Tessa is our little love bug. Every time I look at her, I smile because she always has a huge smile for me. She makes me happy. She has the sweetest disposition. She loves her family. She isn’t on a routine really. She just goes with the flow. She has been going to bed earlier, which is nice. Then she sleeps a good 8-9 hour stretch at night. She naps in the car or when we’re out and about. Her fussy time is when I’m trying to make dinner. That’s when we’re both at our most tired. Not the best time of day. She started rolling a couple of weeks ago. We were surprised because none of the other kids rolled this early. Once she gets on her tummy, she starts to fuss. She can roll over to her back, but she gets so caught up in being on her tummy that she cries instead. Another milestone is that we got out the excer-saucer. She loves it! She likes being upright and spinning around. She thinks she’s so big in that thing! She still feels really light, but she’s growing! She has been wearing 3-6 month clothes and some 6 month stuff. The 3 month stuff is too short-so she’s long and lean. She’s been chewing and babbling a lot. Yesterday at church, she kept saying, “mama”. I know it’s babbling, but still-she said Mama! I’m looking forward to starting her on rice cereal in a couple of weeks-give this mama a break on the nursing! Oh, I did cut her hair the other day. She had all these long pieces around her ears and on the nape of her neck, so I just trimmed those pieces off. Her hair looks much better (I didn’t touch the mohawk!) She’s growing so fast and I’m trying to enjoy every minute of it-snuggling and kissing her as much as I can.
Monday, October 17, 2011
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Adventures in potty training
This is disgusting, but I must blog about it because it’s pretty funny as well. Sylvie is doing great with the #1 in the potty. She didn’t have any accidents today, not until dinner time. I had kept trying to get her to go poop since yesterday with no luck. But, tonight during dinner, she kept getting out of her seat and running around and after multiple warnings, was sent to time out in the laundry room. After about 10 minutes, I heard her knocking on the door, so I went to let her out. She bolted out of there with her little naked bum and threw her panties on the washing machine on her way out. I looked and saw poop in them, so I threw them in the toilet. Then I saw a little bit of poop on the floor as well, so I cleaned it up and went on with my evening. Julio finally got home, so I decided to switch out the laundry. While I’m in the laundry room, I smell poop and look around to see a smudge of it on the wall. So, I get some paper towels and cleaner and start cleaning it off the wall. My tennis shoes were in the way, so I go to move them and found a big poop inside each of my shoes!!!! I was so grossed out! I don’t know if she deliberately pooped in my shoes, or if she pooped on the floor and tried to cover it up with my shoes. Whatever, it was so gross! I just hope I don’t find any more hidden treasures. I also learned that I need to be more persistent in making her go on the potty.
Birthdays
Last week we celebrated Julio’s 40th birthday! I can’t believe he’s 40. It seems sooooo old. I remember my dad’s 40th birthday (I was 16). Now, to be married to someone that age seems unreal. I met him when he was 30, so that means we’ve known each other almost 10 years. Anyway, he’s a very young 40. We had wanted to get away for his 40th, but that wasn’t going to happen, so we planned something else. I took the kids down to his office after school and took him some goodies. All of his co-workers oohed and aahed over the kids and Sylvie ran around the office like a maniac.
Goofing around outside the office.
Later that night, Julio wanted to go out for sushi. It’s his favorite and he rarely, if ever gets it because 1) it’s expensive, and 2) I don’t particularly like it. So, we went to a place we had gotten take-out from before. I don’t remember it, but Julio said it was good. We dropped the kids off at my parents house and we took Tessa with us. We were sorely disappointed. The service was extremely slow and the food had no flavor. You never know with sushi-it’s either good or just bad. We got a pie from Marie Calendar’s to make up for it and that was good. That was what we did for Julio’s 40th. Not exciting at all, but hopefully in the future we’ll be able to take that longed for vacation without kids.
That weekend we also celebrated our little cousin Eden’s 2nd birthday. She and Sylvie are best buds! They love each other so much and play together so well. Callie and Brian had a big party at their house for Eden complete with a bounce house and desserts!
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
It’s October!
