend to be a puppy dog.

He's usually a happy little guy.  His speech is super clear anymore and he is becoming such a big guy.  He has some funny little phrases he says lately. One he has been saying a lot lately is "Oh my goodness"  It cracks us up.  When he gets in trouble and has to go to his room he will holler out "I wanna be happy".  We have no idea where that one came from.  I just let him know we want him to be happy too.  When Liam and him are playing and Liam does something that Colin disapproves of he will say "Don't ever do that again!"

He loves to play outside and really enjoys his water table and playing with the water squirters.

Colin's favorite foods are bananas, cereal, mac n' cheese, dino chicken, fig newtons, yogurt, and fruit snacks.  He is really in a phase where he only wants junk food or he won't eat and it's lovely, ha!  He is awesome about drinking water though and always has his water bottle close by during the day.  Naps are still a struggle with him unless someone rocks him to sleep, which I don't mind but if Amelia is still awake it makes it a little difficult.  He goes to bed no problem at night but has been waking up in the middle of the night the past couple months, usually he goes right back to sleep but needs daddy to come in and see him before he'll go back down.  Colin wears a 2T-3T depending on brand and a size 8.5-9 shoe.  He is currently 36 1/4 inches tall and weighs 32.2lbs. 

Colin loves his brother and sister.  He misses Liam when he is at school but still enjoys hanging with his momma.  He also loves to come say Hi to Amelia in the mornings and likes to hold her.  Here he is on his 2.5year old birthday at Amelia's four month appointment.

He tried the potty Feb. 3rd.  He said he had to go potty so we put him on the potty.  He went a teeny tiny bit and then about three minutes later peed on the floor.  I am just hoping to get the idea in his head and hope to really go full force on the potty training thing come April.  

Happy 2.5 years! We love you little peanut!

Amelia is 4 Months Old!

Four months old, my last little baby is FOUR! MONTHS! OLD!  Amelia had her check up on Tuesday and all is going well.  She is 24.5 inches long and weighs 13lbs 7 oz.  She is still super sweet and smiley.  She has been drooling a ton and is teething according to the pediatrician.  She loves to chew on anything she can get her hands on.  Even though she has rolled over she has decided not to do it again in the last two weeks, ha!  Amelia loves to watch her brothers play and thinks they are hilarious at times.  She also prefers to be carried so she can see what is going on but when she is tired, she doesn't mind cuddling.  She enjoys playing with her little toys and her toes.  She loves her toes, especially her left big toe.  It is her favorite one to chew on.  Her hair is still wild but not completely untamable and has lightened a little bit.  At her two month appointment I noticed a little discoloration on her leg and thought it was a bruise and the pediatrician thought it could be the way we held her.  Anyway it is not a bruise and she developed a birthmark after birth.  I did notice recently it is spreading a little.  So we are keeping an eye on it but the doc didn't seem to worried.  

Amelia is the easiest baby to get to bed.  I feed her, read to her, and lay her in her crib with the mobile and she falls right to sleep.  She is usually ready for bed around 7:30-8:00.  As for naps she doesn't have a schedule.  She usually naps at some point in the morning for about 45 minutes and will nap sometime in the afternoon anywhere from 30 minutes to 3 hours.  She usually ends up napping in the carseat in the morning on one of our errands and in the swing or on me in the afternoon. She also has a little ticklish spot right under her arms and will let out a good laugh some days.

Here is our four month old girl

Watching her brother

She keeps trying to sit up even more and then will fall forward.  She also tries to lift her head up when laying down.  I just tell her not to be in a hurry to grow up ;)

She loves her bumbo and will sit in it while I get ready in the mornings

Naked baby

Laughing

Back side, check out all the hair

Happy gal

She's about done with all the pictures I took

Ignoring me and holding on to her toes.

She loves to be held up above us and always gives a us a good smile.

Deer Farm

Last Friday we went to Flagstaff since I had a dermatologist appointment.  Amelia was still running fever but she did great.  The boys rode up with G&G Casson and loved every minute of it.  The next morning the kids enjoyed checking out their little Valentine's gifts.  

Liam with his Scooby Doo book

Colin with his gifts, he also immediately wanted a fruit snack, ha

Eventually Amelia woke up and enjoyed her book and little outfit.

Then the boys wanted to play outside.  Daddy and Colin blew bubbles

Liam did some bike riding.

We made a couple stops at Joann's and Target and eventually made our way to the deer farm and caught this view on our way.

We had to wait a few minutes until the boys showed up with G&G so Amelia did a little driving :)

Kiddos

Liam enjoyed riding on the deer

Petting the goats

Feeding the deer

Liam enjoyed giving them food

Liam trying to get more food from Chris.  Eventually, Tim and Chris did a little box out on the deer so he could feed them, ha!

Amelia checking out the llamas

Wallabies

Colin wanted to feed this white deer.  They were buddies for a minute

My boys

There was the sweetest dog at the farm and Colin LOVED him.

Sweet baby girl.

When we got home I did a little Valentine's Day shoot with Amelia

She's a cutie

Chris and I attempted a date and went to Sirens Cafe but discovered they only serve appetizers, ha!  So we ate some appetizers and got this cute picture of my hubby and Amelia.

Liam giving cuddles to Amelia

and lastly on Sunday Megan finally got to meet sweet Amelia.  It was a super quick visit but it is always wonderful catching up even if it is for a brief moment.

