Lauren had her 4 month well check on February 23rd, but I waited to post about it until after Kaitlyn had hers. (Which was today!)
Lauren is doing great! She is 25 inches long (90%) and is 15.2 lbs. (90%) - she's a big girl! She had to get some shots but she did alright. I guess I can say she did as well as any baby does when they get a big needle in their leg.
Kaitlyn's appointment could have gone better. I asked Crystal to come with me because it's hard for me to get out with both girls, especially when it's during Lauren's feeding time. We went and had her weighed and measured and she is 37 1/4 inches long and is 31.8 lbs. and she was 50% for both. She's up to date in everything that she should be doing at 3 years, and they also found out that she's got a benign heart murmur. They said it wasn't anything to worry about so I'm very thankful for that.
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
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Monday, February 23, 2009
Kaitlyn's three!!!
Yesterday we had Kaitlyn's birthday party at our house and were joined by 34 of our friends and family! It was crazy but we had so much fun! Kaitlyn was pooped by the time she needed to go to bed! But it was really so much fun and I'm so happy that so many people showed up! We had hamburgers and hot dogs, chips, drinks and lots of other stuff! We had 'Pin the shoe on Cinderella' and a pinata for the kids. (They mostly ran around the backyard or played on the swingset.
Because we have SO MANY pictures, I put them all on a slide. Just click the + sign to make it go faster, and if you hover over the picture it will tell you who is in the picture. (Not all, but most!)
Because we have SO MANY pictures, I put them all on a slide. Just click the + sign to make it go faster, and if you hover over the picture it will tell you who is in the picture. (Not all, but most!)
Monday, February 16, 2009
February is flying by!
Note: This blog background is dedicated to Kaitlyn's upcoming birthday!!!
February has been such a busy month for us! I've been running around since the beginning of the month trying to get Kaitlyn's birthday decorations and just planning it in general. We are going to have a Cinderella themed party at our house. We finally got the swingset from my parents set up this weekend and this coming Sunday we will be celebrating Kaitlyn's third birthday! Do not worry - I am fully prepared to take tons of pictures and post them all!
Lauren is just growing like a weed too! She's got a tooth coming in so she's been extremley fussy. I feel terrible for her! I wish there was a way to help it not hurt as bad as it does, but I know it'll pass. Last night she also started scooting her legs under her, all she needs to do is learn how to push up on her arms and pretty soon she's going to be crawling everywhere. I can't believe that she's going to be four months either. It's just crazy to me how fast the girls are growing. Brandon's so suprised when he sees something new that Lauren's doing. She's still such a happy baby, even with the teething. She's always smiling and cooing and just being her cute self.
Kaitlyn has started being a bit harder for me to control. Last week she drew with a pen all over our new couch cushion, she ripped our chair, and today she broke the screen door off of our backdoor. I've always heard of the Terrible Two's so this was pretty suprising. She's still having a hard time potty training, but she does remember to go #2, and now all we really have to work on is #1.
We recently celebrated my mom's birthday and were all suprised to find out that she and her long time beau Billy got married on the 8th! We are all so happy because Billy is really such a great person! He's been there for both of my girls births, and is there for us in general. I couldn't imagine it being anyone else!
Kaitlyn has made some new friends too. During the week Grannie aka Crystal will come over and take her to the park, and they met a little girl named Riley. We went to her third birthday on the 7th. It's pretty neat that they happened to meet because Riley and Kaitlyn are the same age, and they both have little sisters, Olivia and Lauren - who are also the same age! We also met a family at Walgreens one day. I had gone to pick up some photos and Kaitlyn met a little girl (who was with her dad in the parking lot) and they started running around and playing. When talking to the dad, I found out that they had just moved down from Oregon and they didn't really know anyone. I let him know that they were more than welcome to come to Kaitlyn's party (they didn't have to bring a gift!). I went inside and met his wife and let her know what I had spoke with her husband about. I'm usually too shy to approach people like that, but I'm happy I did.
Brandon and I were able to have some kid-free time this Valentine's day also. Crystal came and picked up Kaitlyn early that morning and took her to see Sesame Street Live. I was so proud of Kaitlyn because this is the first year that she stayed and watched the entire show! After they saw that, she and Grannie took a nap, and around 5PM we took Lauren to stay with them. Brandon and I went bowling with our friends Sandy and Jason, and afterwards we went out to dinner. It was a very nice day! Oh, and I forgot to mention that Brandon suprised me with the most beautiful pink roses!
Here are some pictures from this month. :)
February has been such a busy month for us! I've been running around since the beginning of the month trying to get Kaitlyn's birthday decorations and just planning it in general. We are going to have a Cinderella themed party at our house. We finally got the swingset from my parents set up this weekend and this coming Sunday we will be celebrating Kaitlyn's third birthday! Do not worry - I am fully prepared to take tons of pictures and post them all!
Lauren is just growing like a weed too! She's got a tooth coming in so she's been extremley fussy. I feel terrible for her! I wish there was a way to help it not hurt as bad as it does, but I know it'll pass. Last night she also started scooting her legs under her, all she needs to do is learn how to push up on her arms and pretty soon she's going to be crawling everywhere. I can't believe that she's going to be four months either. It's just crazy to me how fast the girls are growing. Brandon's so suprised when he sees something new that Lauren's doing. She's still such a happy baby, even with the teething. She's always smiling and cooing and just being her cute self.
Kaitlyn has started being a bit harder for me to control. Last week she drew with a pen all over our new couch cushion, she ripped our chair, and today she broke the screen door off of our backdoor. I've always heard of the Terrible Two's so this was pretty suprising. She's still having a hard time potty training, but she does remember to go #2, and now all we really have to work on is #1.
