8 Months

This sweet little Amelia is 8 months old!  On the morning of her eight month birthday she decided she really does know how to roll over from her back and decided to sit up and stand up in her crib.  Before she would just lay on her back until someone came for her.  She basically would refuse to roll from her back to stomach until someone would do it for her, not that she didn't know how.  I guess it is time to lower the crib!  She also discovered the cupboards on her eight month birthday.

She was pretty proud of herself.  She definitely is into more than the boys ever were and loves to stick EVERYTHING in her mouth.  She is an active little gal.

Amelia is crawling all over the place and pulls herself up on anything she can.  She is quite mobile and can quickly and easily get where she wants.  She is also loving food.  She eats a jar of baby food in the morning and evening usually but sometimes I am so busy with the boys it is hard to feed her so she probably gets more solid foods than the boys did and I just hope she doesn't choke, ha!  Her favorite right now is avacado.  She devours it!  I was eating a peach and she decided to try a taste.  She really enjoyed it.  She was basically just sucking the juice but she did not let me move it away from her and when we were done and I threw it away she was not too thrilled.  Even with just two teeth this girl can eat.

Amelia sleeps in about 3-4 hour stretches at night and I keep hoping it is going to get better.  She takes a morning nap which is usually interrupted by morning activities with the boys.  Some days it's a 15 minute nap and others and hour.  She takes an afternoon nap and usually it will last around an hour.

Amelia is wearing 9-12 month outfits.  She weighs 17.8 lbs and is 27.5 inches long.  She has become very vocal and has made it very clear she is a girl with her high pitched squeals.  It really throws me for a loop when she does it.  It is something completely different from the boys.

She continues to be a very happy baby, she loves to follow her brothers and just be in the same room watching what they are doing.  She prefers to be off exploring rather than cuddling with me unless she is tired then she wants nothing more than to be snuggled up with me.

Baby feet: and if you look closely you can see birthmark on her leg.  She may not like it to much once she is a teenager but I think it is perfect.

Standing girl

Angel baby

The boys wanted to take a picture with their little sister.

and they gave her kisses.

Naked baby

Tried to get the back side but she is always on the move.

The boys like to pretend she is attacking them.  One day they barricaded her with pillows to make sure she would not get hurt if she fell.  She thinks her brothers are hilarious.

Lastly, Amelia LOVES her baths.  She instantly get a huge smile when she hears the water.  Here is a little video of her crawling to her bath.

We love you sweet Amelia, Happy 8 Months!!

June So Far

Sadie captured this photo of sweet Amelia one day

Little gal loves to pull herself up on anything she can but the water table was especially cool.

This guy has been super cuddly with his grandma lately.  He also is very into pretending to be a puppy again.  He carries around his little stuffed brown lab puppy named "Barkley", he says it is his baby and lately will get upset if he forgets to bring him in the car.

Liam had closing ceremonies, yes a month after he had his last game.  These three were looking cute in the grass together.

Neely and Colin made silly faces at each other.

Liam refused to let me take a picture but I quickly captured this one.

Nap time has been rough around here.  The boys share a room and end up talking and playing instead of sleeping.  Sometimes Liam will fall asleep but Colin will continue to talk and play.  So I usually read to the boys, take Amelia to her room and get her to sleep, and then come back for Colin and rock him in the chair or lay with him on the couch.  This day was a success.  I thought it was sweet how he fell asleep on me.

This gal was feeling festive last week.

Liam hasn't been into me taking pictures of him lately but he let me this particular day.  I realized how big he is getting lately.  He is so smart, sweet (most days), active, and adventurous.  Sometimes I think I treat him like he is much older than he is just because he sometimes acts a little older so when he is being a four year old I don't always remember.  Hopefully, he will forgive me one day.

Colin has been into making siren noises when we are driving lately.  On our way to G&G's he got so upset that daddy wouldn't go more than the 25mph speed limit.

Kids at our yard sale this past weekend.  They just played with the toys but didn't have a desire to keep them which was good.

This little gal loves her grandpa.

Boys on G&G's roof.  I'm glad I wasn't fully aware of what was happening, ha!

Cruising together.

Amelia joining the fun

Eating puffs and looking cute

Colin moved up to the preschool class for swim lessons and did amazing on Monday but on Tuesday he refused to get in the water and said he was afraid.  So we moved him back down until he is really ready.

Liam is doing awesome and I think by the end of the summer he may be able to keep his head above water and that makes me feel better.

Amelia on the attack for her brothers' food.

Amelia has graduated to big girl baths and LOVES it!  She likes to crawl around and tries to stand but she is enjoying her freedom.

Next up Amelia is 8 MONTHS OLD!

Swim Lessons

The first of June was the start of swim lessons.  The boys LOVE it this year.  Colin is a serious fish in the water.  He has been excited to go every day no questions asked!  He isn't three yet so he had to go to the parent and tot class.  Here he is swimming away.

Singing songs 

Liam seemed to really enjoy his time in the water too.

He seems to be doing very well and I was able to watch him a little today and observed he likes to put his head underwater and touch the bottom with his tip toes.  He then pushes himself back up and grabs on to wall. It makes me a little nervous because he can't swim yet but his instructor was good about keeping a close eye on him.

Amelia enjoyed her time watching all the kiddos

Kicking

Happy dude

Trying out the baby pool one day but it is a lot colder than the big pool so he doesn't prefer it.

Amelia refused to fall asleep one day so I was getting lunch for the boys and she semi-crashed like this for about seven minutes while she continued to whine and startle herself when her legs would fall to the ground, ha!

Here are some videos of our little mover

Crawling

Wednesday (June 3rd) I took the boys to story time, it was the first story-time for the summer program.  I was shocked to find there were a thousand people entering that are not normally at story time.  I missed the memo that Ronald McDonald was going to be there.  The kids really enjoyed it and he was pretty funny but SO many people!

Dancing

Colin really got into the shaky egg song.

Meeting Ronald

They got free ice cream cones from Mr. Big Shoes so that evening we took them and they were very happy little boys

Here is a little video of Amelia attacking her brother

Thursday Liam started his little tykes soccer camp.  He did a great job the first day.  He enjoyed running around with a thousand other kiddos,

Colin was content playing with Hadley

Kicking the ball

After soccer we met up with the Jacobs for a playdate at the park and Great Grandma brought us all lunch

It was wonderful!

That night it was swim lesson time again.

Colin and daddy

Liam's class got to float around with life jackets

He liked it

They also got to jump off the diving board.  Liam didn't hesitate at all.  I got a video on the camera but can't seem to get it to load.  I am hoping Chris got one tonight that I can post.  (They have a fun day each Thursday).  So summer has began and we are busy!  I am actually scared to see how crazy things get when all three kids can participate in activities!