Blake at 5 Months Old

5 months old and he's the size of a tank. Okay, maybe not a tank, but the size of a 1 year old at least. Here are his measurements (I took them myself, so if he's suddenly shorter at his 6 month then that's why):

Height: 27 inches
Weight: 18.8 lbs

Holy Hannah! This kid is 5 MONTHS OLD and he's almost 20 lbs already??? He is 2 inches and 4 lbs away from officially being to big for his infant car seat. Since he gained 2 lbs and grew 1 1/2 inches in one month - I'm thinking that we'll have to move him out of this pretty fast. Gosh this is such a change from Sophie! At 5 months old Sophie was around 14lbs and 25 inches. So yeah, in baby terms, that's a big difference. Even at 7 months she wasn't this big! By 8 months, she was this size! It's just crazy the differences in these two!

Here are his pictures that I took. I really need to charge my camera battery so I can get some better pictures of him than the ones I can take with my iPod, but oh well. A picture is a picture, even if it is all grainy and fuzzy, right? :-\

He's just so big!!! And he looks more and more like Jon every day, which I absolutely love! His eyes are still blue - hard to say if they are going to change or not, they're really dark blue, so we'll see. He can roll front to back and back to front. He loves to play with toys and just grab stuff. He likes to chew on his fingers - a lot - which makes me think that teeth are just around the corner. He also likes to pull his hair, but he still gets cradle cap pretty bad so maybe that's why. He LOVES watching Sophie in whatever she is doing - he just watches and smiles at her all the time! He is still very snuggly but rarely falls asleep if he knows you're rocking him to sleep. Doesn't take a binky very often anymore, just when he's really upset. He likes you to hold his hands and help him stand up or even walk around. Loves to spit - I think that's his favorite thing to do is just spit over and over again while making cute noises. He has tried the baby cereal, but every time we've fed it to him he got really gassy for the next couple of days, so we haven't officially started him yet. Still eats about 6 oz per feeding every 3 hours until about 7:30 or 8 and then he's down for the night until 5 or 6, and even then he'll usually go right back to sleep for a couple of hours. Then he takes 2-3 naps throughout the day. He is just such a sweet happy baby and is so easy to take care of, it definitely makes it easier to have 2 kids when he's like this! :)

Anyway, that's my little guy! My next post will have to be all about Sophie - I feel like I haven't talked about her as much on here, but she is just turning into the funniest little girl I've met! Just you wait! ;)

Oh, and in other news, I'm blonde again. :) The dark brown/black hair was fun, but it's over. Luckily I have made a fantastic friend down here who not only tackled the beast which is my hair, but was able to get me blonde again in only one sitting! There's still a little bit of reddish/orange in my hair, but it just make me look strawberry blonde. It's fun, I love it, and I'm happy to be back to my "roots". (Ha ha, hair pun) :)

Until next time, fellow stalkers!

Blake is 4 Months old now!!!

My baby is getting older! (Funny how that happens, huh?) He turned 4 months on Saturday, and on Monday we took him in for his well check. I knew he was big - MUCH bigger than Sophie - but I was still a little shocked by his numbers! Here they are:

• Weight: 16.5 lbs, in the 75%
• Height: 25 1/2 inches, in the 70%
• Head: 16 1/2 inches, in the 35%

Yep. Big, tall, and has a tiny head. :) Just for a comparison, here are Sophie's numbers at that age:

• Weight: 13lbs 11 oz - 50%
• Height: 24.7 inches - 60%
• Head: 15.7 inches - 15%

It may not seem like a huge difference, but when you're the size of a small yip-yap dog then it's pretty big. Here are Sophie and Blake at 4 months:

 

They are so similar, but you can tell some differences. Their noses are slightly different, hairlines are vastly different, lol, but overall you can tell that they're siblings! :) Anyway, to see more of Sophie between birth and 4 months, click here. 

And here is a quick update of Blake form birth until now!

1 day old

Just under 1 week old

3 weeks old

4 weeks old

6 weeks old

2 Months old

9 Weeks old

3 Months old

My little guy is sure growing up fast! As of right now he can roll tummy to back and can almost roll all the way over back to tummy, but he doesn't know how to get his arm out of the way. He is grasping everything he can, he plays with his carseat toy and the floor mat with the hanging toys over him really well, he's eating about 6 oz of formula every feeding, still sleeps all night (usually give him a bottle anywhere between 8 and 10 and then he's down for the night until about 7:30 or 8 the next morning - bliss!), loves to coo and giggle but still working on getting a big belly laugh out of him, is starting to want to go to sleep independently (no rocking to sleep anymore, sad day for me!) and is already weaning himself off of a binky! Anyway, that's our update now, be sure to leave a comment saying how cute he is! ;)

Back to the Grind

Don't you just love summer? The vacations, the freedom, the swimming, the sunshine, and best of all - no school for Jon! Okay so *technically* speaking, he was still in school, but it was rotations so it was really like more of a 9-5 job than school. So basically, since having Blake I have had my husband here to help me. And since we were in Utah all summer, if Jon wasn't around then there were family members everywhere to help me out too! I fear I became a bit of a lazy mother, but since I will never get to be a lazy mother again with these two kids, I figured it's alright.

This morning I had to send Jon back to school. It wasn't a big procession - I just hung his lunch on the doorknob to the garage and, since I was wrestling kids, we just called out "Bye! Love you, have a fun day!" and that was that. But now I'm realizing that it's kind of lonely here without him. I love hanging out with Sophie (especially when she makes me imaginary cupcakes every 5 minutes and watches while I eat said imaginary cupcakes, and then turns around and rubs milk into her hair - ah fun) and Blake is just as cute as ever, but we definitely feel it when Jon is away. Anyway, enough of the sappy stuff.

