3 months

Mmmmmm!  Doesn't this picture just make you want to nibble those cheeks of his??  Maybe an arm or a leg too?  If you saw him in person, I'm sure you couldn't resist.  My baby turned 3 months this past week, and I am having a hard time with it.  He is growing up too fast for me, if I had my way I'd slow the whole process way down.
William is such a delight to have in our home. It's a breath of fresh air having a baby in our home after what seemed like a long time without one.  He is a good baby, which makes for one happy mama.  Here are some things little B Will has managed to accomplish in the past month.  He is such on over achiever.

• Sleeps great at night!  He wakes up only once in the middle for a feeding.  Maybe once he starts on solids he'll skip that night feeding.
• He puts himself to sleep for naps and bedtime!!  CAN YOU SAY HOORAY!!!!  Love that he does this now.  We wrap him up his his blankie and then lay him in his bed.  Some times he'll fuss a little before falling asleep, but most of the time he just falls asleep.  What a good boy!
• He loves the mornings, it's his happiest time.  He smiles, coos, and will almost laugh with you when he first wakes up.  His fussier time is late afternoon before bedtime, I think he just gets so tired.
• He HATES the bottle and formula now.  DARN IT!  This is what Xander did too, gave up the bottle and would only nurse.  Makes things a little more difficult for me to do anything without him.  Ah well, good thing he is SO cute huh?
• Also, gave up the binkie.  He will sometimes take it, but not usually.  All my boys gave up the binkie very soon, I guess William is the one that has lasted the longest on it.
• He LOVES it when you play with him.  We lay him on his blanket on the floor and try to get him excited about his toys.  He especially likes it when his brothers do it with him, they can keep his interest the longest.
• Has a smile that just melts my heart!  He can also make a pretty good frowny face too, and that melts my heart as well.
• He has discovered his hands, and likes to suck on his fists.
• Also has discovered his voice!  He loves when he can get out good squeal or two and will keep trying for more.
• Bottom line is I love this little boy!  

 This boy still loves bath time!

First time swimming at Grandma's pool, and he loved getting

 in the water with me and his brother's.

With Xander right before getting in the pool.

I had to get a picture of his wet spikey hair.

William and Connor.  Cousins and best buddies.

There is only a 3 month age difference between them,

 my baby looks like a giant compared to his cousin.

Kalyn (pronounced KayLynn)

This post is dedicated to my sister. My favorite sister. My only sister.  And rightfully so, since she is like the only person who reads my blog and simply lives each day of her life so that she can check to see if I've updated it.  Thank you Kalyn, for giving me purpose.  Anyway this is a shout out to her for being such a sweet sister any girl could ask for.  She is always there for me when I've needed her.  Did I ever mention that she flew in town to come and see me the weekend before I had William?  Well she did.  I was very pregnant. Very.  And she dragged me too Ikea, bought me a dresser for the nursery, and constructed it too because Thomas was too busy to do it himself, he was off buying a car or something.  She also waited on me hand and foot and played with kids because I was too fat  pregnant to do so myself.  And she did all of this while in the midst of packing/moving her own family to a different state/home.  She is wonderful. I lub her. And I will spend the rest of my life trying to repay Kalyn for all the sweet things she has done for me over the years.  She has had a rough couple of days and I just wanted to cheer her up, so hopefully this will do it.  This picture makes me laugh, and I think she might laugh too.

Trouble

This is what happens to baby brother when I leave big brother in the bed alone with him.

This is the big brother responsible for this.

Great Brain

My son is a Great Brain.  At least that's what we think of him.  He was assigned to do a Great Brain project in his class on anything he wanted, and he chose to do triathlons.  With a lot of help from his dad, they made a poster, wrote a script, and gathered all that he needed to give his first ever oral presentation.  He did great!  We love you KC and are very proud.

KC reading his presentation.

Answering his classmates questions.

Showing me his board.  He's a funny kid.

