3 Year Check Up

Gracie had her three year check up last Thursday. Usually she is scared and does not cooperate at the Dr. office but this time she proved to be a big girl and was so good and cooperated with everyone.  She weighed 29lbs and was 37 inches tall, which is 10th percentile for weight and 50th percentile for height.  I bet you can't guess who she is going to be like!?!  She has had a snotty nose for about three weeks and she has even been on an antibiotic from Aunt Kim on one of those weeks for a sinus infection.  Aunt Kim and Dr. Beeber both confirmed that she has allergies, which is something I have never had nor has Hayden.  It is all new to us, so he put her on Flonase nose spray for the rest of the month and that stuff has really worked so far.  We love you big girl and are so proud of you!

4 Month Check Up

Colton went for his 4 month check up on Thursday.  He is a perfect, healthy boy.  He weighed 17lbs and was 25 1/2 inches long, which means he was 90th percentile for height and weight.  He can now have baby food and he seems to really like it so far.  He has had the cereal, sweet potatoes, carrots and apples.  He still makes funny faces as he is trying new things and getting used to the texture of food, but he eats it all up!  Dr. Beeber says that he is such a good natured baby and he is.  He is so sweet and precious.  He is wanting to sit up so bad and I figure in the next month he will probably figure it out!  He is getting so big and I can't wait for all of his accomplishments in the next couple of months.   We love you baby boy!!!!


Well once again I forget to update the blog, so I will try to remember all of the important details from the last week that our amazing kids have done!!!  Hayden turned in her Yellow site words and got them 100% correct so now she is on the Orange words.  This is so exciting because she is making a rainbow with the words and she is getting really close to being done and starting the raindrop words!   She also turned in her two challenges for the month of October, yes I realize it is the first week but what can I say she is so SMART and proud of herself too!   She recognizes money, capital letters, punctuation marks and sentences, those were the two challenges we did.  She is also doing great with her reading skills with the words that she has already accomplished.  It is truly amazing how fast she learns things and let me just say that she has a fabulous memory! 

Gracie had a great week at school.  She is also learning so much.  The fire truck came to visit the Preschool Tuesday, so she was very excited about it except that it was too LOUD!  She doesn't like any loud noises at all.  She loves to act silly, and she has really started playing pretend.  It is so cute watching her pretend to be a Mommy.   She has mastered the tricycle and boy can she pedal that thing.  It is hilarious watching her zoom around.  She is getting so big.  She goes for her 3 year old check up next week, which should be very interesting. 

Mimi and Kim brought back lots of shrimp to celebrate my birthday yesterday, since they went to the beach for my birthday...just kidding!   Grandmama and Linda brought a cake and everybody brought presents.  It is very important to Hayden that we all celebrate our birthdays with parties.   It was so yummy and the girls were so excited to see everyone, it was a fun night with family watching football.  Thanks everyone for the gifts and party, I love you all very much!!!

This is how we have to grocery shop now!

My Birthday!

Yesterday was my birthday and it was a great day!  Mark, Hayden and Gracie had been working on my present in the evenings and were so very excited about what they were making!  When I woke up yesterday, Hayden sat up in the bed and said "Happy Birthday Mommy I love you" now that is the perfect way to start the day!  Then my little Gracie sat up at said "Happy Birthday Mommy you are the best Mommy ever"  then I really felt special!  Oh I almost forgot my first birthday wish came from my wonderful husband when he left for work at 5am!!!  Colton woke up happy as always, so as you can see I was off to a great day!  After picking the girls up from school we went to see Mema and Pop before Ballet, I refused to sit in the car all day on my birthday like we usually do on Tuesdays!!!  Then we went to Ballet and when we got home the girls were in a hurry to eat dinner and take their baths so that when Daddy got home they could give me my presents.  I got the most amazing gifts, they both painted a picture frame for me and then picked out their favorite picture they wanted to put in it.  It was perfect because they were so excited about it and of course I loved it!  I have gotten some wonderful gifts this year from everyone.  Thank you to everybody, I really do have an amazing family!!! 