I still can't believe that Jon has already gone through over a year of school, and that there is LESS THAN 2 YEARS LEFT!!! Holy smokes! And it has just flown by! Seriously, I was looking at the curriculum for PharmD, and he has the fall, winter, spring, and summer quarters left of classroom study, then he has next fall, winter and spring for advanced rotations. AND THEN HE'S DONE!!! (Do you like my overuse of caps? I'm a little excited!) It's just so freaking close already! Then hopefully he can find a nice job here for a few years, we'll pay off a buttload of our student loans, and eventually return to my beautiful mountains in Utah. (Sigh) It's all so close now...so long as there's no more surprise pregnancies (love you, Blake) then I think we can definitely survive!

Morning

As I sit here perusing Facebook and Pinterest, and now writing in my blog, I take a deep breath and relish in the scene next to me. My darling daughter at the table, wearing her pearls, feet swinging back and forth happily as she sits at the table eating her cereal, not a care in the world except her cereal, her pink bowl and her pink spoon. My handsome son in his cradle swing, batting carelessly at the mobile above his head as the swing emits it's calming music to help lull babies to sleep. The sound of the washing machine as it washes the pee covered bath mat...

Oh, you noticed that the bath mat was pee covered, did you? Well, let's just say that the rest of the morning wasn't quite as peaceful as the scene that is here now. It all started when I was feeding Blake his bottle and Sophie was pestering me, so I told her to go up and watch a show on my TV until I was done feeding the baby. Bad choice. After I was done feeding the baby I thought "Hey, since Sophie is being good and watching a show and the baby is fed and happy, maybe I'll get some cleaning done!" After doing the dishes, organizing my bottles and sippie cups, rearranging my dish cabinet, and cleaning up the table and countertops I called up to Sophie to see if she was hungry yet since she still hadn't eaten breakfast yet. She came running to the stairs and descended in her typical princess fashion - pearls on, arms out dramatically, walking on her toes, chin held high - only this time she proclaimed proudly "Mommy, see my pink lips! Pretty princess!" Sure enough, she had put on my pink lip gloss. It's the one I usually let her wear when she's attacking my makeup bag, so that didn't bother me. What caught my eye was the charcoal gray and the blue eyeliner streaks on her face and the splotches of alabaster foundation on her white nightgown. (Yes, I am that pale...) At first I was thinking "Oh crap, I need to get upstairs now!", but then I decided that she was already down away from ground zero, so I might as well get her some food and then worry about it. What was done was done, right? Well then she went to climb on a chair and I see a little bare bum pointing at me! "Sophia," I ask, "Where is your Pull-Up?" to which she says "I need go pee potty!" and starts to run upstairs. That's when I saw the carnage. My makeup bag contents were spilled over the floor, with the mascara, foundation, cuticle oil, lip gloss opened, eyeliner lines are drawn on the floor, makeup brushes are on the floor, and my hair smoother goopy stuff is opened. Then, I see that she has also attacked the drawers, and her toothpaste as well as mine are opened, toothbrushes are not in their places anymore, and a few other things are strewn around the counter top. As if that weren't enough, I notice a large wet spot on the floor next to the bath mat. I'm thinking "Oh great, my cuticle oil leaked everywhere!" because it had been tipped on it's side near the puddle. So I say to Sophie "What is this?" and just as I'm dipping my fingers in it to see if it's the oil, she declares that she peed.
"Wait, what? This is pee?"
"Yeah! I peed da floor!"
"You peed on the floor?!"
"Yeah!"
"Soph...why...the toilet...you...ew!"
"I go pee potty, okay?" She runs into the potty closet and goes pee.

And that was what happened before this calm, serene moment that I'm enjoying now. (Sigh) Being a mom is fun, and even though that was a lot, she was so proud of herself for going pee on the potty that I couldn't stay mad. Love my kids, and love being a mom, and love my life. :)

Family Pictures!

So last time we had some family pictures done, it had been about 7 months after having Sophie, and I felt huge and fat. So this year we thought - hey I have an idea! Let's get family pictures done during Blake's blessing - a whole 2 MONTHS after having a baby! Well, in a weird kind of way, I actually really liked these pictures a lot better than the last! Although I still feel like the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man, (please don't give me that "you just had a baby, give yourself a break!" crap because I started out heavier with this pregnancy, gained a lot of weight during, and haven't done much to lose weight for the last 2 months, so yes I really could be and should be smaller, but my laziness inhibits me) and although Sophia was kind of sick and SUPER DUPER cranky all day, I really like them! So here are our family pictures - puffy face and all! :)

First of all, here are the ones of my handsome little guy in his tux - ain't he cute??? I cut his hair less than a week later, but I made sure to keep it long for his blessing day. :)

Which one of the ones below do you like best? Colored, black and white, closeup black and white? (I also have that one in colored, but didn't post it)

Then of course there's my sweet little girl - like I said, she was not a happy camper all day, but Jacque managed to get a little smile out of her. :)

And then there's our family shot. :)

And I really liked how this one of me and Jon turned out. :)

Ha ha ha, I love my sisters and cousin Jacque!

And last, but not least, the big family picture!

Anyway, that's them! I think they turned out pretty good and I'm so glad that my cousin Jacque is so talented and willing to do crazy day photo shoots with us last minute! :)