Some Quick Videos

While I am watching the poor Cardinals lose... I am working on uploading some videos. Here is H walking, she is really getting around now!

And another fun one of H. 

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Really Random

Crazy static 

Silly pics

Well worth the 15 minute wait in the drive-thru line. 

This should be an ad for Thirty-One, you can fit a three year old in their Thermal Market Tote

It helps to hit mommy in the face when you are cranky because you have 7 teeth coming in (5 of them are molars)

It's hard to remember her when she was this small. Her nickname was "Squeeky Beans"

And by the way, I believe the first song H will learn is the Chicken Dance. Singing it seems to be one of the only things that will make her sit still long enough to change her diaper. This child seriously hates getting changed. The Hokey Pokey always worked for the boys. 

I hope you enjoyed a little peak into our crazy family. I need to try and take more pictures, so I can share these a little more often. 

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Informal Official Birthday Invite

I am such a bad mom this year, H's invites never got done. I am completely to blame, and I am sorry for the informal notice. H's one year birthday will be this Saturday, September 22nd at the same park we have the boys' party. It will be in the little pavilion, starting at 11.

She can use the usual stuff, clothes and toys. As for clothes she is in 18 months already, so a variety of cool, warm and cold weather outfits and PJs. Same for 2T, probably more warm weather 2T outfits than cold though. She is in size 5 shoes, and we have two pairs so far, tennis shoes and black mary janes. For toys she loves Mickey Mouse and Rio (the bird movie). But anything for a toddler is good.

So sorry again for the last minute notice. Please let me know if you are planning on coming, so we can account for food. Next year I promise to be a little better prepared! Thank you for understanding.

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Look Who's Crawling Now!

Yes finally, H is crawling. She is a somewhat normal baby now. :)

And one more video of the boys, they are getting so big so fast!

Happy Labor Day everyone!

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Sleeping with an infant

I saw this app for my iPhone called Sleep Cycle when I was looking for Fantasy Football apps for Jason and was intrigued by it. It analyzes your sleep patterns and wakes you during your lightest sleep phase within a 30 minute time frame. Supposedly, waking at this phase leaves you feeling more refreshed and awake, rather than getting jarred out of a deep sleep. It was only $0.99 so I decided to pick it up and analyze my sleeping.

So here is my sleep pattern from the past four nights, sleeping with an eleven month infant in the same room - who still takes one feeding overnight. Keep in mind I am an extremely light sleeper.

Friday night

Saturday night (I know for a fact I was awake at least once an hour between 2-5 so this isn't terribly accurate)

Sunday night

Monday night

I don't know how I am still managing to stay on my feet during the day, let alone sew without sewing through my fingers. At least in a week or two I will start to ween little H off of breast milk (YAY I made it to 11.5 months!) and then I can start to train her to sleep through the night. I won't get any good sleep until we can get her out of our room though, because she wakes me with every little toss and turn, unless I invest in some ear plugs first. 

By the way I have yet to be awakened by the app, it does go off, but I am already awake before it goes off. Usually H or the boys have done that job.

But for $0.99 it is a fun app and it has great reviews. For those of you with an iPhone (iPod or iPad also) and no kids to wake you up, you should give it a try! You do need to be able to plug your phone in overnight and it does not work on Temper-material beds. You can find it in iTunes, here.

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We did it!

Just a quick post because I had to share it with someone, and I think the grandparents are all tired of hearing about every little detail...

I am going to go out on a limb and say that both boys are successfully potty trained! Well, mostly... we still need to work on telling mommy when we need to go, but if mommy is persistent, both boys can stay dry AND clean all day long. Nights, we still have to work on. Both boys are about 50/50 staying dry all night long. We have been in big boy undies during the day for a few weeks now, and I can count on one hand the number of accidents in the past week. Yes, I am sure there will be future accidents. I know there will be. BUT I am so very proud to finally, have only one diapered kid in the house. Hooray!

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Ten Months Old

Can you believe little H is already ten months old? I wish the weather would cooperate down here so we can get outside, but with a month straight of 90+ days (and the last 12 have been 105+) we have been stuck indoors. Well, by next summer at least everyone will be walking, how much fun will that be?! 


Here are H's ten month pictures. She's a squirmy one, so getting pictures of her on her quilt is almost impossible now a days! Here are my favorite two:

Oh yes, and that is her mommy-made dress and diaper cover. I am pretty proud at how it came together, in one day too! I hope you all are surviving this heat! Stay cool!

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