hey good look'in

Chase was infatuated with his reflection in the mirror at the Dr. this morning. I don't blame him...I am pretty much obsessed to.   

 He wasn't quite as chunky as I expected dropped a little bit in percentiles from the 90th to the 75th. Dr. said this is normal once they start moving more and this kid is on the move. He weighed 18lbs 14.5oz  & is 27in long 75 percentile. We passed on the 6 month shots today as he is miserably sick right now with the cold/flu that the twins have had. We will be back for those later in the week. The Dr. also said that his night waking is still totally normal at this age which was reassuring. 

Happy 6 months baby boy

Chase is officially at the magical baby age (in my opinion) I just LOVE the 6th month. He continues to be a very happy, content & sweet baby. 

This little boy found his feet & he is officially in love with them. He is rolling all over the place and spinning around on his tummy to get around. I would not be surprised if he is crawling soon. He wants to crawl so bad. He loves to play with toys & is not moving yet it's the perfect time. I can't get enough of him seriously. He is doing a little better with sleep which has been great for everyone. Not great but we will go with better for now. I can't wait until he sleeps through the night every single night. He cut his first tooth on Saturday and doesn't seem to be to terribly bothered by it. He wants to chew on everything.  I am wondering how the whole teeth & nursing thing will work out. He has his 6 month check up tomorrow & I am curious to see how much this chunky baby will weigh he is so deliciously rolly. 

In other news we listed our house last week & it sold in 3 days! Although we are thrilled to be able to move onto the next chapter (i.e. bigger house) it is a lot bitter sweet. I could cry just thinking about moving out of here (um hello hormones) ...this has been all of our babies home & the memories that we have made in this house are just so precious. I worry about how they will adjust to being in a new house. One step at a time I guess. And the next step is actually finding our new house. Also really exciting to! 

He is eating food at every meal now & loves it. He likes pears & prunes the best. I tried giving  him a baby mum mum this weekend & he gagged on it and puked everywhere. So we will wait a while again before I try that again. Such a big boy. 

random snow day

We woke up to a little bit of snow one morning during the 1st week of March. The kids were thrilled, it was fun to go to the bus in the snow although they were both soaking wet by the time the bus got there. It is funny how FUN always trumps being wet & cold with kids. 

kiddos

all 3 together in one pic...doesn't happen very often.  Even when they are driving me absolutely crazy I still love them aaaaaalot.

My blog has been a little neglected..there  just isn't enough time to keep it up lately. I hope to be better.

This has been what's been going on with us in a nutshell: 

• Everyone  has been sick off & on for the past 2+ weeks. We got hit with a terrible cold/flu and then the stomach flu. It was the first time we have had the pukes since the twins have been grown up kids. They were a little traumatized...so was I. Jerame just happened to be out of town when it all went down it was lovely. Not really. It is really hard to be sick when you have 3 kids all 3 & under. 
• Carter is wearing big boy underwear all the time during the day now (even at school). This has been a long time coming but I knew he would get here. Don't get me wrong...I am still cleaning piles of s*** out of underwear far to often but the point is we are DONE with pull-ups during the day & this a day I thought I would never see. Now to think I have to look forward to potty training another boy?!!  
• Chase continues to be a terrible sleeper but we are working on it. I just need to buck up and cry it out with him but it's soooo hard at 2am. I am tired. 
• We are getting our house ready to sell yet again. We must move, this house is far to small for 5 people & a dog. 
• Chase has started trying solids, he doesn't really like them all that much he could still really take it or leave it. I ordered a highchair so am looking forward to getting that. 
• He is still the happiest (unless I want him to sleep), chunkiest little dude ever. Broke out some 12 month clothes that Carter wore when he was 1 year old...this kid is only 5 months. Can we say giant?! 
• The twins are at such a fun age they are getting into pretending & will entertain each other with little makebeleive games for hours. I could do without the 3 year old tantrums, which really are brutal and make you feel like you are banging your head against the wall over and over again,  BUT they really are pretty good kiddos.  They are especially sweet with their little brother & yet to express any jealousy towards him.  We just bought the 'love & logic' book with the hopes of getting some new parenting help under our belts. The whole time-out thing just isn't quite as threatening as it once was so we need some more amo. We will get there. 
• Both of the twinnies are growing like weeds and everytime I look at them they seem like little lanky kids to me instead of toddlers. I just registered them for pre-k next year. They both love school it's been the best thing ever for both of them. 
• Jerame & I are planning a kid-free trip for our anniversary in June to Napa. Now we need to figure out who might be brave enough to take on all 3 kiddos for 3 days. Any takers?!!!! 

