Wordless Wednesday - Almost

I needed a picture for our baby dedication on Sunday. We just had Emery's 4 month pictures taken, and our photographer is still working on them. I asked her to send me one that she thought was good for the baby dedication slide show. I love this! Can't wait to see the rest!

Four Months

Emery - You are four months old today!

 Okay, so I thought you weighed 14.8 pounds last month on our home scale. I weighed and then I weighed holding you. I guess I messed up because right now you are weighing about the same as you did last month and you are definitely chunkier now. We will see how much you weigh at the doctor when we go next week.

You are mostly in 6m clothing, some 9m and a few 12m (kissy kissy runs so small!)

You are still in size 2 diapers, and we have switched you to Target diapers. We switched your sister at 6 months, but would have done it sooner if we had known how much we like Target diapers.

Depending on what time you wake up, you are getting 4 (or 5) 7 oz bottles. If you get up late (8:00 - it's rare, but it's happened), then you get 4 - 7 oz bottles and then a 3-4 oz bottle right before bed to get your ounces in.

You still spit up. I hate covering up your sweet outfits with plastic bibs:)

You normally go to bed around 10:00 pm and sleep until 6:00 or 7:00 am. You started doing that around 3 months, but you have had some random nights lately where you wake up around 5:00 am:(

We get you back down and then you will sleep until 7:00 or 8:00.

After talking with the girls at book club last month, aluminum foil on your windows was suggested.  Since you were sleeping good at night, but not so much with naps we figured the reason you weren't staying asleep for naps was because it was too bright (even though you have a black out roman shade). Yes, it's totally crazy and maybe a little redneck, but it's working (at least your room is on the back of the house!). Well the first day I did it, you napped for 2+ hours. That had never happened until then. You would nap, but only in our arms or in the bjorn.

We got past the napping situation - which was HUGE, but the screaming in the carseat was making us all BANANAS - to put it nicely. We did get you a "big girl" carseat rear-facing, and you watch Baby Signing Time on my Kindle. Riding in the car now is like night and day. You are a different child. You will occasionally fuss, but nothing like the SCREAMING you were doing. It's kind of a three ring circus when we go somewhere because you are not in an infant carrier. A friend from MOPS suggested leaving the carrier in the back of the car for when we go to restaurants and things like that. So that's what we do and it's complicated, but it's worth you not screaming in the car!

You started rolling over around 3.5 months. You roll both ways, all the time and you are all over the place. This is much different than your sister, so this is new to us. You are done with any bouncy seat, even though you really never loved them to begin with. You try to propel yourself backwards out of the bumbo, so we are done with that. You like the jumperoo and the exersaucer, but still only for a limited amount of time.

 Your hands are ALWAYS in your mouth. You are drooling like crazy. I'm guessing teeth may be in your future soon.

You are still a very high maintenance baby. You like to be held and need my constant attention. Unfortunately, you are not the only child around here:), so you cry a lot and I'm still wearing you to keep you pacified. It's hard on my back, but easier on my arms!

 Only smiley picture I got!

 This one is from about a week before.

And here is Meyers wearing it when she was 4 months!

Flashback Friday

May 2011 - visit with the Kelly's

Can't wait to see them again soon and take pictures of all of our girls in matching outfits! Ha!

 

Besties in training:)

Wordless Wednesday

Last Day of Preschool - 2012

Wow! Time flies - I always feel so old when I say that, but it's so true.

Meyers's last day of her first year of preschool was today. I was sooooooo nervous about her starting. She had never been anywhere but to the church and MOPS nursery. She had never been anywhere away from me like that for a good chunk of the day where I was not in the same building. That took a lot of getting used to - on my part - not on hers. She cried a little the first day, but that was it.

She loved school and her friends there. She only went once a week this year, so she was definitely so excited when it was time for her to go again each week. I know she will miss it this summer. And I know she will be so excited to go back in the fall!

                                                                                                                    

May 2012

September 2011

Makes me so sad how grown up she looks compared to September!
Wish I could freeze time right now:)

Matchy Matchy on Sunday

Love these girls in their matching jelly fish outfits!

Desperate Times

call for desperate measures.

Emery screams (not fusses, screams bloody murder) every car ride we take. It's miserable to say the least, and it's making me not want to leave the house. A SAHM has to get out of the house; otherwise you will go crazy!

So we went ahead and bought the big car seat for Emery.

And we got a head rest attachment for my kindle fire. So now Emery watches Baby Signing Time on the kindle since she is rear facing and can't watch the car DVD player.

We met our photographer at a park this evening for Emery's 4 month pictures. Emery did not cry the 25 minutes there or back. A-MAZING!!

That is the first time that she hasn't screamed bloody murder in the car since she was a newborn. I literally pray that this was not a fluke!!

Flashback Friday

Meyers - May 2010

Love These Girls

Wordless Wednesday

Rolling

This is what I saw when I came back in the den from fixing Emery's bottle. She's been looking like she was going to roll over for a couple of weeks, but just couldn't get that one arm out from underneath her.

It's only happened once, but I'm documenting it!

Emery - you rolled from your back to your front on May 14 at 3 months and 18 days:)

Flashback Friday

(I'm loving going back through my old pictures!)

-May 2010, our first house as we were in the process of selling it. Can you believe that the people who bought it tore out ALL of the azaleas??? 60 year old azaleas - who does that? I would love if we had azaleas that big at our house now:(

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Meyers's Spring Preschool Program

**These pictures look funny because I have blurred out the school name. My blog is not private, and I am not about to put where my child goes to preschool on the internet. It's sad that you have to think that way. The other children's faces are blurred because I don't know their parents and didn't want to put them on my blog without permission. I'm weird like that, but I always try to ask people if they mind, and I don't know them to ask.

Meyers had her spring program at preschool this weekend. Um......it may have been one of the cutest things ever! It was her first time to be in anything like this, and I know there will be many more in the future, but experiencing it for the first time was super fun!

 

I gotta admit that I was a little bummed when I got the letter home saying that they had to wear their school t-shirt and whatever pants, shorts, etc. that they want. I had already been thinking about what outfit I would want her to wear for the program, but apparently that wasn't necessary. I wanted her to look cute and match, so I made her these ruffled capris to match her shirt.

Meyers only goes to school one day a week. The music teacher sent a letter home asking/suggesting that you bring your child to the other practices if they are not at school on those days. So this week, I got to watch her practice two days. She didn't really do much those days except clap, which I was fine with. I just didn't want her to cry. I could care less if she sang and did the motions. I was going to be proud if she went up there like a big girl and just sat.

Well.......she must have been saving her performance for the show because she turned it on. She didn't do a whole lot of singing, but she did as many motions as you can expect kids her age to do......sometimes a little off (as you can see in the picture above, but so were some other children:)).

 

Maybe my hormones are still a little crazy from having Emery, but I totally almost cried at parts! I was just so proud of her for getting up there and participating (and having fun!). It was a huge reminder that she is not my baby anymore. She's a big girl that goes to "school" and has this whole little world there without me where she listens to her teachers and learns new things and plays with friends that I don't know.

There was this one moment around the middle of their performance (we were totally being the obnoxious, cheesy parents and waving so she could see us) where she looked out and finally saw us, and her face lit up and she got the HUGEST smile on her face! Oh, it was precious! I tried to take a mental picture of that moment because it melted my heart!

The four of us after her "performance" - Emery is in the sling even though you can't see her:)

Flashback Friday

Meyers - May 2010

(in one of my dresses when I was little!)

Wordless Wednesday