Cameron is 4!

Wow, I'm insanely behind in posting about our little guy turning 4!  Fortunately, I was much more timely with the celebration as we had a blast celebrating with friends and family at the Cavanaugh Flight Museum in Addison.  We had a military themed party that fit with the museum so it was fun to incorporate the military lingo a bit.  

Cam is such a sweet and protective brother to both his big and little sis.  He may not want to share a toy, but by golly, if someone besides him tries to take something from his sisters he will step in to defend them.  He adores his baby sister and always wants to give her hugs and kisses.  

There are so many things about Cam that I love to pieces... his big teeth smile, his hugs and kisses, his voice as he very specifically answers your questions.  The way he announces that he is awake in the morning as he comes down the stairs.  He is always wanting to build things with pillows or his Legos or the magna tiles.  He loves to read stories and is not too big to crawl in my lap sometimes.  He is always full of energy and I can't tell you where he gets it! He loves to laugh and sometimes Emerson can especially really get him going with laughter and it is contagious.  Just hearing his chuckle fuses you to join in!  He loves Reese, too, and gives her lots of snuggles and plays with her.  He wants to make sure everyone is taken care of it seems.  He has a very sweet heart.  

His favorite foods are chocolate milk, bananas, yogurt, applesauce, pizza, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, corn dogs, watermelon, chips (of course!), Sonic slushes (ha ha), ice cream, oatmeal, cookies and more.  He's gotten sneaky about going in to the panty to get to food so if this continues I may have to put some things way out of reach!  

It is crazy to think he will be going to kindergarten next school year.  He was just a baby not long ago at all, but is quickly growing so big.  We love our handsome and sweet Cameron so much!

Celebrating his bday with his classmates.

Captain Cameron is 4!

Finley's Baptism

Our sweet Finley was baptized on April 10, 2016.  What a joy filled day it was with our family and some close friends there to celebrate baptizing and blessing our littlest sweetie.  Finley looked absolutely precious in her white dress with her little pink bow.  She did so great with everything and was so happy, as she always is!

Spring Pics of the Kids

Here are a few pictures of the kids that I took this Spring.  I love these pictures, too!  (I have so many pictures that I love!  But you can't have too many!!)

Emerson is 5 (a few months shy of 6)
Cameron is 3 (almost 4)
Finley is 5 months old

Valentines Day 2016- Family Pics

We spent part of Valentines Day taking pictures with our little loves.  These are some of my favorite pictures of our precious little kids. 

Kindergarten Fun!

The week before last the Kindergarteners performed at the Kindergarten Round-Up at Bent Tree.  They were dressed in western looking clothes and did a great job.  I have some pictures and videos of the performance.

Her class is so small, which has been a huge blessing giving Emerson more one-on-on time with her teacher, Mrs. Pye.  Emerson loves school and loves her teacher.  She does not like her homework that we have to do each week, but it is unbelievable to me to see how much she has learned.  She is reading sentences by sounding out words and learning more and more sight words.  She is improving her handwriting and has gotten to great with writing lowercase letters and not just uppercase.  Now she is also spelling words and writing from memory.  Her math skills are also crazy impressive to me. She does word problems, addition and subtraction, counts to 100 (also by 5s, 10s, etc)  I'm so proud of her!

This past week they celebrated 100 days of school by dressing as 100 year olds and brought containers filled with 100 of some item.  We chose beads that we put into a jar.  She wore a dress and cardigan that we already had, I bought some $1 glasses from the store and used baby powder in her hair.  :)

Performing Happy Trails

The Presidents Song

With her teacher, Mrs. Pye

Finley's 4 Month Update!

Sweet Finley is already 4 months old.  What a wonderful little baby she continues to be!

This month has been much calmer since we are past the holidays, but it still went by so quickly.  At the beginning of the month I noticed Finley would appear to try to roll over and that worried me, of course.  Ha!  So I decided to go ahead and unsaddle her arms.  I knew it would be a transition, but I just did not want to worry about her rolling onto her face.  In hindsight, I probably should not have worried as much, but I still can't help it.  :)  It wasn't an awful transition, though. It took just a few days to start sleeping a little longer.  I also started just picking her up to sleep with me when she woke up earlier than anticipated and have continued to do that.  She was still recovering from a virus  at the beginning of the month so I liked being able to listen to her breathing and she sleeps so well in the bed close to me.  I'm extremely careful as I know the dangers of co-sleeping.  I don't want to do this for months or anything, though it is comforting to be able to listen and hear her so close to me.  Usually she sleeps until 3:30-4 before waking up and sleeping next to me.

Finley's day usually begins around 6:15-6:30 when she wakes up and has a 6 oz bottle.  Though, sometimes she sleeps until 7.  After she is done she has started hanging out in the high chair sometimes or she will play on the mat on the floor while the kids eat breakfast. Being baby #3 is tough because we need to take Emerson to school every day and Cam 3 days a week.  So in the car seat she goes and usually stays while I run an errand or two before feeding her again.  We are on the go quite often it seems, and she has started to get a little irritable in her car seat.  I try to be good about making sure she has lots of time to stretch out and play on her mat, and am increasing tummy time as well.

She eats around 6:30-7 am, 10 am, 1:30 pm, 4:30 pm, 6:30 pm and 8:30 pm.  Some bottles are 6 oz and some are 4 oz.  She naps in her crib or pack and play (in addition to falling asleep usually in the car seat during errands) around twice a day.  Sometimes her naps are short 30 minute snoozes and sometimes an hour or longer.  No consistency yet.  :)  Bedtime is around 9:30... we have been trying to lay her down sleepy, but not asleep yet.  We were definitely rocking her to sleep each time before.

She's still very social and so so happy.  She's a big snuggle-bug... loves her cuddles.  I've gotten her to laugh a lot more now.  She thinks I am pretty silly it seems, which is true at times.  She's reaching for things and grabbing toys better and better.  She also drools more now and it seems like it is an early sign of teething that is to come.

She is wearing size 3-6 months or 6 month clothes.  Some of the 3-6 month clothes are a little small actually, but we are squeezing them on her so we get some use out of them.  :)  She is wearing size 2 diapers.

Stats from her 4 month well visit:
Weight: 14 lbs 3.5 oz (75%)
Height: 25 1/4 inches (75-90%)
HC: 41.6 cm (50-75%)

Love her so much.

Sweet sisters :)

Growing baby girl

Some tummy time!

Precious baby feet.

Twinkies!

More tummy time practice.

Trying out her high chair for fun.  Also talking to her monkey friend.  :)

Cuddles with CC.