Five and a half month snapshot

People are always saying..."write everything down!!" when your baby is little. And I get it, I really do. But *exhale* when does anybody ever do that? I'm going to attempt to at least capture a snapshot of today because there is no point in even trying to go backwards and make up for anything. We're not celebrating a monthly birthday right now, but today is the time that I have a chance to do this. Also, I'm incredibly aware that nobody else really cares to read all of this stuff, so just scroll for pics if you want!


Here's some noteworthy things going on with little Reeci girl:

-about a month ago, we introduced solid foods for dinner. You haven't tried too many different foods yet, but it is definitely a requirement that your food be heated up. You currently have tried oatmeal, bananas and avocado. Even heated up, you're not that excited about avocado, but you eat that oatmeal like a champ. We're about to introduce more because you're doing so well! You eat dinner every night with the family and you sit in the high chair like such a big girl

-You nurse at 7:15, 10:30, 1:00, 4:30 and 7:30, but I have a feeling that you're about to space out more and combine your afternoon feeds into one, especially now that you eat dinner so well. 

-you moved up to size 2 diapers sometime around the end of January even though you should have moved up before that, we just had to use a GIANT box of size 1's that got opened while I was recovering from gallbladder surgery in December. You're pretty close to moving up to 3's

-You nap 3 times a day right now. You go back to sleep after your first 7am feeding until about 9 or 9:30 (or whenever we have to leave the house) and again for a short one around 11;30. Your afternoon nap is all over the place, but it goes well when I wait to put you down around 2:30 or 3pm. The main thing is that most days you don't get that 11:30 nap (or you do it in the car) so you're pretty tired for that afternoon stretch. Logan is really great about telling me if you're awake or asleep in the back seat. Some days, Logan will nap at the same time and I have the best time all by myself in a quiet house. 

-We also recently dropped your dreamfeed at 10:30pm and you are a champ about sleeping through the night unless you are sick. On most nights, you sleep from about 8pm to 7:15am. You sleep on your back or side and you love your crib (finally)!

-You are mostly wearing 3-6 month clothes...so far, your age and size have matched up pretty well which makes it much easier on me!

-You are just now getting over your second cold! I hate that you get sick so often when you're so tiny but you just seem to catch anything that Logan brings home. Your first virus was over Christmas and New Years and this time it started right after Logan's birthday. You are still your normal sweet self when you don't feel good, but you really like to snuggle and you usually wake up at night once to nurse. 

-You're so very sweet and content almost all the time, you have always been this way. You're also so easily comforted. I wonder if this is your personality coming out so early or if most second children just learn that mom is busy, so don't cry unless you really need something. You are just the sweetest baby ever. You love anytime you're being held or snuggled, you smile all the time and you love watching whatever your big brother is doing. You are also quite smitten with your daddy...and it's mutual for him too.

-One new aspect of your personality is how alert you are. You love being upright, whether it's playing in the exersaucer, sitting facing out in someone's lap or the bumbo or high chair. You are so close to sitting up on your own, but after a few seconds, you'll topple over to one side. You love holding toys...I can see how proud you are when you hold little balls or bring things up to your face. 

-You are rolling over and doing the wiggle-thing on your belly like you're trying to figure out how to crawl! Stay put for just a little longer please!! You are too little to be growing up so fast!

-You and Logan absolutely adore each other. You just watch him endlessly and he does all kinds of tricks and sings songs for you. He incorporates your name into all of the songs he learns at school! He loves to tickle you and kiss you and sometimes lay down right on top of you. You are always underneath looking up at me with a big grin like you're so happy for his affection. I love the relationship between the two of you and how much love is there. I pray for that to only grow...for him to be a protector and for you to someday teach him your gentleness. 

Logan Turns Three

My sweet guy turned THREE this past Saturday...

Three!

I can't even believe it...

When we started the party planning right after Christmas, I told Justin that I wanted to rent a bounce house in the backyard and THAT. WAS. IT. 

No Pinterest...no big table spread...no additional activites...nothing else. Just a bounce house.

But then...baby girl started sleeping through the night and suddenly I had all this extra energy and I decided to have a theme and OF COURSE some snacks!

Enter...Logan's Football Party!

I actually kept it pretty simple and made my invitations in Photoshop, used mostly decorations that we already had and super simple snacks. 

For the salty....Pirates Booty, Pretzels, and Shell Peanuts. A crock pot of smokey sausages for savory and football shaped homeade Oreos for the sweet! The Oreos were pretty much the only thing that required much work at all...but oh, they are always worth the work.

Logan loves his blue football with all of his friends autographs!

 We invited LOTS of friends and it was so fun to see everyone eating and playing together. Since it was a morning party, it was a little chilly when it started, but it warmed up pretty quick!

 The football cupcake cake was a hit for the kids...

Most of the party guests in front of the ball-throwing tarp activity (which I also used to potty train our resident 3 year old a few weeks ago before cutting out the holes). Don't worry it had been sanitized. Most of them agreed to wear the eye black (or pink) stickers...it was EXACTLY how I imagined it would be. 

Baby girl had the best spot at the party...G-pops arms. I think he held her for the entire 2 hours since they hadn't seen each other since Christmas. 

 Logan got his first bike...a Strider bike. He seems to love it and so does our dog Bella.

 Every three-year old needs a bike!!!

 And here's this...just because it made my day, so I figured it would make yours too! 

We are so thankful for all of the friends and family who came (or wanted to come but couldn't) to celebrate our sweet boy. 

Meeting Reese

We got to spend last weekend in Waco meeting so many fun friends! Thanks Mimi for such a fun Sip 'n See party...here are some of the pictures!

Everything was so beautiful...and YUMMY!

GPop didn't stay for the party, but he was available before and after for some good snuggle time with his girl!

Mrs. Crumplers cookies...YUM!

Baby girl missed her afternoon nap for the event, but was still the sweetest girl the whole time. 

Welcome 2015

This year we stayed home on New Years with a sick little baby...although you can't tell from looking at her that she was sick.

We would have loved to ring in the New Year with our Dallas peeps like we originally planned, but we made the best of our night and had a great time as a family. Steak dinner, red wine and ice cream sundaes! Logan was BOUNCING off the walls... 

And no, none of us were awake at midnight. But that's ok, because we were up at 1:30, 4:30 and 6:30 with a coughing, congested little one, so midnight seemed pretty unimportant this year...

 Dad thought it was a goofy pic. Mom did not...

Very much looking forward to this upcoming year and all that the Lord has planned. 2014 was a good one...

Christmas cookies

One of our traditions at Christmas is to make Christmas cookies. Since December has been pretty hectic with a newborn and my gallbladder surgery, it took a little bit of a village for it to happen, but we swung it!

Logan was totally aware that we were making cookies, so he was eager to help. However, we made the dough about two weeks before Christmas and froze it because we literally did not have time to do it all in one sitting. He was pretty disappointed that he did all the mixing and preparing and didn't get to eat any cookies.

I thawed the dough and baked the cookies the day before we left to visit our families and we had a decorating contest in Waco on Christmas eve... 

We texted a pic to my aunt Rita to be the impartial and fair judge!

 Reese didn't participate, but she had fun!

Oh and we also went to a cookie exchange with my MOPS group earlier in the month (before my surgery). It was amazing!!