Kid's Camera

Here's a few pictures off the kids' V-tech camera from December. It's pretty difficult to take a decent picture with this camera but here's a few that turned out okay :) Taken by our preschooler, except the couple at the bottom.

I'll explain this one in the next post.


Toys.



Scale.


Family.



I decided to give the baby one last sponge bath even though he was ready for a tub bath because I hadn't gotten a picture of him having a sponge bath. But after I started bathing him I realized I didn't bring my camera and when I said so my thoughtful preschooler ran downstairs and brought up his :) So here's his last sponge bath.

1 Month Pictures

I love these pictures ♥


The first is the standard natural pose for a one month old, don't ya think?


This guy's figuring out the whole big brother thing ;)

November

Pictures are chronological.

Riding a scooter at a neighbor's.  He really likes the scooters, he likes to ask me if we can go over and ride them.  We haven't been a ton because I only say yes if they're already playing out front.


We're excited to meet our baby!


Bathtime & The Man in the Yellow Hat


Our silly preschooler got out all the toys two at a time. He'd give his little brother the choice of which of the two he wanted and then move on to two more. By the end they each had a huge pile of toys. It was pretty sweet, I'm a sucker for when they're playing happily together.  Which happens quite a bit :)


He wanted paper and tape so he could write and attach the twelve numbers on the clock. I suggested he use these little post-its instead, and should have known he'd keep going til they were all gone. (He's only over 100 because he skipped a lot. 1-25, 50, 75, 100 then by ones again. We have a counting book that does that so he often uses it as a quick way to get to 100.)
Also, tracing and cutting from Halloween crafts.


The first time I found him sleeping on his big brother's bed at naptime! Fairly common now.


Love love love this guy! The day we came home ...



Kiss, ugga-mugga, hug. The affection pattern in our home, often proceeded by high-fives.


They brought down their pillows and bedtime stuffed animals to sleep on the couch. He has his eyes closed because he's "sleeping".


After a bath.


He loves his turn on the tablet!


Face paint from a birthday party!


With Grandma


Wheels On the Bus with big brother ♫


With Grandma


My 2 younger boys.


Over 60 degrees, yay!


He loved reading pat-a-cake with daddy!
And had George keep at it even after daddy fell asleep.


Early in the month our oldest participated in the primary program at church.  He wanted me to join him up there so when it was his turn to talk I went up (with my oversized belly) and crouched down next to him while he said his part.  He used kind of a silly voice since he was nervous but I'm super proud of him for sitting with his class up there and for saying his part!

Both boys are talking tons, I think I've been saying that every month lately. Our toddler still quietly repeats everything he hears and is using longer sentences. A fun phrase he says a lot is "here you go, buddy." His big brother says that to him.  I call them "buddy."

Our toddler likes to copy everything his big brother does.

Big brother likes to be the boss.

Both the boys love their little brother. I think our toddler is taking his brother's lead to an extent, he does love to do what big brother does, but he really loves the baby too. He tells the baby that he's "so cute," which is something he hears his big brother say to the baby a lot. Big brother also likes to say he loves the baby "sooo much!"


Our newest baby is a delight and always content.  At his 2 week appointment the doctor said he's doing great.

Thankful

With our baby being only 2 weeks old I wanted to stay home for Thanksgiving this year.  So my parents and my big sister and her partner came for a fun little gathering and quite a feast!  And I didn't cook a thing!  My dear husband smoked the turkey and made bread sticks and eggnog.  And our guests made everything else! I didn't take a picture of the pies, but you can see our toddler enjoyed them!



On thanksgiving we made a little thankful turkey, the design was inspired by an idea my mother-in-law found. Our preschooler helped me make the turkey body and then we all traced our hands and wrote things we were thankful for. Our preschooler loved this activity and made 5 hands (the rest of us just did 1), he wrote on them and cut them out himself. I took this picture the next day when he was making more - he did 4 more and had his dad do a few more too.
The second pic is a turkey he make in pre-k.


My sister came by for a bit the day before to meet her newest nephew and brought lots of goodies and a banner for us to decorate (see above).


Our preschooler had tons of fun with the banner, he did 5 entirely himself, and left his mark on all of them except the one his little brother made (on the far right).


I couldn't help but realize how blessed I am to have a wonderful family and so much support after having just given birth.  My husband took a week off work, friends in my ward dropped off meals 4x, and my mom came and stayed 4 days (the final being Thanksgiving).  So I was able to spend the first 2 weeks healing and bonding with my baby without worrying about meals, cleaning, and how to keep up with my two other boys.  Doing it all would have been impossible!  It can be overwhelming and exhausting now that things are back to normal, but I love my little family and my amazing husband does a lot, so we're okay :)