Cale Six Weeks

The original "ham" all grown up and avoids the camera.

Cale is growing! He weighed 10-1/2 lbs at his six week check.
He is smiling a lot easier now, especially at mom. Brian says it is
because he sees me and thinks of milk.

Liddie has been enjoying bike rides with the boys.
They can't hardly leave the house without her, she is always
wanting to go. She has a snack and is ready to go!

Liddie was playing with play-doh this weekend and made a baby out of it.
She decided that she was going to "nurse" too!

Last weekend (2/22-2/24), Brian's mom was here for a visit. Brian took Parker on a 4 hour fishing trip into the Bay, they had fun but no luck with fish. Parker thought he was a little sea sick, but a pepto tablet helped things out. There was another little boy on the boat that didn't fare as well. The motion sickness hit Brian after he was home, it threw him for a loop!

Brian bought a new bike to start riding again, Parker is loving it; Chia & Liddie are too for that matter. We bought a trailer for Liddie to ride in and she loves it. She has a snack and she is ready to go. Chia likes it because Brian will run her while on his bike, but ultimately Chia ends up pulling Brian. He bought her a harness since she likes to pull so she won't be pulling with her neck. I have yet to see it! Liddie told Brian that her nose was not working again, this time it needs "batteries". How cute is that?

Valentine's Day

This was a great Valentine's day. Liddie was so excited about her party at school. Parker was equally was excited and still enjoys Valentine's although he is getting older. Plus Brian & I were able to go out to dinner the night before Valentine's just the two of us! We have great neighbors everywhere, but this couple is an older couple (not old, just older, our parents' age) and they offered to watch all 3 kids so we could celebrate Valentine's Day. We only took a couple of hours, but it was great to have some uninterrupted conversation and not have to answer never ending questions. I still scarffed down my dinner like it was my last meal, not sure if I was really hungry or in mom mode of eat when you can! We enjoyed going to a local coffee house afterward. Rob & Carol (our neighbors) seemed to enjoy the kids and said everything went well. I think they were surprised at Liddie's rough housing with Parker because she seems so quiet and sweet all the time! Rob told us he tried to get her to stop because he didn't want her bonking her head on his watch! Brian surprised me a gift card to go shopping to buy myself something, just what a mom wants after wearing maternity clothes for what seems like forever! You can't wait to get in them, then you can't wait to get out of them.

Cale is 5 weeks today. Sleeping just the same, waking every two hours! This picture of him with his hands behind his head is so cute, Liddie did the same thing at his age...I guess I should have put one of her up too. I think he is starting to smile intermittenly. Brian swears he has had him smiling for weeks, but I guess you can't tell a dad any different.

Then the picture of Liddie putting Cale's pacifier in his mouth. Liddie actually calls it a "bye", I don't know where she got that but Parker called his a "my", and don't ask me where he got that either. We always start out calling it a "paci", who knows! She is so excited she got it in his mouth, in all reality he is about to gag because she is holding it in there so tight.

The last picture of Liddie is what happens when she is quiet for a few minutes...I guess her knees were chapped so she has to use some Burt's Bees on them to help them! She is always up to something.

I feel bad there are not pictures of Parker. I usually take them during the day while he is at school, not intentionally. I am really mad at myself for not taking more after Cale's birth. We still have yet to take some pictures of me with him and the kids, Brian with him and the kids and all 3 together. I guess it is true about the 3rd one, but I was wanting to make that a myth!

Anyway, Parker is always asking questions...I mean ALWAYS! Sometimes they can be deep, other times I have to shake my head. The latest one that makes me shake my head "What are chicken bones made out of...wood?". Please tell me you are shaking your head too!

Cale is 4 weeks!