It’s my favorite month. It started out with General Conference for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. It was so spiritually uplifting and reassuring to know that we have a Heavenly Father who communicates with us today through living prophets and apostles. It was nice to be able to just stay home and be together as a family and relax the whole weekend too.
Sylvia is making progress with potty training.
This month is also full of exciting things…birthdays, Halloween. We’ve got a big one coming up this Friday-the big 40! Mr. Julio is going to be celebrating his 40th this Friday. Ideally, we would like to get away, just the two of us to a nice secluded beach and just relax, but since we have 4 small children, that’s not going to happen. I’ll post more on his birthday, after it happens.
We are also celebrating Eden’s and my birthday this month. We look forward to Halloween, visiting pumpkin farms, haunted houses, etc. So far, Lucia is going to be Olivia the pig and Sylvia wants to be a princess (easy enough to pull something out of the dress-up box for that). We just need to figure out what Marco and Tessa are going to be. Fun fun!
Saturday, September 17, 2011
Tessa-4 months
I took Tessa to the doctor yesterday. (I’m so sad we don’t have Kaiser and our pediatrician anymore.). She weighs 11 lbs. 11 oz. and is in the 11 percentile for weight. She’s tiny! She is 24 1/2 inches long and in the 57th percentile for length. That seems weird to me because she isn’t long and skinny. Maybe they measured her wrong? I don’t know, but she did not like the shots. Otherwise, she was her normal, smiley self. Here are some things about Tessa at 4 months.
She has started blowing bubbles and raspberries.
She sleeps a good 8-9 hour stretch at night starting about 10:30 pm-an improvement from 11-1 am.
She can grab toys and stick them in her mouth.
She coos and gurgles and laughs.
She makes these weird cat sounds when she’s mad.
She tries to sit up when reclined.
She can stand up when you hold her on your lap.
She is very social and smiles at most people.
She has a very erratic if any nap schedule.
We love having her in our family!
Marco’s birthday celebrations
This post is a long time coming. Marco had his birthday over a month ago, and we had his “friend party” about 4 weeks ago. But, if I don’t document it, it will be forgotten. On his actual birthday, he got his BIG present! He was in the living room and we told him to close his eyes while I wheeled in his bike. Lucia saw it first and blurted out, “But he wanted a skooter!” I was so mad! Marco started to cry-not sure why. It was a big misunderstanding and I started wheeling it back to the garage and saying I would return it if he didn’t want it. He did want it and was excited about it, but Lucia definitely ruined the whole thing.
That evening, we went to Chuck E. Cheese
That is a scary looking rat!
Then he got his friend party. The first one ever! He didn’t invite a whole lot of friends, but it was still fun. It was so easy! We went to McDonald’s, had tables reserved in the play area and ordered Happy Meals for the kids. We brought cupcakes and party bags. No entertaining, clean up or preparing food and it was fairly inexpensive. It was fabulous! When we asked Marco what his favorite part of the party was, he said, “Handing out the party bags and opening presents.”
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
It’s been a week already?
I’m still a little bit back logged on my blogging-I still need to do Tessa’s blessing and Marco’s birthday. We lost the SIM card, then found it and need to download the pictures. Just some random things:
I made refrigerator pickles for the first time last week. They were way too salty, but otherwise good.
I’m eating fresh tomatoes from our garden and they are good!
Potty training Sylvie is an ongoing process. Yesterday, I put her in the bathroom with her potty and she threw a huge tantrum, peed on the counter and then sat inside the toilet bowl. Her most favorite sayings these days are, “I’m not coming!” and “I won’t!” When you ask her to come or do something. We also started a nursery school group today. I got to do some shopping without her! Yay!
We didn’t do much for Labor day. Sylvie did gymnastics, Julio worked on the yard, and we went swimming at Grandma’s house and had a BBQ.
Marco is on the early schedule for reading which means he needs extra help. I knew he would, but it still doesn’t make you feel confidant in your parenting skills when your kid is in the bottom half of the class. It works out better for us anyway so Julio can take him to school.
I will catch up on those other posts one of these days. That’s all for now.