Georgia is 3 months!

So in a hotel room in Duluth, my baby turned 3 months! Since I have not yet won the lottery I return to work in one week! (Sooner, since my post is belated!)  

A bit about Ms Gia at 3 months...

She is a happy baby! I think she looks a lot like me as a baby! I just hope she doesn't get my little Book legs! She has really good head control and likes to be up and looking around! She is very easy going unless 1. She has a dirty diaper, 2. She is hungry ( and is getting ignored) or 3. She is in need of a nap. Gia is very close to rolling over... She can get her head to do a 180 but can't get her body to follow through. She has mastered grabbing my hair! As if my hair went falling out fast enough anyway! Darn pregnancy hormones! :-) She is wearing mostly 3 month clothes still but maxing out some of the sleepers! 

She averages about 8 hours a night..some a little longer some shorter. She takes many naps and if I can keep her awake long enough I can get a 3-4 hour nap and get some time with the big kids and maybe something else done, too! 

Her hair is starting to come in a bit more and it's staying light brown! I love it!! We have recently a started putting her in her high chair for meals and she loves sitting and making eye contact with everyone! We are on vacation so I don't have an approximate weight or length but she is a healthy girl!

She loves her daddy and brother and sister, mommy, too! 

She coos a bunch and its so cute! Her car seat in the car is still not her favorite spot! 

And she's awake so this post should come to an end!

G-baby is 2 Months!

How fast time does fly! Two months down for my little G already! 

At 2 months: she is smiling, cooing, straightening those legs and trying to stand! She loves looking around her room at all the colors. 

We had the day to ourselves. We went down to Abbott Northwestern to meet and greet my step mom Julie's kidney donor from February! It was very touching and so awesome to hear her story of donating! She didn't even have a loved one to donate in honor of, it was just out of the goodness in her heart and inspiration from a client of hers, she's a life coach, that was trying to lose weigh so they could donate!

Then we headed downtown to eat lunch with daddy and walk the Thursday farmers market on Nicollet mall! We grabbed some pizza and salad them a yummy treat from yogurt lab!

Then we came home. I worked on updating here baby book and finding more gear for our garage sale next week! Them it was time to go to our Peds for the big two month check up!  Drum toll please! Gia weighed in at 11lbs 13 oz and 23 inches!! Yay baby!! While that might seem like a lot. 4lbs in the last two months, she is my smallest at this point! Gracie was  a little over 13 lbs and max was over 14lbs but he was 2.5 months! My little peanut!!! Her head was 15" only the 33%. But she still has a bit of overlapping sutures!

Darn it if those 2 month shots don't hurt! She's so tough! I loved having this day with my baby! There were lots of snuggles, too! Thanks for checking in!!

Max's sweet bike skills

Tonight we took a family bike ride. We did the north loop of elm creek. 11.5 miles! All of us! Max on the eve of his first week of learning to ride a bike did an 11.5 mile loop! My victory, I pulled the buggy! We came home and had coconut Popsicles! It was a good day!

And they're off!!

One thing on our summer bucket list was to take off Max's training wheels. He gets around quite well with those trainers even doing 11 miles once this past spring! We knew he was ready! It was just a matter of taking them off. 

Tuesday was the day. We were waiting for nana to visit us like she usually does every Tuesday. To help  pass the time Robb took them off. Then we spent the better past of an hour with Max. Getting started was tricky, trying to figure out balance and the footwork. We would set a pine one out a slab or two as the goal to reach before he crashed. He did well that first day. He was pretty jazzed about it and didn't want to come in the house for bed. By the end of the night he could almost do the whole block of sidewalk in front of our house. 

Wednesday he was raring to go!  He practiced and practiced. He mastered getting started. He could finish the sidewalk, turn around in the road and come back. That night we had him try to ride our "dog loop" walk with Libby and Dakota. He didn't make it very far and was getting defeated. Just gave up. Got really grumpy. I knew it had a lot to do with his previous night of sleep. He seemed most upset that he would have to start over learning how to ride his bike. That some how he lost all ability and would need to start from scratch! No reassurance helped. 

Thursday he hesitated to get on the bike. Once he came around, it was flying! With the getting started mastered I had him turn at the end of the block into the cul-de-sac and do the loop before coming back to our driveway. A few runs of that and it's in his blood! I took a video and sent it to Robb, my mom and sister Lisa. When Robb got home he wanted to show him so the boys geared up and went around the block. Then max wanted to do an Elm Creek loop. That's 11 miles. We opted for an abbreviated 5 mile course and set out as a family with the girls in the buggy. We stopped at our local ice cream shoppe in celebration. Max did awesome all 5 miles! So proud of our little dude! 4.5 years old and the training wheels are off! So excited for our adventures to come!!

All smiles

Miss Gia was 6 weeks old on Saturday. She has really started to smile on purpose much more! She is also finding her voice, still not as loud as my Gracie-bear though. 

Munchy cheeks!

We have in our family why my son Max coined as munchy cheeks. Nice plush soft kissable cheeks. He coined them in reference to Gracie's sweet cheeks. Hers are especially munchy. It's funny that he came up with something so funny to call his sisters cheek and that it has stuck. Yesterday while moving out furniture to the basement for new carpeting (yay!) something fell on Grace and scratched her cheek. She started crying and we went running to her asking what happened, " that fell and hurt my munchy cheek" was her explanation! I love our crazy little family, funny made up words and all!

Gia is one month old!

July 22nd, 2013

Today my baby, our baby, is a whole month old! My last baby...I was hoping for 'time' to take its time and let her grow leisurely. We are not due back at the pediatrician a for a month so my measure,nets will have to suffice. I clocked her at 22.5 inches, she has grown a whole inch and a half! As for weigh, on our not so reliable scale, got her roughly at 9.4 lbs! So she's gained a pound and a half! Yay peanut! 

She is a belly sleeper. Just try to lay her on her back. If you want her to cry that's the sure fire way! The positive of the belly sleeping is her neck and back are already fairly strong. She holds that little noggin up really well. 

She is a trooper! She's been up north to Breezy Point, to 3 soccer games and a soccer practice in the extreme humidity. She's even been to "watch" her siblings swimming lessons! She rolls with us really well! 

Her dark hair is sticking around, too! I think she has lost the jaundice coloring and in the last week even her poo has changed to a more greenish brown color! I put that last bit in there just for a reminder. 

Her bro and sis love her up! Grace is very sweet and can not resist a smooch when she walks by her. They also play pretty well together and have been taking advantage of the gorgeous summer we have been having. They have put in long hours out in the sandbox play area and playhouse! 

Our summer is loosening up with swimming lessons wrapping up last week. We are now down to Max's soccer games on Mondays and Wednesdays this week and next week! Each game he plays he gets how to play a little more! last week wednesday he had two shots on goal and a bunch of touches of the ball! much better than his first game where he stood in his assigned position and watched everybody else run around! i find myself getting choked up watching him which i blame on the hormones, but I know it's just me being a proud momma. I love watching my kids grown up and finally participate in these events. i think having some activity every night has been nice to get me out of the house but it has been a little much for Robb, whose been back to work plus all the evening shenanigans!