All in all it was a great weekend and better yet we are all recovering from being sick!!

Fun and Sickness

First of all, I have a few things to jot down

1. Colin likes to tell his brother "Don't ever do that again"  He enjoys yelling it at the top of his lungs.

2. Colin also enjoys telling us "that's not fair"

3.  One day we were in the car and Colin asked to watch a show when we got home.  I said "probably not", he then immediately responded with "probably yes", ha!

4.  Colin was riding in the car and we were driving alongside a train.  He pointed at one of the cars and said "that one's dirty it needs a car wash", ha then he went through each car and would say "and that one too"

5.  Amelia ROLLED over!  She rolled from her stomach to her back on Jan. 31st.  I was completely bummed because I took the boys with me to pick up pizza and came home and Chris said she had rolled over.  Then Chris had her do it again once I was home.  So I have missed her first laugh and the first time she rolled over and I am the one that spends the MOST time with her.

6. On Jan. 30th we took Colin to the ER to have his foot x-rayed.  That Thursday night the boys were running away from the vacuum cleaner.  We aren't sure what Colin did (jumped off bed, fell?)  but he would not bear any weight on it and was pretty upset.  It was decided to put him to bed and re-evaluate in AM.  In the morning he was bearing weight but walking with a limp and couldn't run.  I was worried about a little hairline fracture so we took him in and luckily nothing was broke but he must have sprained/strained something.  He continued to limp off and on for about week and complain of it hurting here and there.

The weather has been pretty awesome the last couple weeks and we have been enjoying it.  We went to Aunt Sadie's basketball game and Emily got these two cute photos. 

Colin hanging out on the bleachers

Amelia with her Uncle Matt

I've also been taking the kids to story time at the library and they are enjoying it.  They are loving the songs, dancing, and reading.  They also like playing after storytime.  

Colin with the puppets.

They even put on puppet shows for me

Colin's puppet show "I'm a fire monkey"  It cracked me up

We got a library card too, so they love the idea of coming home with some new books to read.

Here are my sweet babies

The boys have done some canvas paintings

They started out making lines, circles, etc and eventually mixed all the colors and had some brown canvases, ha!

We had some fun at the park

The boys each earned an ice cream date.  We started a behavior chart for the boys and if they have good day they get a sticker, if they get 10 stickers they get to pick a date, movie, etc.  Colin had a date with me at Baskin Robbins.   He was so excited to go on a date.

We had a great a time.

Liam went on a date with daddy.  They originally tried the ice cream place downtown but it was closed, then they tried Jan's cupcakes and it was closed, so they ended up at McDonald's, or as Liam likes to call it Old McDonald

We did some bike riding last Friday.

Friday was the start of doomsday.  I had a terrible cough all day at work but felt fine until later in the evening when my chest was sore from coughing.  Colin was running a little fever when we got home from work.  That night we both had a fever.  I didn't feel terrible and Colin woke up Saturday ready to rock n roll.  So we went to Home Depot and they participated in the kids workshop and then we were off to the park.  

After the park, Colin felt warm again and fell asleep on his daddy.  The boys were supposed to stay the night at G&G's but we were leery with Colin and his fever, G&G didn't mind and took great care of him.  He had a blast but continued to have mild fever.

Side note this girl LOVES her toes

Sunday afternoon after Colin's nap he woke up on fire.  He wanted to take a bath so we added a popsicle to it.

He was thrilled and cooled off a little.

I was beginning to get concerned and wanted to take him to urgent care but they were closed.  Then I noticed his ear was oozing.  With tubes that's not abnormal but I was afraid it indicated he had an ear infection.  So we stopped by G&G Snay's and celebrated Emily's birthday and left Liam and Amelia with grandma and took Colin to the ER, (yup second trip in a week!)

We had to wait in the ER waiting room for three hours, his temp was 104.7, so he got healthy dose of Tylenol and Motrin, and once we got the doc an antibiotic.  Come Monday I was still worried about the fever since it just wouldn't break.  So Chris called and got an appt with the pediatrician,  Thank goodness we did.  The ER dosed Colin's antibiotic too low for an ear infection.  So basically we would have given him the dose for 10 days and it wouldn't even make a difference!

Here is happy girl!

On Tuesday Colin was still not feeling awesome but played superheroes with his brother.

His ear was still oozing and on Monday night we cleaned it out.  It was like pulling strings of pus and goop out of his ear.  Tuesday it looked like this...

which was a drastic improvement!  Sorry to gross you all out.  Since we weren't going anywhere with all of us being sick (at this point Liam and Amelia started coughing)  we did some more painting.  This time I let the boys pick two primary colors and see what color they could make by mixing them together.

Colin had red and blue

Liam experimented with red and yellow

Wednesday we continued to lounge around but that evening I had to get the boys out.  They were going stir crazy.  So we took them to the library to get some new books and then we went to Chili's to celebrate Matt and Emily's engagement.  Amelia fell asleep on grandma.

Wednesday night Chris broke into a fever and by Thursday afternoon this sweet baby had one too.

Then by Thursday evening this boy wasn't feeling very energetic and spiked a fever that night!

Colin cuddling after his nap Thursday.

So it's officially we have all had this crud (RSV, probably) and are all recovering now.  Thanks for visiting please NEVER return.