We recently celebrated my mom's birthday and were all suprised to find out that she and her long time beau Billy got married on the 8th! We are all so happy because Billy is really such a great person! He's been there for both of my girls births, and is there for us in general. I couldn't imagine it being anyone else!
Kaitlyn has made some new friends too. During the week Grannie aka Crystal will come over and take her to the park, and they met a little girl named Riley. We went to her third birthday on the 7th. It's pretty neat that they happened to meet because Riley and Kaitlyn are the same age, and they both have little sisters, Olivia and Lauren - who are also the same age! We also met a family at Walgreens one day. I had gone to pick up some photos and Kaitlyn met a little girl (who was with her dad in the parking lot) and they started running around and playing. When talking to the dad, I found out that they had just moved down from Oregon and they didn't really know anyone. I let him know that they were more than welcome to come to Kaitlyn's party (they didn't have to bring a gift!). I went inside and met his wife and let her know what I had spoke with her husband about. I'm usually too shy to approach people like that, but I'm happy I did.
Brandon and I were able to have some kid-free time this Valentine's day also. Crystal came and picked up Kaitlyn early that morning and took her to see Sesame Street Live. I was so proud of Kaitlyn because this is the first year that she stayed and watched the entire show! After they saw that, she and Grannie took a nap, and around 5PM we took Lauren to stay with them. Brandon and I went bowling with our friends Sandy and Jason, and afterwards we went out to dinner. It was a very nice day! Oh, and I forgot to mention that Brandon suprised me with the most beautiful pink roses!
Here are some pictures from this month. :)
Friday, January 16, 2009
A much needed update!!
This is our super late Christmas update!! I know I've been slacking but it's been so busy here latley I just haven't had the time!
Christmas was great! We had so much fun spending time with our family, and it was great to see how excited Kaitlyn was to know that Santa was visiting and then her waking up Christmas morning and seeing the big present he brought her! She got so many toys too... I really have to rearrange her room and go through some of her old toys because everything is so crowded! Lauren had a good Christmas too. She got a lot of baby toys, and some baby sign language flash cards.
Christmas Eve was spent with my my mom, stepdad, stepsister, brother, and grandparents; and Christmas day we got up early and opened gifts and then the girls and I drove out to see my dad, stepmom, brother and sister. After spending the day with them, we drove back into town and had dinner with John and Crystal and opened the gifts from them and family.
Here are some pictures over the Christmas holiday:
Next week Lauren will be three months old! It really is going by so fast, because pretty soon she'll be four months and Kaitlyn will be THREE YEARS OLD! I'm already starting to plan Kaitlyn's birthday party. She's getting a late Christmas gift from my mom and stepdad - a swingset!! And if the weather is nice enough, I'll have a backyard birthday party. Kaitlyn also wants to have a red racecar birthday cake, because she is really into the disney movie Cars. I tried to talk her into a pink car but she said, "No mommy, Lightning McQueen is RED!!!"
Here are some pictures of our growing girls:
I'm slowly starting to get the hang of having two little ones at home all day, and I'm learning ways to keep them occupied so that I can clean! Lauren now sits in her bouncer chair so she can watch me, since she's become such a mommy's girl. Kaitlyn is usually occupied with her legos. We got her a small box for Christmas and she loves them! I was a bit worried she'd try to put them into her mouth but she doesn't - she'll sit there and make houses and other things and bring them over and show me. Santa brought her a giant walk-in kitchen so she plays with that a lot and makes me food to eat. And her Grannie and Grandpa got her an adorable pink powerwheel's jeep that she loves! Brandon got some pictures of her, but they weren't very good, so I'll be posting some pictures of her in that soon.
Christmas was great! We had so much fun spending time with our family, and it was great to see how excited Kaitlyn was to know that Santa was visiting and then her waking up Christmas morning and seeing the big present he brought her! She got so many toys too... I really have to rearrange her room and go through some of her old toys because everything is so crowded! Lauren had a good Christmas too. She got a lot of baby toys, and some baby sign language flash cards.
Christmas Eve was spent with my my mom, stepdad, stepsister, brother, and grandparents; and Christmas day we got up early and opened gifts and then the girls and I drove out to see my dad, stepmom, brother and sister. After spending the day with them, we drove back into town and had dinner with John and Crystal and opened the gifts from them and family.
Here are some pictures over the Christmas holiday:
Next week Lauren will be three months old! It really is going by so fast, because pretty soon she'll be four months and Kaitlyn will be THREE YEARS OLD! I'm already starting to plan Kaitlyn's birthday party. She's getting a late Christmas gift from my mom and stepdad - a swingset!! And if the weather is nice enough, I'll have a backyard birthday party. Kaitlyn also wants to have a red racecar birthday cake, because she is really into the disney movie Cars. I tried to talk her into a pink car but she said, "No mommy, Lightning McQueen is RED!!!"
Here are some pictures of our growing girls:
I'm slowly starting to get the hang of having two little ones at home all day, and I'm learning ways to keep them occupied so that I can clean! Lauren now sits in her bouncer chair so she can watch me, since she's become such a mommy's girl. Kaitlyn is usually occupied with her legos. We got her a small box for Christmas and she loves them! I was a bit worried she'd try to put them into her mouth but she doesn't - she'll sit there and make houses and other things and bring them over and show me. Santa brought her a giant walk-in kitchen so she plays with that a lot and makes me food to eat. And her Grannie and Grandpa got her an adorable pink powerwheel's jeep that she loves! Brandon got some pictures of her, but they weren't very good, so I'll be posting some pictures of her in that soon.
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