Anna's Weekly Update- 4.16.16- Week 12

 

 

 

Had to get a picture of her cute backside :)

Weight: 14.8 pounds

Last week I said that Anna was now consistently sleeping until 7. Well, this week she never once made it to 7, it was usually between 6 and 6:15 :(. Now I know that's not a huge difference, but I don't consider before 7 an acceptable time to wake up. :) Especially when I know that she is capable of sleeping until 7! Silly girl. One thing she has been up to this week is talking, a lot. It's so cute (except at 6:15 in the morning :)):

I definitely think she's teething, the drooling has begun :). She shows no interest in rolling over yet, probably because she's not a fan of her stomach so why go there, and we always forget to do tummy time, so she's not trying to get off her stomach :). 

For our first time eating out here we went to Wendy's, so exciting :).

Anna thought it was pretty fun

Sunday night after church Steve and the boys went to someone's house for a bonfire but I opted to stay home with Anna and we had a selfie session :)

Love this little girl!!

She is getting pretty fun

David is a huge Anna fan! He loves holding her

We found a playground by us! The boys were pretty excited

So was Anna :)

 

The monkeys were pretty excited to get to hang like monkeys

 

Jonathan was actually pretty impressive. He could hang like this and then lift his legs up so he was in an L shape. Of course I couldn't get a picture of it :)

One of the boys friends from Michigan told his mom that he wanted to see a picture of the front of our house, so we took this picture for him :)

After trying out a few different ones Steve settled on this car, so we are back to being a 2 car family (although the car dealer let us use the cars we were looking at so we were actually never without a second car :)).

 

I got the boys new water guns so they were playing with them the other day so I told them they should try to shot the mailbox and this is what they did. They really challenged themselves :)

Helping Mommy make muffins

Watching Mommy and the boys make muffins

Eating those muffins we made, they were pretty yummy!

Our sleeping beauty

She loves being swaddled (as did all her brothers)

We went to story time at the library here. They did not last in that nice little row. David kept coming back by me but not wanting to sit on my lap. Then he'd got back by his brothers for a minute, then back by me. I asked him afterwards why he didn't want to sit by his brothers and he told me he was scared. I never think of him and Jonathan as being effected much by what's going on around them, they seem to live in their own little world. But it was a good reminder to me that they are aware of what's going on and I think it just all kind of caught up with David and he just wasn't so sure about this new library and story time.

 

It is a very nice library though, they even have a gecko that the boys got to watch try to eat a tiny grasshopper  

We went to Costco after the library and this is how Anna enjoyed Costco, made for a very nice trip :)

She absolutely loves her play mat which is so nice!

 

Anna loves her Daddy (who loves his little girl)

How we did Lowes. They have awesome carts!!

Even had room for a shelving unit for the garage

 

David wanted me to take a picture of him and his brothers with their balloons, however the balloons did not get in the picture :)

So we tried again. :)

Such fun boys!!

Anna's Weekly Update- 4.9.16- 11 Weeks

 

 

 



Weight: 14.1 pounds
Anna had a pretty good week. She still wasn't eating very well with us feeding her so we finally tried putting her in her car seat to eat and she did just fine. Silly girl! That's how I had to feed the twins all the time except their last bottle when Steve was home so I was so looking forward to only having one child this time and being able to hold her when I fed her. Yeah, she has no interest in that. I'm hoping she gets over this, but as long as she's eating and therefore sleeping well, I guess I'm okay with it. Speaking of sleeping, she is now consistently sleeping till between 6:30 and 7, most mornings closer to 7! And she goes down between 9 and 9:30, so that is awesome!! I do really think she is teething, but as long as I put this oil combination I have on her jaw, she does okay. She has moved up to size 2 diapers this week (Kirkland brand). She still eats 7 4 ounce bottles a day. She's started getting into a pretty normal routine. She wakes up a little before 7 and has a bottle. She usually plays on the floor then while her brothers are getting ready and eating breakfast. Around 9 she has another bottle and then goes down for a 1- 1 1/2 hour nap. Around 11 she has another bottle, usually 3 ounces. Then between 1 and 1:30 she has another bottle (I know, she eats about every 2 hours, but she goes a long time through the night without eating so I'll take it) and then goes down for another nap till about 5. Then she has a bottle and is up till about 7 where she'll either eat or take a 20 minute nap and eat after that. Between 8:30 and 9:00 she gets her last bottle and then goes down for the night. So hopefully soon she'll be able to start drinking bigger bottles so she isn't eating every 2 hours, but for now her schedule works for me.

Silly girl would most times rather be fed in her car seat than being held!

So sweet!

I started exercising again and the boys always insist on watching me (and getting in my way :)), but they also try to do it with me, well, the stretching at least

He looks way more excited about it than I do

Micah got out his homemade Monopoly game

The boys were eating breakfast one morning and insisted that Anna wanted to watch them eat. She really did seem to like sitting on the counter watching them

This is how we do Costco when we need diapers and water and other stuff that leave no room in the cart for Anna, Micah pushes her in the stroller :)

A lady from church brought us some OllieBollen (which Jonathan calls Ollie Bollie :)) They boys were big fans

We've had some really nice weather this week which we took advantage of

Anna drinking her bottle while I pushed her in her stroller, only way she would eat.

One of the great things about our house here is we have neighbors with kids our kids age and thankfully they don't mind when my kids decide their toys are cooler than ours :)

Enjoying the neighbor's trampoline in their backyard

All dressed up for a dinner with the search committee

She must have partied too hard, she kept falling asleep this day, on the floor, while being held :) of course it never lasted long because her brother kept waking her up

All ready to go golfing for the first time this year and in Montana!

 

They had a great time and Micah says they tied :)

While Steve and Micah golfed we enjoyed some more time outside too

They painted our living room this past week so I could get the pictures on the wall (I still need to get Anna a frame which is why she's not on the wall :))

Feels more like our home now with pictures on the wall

We have a swing set in our yard here which the boys love

She still loves hanging out on the counter in her changing pad. It will be a sad day the day she can actually roll over and no longer hang out there

Her brothers love checking in with her

Micah made me turn her around so she would actually look at him :)

I decided I want to make a point of spending time with each of the boys on their own. So last night David and I first went to the grocery store and then went out for ice cream. He was pretty excited that this grocery store had carts with cars in the front

And then he was really excited to get his own ice cream cone (last year we always made him share with Jonathan)

Love this little guy!

Notice the hole in the side of his cone, that's where he decided to take a bite :)

I had so much fun with him. He talked pretty much non-stop and when we got home told me "thank you Mommy for taking me for ice cream" :) When he and Jonathan are together they pretty much ignore me, so it was so special to get to spend time with just him. Looking forward to getting to do more of this with all the boys.

The last box has been unpacked!! Just a great feeling!

The boys talked Daddy into pushing them some more on the swings. This morning the twins were outside for 3 hours!!