Amelia is 1 MONTH

As usual I have no idea where the time has gone!  How is my sweet baby girl 1 month already.  It really bothered me on Sunday when she turned a month old.  It is going so fast and I am trying to savor every moment knowing this is the last baby.  She is a good little lady.  She enjoys eating and sleeping.  Occasionally, she has some gassy tummy issues but that has mostly calmed down which I am happy about.  She is a catnapper during the day sometimes and other days she will take three-hour naps.  At night she finally goes to bed about 11PM and wakes at 3:30 to feed and then again between 5-6.  Overall, I do get a decent stretch to sleep.  I call her squeaker because she literally squeaks especially while eating and it cracks me up.  Amelia spits up a lot so we always have a burp cloth and she seems to get the hiccups at least once a day.  When burping her she can really belt them out.  She is as loud or louder than some adults.  

Amelia is a fairly calm baby and loves to cuddle.  She slept on my chest for three hours one day and was perfectly content.  She has not had a first official bath yet just sponge baths because after her umbilical cord fell off it was still oozing like Liam's did.  I asked the doc about it and she thinks it will close up and won't be a problem but so far it has not.  So I continue to play it safe.  I weighed her at 10lbs 4ozs and measured her at 21 3/4 inches.  She was 8lbs 12oz at her two week follow up.  She still looks long and skinny but I am hoping to chunk her up!  She also seems to run hot.  She is all about cuddling but doesn't like to be bundled.  If she is too hot she will scream and you'll see sweat drops on her head.

Here she is at her very first doctor appointment.

Amelia has the widest eyes and if you are talking to her, loud noise, etc.  She looks like this...

On her one month birthday she had a sponge bath and then I put her in this cute outfit from great grandma Bradley.  I was afraid if I didn't get her in in soon it might not fit in a couple weeks.  She looked super cute.

Sweet girl

Love her

During my outfit photoshoot.  Liam said she looked cute and wanted to hold her and take a picture.

Colin need to get in on the picture taking too

Then Colin needed his turn to hold her.

Finally she got to take a nap with daddy while her brothers watched a show.

A couple more with her brothers.

They love to hold her.  Here they were sort of fighting who got to hold her so we put her in middle and they each have a hand around her, ha!

And now for her one month photo shoot.  

Naked baby

Back side (it looks like she's floating about a foot above the floor.  Weird.)

She has untamable hair

Putting up her dukes

Officially done with pictures

She even took off her sticker!

This one is after she got her way and was fed :)

Check out those eyes and her feet.  She always has her feet like this

Still can't believe she has been with us for a month!

I love this little face

More Stuff

I am still behind and will probable always be from this point on.  I am just going to show a few pictures from the last week or so. 

The boys were getting pretty antsy one day so we busted out these superhero masks from Minuet's birthday.  They enjoyed putting them together and then of course fighting bad guys.

We all loaded up and went to Chili's one night.  I was actually dressed (not in PJ's) so I had Chris take a picture of the kids and me. 

We even hit up Baskin Robbins after dinner and the boys enjoyed their very first clown cone.

Colin concentrating on his

This girl was looking sweet one day with her arms crossed.  It reminded me of this one of Liam

We took the boys to the park and this sweet gal fell asleep in her moby wrap.  She loves the wrap and I do too.  It helps me have two hands to chase boys if needed.

Luckily, we had daddy with us and the boys had so much fun running and tackling him.

Walmart clearanced their Halloween costumes to 90% off I found a couple that were too big but the boys thought they were plenty cool to play.

Best sister ever

Sleeping beauty

Liam took some selfies

Colin had his baby Mickey out one night and said he wanted to feed him.  He did and was very sweet with his baby.

Then he needed to burp him of course.

Baby girl and me

One day it was super windy and too cold outside for the boys.  They played in the garage together for about an hour.  Riding bikes, playing ball, and pulling each other in the wagon.  It was awesome.

We also made some cookies.  Liam still LOVES to mix the batter.  Colin helped too but with a spoon.  While we were waiting for the cookies to bake I had the oven light on for the boys to watch and Colin excitedly said "Best cookies ever!"  He couldn't wait to eat them.

One morning while Liam was at school, Colin was all about holding and feeding Amelia.  He was super sweet to her.

Liam had his turn at a later date

These boys love their sister and I am so glad it has been an easy transition for them. 

Saturday I had a yard sale and grandma and Amelia took a nap on the couch.