Today Cale is 4 weeks old. Time flies when your having fun, or should I say when you are sleep deprived! So many have asked how he is sleeping, well the answer is sleeping great until he is hungry. He loves to eat about every two hours, so our night is usually 9, 11, 1, 3, 5, etc. I usually try to feed him about 7:30 or 8 and head to bed and sleep, then Brian will bring him to me when he wants to eat then it is the two of us for the rest of the night! That time that Brian has him though, I fall into the deepest sleep because Brian is dealing with him. I tell ya, there is a bunch of junk on tv throughout the night, more infomercials than you could imagine. All of you other moms out there know that though. Here are some pictures of Cale. The one of when he is asleep, that is how the boy sleeps after I get up for the morning. I really don't think he sleeps that hard during the night!

The next picture of Liddie with Cale, she had just put his pacifier in to help him stop crying and it worked! Usually she is trying to shove it in and makes him cry more. She is such a good big sister though, very motherly right now. She told me one day to "carry you" (which is carry me), but kept pointing to Cale because he was crying, she was wanting me to hold him. To me that is a great sign that she is not jealous of all of his holding time.

This was a cute picture of Liddie with her helmet on, she likes to ride her "hooter" (scooter for those of you who cannot understand 2 year old talk). It is hard to keep her inside, she loves the outdoors.


That is all for now, I am being called!

My nose is not working...

Liddie said the funniest thing this morning..."Momma, my nose is not working!" and I said "really", and she said "Yeah, it is stuck!". Her nose was stopped up this morning, obviously. These are small quotes you wish you could remember forever!

We took Cale in last Wednesday to weigh and he made it back to 8lbs. 6oz. I have to take him in again this Wednesday to ensure he exceeds 8lbs. 8oz. his original birth weight. Surely he has because he eats every 2 hours on the nose! I had to time a trip to the grocery store this weekend so I would be back within two hours of the time I started to feed him before I left. That trip was a disaster! How can a trip by yourself to the grocery store turn chaotic? I'll tell ya. First, never grocery shop on Saturday, and never on a Saturday before Super Bowl! Automatic chaos! Then, I get all my stuff (wasn't really even for Super Bowl) and go check out. The lady scans all of my stuff, over $100 worth of stuff (as usual) and I cannot find my check card. It dawned on me I left it in the Suburban in the cup holder. No checkbook (who needs a checkbook when you have a check card). No other credit cards (we are done with credit cards...they are out of our lives). Oh wait, I found an old ATM card for the credit union in Tulsa, I used it before and we keep "emergency" money in there...so the lady suspended my order and let me run to the ATM. The ATM card was "invalid". CRAP! I am running out of time, remember I had it methodically planned to ensure I was back to feed the baby! I usually always go to the store and see someone I know, and the one time I don't I need to see someone I know. If I knew them well enough, I would have asked them to pay for my groceries, really I would have. I called Brian, and thankfully he is so easy going and can laugh at this situation and not get mad. He said it'd be faster if he would just come to the grocery store rather than me drive home and back (mind you I have milk, butter, fish sticks, meat...you know perishables!). Brian makes it goes in the pay for the groceries and the baby is still fine. We pull out of the parking lot and he starts screaming, needless to say I had to pull over in a parking lot and feed him. I can't stand to hear a little one like that cry, plus traffic who knows how long it'd take to get home. That is how a trip to the grocery store by yourself can turn chaotic!

We actually got out and went to a friend's house for Super Bowl. We only stayed until after half time, I was exhausted and ready to be home. We decided that all the "kids" that were down on the field during half-time show going wild about Tom Petty really didn't know who he was!

Now a funny story to share about Parker. Parker is a huge popcorn eater! He absolutely loves his popcorn, he would choose popcorn over sweets (most of the time). Needless to say, we have two popcorn poppers and sometimes pop it on the stove (microwave is not good enough anymore). The air popper he can work on his own without help, so a couple of nights ago he was making his popcorn and overfilled it with popcorn. Thankfully he realized that he put too much in before he started the popper. How do you think a 9-year old boy would take the excess popcorn??? Spoon. No. Pouring it out. No. With his hand. No. Ask mom or dad for help. No. He uses a sponge! Mind you, it was not a brand new sponge, it was a sponge sitting on the sink that was probably nasty, stinky and full of germs! You really can't ask him what he was thinking because we have learned that 9-year old boys really don't think straight!

I love my kids, I would not change a thing!