4 months

Addie turned 4 months yesterday! We had her 4 month checkup today to get her stats. She's in the 88th percentile for weight and 82nd for height. She was perfect at the doctor until shot time :( I hate watching my babies get shots! Emily was so sweet, though! She kept telling Addie, "great job!" and "it's okay Addie!" What a sweetie!

-Addie basically sleep trained herself this month! (And when I say sleep trained, I mean that she can now go to sleep on her own without crying, not that she sleeps through the night... we're still far from that). I kept saying to Grant that we should probably sleep train soon until one day I realized there wasn't really anything to do. If I time it right, all I have to do is swaddle her and put her under her mobile and she'll go to sleep without crying. She does it for naps and bedtime. It's awesome! There are rare occasions where she'll cry when I put her down, so I do let her cry a little bit in those instances, but it still doesn't take long for her to go to sleep.

-While she's great at going to sleep, she's still, unfortunately, not the best at sleeping for long. During the day I get lucky if a nap goes longer than an hour and at night she hardly every goes more than 3 or 4 hours at a time :( There was one day this month that she went 6 hours, but it hasn't happened since. We were planning on moving her to her own room this month, but we found out her monitor doesn't reach so we're having to work on that first. I'm hoping it will help with the night sleep because I think when she's in our room I'm quicker to get her out of bed when she's stirring, when she could possibly go back to sleep if I gave her more time. Stay tuned for updates ;)

-Addie's become very giggly this month. She's very ticklish and easily amused so she laughs all the time. She especially loves being thrown in the air, dancing, and having conversations with people.

-Addie loves all people! She will let anyone hold her and she gives a huge smile anytime someone shows her attention. She will make your day by how excited she gets to see you :)

-The only things Addie doesn't like are baths in the big tub and her nursing cover. She used to love taking baths with Emily and then out of nowhere she started screaming every time we put her in there. We switched back to sink tubs and she still loves those. She's starting to get frustrated with the nursing cover. She gets excited when she sees it because she knows she's about to eat, but then she thrashes and kicks trying to get it off. It makes things difficult sometimes ;) Usually if I hold her hand she'll calm down enough to eat. She loves holding hands! It can almost always calm her down if she's upset.

-Addie started reaching for objects this month, which has made toys a lot more interesting to her. She's also getting a lot better at bringing her paci to her mouth. Just this week she's started rolling onto her side from her back and scooting herself around. I'll put her down on her playmat and a few minutes later she's turned a 180. I think the interest in toys is motivating her to try to move around.

she's starting to take an interest in bouncers

she wants that butterfly to reach her mouth so bad!

starting to turn on her side :)

-We've moved into the super drooly phase. She loves experimenting with her voice and some of those new voices involve a lot of spit ;) She also chews on her hands a lot, which contributes to the drooliness. She's recently started doing a thing where she sticks out her bottom lip like she's pouting, but she's completely happy. She's just learning new things she can do with her face. It's adorable!

drool everywhere!

-She's still the sweetest, happiest baby ever! I call her my angel baby because she's seriously so easy! I'm so grateful for that! I feel like I'm getting very spoiled with her ;) We love this girl so much!

She was so cooperative with her photoshoot today that we don't have any crazy outtakes, but here are some other cute shots :)

March updates

The month of march (and the beginning of april) was very eventful for us! I've already posted a lot about the beginning of the month with Addie's blessing and updates on both of the girls, but so much has happened and I'm behind on blogging so I'm just going to do a big catch up post :)

-The month of March is one of our favorites because it means daddy is working closer and has a lot better hours. He was home not only in time to eat dinner with us, but he was actually able to be there to take care of the girls while I cooked dinner. Talk about a dream! It's also fun because he worked close enough that we were able to meet up with him for lunch a few times. Emily loved that!

(I don't know why this photo keeps uploading upside down!)

Grant got off early one day and surprised us at my parents' house!

and then Emily helped him get some work done :)

-I love St. Patrick's Day because my favorite color is green so it's fun getting into it! I had plans to do a fun themed breakfast, but I totally spaced that day :( It was spring break here, so I taught piano in the morning and some of Emily's friends were nice enough to invite her over to decorate cookies while I taught. Then we heard from Fleming who had also made some cookies for us to decorate. Emily made a huge mess, but had so much fun with it! We also made some lucky charm rice krispie treats. Emily's favorite part was helping me pick out the marshmallows (and she snuck a bunch when she thought I wasn't looking!)

-we attempted to take some pictures in the bluebonnets this year, which ended up being a little bit of a disaster! It's not so easy with a toddler and an infant (not to mention I went with my mom, sister, and my sister's twins, so we had 1 toddler, 3 babies, and 3 adults!), but we ended up with some halfway decent shots to document the occasion.

-we got to go clean the church building, which of course means Emily got a donut!

-Because we had General Conference on the actual Easter Sunday, we got to dress up the week before for Easter

I love that they're both making the same face here :)

some friends invited us over for yummy crepes :)

-Emily's still fighting those naps! She falls asleep in the car a lot. One day she fell asleep in the car twice on the same day! Poor girl! We sometimes do "quiet time" instead of naps, where she brings books into her crib. If I'm lucky, she'll fall asleep during quiet time :)

-For Family Home Evening the monday before Easter, we learned about the story of Christ's atonement and resurrection using our "resurrection eggs." Emily really picked up on it better than I thought she would and kept getting them out during the week to teach addie about easter. It was so sweet to watch! She would pull out the egg with the coins signifying Judas betraying Jesus and she would say "not nice." And when she got out the egg with the whip, she said, "they hurt Jesus." There were several eggs that she really seemed to understand. For our activity that night, we decorated Easter eggs. It was Emily's first time doing it and she really liked it!

-On Saturday, we watched the first session of conference at home. Then we had some families over to my parents' house that just have nursery aged kids between conference sessions. We had a picnic lunch, an easter egg hunt, and easter cookie decorating. Emily loved having friends over and oh.my.goodness did she get into that egg hunt! She would not stop moving until every egg was found and she got just as excited about every single egg. She was giddy! It was so fun to watch!

pure joy!

"heavy!"

-Easter morning, Emily was so excited to see everything that was in her basket! We then had bunny cinnamon rolls for breakfast and headed over to nana and papa's house for conference and easter lunch. Emily got an apron that matches mine in her easter basket and helped me cook (Grant had gotten me this apron a few christmases ago and I randomly came across a mini version last year. The plan was to get it for her for Christmas, but it was on back order until march, so it became an easter gift instead!)

It's hard to see in the picture, but when we got to my parents' house, there were a bunch of deer hanging out in the backyard

-some more miscellaneous pictures:

she's recently discovered the joy of jumping in puddles and she LOVES her rain boots!

Horrible selfie, but Grant and I went to see Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat! It's the longest I've left Addie and she was a champ!

Sunday afternoon nap :)

I traded out my winter pansies for summer flowers. I usually go with vincas for the summer, but this year I couldn't resist the ZINNias ;)

love my girls!!