Saturday night I was playing with the boys and somehow I ended up taking them to the bathroom to brush their teeth like this...

Let's just say my knees did not feel to awesome after crawling on the tile!  They thought it was great though.

I have a couple things the boys have said that I need to jot down again.

1. One day I was telling the boys we needed to get ready and go to the grocery store.  They asked why and I gave a small list of what we needed which included bananas.  Colin said "I banana"  I told him there were none and he looked at my slightly annoyed and said he needed to look.  Apparently he did not trust me.

2.  Colin got a little toy stuck in the door handle.  He asked me to help him get it undone.  I was being careful trying not to break the toy and he says "Mama use your muscles" Ha!

3. While we were having the yard sale Liam wanted to help.  There was a guy wanting to buy something and Liam said "That will be ten dollars," Chris and I started laughing (the guy didn't hear him) and Liam got a little embarrassed but it was pretty cute.

4. Colin calls a hood (on a coat) a helmet.  He also says that his full body zip up pajamas are "kinda like a jacket"

5. Colin was wanting to wear some of Liam's shoes and I said they were too big for him.  He then said he wanted some "whike that"  I told him that maybe he should ask Santa Claus.  Liam then chimed in and said "Oh Santa, He's GREAT!"

Stuff

As usual, I have a few things I don't want to forget and need to play catch up jotting them down.
Let's start with Liam:
1. The night before I was scheduled for my induction with Amelia, Chris and I were explaining to Liam that when he would see us the next we would have a baby.  Then we told him how babies are very small at first and then they learn how to grab things, crawl, walk, talk, etc.  Liam then said "One more thing, sharing" Haha, Chris and I thought it was quite funny that Liam was already worried about the new baby sharing things.
2. Colin is into having us watch him do things.  One morning Colin wanted me to watch some trick he was doing and Liam said "He's all about having momma watch right now"  Ha.
3. Lately when Liam is playing with his daddy he calls him "dad"  It really made me sad the other night because it is becoming more and more common for him to say dad vs dada.  He even has started to say mom more often.  I guess my baby is growing up.
On to Colin:
1.  One morning the boys were eating breakfast and Colin jumped up and said "There's a bad guy!" and took off running into the living room and used his super powers to get rid of the bad guy.  It completely took me by surprise as he was enjoying his little pretend play and soon enough Liam joined in with him.
2.  When the boys are playing superheros and ganging up on their daddy Colin will make his hands into web shooters, like spiderman and then say "web, web, web" over and over so you know he is attacking you with his webshooter.  It cracks me up.
3. Colin was eating a sucker one day and then told Chris and me, "I suck" we thought it was quite funny.
4.  One evening the boys were pretending there were monsters outside and Colin came running in the house and said "Run for your life!!"  He did learn it from his older brother but it was funny to hear it come out of his mouth.
5.  Colin purposely stood in the hallway one day as Chris was trying to get past him and said proudly "In dada's way" He thought he was pretty cool.
6. Colin was walking back and forth in the living room one day.  I asked him what he was doing and he said "I just hanging out." He is a silly little guy lately.
Here is Colin being cranky at me in the car because I told him he could not have fruit snacks, ha!

Aunt Sadie visiting with Amelia.  She really hasn't been able to see her much because of volleyball and then she was sick.

Amelia sporting one of her new hair bows

Last Sunday the boys helped daddy make pancakes.  They love to "help"

Last Monday Liam's school pictures came in.  I love them.  I took this picture through the cover so its a little fuzzy.  He looks so grown up compared to his one in April

Daddy and Amelia having a stare off

Baby girl

Last week Liam mentioned wanting to go to the train park.  So it was decided that when Chris got off work on Tuesday that we would all go.  Colin has been struggling big-time during naps.  He won't stay in bed, usually poops about 15-30 minutes after we put him down, and just refuses to go to sleep unless you sit in the room and make him close his eyes.  He still needs a nap though because the days he has gone without one he can't function after 5PM.  Anyway, since Colin went to sleep late, Chris and Liam made it a date.  Liam insisted they take a picture with a ball on their head before they left.

Liam at the train.  He seemed to have a good time with his daddy.

Amelia hanging out with mom.  Check out her toe

The boys are always happy to say hi to Amelia in the mornings.

This was a day Colin refused to take a nap so I just let him sit in his room for some quite time.  When I went in I found him playing with a flashlight so he could see his toys, ha!

And lastly I leave you with this precious little face