Well thats it for now!

5 months

5 months 3/8/12

How is my sweet little baby boy 5 months old already. He is the size of a 9 month old and I love his chubby arms & legs and how I have to wash between the rolls. He is super super ticklish and giggles everytime I change his clothes. This has to be one of my favorite things about him right now. His smile...well,  it absolutely melts me.  He pretty much is smiling all day everyday.  We are two peas in a pod there is really not normally not much time during the day that I am not holding him and really, I wouldn't have it any other way. I am not sure who is more attached to one another him or me? It is such a different & fun experience taking care of just one little baby. I love it. He is officially a tummy sleeper and turns onto his tummy the minute he hits the crib. He is starting to scoot himself along and does not stay in one place anymore. I am sure he will be army crawling by the end of this month.  At this point he is obviously not really going anywhere to speak of so we are still in the honeymoon period before he is really actually on the move! I am not looking forward to all the baby gates again. I actually don't really like the crawling stage. My floors are just plain way to dirty to have a baby down on the ground again.  Between the twins & dog it is impossible to keep them clean.  Plus I am not sure what we will do with all the twins toys that have small pieces. I am thinking we will just have to put them all away for a while. He continues to love his carseat although he is already on the biggest harness setting so wouldn't be surprised if he is in the big kid carseat before a year. We tried rice cereal and he hated it. In fact he gagged & puked up all the milk he had just drank. I think we will just skip that all together & go straight to baby food in the next could of weeks. I have been shopping around for highchairs again. I hate highchairs because they mean messes and cleaning 100x's a day. We actually tossed the twins chairs when they were done with them because they got so gross! Anyone have one they have loved?  I think he is getting ready to start eating solids because he has seemed hungrier lately if that is possible. He nurses all day long. Sleep is still our biggest challenge. He is now pretty consistently going down at 8 up at midnight, 4 am & then up for the day around 6:30-7. Ya, by no means am I getting a good night sleep yet. But it is better than where we were a month ago. He will sleep someday & I know when he does I will kinda miss our nighttime nursing time. 

Bike riders

We have so many good trails by our house that are perfect for riding bikes. We went on a little walk a few days ago & I could barely keep up with these two. They are Stride Bike pro's. They are close to needing peddle bikes. 

Chase is starting to like the front pack he likes to look around....all I have to do is keep moving and he is happy. I like the design of the Ergo so much better than the Bjorn. 

South Beach

Jerame had to go to South Beach Miami for work last week for a long weekend so Chase and I joined him for a little adventure. The twinnies stayed behind as we figured they would have more fun playing with Nanny & Papa. Although Miami is a beautiful place, from Seattle it takes a LONG time to get there. We are talking a 12 hour travel day. The 1st leg of our journey on the way there was a little rough, by the end of the first flight I was covered in puke...we are not talking a little either. I had to change everything down to my underware. I cried...then laughed. What else could I do?  All things considered he did awesome during all the travel though. The puking thing was actallly my fault because I thought by feeding him he would go to sleep but he just actually way overate which led to the puke escspades. The way home was a breeze though. I may sound like a broken record but he really is a good/happy baby. He didn't cry at all on any of the flights. Only having one baby all weekend was so easy & relaxing. It helps that he is such a good natured little guy. We got a babysitter one of the nights and were able to have a night out for dinner w/out the babe. It wasn't the 'ideal' way to do South Beach (I mean with a 4 month old in tow) but it was still fun. It is the best people watching place I think I have ever been & we had the opportunity to have some really yummy food and of course drinks. 

view from our room we stayed at the Mondarin South Beach

Pool 

Sleeping baby at the pool, thankfully he LOVES to sleep in his carseat

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Mommy & baby in for the night while Daddy went out with coworkers to check out the night life :) 

view of the pool from our room 

largest bloody mary's EVER. so fun. 

all I have to do is stroll this baby around a little bit and he will go to sleep in his carseat...lucky parents we are! 

hotel room bath in the sink

At dinner Saturday night