Happy Valentine's Day!

I hope your Valentine's Day was lovely :) Leah borrowed her brother's bib...(He wore it HERE)
She's getting so big! Sorry...no pictures of Eli. He was running around all day, and I just didn't get any of him.
Edgar got me flowers for Valentines Day. So pretty :) I love having fresh flowers in the house. He knows that. He did good :)
Leah went for her 4 month appointment today. She is now 27 in. long (99th percentile) 16 lb 6 oz (91st percentile) and her head is 16 inches around (30th percentile...) She's good and healthy...with a small head :) She got 2 shots, but did amazingly well. Very few tears, and the she fell asleep on the way home.
This afternoon was spent baking Ben's birthday cookies (almost done!) and making chicken pot pie. Then tonight I tutored a girl in Algebra I. It's been a while since I've tutored one-on-one, and I had fun doing it. I kinda miss it :)
And that was our day.

Fun first :)

I have tried several times to upload a video...but I think it is entirely too huge (231,000 KB...) so I am going to give up and just tell you :)

Leah rolled over for the first time last night. And has since rolled over a bunch of times today. I actually caught her VERY FIRST roll over on video. But you can't see it, because the file is too big. Unless you want to come over to my house and see it. Too bad for those of you that live too far away ;)

Just thought I'd share :)

Our Half-time Entertainment...

Hope your half-time was as fun as ours ;)

Just a couple pics

I was going through pictures tonight, trying to get them organized...there are so many I wish I would have posted...I still might post a few, but these were a couple that I thought you'd enjoy seeing :) Really trying to do better with keeping the blog updated...the big problem is, our internet slows WAY down at night, and that is when I can usually post...and it takes for.e.ver to upload...so that's why I haven't been posting as often.

Anyway...enjoy :)

Just a quick 'sit', but she's getting closer to sitting :)

Four months old :)

Believe it or not, 4 months has already gone by. My little girl has changed so much in the past 122 days. I realized today was the 'four month mark' right before bath time, so I took a couple of pictures with just her diaper :) She has gotten so chubby :) We took a trip to the dr. this week to check on her eye (she's fine) and she weighed in at 16 lb 2 oz. I had a couple of pictures of her legs-they are amazing. You have to peel the rolls back to clean them :) So cute! But the pictures were blurry, so I didn't post them.
I also gave her a 10 oz bottle on Wednesday, and another 10 oz bottle on Thursday...my little girl can eat! (she did eat other time other than these 2 bottles...my point is, she at 10 oz at one time :) )
She is getting close to doing a lot of fun things. She seems like she's about to roll over, and she can sit for 2 seconds before she falls over, but she's on the right track. She smiles and giggles all of the time-especially at her big brother. Today we were at the park and Eli was swinging, and Leah thought that was hilarious. She's also pretty ticklish, which is fun for mommy. Today was the first day she went to a 4 hour eating schedule. I wasn't really planning on putting her on a 4 hour schedule yet, but with church today, we didn't get home until noon (she had eaten at 7:30) so I figured I'd try it out today. She ate at noon, again at 4:00 and seemed completely fine. She got fussy at 7, but made it until 7:30, so I think we'll go with that schedule again tomorrow...the only problem is she doesn't usually wait until 7:30 to eat in the morning. Blah. Sorry, I just read over the whole eating thing, and I was bored by it. I think I could have just said 'she's a good eater' and you would have gotten the idea. She is also a good sleeper. She goes about 10-11 hours at night. It's a wonderful thing.
She's my pretty little girl, and we love her :)

The problem with cloth diapers...

The problem with cloth diapers is not that they are hard to clean... ...or that they are messy...

...or that they are bulky.
The problem is, that some are so stinkin' cute, ya just don't want to cover them up :)

Day at the Museum

We just recently got a new children's museum here in town. I've been wanting to go since it opened, but had not had the chance. Eli loves the commercials for it, so when I told him we were going this morning, he seemed excited. I was hoping it was age appropriate for him-I didn't know if the exhibits would be too 'old' for him or not. He LOVED it. We were there for almost 3 hours and he played hard the whole time. Enjoy some pictures of our day :) When you first go in there is a big water exhibit. Eli could have stayed there the entire time and been happy. I literally had to drag him away to go up to the second floor where our group was.

I love the coats they have for the kids to help keep them dry. Eli managed to still get wet, but not nearly as bad as if he didn't have it on.

Once we got upstairs Eli spent the next half-hour (at least) in this room. It was a little stage where the kids could play sound affects (or is it effects?) and change the lighting. He was quite entertaining on the stage. He was so excited. It was pretty cute :) Trying to upload a video of him on 'stage'...we'll see if that actually happens...

This is the board where the kids could play sounds and change the lights.

After leaving one stage he quickly found another...this was a dance floor. Loved that one too :)

There was a fire truck that you could push a button for siren noises and horns. He liked putting the hat on...backwards. This was a favorite with a lot of the kids there, so Eli had a bit of a hard time 'sharing', but he did okay :) Just glad the museum wasn't very busy today :)

Leah was with us too. She did amazingly well. She sat in the stroller for most of it and just looked around, sucking on her fingers :)

Picking flowers. When he first saw this, he picked a flower up and said 'I luv it! I love flowers!' It was so cute.

Listening to the sounds our bodies make...

A body puzzle

Some X-Rays

A place to make rubbings

And of course a shape wall :)

And what do ya know...the video loaded :)

Enjoy Eli's theatrics.

Super fun day. We got an annual pass, so we'll be going back. There was a lot more there that Eli didn't even go to, so hopefully future pictures won't look exactly the same...but if I know my kid, he finds what he likes, and keeps going back to the same place :)