iphone photo dump

good morning baby boy

we went to the Sleeping Lady Resort in Leavenworth a few weekends back. Loved it! 

along for the ride, as always 

SL Resort 

rain rain go away it's May already! 

crawling everywhere

Chase & his buddy Leo born 2 wks apart

We got hit again with the stomach flu. All of us.  Carter got really dehydrated though and we ended up at the ER with him to try to get his fever down & hydrated. He was one sick little guy. 

but still managed to smile for a picture for me 

me laying on the couch dying with the stomach flu & trying to entertain the baby as best I could. It is so hard to be sick when you have little ones. 

Chloe drew this picture of 'daddy' because she missed him while he was out of town.  Priceless. 

2nd haircut for the little miss 

and a cupcake after haircut

Chasey all ready for his 6 month shots 

she loves him so much

big sister wagon ride 

happiest little dude

Easter 2012

Easter was so fun this year, the twinnies finally understood the point of the egg hunt. Although Carter picked up a few eggs and then once he realized what was inside them he brought his basket to me and said "no thanks, I am all done". This kid continues to not like sweets.  The weather was beautiful on Easter so we had a fun picnic & egg hunt  at the park with Jerame's family.  Then we had dinner  & another egg hunt with my family at my Mom & Jerry's house. We actually received the offer on our house that evening so it  made for a very exciting holiday for us. The excitement has since lost it's luster as the deal unfortunately fell through. We are trying to believe it was a blessing in disguise as we haven't yet found a house we want to buy so we would have had to end up moving into temporary housing somewhere. It is still all very frusterating.  It's all going to work out somehow so we are just trying to keep everything in perspective. Trying to keep a house up to show at anytime with 3 kids all 3 & under is no joke though. I am exhausted.   

I don't remember the twins being nearly as happy as this little guy. He just goes with the flow...always. He is forever smiling, rarely cries and folks if you can believe it is...drum roll please .....sleeping better at night!!! Only got up once last night for the first time ever. He has two teeth now, the bottom two & doesn't seem to be to terribly bothered by the teething situation. I love to see him smile with those two little teeth. He has yet to bite me but I feel like it's coming though. He is army crawling and can make his way across the room. I seriously can't get enough of his fat little thighs,  chubby wrists and ankles. He is still working on sitting up independently but his chubby little legs seem to get in the way of the balance thing. He is growing up so fast I want to freeze him right now. We pulled out some of the videos from when the twins were his age and I have to admit that I wanted to sob my way through them, they were just so little. What preciously captured moments they are. It has motivated me to keep the video camera at close reach with this little guy. These baby moments are so incredibly fleeting.

 I am eating up every second of them with him. 

this girl

Chloe was baby 'A' when I was pregnant with the twins, meaning she would be the first born. She is a twin, but she is also a first born & lives up to it with almost every quality. I remember as I was laying on the table in the delivery room and they pulled Chloe out & when I saw her sweet little face for the first time and  my very first thought was...'that's me'. She looked like me. She was my daughter.  

To this day I feel like I am looking in the mirror when I look at her.  

A few things about this little girl at 3: 

- she loves loves  loves her Daddy

-she is newly afraid of the dark & requires a nightlight

-still has anxiety around bedtime she runs though a laundry list like clock work every.single.night making sure she has all her blankets, animals, water, chapstick, tissues....you get the point

-is very opinionated about what she wears & will still only wear 'party dresses' 

-will never keep her coat on even if it's 30 degrees outside because she is 'hot'

-is sassy, opinionated & competitive (should have seen her at the Easter egg hunt!) 

-thoughtful & empathetic beyond her 3 years

-she still struggles with  Asthma every time she even gets the slightest cold but is such a little trooper about taking her inhaler, we still have hope she will grow out of it one day. 

-loves to help me with the baby and is always very concerned about him. She is a care taker (when she wants to be) 

-school is already a social thing for her and always has lots to say about what happened socially that day (not necessarily what she learned) we could be in for it! 

-her favorite toy right now is her Melissa & Doug princess castle with all her Disney princess figurines.  

-loves horses...this makes Papa Paul really happy....I wouldn't be surprised if we end up owning a horse someday. she pretends Bella (our dog) is a horse and parades her around dressed up on a leash. 

She is growing up so fast & I am so proud of the little girl she is becoming. 

kids rooms

Since we will be moving soon...in like 30 days. EEEEKKKKkkkkk?!!! I thought I would put some pics on here of the kiddos rooms. Carter & Chloe have been sharing a room ever since Chase was born & they love it.  I am not positive what we will do when we move because I am sure they will still want to be together. Amazingly they sleep better now together than they did apart. Eventually they will want their own rooms I am sure but until then I will cherish the cuteness of them wanting to be together. If you ask Carter who is best friend is he will normally either say 'my Dad' or Sissy. Chloe almost always says Carter. They have such a sweet bond. Chase's room isn't all that different than when it was the twins nursery. With the twins I didn't have a rocking chair and I seriously don't know how I survived without one, I have spent many hours in that thing with Chase.  I love both of their rooms. 

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.