Saturday, January 4, 2014

4 months

I know I am waaaaaaaay behind on this blog...so here is the start to my catch up!
 
Our little man turned 4 months the week we first arrived in Coldwater.  Jace is a loud squawker and while he is pretty patient with us most of the time, when he wants something, he has no problem letting us hear him.  He's a very good baby and sleeps well most nights.  His face is starting to fill out and his little wrists are getting thicker and thicker but he is still so long that it's been a slow road.  He is taking his bottles like a champ and eating anywhere from 3-6 oz at a time. 
 
He smiles and coos and drools.  Man does he drool.  I don't feel any signs of teeth yet but I know that's just around the corner.   
 

Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Fall fun in the winter

I raked up as many leaves as I could find for Brenna to play in.  I was literally sweating and had to go change into shorts and a tank top while doing this. 

Ready...Set....GO!
 
Getting used to the leaves

 
Of course we had to stop and smell the leaves

 
One of my all time favorite pictures of the Bean

Jace.  Kind of a cool back drop :)


Helping Jace enjoy the leaves.  It was a horrible task of trying to get the crushed leaves out of his hands before they made it to his mouth. 


Brenna Monster and Jace

Brenna being a monster with daddy's gloves.
 
 
 
 
Jace has become an expert at ringing the tiger around the bar.  Of course I couldn't catch it on video, but he's still cute, just the same.
 

Brenna 94 weeks

So my little cutie is finally getting the idea to smile for the camera.  She can be just the softness, sweetest thing, cuddling, kissing, hugging, batting her little eye lashes at you. 


 
And then she turns into a monster roooaaaaaaarrrrrrr!  Hehe.  She had so much fun putting on Nick's winter gloves and 'scaring' us.  She would just sit and look at her hands in the gloves.  She wanted to try on every hat. 

 
touch down!!!

 
Her Forrest Gump look

 
So darn cute!

 
She's putting together words with some encouragement now.  She LOVES to sing along with all the songs she knows, ABCs, twinkle twinkle, Eensy Weensy, skip to my lou (lou lou) and Miss Mary Mack (ugh ugh ugh).  I tried teaching her the chicken dance today.  We have a way to go on that one.  :)

Jace 14 weeks

Everything and anything is going into this kids mouth.  He is also quite the drooler.  He can soak a shirt in slimy baby spit in a matter of minutes.  It's just incredible!  Nick commented that he can't believe he's not dehydrated from all the drooling.  :)  I don't feel any teeth yet, and I remember Brenna going through a similar phase, but not to this degree.  She never chewed the ring or the ball, even when she was teething.  And she never soaked a shirt. 


Jace is just getting used to the exersaucer.  The first time I couldn't even keep him from face planting in the seat.  The next he tried to eat the elephant.  This time he was just enjoying the view :)  His feet don't quite touch yet, but I'm sure they will in no time. 
 
 
Daddy came home from lunch and got a little laugh from Jace. 

 
Even though we include Jace in our meal time by putting him in the bouncer seat on the table, sometimes it just isn't close enough.  He's figured out that the squeaky wheel gets the grease, and is very vocal when he wants some attention.  I can't blame the poor guy, when you have a drama queen like Miss B as a sister...

 
Sometimes we get some good snuggle time when Brenna is napping.  He's been sleeping through the night more often than not.  However, last night he was up at 10, 11 and 2 am.   Thankfully he slept until 8 after that.  I was not so lucky.  That darn 2 am feeding got the better of me and I was wide awake until 6.  Figures....


Monday, November 18, 2013

Rambo Brenna

Our little Rambo!
 
Brenna put her head band (it has flowers on it and is cute) on and so we left it how she had it.  Plus she has her lady bug backpack. 
 
She looks like such a little outdoors-girl :)

 
We were on an AstroTurf field, Brenna had her ball and was ready to play, play, play!

 
Daddy took her to do some pull ups

 
She ended up being able to hang for a bit and loved it.


She wanted to do it over and over again!  haha. 
 
Daddy was so proud :)


Fall Fun

 This Texas weather is crazy.  Our leaves are just changing colors and falling off the trees.  The weather is so nice that we were actually all sweating in our cute fall clothes :)
 
Brenna got a kick out of picking a leaf off the tree and smelling it (our alternative to tasting) and Jace loves watching her. 



 
Brenna really tries to include Jace in everything and ran right over to let him smell the leaf too. 
 
 
Ofcourse in true Brenna fashion, she threw a tantrum when she couldn't put the leaf back ON the tree!