4 months and growing stronger every day!

I took Lewis in for his four month checkup this last Thursday. He weighs 16 lbs 5 oz and is 26"...that's about how big Bailey was at 6 months! I have a feeling that at this rate, Lewis will lap him in no time. Lewis has already grown out of many 6-9 month clothes because he's so long. He sure loves his big brother though! Today Bailey walked over to stand next to Grandma while she was holding Lewis and said "Hi baby Lewis!" and then proceeded to give him a full face lick. Lewis just grinned from ear to ear.

Mirror, Mirror on the wall...

I've said dozens of times in the last two years how frightening it is how much Bailey is like me. He looks like me, acts like me and talks like me. Apparently, he got my patience too. Today we were heading to the Children's Museum via the Jack in the Box drive thru. I will say, they seemed to be taking a really long time but we were just waiting and chatting when all of the sudden from the backseat I hear Bailey yell "COME ON!! FRENCH FRIES!!" Okay. Give the boy some french fries already. What'dya gotta do, grow the potatoes? Oi.

Are you kidding me?

Tonight I may have discovered the reason Bailey hasn't sleep worth garbage lately:

Grandma: Boy, Bailey sure loves to eat coffee beans.
Mommy: What?! NO FREAKING WONDER HE DOESN'T SLEEP.
Grandma (laughing because she doesn't work the night shift): Well, it's not that often. Just once in a while.

OMG.

Toddler bed blog #2

This is how I found him last night. After I almost cracked him in the head with the door...

Toddler bed blog #1

So about a week ago, Bailey finally climbed (and fell) out of his crib for the first time. Don't worry, he's fine. We had gotten him a fire truck toddler bed from some friends about a month ago but we hadn't really committed to getting him to sleep in it. We set it up in his room and hoped that the novelty would eventually wear off and he would just decide to sleep in it. Yeah, right. Well, once he had figured out that he could get out of his crib (even if he had a bump on the head to go with it), I knew that the crib days were history. The other night, I went in to check on him before I went to bed and this is what I found:



If you notice, his diaper and pajamas are wrapped around one leg because he couldn't quite get out of them completely. When I found him, he was totally passed out...he didn't even stir when I turned him over (after running to get Grandma, Daddy and the camera) to put everything back on. I was just grateful that there was no poop involved. Whew! Dodged that bullet for another day!

Lions, Elephants, Bears Oh My!!!

So Mary and Faye left us boys alone to fend for ourselves due to the cabin fever being on the verge of inducing hallucinations and erratic behavior.

That said this is one of the lovely results of leaving me alone with my boys. SMILE LEWIS! :-)




Of course, as soon as Bailey saw the camera was out, he was posing, smiling, and waiting for his picture to be taken. The little ham couldn't let his brother have a picture taken and he miss out on the fun! :-)

Christmas Morning...

...well, we've been snowed in for the last 5-6 days now and it's been a little crazy. Fortunately, we had done a little shopping for Bailey a couple of weeks ago (normally, I'm totally a last minute shopper!)...so we had gifts for him to open...take a look! Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas! xoxo