5 Months Old!

This little gal turned 5 months old on Monday!  

Amelia is 14.8lbs and 24.5 inches long.  She continues to be an easy going baby, sweet, smiley, and cuddly.  She has become very vocal lately and sounds like a squeally little girl.  It definitely is different from either of the boys.  She has been super drooly and busted out her first tooth on 3/11/15. It's a bottom one and it's pretty darn cute.  She loves to chew on everything.  She continues to wake up every 2-3 hours at night and I really hope that will get better soon.  I am a tired momma.

She still tolerates tummy time but doesn't roll over until she is extremely frustrated.  She just doesn't seem to really want to yet, even though she can easily roll tummy to back.  She likes to sit up with assistance and will stand also.  She also is ticklish and gives out a great little giggle.  It makes me laugh everytime.

She is currently wearing 6-month outfits.  We haven't attempted to give her food yet but will soon.  She is always eyeing our food and clearly would like to try some.  Maybe this week we will give her a taste of something.

She still has a good amount of hair but it has become much more tame.

Happy gal

We love her

Sitting up (with assistance)

Miss chewy

Concentrating on holding the ball.

Here's a little preview of our squealy girl

We love you little 5 month old girl!

Strep and Scarlet Fever

These two darlings took some selfies one day while Liam was at school.  I love it!

Last week we did a little bike riding before it got cold.

The boys are still really enjoying bootcamp

Liam running

Parachute time!  Always a favorite

Last Thursday night at t-ball

Lover of feet

Angel baby

Last Saturday Liam woke up and had some blotchy redness on his cheeks.  It baffled us for a bit since Liam has never had a reaction to anything and is always pretty healthy.  So we decided to keep an eye on it.  After his nap it was a full on rash.  I already guessed he had Scarlet Fever since Michelle W. had very recently posted on facebook that she had it.  So Chris took him over to urgent care and sure enough he tested positive for strep and had Scarlet fever to go with it.

Here he is with his red face after his appointment.

It was weird since he never had a fever or complained of a sore throat. Ah well! We were told to throw his toothbrush away after 24 hours and he shouldn't be contagious after that time since he'd be starting an antibiotic.  So we went on with our week as usual.

Later that night I was giving Amelia a bath and the boys really wanted to take a bath with her so this is what it looked like, ha!  I finished bathing Amelia and then the boys enjoyed the tub.

Sunday I went to Vegas with Amelia and did some wedding dress shopping with my soon to be sister in law, Emily.   My mom, Sadie, and Emily's friend Kelly came.  We had a great time.  Apparently the boys, who stayed at home with their dad, did too.  I saw this picture when I came home.

I also found that Liam's rash had spread to his arms but his face was looking better.

I've been taking the boys to storytime on Wednesdays and they are loving it.  It really is a nice little activity for them.

Grandpa changed Amelia's diaper one day and decided to dress her as a jazzerciser, with her onesie outside her pants.  She looks cute either way :)

Thursday, Liam told me that he "had a lot of energy and needed to go to the park"  We made a deal that I would run two laps and then he could play at the playground.  This is what it looked like me pushing Amelia and Colin while Liam rode his bike.  We made it and then the boys had a great time at the park. 

Amelia got to try out the swing for the first time and she seemed to think it was pretty great

Colin even joined in and pushed her.

My babies

Friday morning Colin woke up with some blotchy redness on his face.  He normally has a little redness to his face so I just watched it and when he woke up from his nap it looked like this...

So he made a trip to urgent care and tested positive for strep and Scarlet fever, though he too showed zero signs of being sick until the redness. *sigh* So I apologize to anyone who may have been exposed by us, we really had no idea they were sick. 

This one is from today.  Colin wanted to watch a show on the way to G&G house and was told no, hilarious!

T-Ball

Tuesday, February 24th Liam had his first ever T-ball practice.  He was so excited.  He had been talking about it for weeks.  Great Grandma Bradley took Liam shopping for some baseball shoes a few weeks ago and he got a baseball glove.  He even took them to show and tell at school.  So when the day arrived he was ready to get started.

They started by running bases.

It was freezing cold so I stayed bundled up with Amelia and Chris took some pictures

Neely running bases.  So nice to have them on the same team.

They attempted some grounders

And threw the ball back to the coach

Colin bundled up (eventually we headed to the car since it was so cold)

Liam did great for his first day!

So a few things that shocked me

1.  Apparently snacks are not just for game days.  Snacks happen at every practice!

2.  The second practice the kids never even got to touch a ball.  They learned lead offs which made zero sense since they can't steal--or even lead off--in t-ball.

3.  He started to let the kids hit off the tee and let about three kids go and then quit and just let them run around the bases.  Not sure what happened there.

I am hoping the rest of the practices will be better than the second and the kids will be able to have fun and learn some fundamentals!

Catching up

A couple weeks ago we had some pretty awesome weather.  The boys played out back with their water squirters.

They all had fun

It was so warm the one day the pool would have been perfect.  The following day was cooler and windier but Liam was insisting to put the pool up so I did it.  They had fun playing with the hose and getting a little wet. 

Liam got out fairly quick but Colin swam around for a little while.

Then they decided to sit in the sun and dry off.

G&G Casson bought a swing set for their backyard and the kids enjoyed playing on it.

They think it is pretty great.

I pumped one morning and Liam was pumped to be able to feed Amelia.

They even held hands

One morning after we took Liam to school, we were heading to Walmart and Colin said "I want to eat there" as he pointed to Cracker Barrel.  I was shocked he was even hungry since he had just had breakfast.  So we went and had a some breakfast.  He told me he was really hungry so I ordered him 2 pancakes.  He was so excited when they arrived.

He devoured them!  Then when we arrived home about an hour after eating his pancakes he asked for some dino chicken and at that too!  All this food before 10:30am!

We met the Jacobs and surprised Great Grandma with a quilt Brandi and I made her.  Well let's be honest Brandi did the brunt of the work.  Here is grandma with Amelia and Reed.

Chris holding the quilt

Paige hanging with Amelia.

Amelia sported her sunglasses

Then the boys joined in.  We couldn't immediately find Colin's glasses so he borrowed mine

And last but not least a sweet after bath picture