152 Days
…since you were born!!!
That’s 5 whole months since you turned our world upside down (in a good
way)! What a busy month you have
had. You started solids, rolling over like
crazy, babbling and talking up a storm, blowing raspberries, and taking a bath
in mommy’s tub! You went to your first
Farmer’s Market on the square, celebrated your Nana’s birthday, and finally had
multi-night stretches of sleeping through the night. You LOVE your exersaucers and have all but
stopped using your bouncers and swing…you are growing up! You have tried green beans, peas, squash,
sweet potatoes, pears, peaches, oatmeal cereal, rice cereal, and your favorite
things at dinnertime…MUM MUMS!!! I give
them to you in your high chairs while I get your baby food ready and you just
gnaw and chew and gobble them up. This
month also marked mommy going back to work for the first time in your little
lives and it was a difficult transition for us all…ok, just me really. But we have found a wonderful lady, JuJu, who
keeps you everyday and she loves you like you were her own. This month was also a tough one in the illness
department. At one point all 4 of us
were sick. Sister, you had a double ear infection, Bub had a bad cold and we
think a sinus infection, Daddy had bronchitis, and Mommy had a sinus infection…it
was a bad deal! Then the stomach bug hit
us and Sister you got the worst case of diaper rash I had ever seen. You cried through every diaper change and
mommy cried right along with you. We
must have spent over $100 trying different cream concoctions, prescriptions,
special bath soaks etc. trying to make you more comfortable. After a few days of letting you play without
clothes on (oy) it finally passed and you were back to your happy, jolly self!
Owen and McKenna, you are getting
to be so much fun! When I open the car
door to get you out in the mornings and I start talking to you, you both smile
and coo back at me…makes going to work tough some mornings. On the way home
from JuJu’s in the evenings you both just sit in your carseats and talk and
make noises and shake whatever toy I have given you to play with. I call out your names and I can see you
turning your head trying to see where I am!
One of my favorite times of day now is after your baths at night. Daddy bathes one of you and I bathe the other
but then after you are both clean, dry, lotioned up, and in your PJ’s we lay
you on our bed and you both roll and talk and touch each other and we tickle
and kiss all over you. Then we give
kisses and put you in your beds. It is
the perfect ending to my day!
Mommy spent so much of the start of
your life being sad and depressed. Not
because of you but because of all the changes that were happening. But I feel like we are settling into that “new
normal” everyone told us would happen. I
now look forward to the weekends because you are getting into a routine and
take better naps. I can’t WAIT to pick
you up in the evenings! Thank you for
making me a mom…for helping me realize the capacity I have to love…and for
being the most precious, adorable, happy babies on the planet!
XOXOXOXO
Mommy
Owen is helping daddy feed Sister!
Watching Mickey!!!!
Playing with Bubba's Nose!
Bathtime in Mommy and Daddy's tub!!!
Our First Farmer's Market Trip!
(We were there for 10 minutes...it took us longer to get out of the car and in the stroller than it did to walk around)
Those eyelashes....
Happy, smiley, baby girl!!!!
Happy Birthday to Nana!!!!!
Daddy and his "Mini-Me" Auntie Em and her McKenna!
Sister helped Nana blow out her candles...
1/2 of the Dynamic Duo...(he looks thrilled)!
My sleeping loves...this was "mid" nighttime bottle...didn't even make it all the way through!
This is what our living room looks like most of the time now...backs of heads fixated on Mickey!
Owen is mad he got stuck in the pink towel!!!
(I might have forgotten to turn off the flash...sorry Bub!)
And finally...the outttakes from our "We are 5 Months Old" photo shoot!!!...
(Could she be ANY jollier????)
This is the evolution of Owen's eventual meltdown!!!