Ellie is 4 months!

Miss Ellie is such a great baby!  Here are some things about her at 4 months.
-She is doing a great job with her sleeping.  She usually goes to sleep around 7:30 and will sleep until about 6 in the morning.  She rarely wakes up in the middle of the night and if she does, she just needs her paci to go back to sleep.  That being said, she is still not sleeping in her crib, but in her rock n play.  I need to transition her to her bed soon! She is good about letting me put her down while she is awake and falling asleep on her own. As far as daytime sleeping, she pretty much catnaps as I have her on the go so much.  I really don't have a strict schedule with that yet!
-She is doing a great job with nursing.   She wants to eat every 3-4 hours during the day. She is a quick, efficient nurser, but doesn't want anything to do with the bottle right now..we are going to have to work on that, but I'm lazy about it!
-She drools allllll the time!  Her shirt is always wet from the drool.  She seems to be teething but I sure hope not!  She likes to put everything in her mouth!  She is getting good at grabbing things and then she of course brings them straight to her mouth.
-She can roll both directions from her tummy.
-She loves to be held!  She will tolerate the bouncy seat, bumbo or jumparoo for short periods of time, but is mostly happy when she is held.  I have learned to do a lot of things one handed!
-With that being said, when we are out an about she is so good.  She loves to watch everything that is going on and never wants to miss out on any action!
-She is a super smily baby and I have even gotten a few laughs out of her.  He smile just lights up the room!
-Her favorite part of the day is probably bath time.  She loves to lay in the water and suck on her toes.
-She is still wearing size 0-3 month clothes comfortable. She is in a size 1 diaper.  She still have some hair, I don't think she is going to go completely bald like Abby did.  She does have a blade spot on the back of her head.
And that about wraps up Miss Ellie at 4 months.  I am trying to cherish every moment with my last baby.  She sure is a little doll and we sure do love her!

Dear 2 year old Abby

Well, long time, no blogging!  This teaching and having 2 kids is more than I can handle, but I didn't want this post to go....because I very easily forget things!  So, here goes!

Dear Abby,
How can you already be 2?  In a lot of ways you are becoming my big girl, but I still see my baby a lot of times too.  You love for me to hold you.  I can never resist when you look at me and say, "I want to hold you."  You are such a strong willed indpendant girl.   I know this will serve you well in life, but is does make things a little challenging!  Here are some things about you at 2:
*  You LOVE your bubba.  You try to do excatly what he does all the time.  You repeat what he says and mimic his play.  He's pretty fond of you too.  He is such a good bog brother, so sweet and caring.  Today I stayed home from school with you and when we dropped Carter off at school, you cried for him.  When we went to pick him up you ran up to him so excited.  He held your hand all the way back to the car.  It was the sweetest thing.
*You LOVE the colors pink and "purkle".  You always identify them correctly and when given a choice will first choose something pink and if there is not pink, you will choose purkle.
*WHen you count you say 2,4,8.  I think this came about from hearing Carter count by twos....and not if your counting somethign, that is how you count.  If you want more than one of soemthing (like candy) you will say I want 2,4, 8 of them.
*You talk non stop and can say about anything- you have an awesome vocabulary.
*Love puzzles
*Love to werar bows and have a ponytail or will sometimes ask for 2 ponytails.
*Fav foods: mac and cheese, candy (esp chocolate). Cheese, yogurt

Abby Paige, you are a sweet girl.  I always dreamed of having a little girl, but I could have never dreamed up you!  You are better and I could have every fathomed!  I love you!!

I'm back…..hopefully!

I have taken an awful break from blogging that I feel soooo bad about!  I had been SO good at keeping this blog up until over a year ago.  I go a job teaching fourth grade in Frisco and it  just proved too much…working, being a mommy etc.  I am so, so sad that I didn't blog about so many things that happened: my fil passing away, trips to Disneyland and Disney World, Carter starting first grade, several teeth lost…and having another baby!!  I hope to be able to go back and blog about some of those thing, bc I am discovering how much I rely on this to remember things about my kids!  I am not good about writing things down, but was very good about blogging about what was going on.  And now when I was to remember something about the kids…i.e. how big they were at this age and what age they did this, I find myself going back to the blog to find the answer.  I am so, so sad that I have missed so much, but I can't dwell on that and only move forward, so I am going to start that today and try to keep up!!