They Think Their Just Fishing!!!

Today we took the girls and Colton fishing.   Colton basically ate 8oz of formula, yes that is correct 8oz and then slept most of the time!  Gracie still isn't too sure about fishing, but she gave it her all and ended up catching the biggest fish, the bass!  She lost interest very easily but still enjoyed fishing with Daddy.   Hayden is the pro, just like her Aunt Kim, she caught the most fish and was upset that she didn't land the biggest fish!  She kept telling us "Sometimes you just have to be patient"  it was so cute and today was the first time that she really fished the correct way and enjoyed it.  In fact she made sure that Mark and Gracie watched their pole too, she wasn't going to miss out on any fish!  After two hours of fishing fun, Colton decided it was time to go and Gracie too for that matter, she was so tired.   We came home and they helped Daddy clean all the fish.  Hayden wanted to eat them tonight but we told her we had to save them for another night!  They enjoyed it so much.  These are memories that they will never forget with their Daddy!

Challenges

Hayden turned in one more challenge and her site words on Thursday and she passed with flying colors.   She started working on the next set of site words on Thursday night and we turned them back on Friday morning and she passed with flying colors again!  She said Mrs. McDaniel couldn't believe when she brought them back the next day!!!  Way to go Baby Girl!!!   She is so smart and now she loves to do her words, in fact every time Mark and I sit down, she brings them to us and wants to do them.  Glad she is so eager to learn and hope that she stays that way!   We started working on the next set of words last night and she already knows all of them except one, hopefully by Monday she can turn them in again.  It really makes her proud.  You should have seen her face when we picked her up on Friday, she was just waiting on us to ask how she did and she just smiled as I pulled out the paper with 100% on it!!!  I Love it!

Colton is rolling over all the time now, unfortunately he still doesn't like being on his tummy so he kind of gets upset after a few minutes.  Guess he will get used to or figure out how to turn himself back over.   He loves to be sitting up, where he can see everything.  He just talks and talks and it is so funny because you can tell when he is being really serious. 

Gracie didn't get to go to school last week because she was sick too.  Next week she will get started back, she missed going especially seeing her best friend Madison.   Hopefully next week we will all be back to normal and Mommy can go back to the gym,  I have really missed going this week!

Rolling Over

Colton rolled over from his back to his tummy for the first time today!  I think it surprised him too!  Unfortunately he isn't a big fan of being on his tummy, so we had to help him turn back over.   He is growing so fast and will be four months old in just 2 days.  Gracie was very excited about it, in fact she is the one that pointed out to Mark and myself that he was about to turn over.   We love you baby boy!!!  This is the first of many accomplishments.

That Feeling!

Monday night Colton got up around 12:30am, which is very unusal but I got up and fixed him a big bottle and put him back to bed.  He went right back to sleep and as I was coming out of his room, I could hear Hayden gasping for air and barking.  The barking cough is horrible, she seems to always get the croup cough.  It just came on so fast, she complained a little  before bed about her throat hurting and had a little cough but nothing like it was at 12:30.  I took her into my room and got her some water but she was still gasping for air and she was getting scared and of course I was trying not to panic.  That is the worst feeling in the world when there is something wrong with one of my babies.   Mark got up too, and we put her in the shower, usually the steam clears her right up but she still was gasping and just couldn't breathe!  I learned a couple of years ago to never second guess my motherly instincts so I called Aunt Kim and she said that we needed to bring her to the ER for a breathing treatment.  Since we had Gracie and Colton sleeping, Mark loaded her up and met Kim at the Hospital.  I stayed home and it almost drove me crazy not being there with her, but I knew she was in good hands.  She received a breathing treatment and got some medicine and they let her come back home.  I met her on the porch and carried her in like a little baby and put her right in my bed!!!  Thanks to Aunt Kim for always taking such good care of us, we love you and appreciate it so much!  Oh and Aunt Kim said that Hayden is the perfect little patient, she wasn't scared and was so sweet to all the doctors and nurses.