2 months

My little man is 2 months old.  That went by fast!  William is such a good baby, I really have it pretty darn easy.  He had his check up yesterday with Dr. Wirkus, and can I just say that I love that man!   He makes me feel like such a good mom, and he tells me that too.  I know he probably does it to all the other moms that come into his office, but I don't care.  And I trust him with my children, it feels so nice to have a pediatrician like that.  Anyway, enough about my crush on the doc (I can say that, cause he's an old man), here are little Will's stats:

• Height-  23.7 inches ( 91st %)
• Weight-  12.3 lbs  (80th %)
• Head Circ.-  15.9 in. (60th %)

So in other words, he's growing like he should be.  Here are some things he likes/does.

• He likes to eat at least every three hours during the day, and will go longer than that at night.
• He nurses mostly, but will also take a bottle of formula when needed.  He's not a picky eater!
• He still takes his binky!  Much to my delight.  The other boys never took it.
• William sleeps the first six hours in his crib during the night, then sleeps next to me the rest of the night, because mom is too sleepy lazy to put him back in his own bed after nursing him.  Mom also prefers sleeping next to her baby.
• He naps often through out the day.
• He loves his stroller and being outside.
• William loves his big brothers.  Especially when KC holds him.  I think he feels very comforted by that.
• He likes to be sung to, and sometimes will try and sing a long with whoever is singing to him.  Think he gets this from his Daddy.
• He holds eye contact now, and coos and smiles when you talk to him.
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• He LOVES his mama!  And at times mom is the only one who can get him to settle down when he is upset.
• He loves his baths in the morning.  He usually calms right down after being changed, dressed and bundled up in his blanket and will take a long morning nap.
• He still hasn't lost any of his hair yet.
• He likes his bouncer, but hates the swing.
• He is a good traveler in the car.
• He has become quite the little drooler and bubble blower in the past couple of weeks.
• He still has blue eyes.  I think he will keep them like KC did.
• William can draw a crowd when we are in public because they can't believe all the hair he has.

 

 

Moab

Last weekend we went to Moab for Thomas' cousins wedding.  I know, who decides to get married in Moab??  Well, she is a real a outdoorsy kind of person, and her and her husband love to be in Moab, so that's who gets married there!  It was actually a very fun wedding.  They got married at Dead Horse Point National Park.  The view was breathtaking!!   I wish so badly that I would have gotten some pictures of that part of the trip.  This was my first time down in this part of the state, and I was not expecting it to be so beautiful.  The ceremony was very nice.  We then headed over to place called Red Cliffs Lodge, which is right on the river,  for the dinner and party.  They put on a pretty good one too!  Complete with prime rib, candy bar, s'mores bar, and karaoke!  It was a blast!
The next day we went to Arches National Park with the boys.  We did a couple of easy hikes with them and they loved it.  Xander especially got into the whole hiking thing, he was very cute, and even manipulated us into buying him a "hiking hat", because we had forgotten his for the trip.  That place is amazing!  It's incredible to see so many of earth's wonders in one place.  We are definitely going back again when we have more time.  Here are some pictures of some things we did.

Me, KC and Xander on our way to Moab.

William did so good, he slept the whole trip!  There and back, and did I mention that we did this trip in 24 hours.  He is amazing. 

Daddy was a very good driver.  I think was very sick of driving by the time we got home, he's such a trooper.

The boys and I in front of Balanced Rock.

William wasn't quite sure what to think of the carrier.

It was amazing!

I never could get a very good picture of Thomas and his Uncle Clint doing karaoke, but it was So dang funny!  The sang "I Swear".  They had place roaring!  Give those two a mic and you may not get it back, they know how to entertain, and aren't shy about it.  You wouldn't catch me up there, but I'm glad someone is brave enough to do it.  Good times.

Thomas' grandma "Tutu" and Aunt Leilani performed a beautiful Hawaiian wedding dance for the bride and groom.  I still remember them doing it for our wedding too.  Loved it.  It now means even more, becuase Tutu is slowing down quite a bit, and she can't do as much, so really it takes all she has to perform.

When we got home from the trip our house was hot and so was William.  We gave him a bath and let him be naked for awhile.  He was a happy camper.