Tuesday, November 17, 2015

October

October, November and December are definitely my favorite months! October is great because Thomas and I each have our birthdays, and also Halloween is way fun. It's been an awesome month! Here are some things we did this month...  

 I love all the new soda places. The Soda Shop, Fiiz, and now Sodalicious just opened. 
 Not sure if I've blogged about the My Child's Ready program.... So Jayne and Wes are both in this program funded by the state. The purpose of it is to get kids ready for kindergarten (they are in the program until age 5). Our parent educator is named Rossilyn. She comes to our house every other week for an hour and teaches us activities to do with Jayne and Wes! In this picture she was doing painting in a medicine dropper with her. For Wes we have made sensory bags for him to hold. Jayne loves having Rossilyn come over :) Oh and we get 2 new books (free) when she comes! It is AWESOME! I definitely recommend it to anyone with young kids! 
 Thomas and I took Jayne to The Rainforest Cafe! It was a lot of fun! We left Wes with my parents so we could just have time with her. She liked looking at the animals and eating her mac n cheese :) 
 I decorated the house a little bit for Halloween. My friend Lynne has a silhouette thing so we made bats, spiders, ghosts and witches. 
 I love my little family :) 
 Jayne loves her cousin Jason! These two are trouble together haha. They are so silly 
 The My Child's Ready program had an activity at Red Mountain Park! My mom came with me and helped with Wes, which was nice so I could play with Jayne! She had so much fun! And we won that little bike there! 

Our ward did a daddy daughter dance! Thomas was so excited to take Jayne! Jayne was so excited to go with daddy! Thomas said she had so much fun. She ate a little bit of dinner, ate a whole cupcake and lots of punch, then dance and danced! 
She made this little tiara there. So cute! 
 That night when we took it off we noticed that it stained her forehead hahaha 
 When we want to do something fun on the weekend and get out of the house but we don't know what to do, we usually walk around Target :)  
 Jayne colored in this big box for days! Best thing ever! 
 We got our free Red Robin burgers! Red Robin yummmmm 
 I don't know if I've posted about this. So Thomas and I watched an amazing video where a guy teaches you how to calm down babies. You hold them like this, kind sway them and "shh" in their ear. It's seriously magic. Thomas is SO good at it. 
 Some nights he ends up in our bed haha 
 Wes loves snuggles with daddy! 
 Church with 2 kids is..... interesting haha 



 We went to Freestone Park and rode the train! Jayne LOVED it! And we played at their new park there! I need to go back. It was so awesome! 
 My niece Emery got baptized! I can't believe she is 8! 
 We went to the zoo! It was great! Jayne did so good and Wes did pretty good too. It was hilarious though because Jayne was more interested in little birds on the path than the other animals hahaha. She still to this day though talks about seeing the elephant's bum bum haha. She has such a good memory! 
 Thsi nightgown is my favorite! It's too long but I just love it! 
 We love going on walks! 

 We went to a Halloween party/playdate. The top picture cracks me up! One happy Snow White and one ticked off Snow White hahaha 
 On my birthday I met Thomas at Joe's BBQ for free lunch! 
 My little Robin and Snow White :) 
 Our ward's Fall Festival was a blast! 
 Jayne always wants me to put Wes in the crib with her 
 Thomas got to go to San Francisco for a day to film for Crowd Mics! 
 We got our free pizza from Grimaldi's :) My favorite birthday freebie! 
 We let Jayne paint a pumpkin....
... and she was NOT a fan hahaha 

Wes 4 months

Baby Wes is 4 months old now! Here are his stats from the doctor yesterday:

Weight: 13 lbs 15 oz (18th percentile)
Length: 25.75" (66th percentile)
Head: 40.8 cm (8th percentile)
Basically he is a little long and skinny with a small head haha

These 4 months have been hard. I try to not complain because I'm blessed to have him in our home. And I love him so so much! But man... he has been tough! But guess what! Things are SO MUCH BETTER! Life is getting a little easier! He used to cry for HOURS every single night (and not just crying a little.. like SCREAMING crying). Now he NEVER does that anymore! Also he used to not go to sleep for the night until 12 or later. He goes to bed around 8:15 now :)

Some things about Wes...

*Wears 3-6 month clothes
*Size 3 diapers (we just switched to 3 because he kept blowing out of size 2 and hasn't out of the 3s yet!)
*Loves to stand up
*Not spitting up as much and he is less fussy!! (we got him on medicine for reflux and it is helping!)
*Goes to bed for the night around 8:15 and sleeps usually 3 hours at a time (we are trying to get him to sleep longer stretches)
*He falls asleep on his own! He still doesn't take a pacifier but I lay him down awake and he fusses for maybe 5 minutes usually less and falls asleep :)
*He sleeps in a pack n' play on his tummy at night. Sometimes he naps in there or he also naps in the swing in my room.
*His pack n' play is in our half bathroom... hahaha. Totally fits! It's great! It's like his own little room haha. We have a sound machine in there for him too (same as Jayne's).
*He rolls both ways now! He rolled back to tummy like a week ago and then a few days ago he rolled tummy to back for the first time
*LOVES getting attention :) He loves being sung to or when you talk to him
*He has the BEST little giggle! I swear Jayne just looks at him and he will laugh. It's the cutest thing! He loves his sister!
*He is pretty easy going. I would NOT have said that even just a month ago haha. He's like a new baby. Way more content.
*He had his first ear infection :( So sad! He just got done with antibiotics a few days ago
*We love our sweet Wes! He makes us so happy with his huge open mouth smile! :)



 Here are his 3 month pictures! I haven't uploaded my pictures from my phone for a while so I don't have his 4 month pictures on here yet... 

 Trying out the pacifier... haha. We have tried 6! This kids is not a binky baby. 









 Cutest sad face I've ever seen! 

 Wes and his cousins Evelyn and Jacob 

 hahaha his face 
 Seeing how happy he is around Jayne is the best 
 These two are definitely siblings! Top pic is Jayne and bottom is Wes 





 He loves Baby Mozart!